LAST UPDATE | 4 Sep
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. A scoping inquiry has reported that there were almost 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse of children in schools run by religious orders.
There were 844 alleged abusers in schools run by 42 religious orders across the country, according to the findings of senior counsel Mary O’Toole.
The allegations stretched across a total number of 308 schools.
2. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned that the Government’s “everything now approach” could result in the State having to “reverse on its promises later”.
The Council today published its pre-budget submission and cautioned that the Government is “adding needless pressure to the economy” by breaching its “tax-and-spend rule”.
3. Services for victims of gender-based violence, work to return abducted children and the construction of prefab homes for refugees are among the projects to be supported by a new tranche of Irish funding for Ukraine.
4. The final report on the Grenfell Tower fire in London will be published today, with bereaved relatives and survivors expressing hope that the actions of the UK Government and private companies will be “fully exposed”.
The fire happened on the night of 14 June, 2017 and claimed the lives of 72 people.
5. Newly published legal advice from two professors of EU trade law has said that Ireland is able to pass the Occupied Territories Bill, which would ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
The opinion has been published as part of a campaign to get the Bill passed, five years after it went through the Dáil, and also contradicts the long-held Government position that trade with Israel is an EU issue, meaning a unilateral trade ban would not be possible.
6. Gains have been made in organic farming rates but diets need to change to keep up the trend, while forestry has become a source of carbon emissions, the State’s climate watchdog has said.
7. Four men are due in court this morning over seizures of 19 petrol bombs in Co Kildare on Monday.
8. Locals in North Tipperary are set to demonstrate in their town in protest against the transfer of a number of people who sought international protection by the Department of Integration.
Roughly 30 people across seven families in Borrisokane, who were granted permission to remain after coming to Ireland in 2019, have received letters from the Department of Integration to move out of their accommodation, in order to make way for new arrivals.
9. A man in his 20s has died in a road traffic collision in Co Roscommon.
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