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Four-year-old Adam O’Donoghue reacts as the Trinity orchestra plays in the background at a press tour of the Electric Picnic festival site today. (Photo: Niall Carson/PA)
HERE ARE THE things you need to know as we round off the day in three easy steps.
THINGS WE LEARNED
#TARGET: Workers at a Target Express plant in Cork have launched a sit-in protest as the freight company ceases trading. The Revenue Commissioners would not comment specifically on the case, but said that in general, cases are referred for enforcement if a business or individual has failed to comply with the obligation to pay tax that is due.
#RACHEL CORRIE: An Israeli court has ruled that the state of Israel is not responsible for the death of American pro-Palestinian protester Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an army bulldozer while trying to prevent the forceddemolition of a house on the Gaza strip in 2003.
#VACCINATIONS: Over 200 children and teenagers require repeat vaccinations after the HSE determined that childhood vaccines administered by one GP in the Dublin area may not have been effectively administered.
#ISAAC: Tropical Storm Isaac has been upgraded to hurricane force as it nears the Gulf Coast of America. It is expected to make landfall near New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, later today.
#BACK TO SCHOOL: Problems at Schoolbooks.ie continue this evening despite the company saying this morning that it had cleared its order backlog. Frustrated parents have contacted TheJournal.ie to say they still haven’t gotten books they ordered a month ago.
THINGS WE LOVED
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THINGS WE SHARED
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The Journal allowing comments on Politics in the UK but only allow comments on Irish Politics when the Government are looking to send a message or for feedback.
It’s actually hard to fathom.
@martin lawlor: Comments are open on ‘Taoiseach to meet Stormont executive …’.
@Brendan O’Brien: Wow!
A whole 1.
@Brendan O’Brien: And you’re point being???
The article has no relevance, as a matter of fact it’s published like many other’s to publicise Simon Harris a Leader.
More PR ,the irony of it all.
@martin lawlor: There is no onus on The Journal to allow (or disallow!) comments on any particular article, and we don’t have a ‘right’ to post comments either.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: If there is no onus on them to do so, why do they do it?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Some people think that media outlets have a responsibility to publish their dubious wisdom.
@Nick Vasilakis: No idea! Reading some of the comments it is obvious that it would be better if they just removed the facility entirely.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: The Journal only exists because of its readership.
Do you really think that readership – its customers – don’t have any right to complain?
To suggest improvements?
Improvements that would make The Journal better for them, the customers and the only ones keeping The Journal in business?
Customer service isn’t your forte, is it Sean?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: That’s what Email is for.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: So, write to them. Email them. Ring them. Of course you have have a right to complain. But that is NOT the same as commenting in public.
@martin lawlor: How do you mean the article has no relevance? It relates to Harris’s trip to Belfast to meet with politicians from the executive – you know, a news article that let’s us know what our Taoiseach is up to today.
Maria Bailey could have told the Tories that swings are dangerous!
There are reports that Boris Johnson arrived to vote without voter ID. If true, then he again doesn’t know a law he himself passed as PM….and further evidence that he’s largely incapable of everyday adult functioning.
Best of luck to Brian Dobson on his retirement from Rte.A sound auld skin.
Playing tough with asylum does not win votes because people have made up their minds years before that there is a problem with illegal migration.
The Conservatives in the UK have gone the way of Republicans in the US. 30/40 years ago, while you may not have agreed with their policies you could understand the rational behind them, debate them and agree to disagree. Now, however,…………..? I never thought I would see the day when I would consider Ronald Reagan a reasonable moderate. Come back Maggie Thatcher, all is forgiven (though that might still be a step too far!).
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Mags is literally the reason for the mess.
Being Prime Minister over there seems to be a poisoned chalice. Either that or they’re all thick.
@David O Brien: I would rather have a government full of dunces here that can run the country 100% than have dunces in Europe telling us what to do.
@Fintan Pox: Thanks poxy
@Fintan Pox: you asked for that Pox.
Brenda’s C5, must be nice to avoid having to learn, think, try to understand as best we can & instead just parrot obviously deeply flawed slogans. How are the EU eejits?
Never mind I’m sure he’ll have a new career. He could become a professional snooker player, he sure snookered Minister McEntee!
Vote Fianna fFail.Your haveing a laugh right.Your some bell.Pox
couldn’t be more happy for him.
And we slowly flop to the other side of the coin, will it be different? no.
Politicians are all painted with the same brush through the world.
All talk and promises before an election and nothing after their in power.
If they promise and can’t deliver they should be sacked after 18 months and not have to wait for a full 5 year term
Good stuff they need manners put on them. It’s a pity the journal is more than happy to deny comment on most comments about our own Tories, Ireland has had Tories in government for a hundred years. Buckled infrastructure. A shanty town on the canal.
Elsewhere, unacceptable that anti British Khan has been re elected as Mayor of London. He openly appeases people who commit violence in London
Fewer conservatives in government is always a good thing, anywhere. Conservatism is an illness.
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