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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you really ought to know with your morning coffee.
1. #SUPERQUINN: There’s some major jobs relief this morning, with the news that the Superquinn supermarket chain – which only went into receivership last night – has been bought by the Musgrave chain. The deal is subject to approval by the Competition Authority but if it’s concluded, the 2,800 jobs at Superquinn should all be secure.
2. #HACKING: It’s going to be another massive day in the News of the World affair. Rupert and James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks, Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates will ALL face questions from parliamentary committees, the day after Sean Hoare – the NotW journalist who originally blew the whistle on the phone-hacking – was found dead in his apartment. Here’s our guide to the ongoing scandal.
3. #MICHAELA: The two main suspects in the murder of Michaela McAreavey are almost certain to face full trial, after a magistrate ruled there was enough evidence against them to proceed. The ruling is likely to have a major sway on whether the DPP orders a full trial.
4. #TRAGEDY: More details have emerged of the awful death of a 5-year-old in Co Kerry yesterday. Various tabloids today report that Tadhg Fannin, from Ballymun, was at a hotel swimming pool with his father when he slipped from a toddler poll into the deep end of a larger one. His mother was in the family bedroom with his 1-year-old brother.
5. #THIRSTY WORK: The Oireachtas has sternly denied reports suggesting that the public would have to foot the bill for TDs and Senators who haven’t paid their tabs at the Dáil bar. While members have thousands in unpaid bills, these are routinely paid off at the end of the month – and former members only have a few hundred euro worth of unpaid bar bills.
6. #ROADS: Ireland’s motorists could be facing yet more tolls on the roads, as the National Roads Authority published a report claiming it could raise an extra €62m a year if it introduced new tolling locations.
7. #LIBYA: Last Friday the United States said it would only recognise the Libyan Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya. On Saturday, it sent senior officials to the country for a meeting with… Muammar Gaddafi. Unsurprisingly, the topic up for discussion was whether Mr Gaddafi would be leaving Libya any time soon.
8. #ANGLO v QUINN: Lawyers for Anglo Irish Bank have begun a High Court action trying to stop the Quinn family from breaking up its Swedish operation – which owes it over €2bn. Anglo says that if the Quinns are permitted to break up their company – with proceedings already underway in Cyprus – it could take up to five years to get its money back.
9. #CHILD’S PLAY?: A controversial doll that mimics the effects of breastfeeding – with the not-so-cryptic name ‘Breast Milk Baby’ – is to go on sale in the United States, after its manufacturer said its Spanish sales were encouraging. The doll caused a storm when it went on sale online four months ago, so the fallout should be something to watch…
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thats cause there is nothing else for them to do.
And that why its called your Leaving Certificate.
It qualifies you to leave, by the nearest exit, while the gloden circle dynastic ascendancies continue to consolidate the wealth of the island into their offshore havens.
But you can come back when you’re on your feet and we’ll have another pint of your blood.
Totally, it’s because there’s no building boom that sees young lads leaving to work on sites
It’s good to see, but I wish more parents would encourage kids to complete their education, regardless of opportunities that might be present in the economy. We need to have at least an LC as a fall back position for shifts in the economy.
Obviously, the unemployment from the boom is as unprecedented as the bubble itself was, but we wouldn’t have such difficulty with skills conversion if there was a higher general level of education.
That’s why cuts to education, grants etc while setting up schemes to allow employers get free interns is so risable. You have to play the long game, and training people with relevant skills is far more important than giving corporate dole to massage the headline unemployment figures.
Yeah its crazy how some people and their parents don’t see that value in education. I never saw not finishing school as an option, but I remember that around the time of my junior cert there was guy bragging about leaving school after it!
Crazy.
Ruairi Quinn is quietly taking credit for this too, the man is deluded. The young people see the writing on the wall, finish school to get the hell out of here. He sees this as a success, maybe statistically but not so in reality, truth is we are losing our hope for the future right there.
I would assume that this would, in part anyway be due to a lack of apprenticeships in the trades!
True Derek is absolutely nothing else to do
I meant true
Of course they are staying in school, what else is there for them to do! I’d say a lot of people now are wishing they could go back, sit the leaving again sure. It would be better than sitting on your arse penniless, frustrated and bored.
And with these good figures the government want to cut back even further!? Bunch of morons. Makes me so angry. Especially when they can throw away a million euro on some stupid pointless river boat!!! :-o
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