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LAST UPDATE | 19 Apr 2023
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. A surgical doctor living in Galway has spoken out about a terrifying incident where his landlord lunged at him with a circular saw during an attempt to break in the front door of his rented apartment.
The incident, which Dr Muhammed Raheel – who is from Pakistan – caught on video, occurred at 1.30pm yesterday.
2. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is set to meet with British prime minister Rishi Sunak at an event in Belfast later today marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Varadkar is due to deliver a keynote speech as part of the closing session of the ‘Agreement 25’ conference in Queen’s University Belfast.
3. Gardaí have sought information on a fraud campaign targeting hardware stores and co-ops across 14 counties since December.
In an appeal made last night, gardaí said they are currently investigating a range of reports of people “calling to retail premises and providing fraudulent credit card details” in order to purchase building and agricultural material.
4. Housing charity threshold supported over 1,200 households in first quarter of this year.
That’s the highest number the charity has recorded since it started publishing its quarterly impact reports in quarter two of 2021.
5. Irish band Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for an Ivor Novello award, which recognise merit in songwriting and composing in Ireland and the UK.
The Dublin band is nominated in the Best Album category for their third studio album Skinty Fia, which was released last year.
6. The death toll of a fire that ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing has risen to 29, a city official said today.
The fire at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital in the Fengtai District broke out at around 1 pm (05:00am GMT) on Tuesday and was extinguished about half an hour later.
7. A man has been charged with murder after four people were shot dead in a Maine home and three others were shot and wounded on a highway 25 miles (40 kilometres) away, police said.
Joseph Eaton, 34, of Bowdoin, was charged with four counts of murder yesterday, but police declined to discuss a possible motive. Eaton was expected to appear in court this week.
8. Nurses working for the HSE are unable to move their families to Ireland due to the housing crisis.
One nurse from India told The Journal that seven months on from her arrival, after a three-month delay to her starting work in a new community nursing unit in Cork city, the mother-of-two hasn’t been able to find a house to rent so her family can join her.
9. Irish rally driver Craig Breen was laid to rest yesterday in Waterford.
The 33-year-old died last Thursday during the pre-event test ahead of Rally Croatia later this month.
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Was it not the same financial institutions who provided their expertise to most of the collapsed banks and developers .
Good to see some have profited out of the misery inflicted on the Irish citizen…….
@Kerry Blake: yeah, we’re all crippled with austerity, crows picking out our eyes, slung on the dung heap to rot in the blazing sun. beaten to a pulp by the vicious fascist government and their brutal political police. we should call the UN to bring in a peacekeeping force to protect us from the people we elect.
Funnily enough a lot of these names popped up during the crash as well.
Wasn’t it Ernst & Young who gave Anglo Irish Bank a clean bill of health on the eve of the collapse while noow we know that the final cost of the bailout will be close to €40 billion. and KPMG, who audited Irish Nationwide Building Society and reported that the bank had €300 million profits and had set aside €500m for bad debts and the bank ended up having to be bailed out to the tune of €2.6 billion.
When all is said and done Ireland is a stinking cesspit of a country and the further you climb the more you smell.
@Mark DeFriest: In fairness to Ernst & Young and KPMG, they can only audit what they are given, if someone is lying to them about figures they are given, they don’t know the true story. The Central Bank are the regulatory body and have the power to really and truly audit a bank or company, not just asking but demanding, along with checking figures themselves. They should have been doing it, the ultimate failure rests with the Central Bank, these guy where asleep at the wheel.
@Mark DeFriest: Also, I don’t understand myself why NAMA is outsourcing this to other companies, isn’t that the point of NAMA as a bad bank to keep all this stuff in house?
I feel nothing was learned from the crash to be honest, and we will be reading about NAMA 2.0 in about 2 years time.
@OnTheOutside: an independent receiver must be appointed where a company is insolvent. Needs to determine who is owed what, who has claim over what assets etc…
@OnTheOutside:
‘Audit what they are given’
They missed a large black hole there. In the States there’s a banking rule book. Break a rule and you end up in leg irons on the way to San Quentin. In Ireland there’s no rule book, banks make it up as they go along. Ernst and Young admitted during the banking inquiry that although they knew a tsunami of bad debt was about to engulf Anglo Irish Bank under Irish banking law they did not have to take that ominous fact into consideration when clearing the bank. Bit like selling a house while the wrecking ball is pulling into the yard.
@Fake Avast:
Don’t worry about me Constantin.
@OnTheOutside: agreed. If you only give half the ingredients, you cant complain if you end up with bad pancakes instead of a fine patisserie
@eimear, half the ingredients just give half the amount but the taste should be the same.
@Markonline:
:-)
100 odd million for 32 billion of sales. 0.00312 percent. Literally a drop in the ocean. Badly presented article as usual from the journal.
@Joseph Bloggs: €2 m per year is also a drop in the ocean.
Maybe the government can round up a few of these drops if they are so easy to come by and pay down the debt.
Kerching for the well in…
Its a small country with a small circle of friends at the top who plot to screw the rest of us. They are helped by what ever government is in power at the time, usually FF/FG. Time for a change. Vote these basta$rds out at the next GE and start holding the rest accountable for their actions.
NAMA is the biggest scam to ever hit this country , it is elitism at its finest . It’s jobs for the boys and a wink and nod culture among developers and politicians . Who wouldn’t want to be in NAMA when you can borrow money from them at 6% interest rate as opposed to borrowing from a banking institution at a rate of 12% to 15% interest rate .
They were banging on the door of NAMA and couldn’t get in quick enough .
I hate NAMA, the more stories I hear about what they have done that don’t make the news then the more I get annoyed, need some committee to ask questions about what they do?
Well done
Nama should be investigated from start to finish by a company from outside of Ire I don’t trust them and never have and after the dealings in the 6 counties that finished me.
The amounts of cranes and work getting done in Dublin City centre area.
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