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Here are the nine things you need to know as you start your Sunday…
1 #SHOOTING: Four people were injured, one of them critically, in a gun attack outside a pub on the Old Cabra Road in Dublin last night.
2. #BUDGET: A number of papers this morning are reporting that a new levy on banks is being planned for Tuesday’s budget which is intended to raise up to €200 million for the Government.
3. #FINE GAEL: In a speech at his party’s national conference last night, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that Ireland will exit the EU-IMF bailout on Sunday, 15 December. He also committed to widening the franchise for Seanad elections to all university graduates.
4. #GILLIGAN: This week’s release of convicted drugs boss John Gilligan features prominently in a number of Sunday papers with The Sunday Times saying gardaí estimate that he has €19 million stashed in overseas accounts.
5. #NAVY: The Irish naval service detained a French registered vessel 120 nautical miles of the Clare coast last night for breaches of fishing regulations. A Spanish vessel had earlier been detained off Cork.
6. #SAVITA: The Sunday Business Post is reporting that health watchdog Hiqa has asked to HSE for regular updates on its progress in implementing its report into the death of Savita Halappanavar.
7. #SHUTDOWN: Five days before the US faces a financial default, Democrats and Republicans are looking towards the Senate to solve the budget impasse according to the New York Times.
8. #PHAILIN: Cyclone Phailin is beginning to lose strength as it passes over India after displacing a million people along the coast. Fears are now turning towards potential flooding.
9. #KEEP ON RUNNIN’: Over thirty-years after they broke the world record by taking on the New York marathon as a foursome, four Tyrone brothers in their 50s plan to run the Dublin marathon together at the end of this month.
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new levy on banks is being planned for Tuesday’s budget which is intended to raise up to €200 million for the Government….this levy will then be kindly passed by the banks on to you!!!,
true john, who do they think they are kidding its a tax on the people just not directly
Good morning
As a Limerickman I am privy to inside information on Michael Noonan and his muppets in Fine Gael and there are whispers down here that Tuesdays Budget will propose a new disc on the Car windscreen to show that the radio in the car is fully licensed. The disc will cost €50.00 per year and the proceeds will go to Michaels food budget.
What I heard on this side of the Emerald Isle is that the disc is been intergrated into the windscreen and. That has to be replaced each year,along with the wipers.
Gerard and Stuart will ye give over,before i loose it altogether.
now mrs heaney from the corner shop told mrs murphy that the ‘new’ windscreens will be welded into the car body so as they cant be removed, this means you’d have to replace your car every january 1st, but they also plan to being in the nct to any vehicles more than 20 minutes old and a milage reading of over 10 miles would be a fail !
unless everyone unites and marches on the dail nothing will change and the majority are acting like they dont mind whats happening. the goverment must be brought down,take no more from them.
And who will go in instead of them? The only ones left are the ones that got us into the mess, so is not that people don’t care is that there are no other options.
Does The Journal have any report on the Pre Budget Protest that took place in Dublin yesterday Marian? Probably not, because it was a turnout of PEACEFUL protesters, from every walk of life, who are seriously worried and concerned over what this next savage budget will bring on Tuesday. Maybe we should have thrown in a few scuffles, then perhaps all the newspapers would have been happy to report on ‘Violent incidents on the streets of Dublin’….. the usual strategy to discourage the people of Ireland from showing their opposition towards this government and their draconian austerity measures.
Graduates only for the Seanad – unless you’re a mate of a minister. Why?
And the senators carry on with the high life.
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