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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #COURTS: A man is due in court in Galway today after being charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 47-year-old woman in Roscommon town. Ann Henry was found on the roadway outside a house on Saturday afternoon.
2. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: Fianna Fáil’s leader and deputy leader, Micheál Martin and Éamon Ó Cuív, are to meet privately today to discuss their difference about their party’s plans for the Presidential election. The Irish Times says Ó Cuív last week threatened to quit as deputy leader – after only weeks in the role – over the dispute about whether FF members should be allowed to nominate other candidates. The Irish Daily Mail says Dana will announce her entry into the race either today or tomorrow.
3. #GRANTS: Ruairí Quinn has announced a new independent board to review university grant appeals, in a move which has been welcomed by students’ unions. The body, the Student Grant Appeals Board, will be officially established today.
4. #WASTE: Irish restaurants lost €125m last year through having to dispose of food left behind by diners. A Unilever survey said nearly half of Irish diners admitted to ordering too much food – and then having to leave some behind.
5. #DALE FARM: Residents at the Traveller halting site are preparing for clashes with bailiffs today as attempts begin to enforce a court decision to evict them.
6. #DSK: In his first public interview since he was charged with the rape of a New York hotel maid, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has described his encounter with Nafissatou Diallo as “a failing vis-à-vis my wife” – but insisted that their liaison was consensual.
7. #GREECE: Protests continued outside the parliament building in Athens last night as the cabinet continued talks on trying to cut the budget deficit. Spending cuts and new taxes are needed in order to secure the next batch of bailout loans from the EU and IMF – the country will default without them.
8. #NETHERLANDS: It’s Budget day in the Netherlands tomorrow – but everyone already knows the content of the Budget speech, because it was uncovered by an enterprising journalist. Bram Talman went to the government website where last year’s speech was stored, changed the URL from ’2010′ to ’2011′ – and found the full copy of the speech to be given tomorrow. (The same trick doesn’t work in Ireland. We tried it before.)
9. #GINGERS: The world’s largest sperm bank has decided to turn down donations from red-haired men – saying there’s simply no demand for their, eh, produce. The Daily Telegraph says the supply of redhead sperm outstrips demand – and that Cryos now simply doesn’t want any more donations from men with red hair.
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DSK out of jail and Teresa Treacy is still locked up in Mountjoy.
Something is wrong with society.
Please sign the petition for Ms Treacys’ release.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-teresa-treacy-the-woman-who-stood-up-to-eigrid-an.html
Hi Conor
Excuse my ignorance but I hadn’t heard/read anything. Is there a link I can read about what’s going on?
Agreed. A travesty that the courts should jail this woman.
Hi Dave,
Try this link. http://ow.ly/6xWEC
I’d say there is a lot of info if you google Teresa Treacy
its a disgrace that u spent thousand on buyin a property yet the law will allow an institution like the esb to come and cut down ur trees and plonk wot ever they want on ur property regardless and then the gov want u to pay property tax on top of the stamp duty that u over paid for the property
I didn’t let the esb cut my trees…..I ran them out of my garden and told them not to return….they didn’t!
I find that one about restaurants losing money fairly bewildering…restaurants didn’t lose anything because they charge for the meal regardless! The only loser is the punter as they pay for food that they don’t eat; that’s their choice though!
It means that the restaurant could have given the customer less food and still charged the same amount. Therefore their margin wasn’t as high as it could have been.
as a former head chef i found when i moved to ireland from the u.k that people here expected a much larger portion of food than i was used to serving… especially vegetables and potato’s, the irish people always seemed to me to have a very good appitite and a healthy balance of meat, fish and veg’s, maybe that was because we were in a rural setting and the majority of our guests were from large families and hardworking backgrounds. i always found that the more ‘upmarket’ the dish was the less it appealed to the palette, yet a nice roast joint of beef or darne of salmon would always be eaten in full,. maybe restaurants are trying to be too posh and forgetting the basics ,thats why people leave most of the food.
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