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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #REFERENDUM: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has asserted that the Fiscal Compact will not be changed, following last night’s meeting of EU leaders – meaning there is no reason to delay the referendum taking place in seven days’ time. Kenny said if leaders agreed new growth plans, they would be contained in a separate document which would not affect the first one.
2. #REFERENDUM: On other matters referendum-based, the Referendum Commission has asked An Post to stop inserting other referendum-related leaflets into its own impartial guide – after a number of people around the country reported finding the leaflet from the EFD group, which includes UKIP, tucked inside the official document.
3. #BRING GARY HOME: The people of Swinford have rallied around the family and friends of the young man who died in the Southeast Asian country of Laos last weekend as attempts are made to bring his remains home. Locals say there has been some “red tape” in trying to have the remains of Gary Price returned back to Ireland.
4. #FEES: A day after the national students’ union asserted it would be retaining its policy of seeking totally exchequer-funded education, it has emerged that the Higher Education Authority may recommend doubling the student contribution. The Irish Times says the charge of €2,250 could be sent to €5,000 – while the Irish Independent says it could be €6,000.
5. #MENTAL HEALTH: Amnesty International has said that the provision of mental health services in Ireland continued to be inadequate in 2011, while the country’s prisons continue to fall below standards. Its report said there continued to be “significant delays” for asylum applicants in Ireland to have their needs or application assessed.
6. #GOING NUCLEAR: Talks in Baghdad about opening Iran’s nuclear programme to inspectors are continuing, after a shaky start yesterday in which the two sides issued opposing proposals. The immediate differences between Iran and the international coalition had threatened to kill off the talks before they had even begun.
7. #JOBSWATCH: Hewlett Packard’s Irish operations have reportedly declined to comment on whether plans to cut 27,000 jobs worldwide will have an impact on its Irish workforce. The company employs 4,000 in Clonskeagh, Leixlip and Galway.
8. #WEATHERWATCH: Yes, we know it’s the last week of May, but seriously… break out the sunscreen. Karl Mehlhorn of the Irish Weather Network says temperatures will be staying above 20°C for the rest of the week, with the sunshine continuing into the weekend – bring with it a high UV risk.
9. #WUH-OH: Eurovision organisers yesterday gave Ireland another reason not to win the competition this year – by announcing that the 2013 final will be held on the same day as the Heineken Cup final. Dublin’s O2 would be considered the most likely venue to host the contest, with the city already crammed from the game in the Aviva three hours earlier.
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So his little jolly at our expense was completely f****** worthless.
His “jolly” as you call it is happening next week. It is in the article: “Finance Minister Michael Noonan will meet with a number of eurozone finance ministers next week in a bid to gain support for a deal on Ireland’s banking debt. Meetings with his French, German and Italian counterparts are all planned before Noonan travels to Cyprus where European finance ministers will all meet on Friday.”
Of course it will fail, why would somebody let you pay back less if you are already making good on present repayments.
Who remembers that P—- Kenny spouting about how this was going to be dealt with in September? The man’s a complete Sap! And that other neanderthal Noonan’s not far behind. How in gods name do the Irish people tolerate that pair!
Lol….yeah…that’s why they got elected and you’re posting comments on a website…because you’re such a genius. :)
Was that at me Tom?
No at Rodrigo, as his comments were nothing more that silly name calling. :)
Smoke and mirrors people. Anything to keep the attention away from the €1 Billion being handed to unguaranteed bondholders on 1st october.
I should just add, anybody that thinks michael noonan can on one hand attend a bilderberg meeting, and on the other be genuinely fighting for the irish peoples best interests in Europe needs their heads examined.
i remember people like me talking years ago about the bilderberg group.people looked at me as if i needed my head examined.amazing how things change.
At least we have outsiders to keep us informed of the real likelihoods and not just govt. spin
At our Government Ministers level of day to day incompetence , is anyone really surprised?
Europe already has our Ministers marked down as completely incapable of doing the good deal , when we have continued to pay the Senior Bondholders at 100c in the €uro , when they would have delighted to have settled for 25c in the €uro.
I serve on an International Board with some German Colleagues , who constantly giggle at the policy of our Government towards their Banks – they would have settled long ago – just to recover anything.
Just look at the write-offs they are settling for in Greece?
I’m not suprised.
Les..of course it was worthless….we have no voice in Europe in this crisis and they couldn’t give a tinkers curse about this country. We have and will be at the mercy of their whims and nothing Noonan or Kenny do will change that. Anything we’ve got from them have been on the coat tails of France and Italy and not on the strenght of anything our crowd have done..if we do get some deal on the banking promisary notes(which we should NEVER,EVER have given) it’ll be months down the road.
Yes Daniel their great at meeting their target but not at their expence or the people who caused all this , Its the joe soap in the street that’s paying to meet their targets . So wake up man !!
of course we’ll fair. The big bad wolf Troika will growl and Noonan will shit himself.
fail i meant
This is not good news but one must never give up hope.
I wouldn’t hold much stock in this. Media outlets have consistently underestimated this government and Enda Kenny. This government has a history of not only meeting goals but exceeding them in this regard.
Got to love the thejournal.ie to reporting another news agencies’ news without actually having to go to the trouble of interviewing anyone or getting a statement. Arm chair journalism at it’s best.
Hi Daniel,
We did get a statement from the Department of Finance in response to a direct question about the Bloomberg report which they did not address. If you re-read the piece you might spot it.
Hugh
Hugh, I said get one, you didn’t get one. How many TD’s offices did you phone?
Daniel,
We did get one. It’s in the story.
