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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.
1. #REFERENDUM: It’s full steam ahead for the government following yesterday’s result in the Fiscal Compact referendum. As the Taoiseach and Tánaiste portrayed the result as a boost for sorting Ireland’s bank debts, the Dáil schedule for next week was released – showing that TDs will vote on amending the EU treaties, and then ratifying the ESM, in their first two days back at work.
2. #BUILDINGS: That’s not the only major item on the agenda this week, however. The technical group will force a vote on Thursday morning about whether the government should itself carry out the works necessary to fix crippled estates like Priory Hall – and then look to get the money back from the developers involved.
3. #LONDON 2012: A little of the Olympic spirit reaches these shores today, as the Olympic torch relay moves to Northern Ireland. The flame will travel around the province for four days, before taking a day trip to Dublin on Wednesday.
4. #EGYPT: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has arrived in court this morning ahead of a ruling on whether he will be convicted for killing demonstrators in last uprising. He could face the death penalty if found guilty.
5. #BILDERBERG: Finance minister Michael Noonan is in Virginia this weekend attending a meeting of elite businessmen and policy makers. The Bilderberg Meetings – best-known for the relative secrecy surrounding the discussions taking place – are discussing matters like the euro crisis and the role of Russia in global politics.
6. #EMPLOYMENT: The happiness of European leaders following Ireland’s referendum vote yesterday took a bit of a dent afterwards – new figures from the EU’s statistics body showed that unemployment in the Eurozone rose in April, to 11.0 per cent. That’s up from 9.9 per cent at the same time last year.
7. #WE ALL PARTIED: A new art exhibition opening in Dublin for a week-long run today examines the theme that all of Ireland benefited from the economic boom. The ‘Punt Nua: Creative Economics‘ includes exhibits like a new board game, Namopoly. Have a look.
8. #BOND MARKETS: The bond markets appeared to welcome yesterday’s referendum result, with the cost of a two-year loan to the Irish government coming down quite a bit. Longer-term borrowing costs were virtually unchanged, however – though the news did push the euro above what was almost a two-year low against the dollar.
9. #LATE LATE: The great and the good of Irish entertainment were in Montrose last night as RTÉ marked fifty full seasons of The Late Late Show. Guests on last night’s show included Tommy Tiernan, Sinead O’Connor, and former hosts Pat Kenny and Gay Byrne. Here’s our red carpet gallery – we’ll have more from last night’s show later in the morning.
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That’s some jolly up for the lads
They might learn what a real riot is
I thought Gardai were understaffed. But any opportunity to impress our EU masters and hey presto we find 56 that are not needed.
Jesus can we not comment on any article now……the CAMHS article below….Tipperary branch told my 16 year old unless your going to kill yourself, we can’t help you……I had to bring my daughter to G.P 8 times in a couple of months and paid for private counselling…but hey ho there’s an endless pit of money for anyone that’s not Irish…
@Clare Power: Just walk into the IPAS office, say you’re from Georgia and lost your passport. Tell them you’re being victimized because you’re gay. Hey presto, free medical card!
@YKwkSIqW: it would be funny if it wasn’t the truth
@Clare Power: It’s complete lunacy.
@Clare Power: Hope things work out fir you and your family and you get the support required
@F T: sorted now thank God
@Clare Power: piss poor this Journal
@Clare Power: my daughter went through the CHAMS system for a number of years. She got absolutely nothing from it. Constant waiting, then cancellations, sometimes within a half hour of her appointment. It’s a total train crash.
The French police will eat them alive. And they’ll show them how to be real police
I hope they’ll get a good orientation course. They’ll need to know where to get chips after hours and where they can scab freebies.
Could we get a dig out in Dublin from the gendarme
They don’t need them at the Portal now
Law & Order in complete tatters at home, yet the Garda Siochana are able to send 56 Gardai to France. I recall an incident last year where a young female student was being assaulted in broad daylight by a male & other students couldn’t get anyone to come out from the Divisional HQ 10 mins away. Sadly the Gardai Siochana has become politicized & these type of ventures along with incidents such as punishing a Garda for giving a bike to an elderly man or hitting innocent people with batons in Newtown only serve to alienate the public even further. All just, to look good in Europe.
This is great in theory but can’t imagine that the Irish Po Po have the competence to police an event of such magnitude. They go into hiding at the best times. Key stone cops. “Dig out”
It’s great to see EU countries helping each other in so many ways
Probably for the best as the Irish ferals are throwing a tantrum when the law gets applied to them.
Isn’t France the country who wants to send troops on the ground in Ukraine? But needs foreign nations to lend a hand to secure France during the Olympics? That country and its boytoy president are a joke.
@Ryan Hulin (ryansjourneys): drag us along with them headcase
What they going to do, hit people with a breakfast roll?
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