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The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.

1. #MAHON: The Dail is set to begin a three-day debate on the findings of the Mahon Tribunal into political corruption today. This morning sees the first cabinet meeting since the report was released last week.

2. #ROADS: Two people have died after the vehicles they were travelling in collided near Bansha in Co Tipperary last night.

3. #DEATH PENALTY: A new report from Amnesty International has found that although the number of countries which carry the death penalty dropped last year, there was a surge in executions in the Middle East. The report also says that China carried out more executions than any other country in 2011.

4. #SOUTH AFRICA: One Motherwell Township rugby player has drowned and five of his teammates remain missing after they were swept out to sea on Sunday in South Africa.

5. #REFUND: Thousands of people who were mistakenly charged a payment protection insurance are expected to be given refunds after the Central Bank discovered the error, the Examiner reports.

6. #SPEECH: While his resignation was being tendered to Fianna Fáil yesterday, Bertie Ahern was in Nigeria for a keynote speaking engagement. His former cabinet colleague Brian Cowen, meanwhile, has compared the 2008 economic crisis to multiple plane crashes happening in the same place at the same time in a speech to Washington’s Georgetown University.

7. #JOBS: IT company Sogeti has announced the creation of 65 new jobs at its Dublin and Galway offices over the next three years.

8. #MISSILES: North Korea has reacted angrily to comments made by US President Barack Obama regarding what Pyongyang says its a peaceful mission to launch a satellite on board a rocket. South Korea and the US claim that the project is a front to allow Pyongyang to test  long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

9. #WOHOO: Some good news this morning: eating chocolate could help you stay slim, according to new research which found “favourable metabolic associations” with the food. In a new body mass index report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers say they found that people who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on average, slimmer than people who ate it more rarely.

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    Mute Séa Graham
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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:58 AM

    Nigeria! Bertie! Shall I be expecting a new internet scam in my in-box shortly?

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    Mar 27th 2012, 9:05 AM

    Thanks Susan, that chocolate discovery makes me very happy :)

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:01 AM

    Bertie in Nigeria and Brian Cowen in Washington……………both being paid to ‘speak’. What a joke we are……….apart from the fact that neither of the 2 of thhem can speak we the Irish people gave these 2 permission to believe they can. We obviously got / get what we deserve.

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:24 AM

    You’d expect the Dept. of Foreign Affairs to do the decent thing and inform the authorities in Nigeria about Bertie’s “form” and what they are paying for!!

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:54 AM

    They should take away his passport

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    Mar 27th 2012, 9:34 AM

    The chocolate news came just on time, as I’m flying to Belgium for a two week holiday. Yummy yum yum!

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:44 AM

    Bertie and the rest of the T.DS found to be up to no good after the Mahon Report Should like the rest of us get there pension stopped after they have resigned from there jobs.Why should they be treated differently then the rest of us working class.just take a look at the Game employees who have lost there jobs yesterday they have to fight for there redundancy so why should Bertie and the rest get away with it

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    Mute Owen Stafford
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    Mar 27th 2012, 12:43 PM

    A nation being dictated to. “Do as I say,not as I do” Evey day I am hearing horror stories with regard to peoples struggling finances and almost every person I talk to has a friend or family member faced with no option but to emmigrate or work abroad in order to keep their heads above water. Nobody brought to justice for their dishonesty. Elite Bankers and developers off to sun themselves without a care in the world. But if you dont have pay your Household Charge the Government have threatened fines and imprisonment.

    You couldn’t write this stuff.

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    Mute Marion White
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    Mar 27th 2012, 12:34 PM

    are they taxed on the money they get paid for waffling ,1000 euro a head to listen to shite from these gobshites ,they couldent run a tap never mind a country

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    Mar 31st 2012, 10:02 PM

    Just to clarify, Brian Cowen was not paid one red cent to make his speech in Washington. The Journal.ie should really get it’s facts right before publishing anything on the web.

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    Apr 2nd 2012, 9:10 AM

    Hi Eimhin,
    Where did you see that mentioned on TheJournal.ie? Nowhere in this article is it or has it been suggested that Brian Cowen was paid for that engagement.
    Susan

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