Hugh
Daniel can i borrow ur glasses because I cant spot the part of your comment where you ask for one of anything. As many say about many things….If you dont like *blank, dont look at *blank. No one is forcing you to read the journals articles
Sorry, where is that quote? Was this TD the “Department of Finance spokesperson”? If so why not give his name in the article? Seems to me like thejournal.ie is yet again regurgitating and repackaging other news outlet’s reports. Seems to me that there is a lot of this going on the journal.ie
In any case i look forward to the article that states “bank debt deal achieved in October contrary to Bloomberg report that we published”.
I am sorry Daniel but the comment from the spokesperson was obtained from the spokesperson at the Department of Finance who I spoke to. It is common practice not to give their name as you will see with other news outlets.
I suggest you back up your claims that “thejournal.ie is yet again regurgitating and repackaging other news outlet’s reports” rather than claiming that it seems that way to you when that is not the case.
“Unnamed sources”…lol.
In journalism speak, that’s code for “we really didn’t ask anybody”.
:) Sunday Independent style journalism.
Do FGers get expenses for having 3 4 5 names.
are you an alien or do you live under a rock?
Daniel and Tom would probably suggest the disabled people outside the Dail begging for retention of their rights to health services was just an act orchestrated by the media….#ostriches.
Dermot,
What a reprehensible a vile little man you are. You know nothing of my family.
You’re a nasty little piece of work for using someone else’s disabilty for point scoring. I can spot feigned indignation a mile away.
You know nothing of my family, you little nasty man.
What a vile comment.
Stop playing the victim (again) publicly or try spin your pathetic psychology with me – you can spot feigned indignation a mile away??? how dare you you pathetic creep, don’t be casting assumptions at people who disagree with whatever bile you’re currently spewing, you know nothing about me either and don’t pretend you do…my outrage is not fake and is indeed personal but you FG lackeys prefer not to hear such stuff, to you all is well until you’re back warming the opposition benches – then, and by god then we will see feigned indignation.
Of course they’ll kick the can down the road. We’re paying them a nice interest rate at the moment and they’re in no hurry to change that. By the time they get around to adjusting our rates we’d have most of it payed off.
Wait, so is it that Greece can not pay or threatin so and generally hold the EU up and Spains banks got bailed out by well Irish taxpayer?
I’m off to the pub!
best suggestion all day
even if there is a deal the taxpayer will still have to pay back every cent.
that’s what we get for electing tra cheers, farmers, publicans and offspring of dead TDs to bat for us.
teachers, not tra cheers. stupid predictive text!
yea i mean teachers like for politicians. Sure teachers basically go to school in total for what 20 odd years. They are not capable of thinking outside the box as they were in that box for so long and now they work in the box. You’ll get no new solutions or progressive from them believe me. They are just too institutionalised.
I want to cry, when will this nightmare end.
Where will this all end, somebody please tell me, if I take out a loan, I agree to pay it back over a fixed time so clearing my debt, the mess we signed up seems to be never ending
it will most likely end in violence. oppressed citizens always rise up, it just takes Irish people longer than other nations.
No one to lead us there either Ciarán. We are indeed a bunch of losers. We deserve this shit thrown at us.
here’s a suggestion for Mr Noonan, when you attend the next meeting of Europes great and good, tell them that the Irish people will be holding onto Octobers payment to the bondholders and any future payments will be dependent on us getting a deal brokered ,signed and delivered by the end of October, if they fail to meet this deadline then no further payments will be made. its called ‘playing hard ball’ or calling their bluff. if we had taken this approach from the beginning we would not be seen as a pushover and be bullied into paying for what we don’t owe.
So simple but so effective…. Noonan is not up for that, you would need someone like Adams or Doherty to do what u suggest. And I’m not a SF supporter yet…. Actually I’m not a supporter of any political party…. Might start my own… Any good names?
ODPP – Ordinary Decent People’s Party…
Or PP – Paddies Party….
NTP – No Teacher Party….
2FP – 2 Faced Party
Time to default and bring the whole lot down around them. We can’t get much lower than we are now and there will be no improvement for years. We are not now talking about a lost generation we are talking about several lost generations.
Jim has it bang on and all the FG/Lab spin won’t change it. We have prostrated ourselves before Europe, and where had it gotten us? We haven’t gotten an inch, not a bloody inch! Even though we have guaranteed unsecured bond holders and became poster boys for austerity on a trams continental scale. Where has it gotten us? The conditions of our arrangement were agreed already, so the government narrative that they are ‘working with us’ is total nonsense. They are simply making sure that we are implementing enough hardship on our people that our German overlords remain appeased.
People, we are not stupid, so we know the time to say enough has come and passed, but we can still resurrect some national pride and stand up for ourselves! Ffs we are not dead…
ah sure jaysus we fail at most things political and economic anyway dont we? who the bloody hell would be so foolish to tie up to this crowd in the first place and sell our soul this way?
Why exactly are we all up in arms when there is nothing concrete or factual? Its speculation. You will get other sites speculating otherwise. Welcome to the world of media – even theJournal does it.
Its not a question of “if” we will get a deal but a case of “when” we will get it.
fact: the taxpayer has already given billions to the banks.
fact: we are paying interest on the loans .we were given to pay back the loans we didnt take out.
fact: you cant tax your way out of a recession.
fact: The government don’t give a shit.
enough facts?
@ Ciaran:
“fact: you cant tax your way out of a recession.”
fact: The spending cuts to tax increases ratio in next years Budget is 2:1.
Would you be instead in favour of 100% spending cuts?
where is mjhint Patrick
wait i’ll come with you lol. lol.
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