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EACH DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you should know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #SHOOTING: Gardaí are today investigating a shooting that took place in the Fairhill area of Cork last night. A 20-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and gardaí are now appealing for witnesses.
2, #BERRIES: The Food Safety Authority was first told about the risk of contracting Hepatitis A from frozen berries by European watchdogs as far back as April, the Irish Daily Mail has revealed. The FSAI decided not to give any warning because the cases identified at the time were in Scandinavia, though three people in Ireland that month began showing symptoms of the virus.
3. #BELFAST: An Orange Order parade is due to take place in North Belfast later today. RTÉ reports that the Count Grand Master of Belfast has urged those taking part to protest peacefully and disperse when asked to do so by police, amid fears of a return to last weekend’s scenes of violence.
4. #HOWTH: Gardaí are investigating a possible incidence of arson yesterday evening after a trawler in Howth pier, Dublin, was set on fire. No one was on board the boat at the time and the scene is now preserved pending a forensic and technical examination to determine the cause.
5. #DROUGHT: We never thought we’d say this, but the country is now in a drought. The Irish Independent reports today that at least ten local authorities have had to cut off or restrict water supplies at night and more councils are to follow suit as the heatwave continues. So back away from the hose before someone gets hurt…
6. #DEBT: Danske Bank will apply on Monday to have its case seeking judgement for loans of almost €2.5 million owed by Minister of State John Perry and his wife, fast-tracked, The Irish Times reports. The bank claims the loan was to be repaid by November 2012 and while the couple had been making some payments, they failed to keep up the level required under the terms.
7. #SPEED: The companies operating the fleet of speed camera vans in the country made profits of almost €50,000 a week last year, the Irish Examiner reports. The vans detect one speeding motorist every hour.
8. #AUSTRALIA: Police at an Australian-run immigration detention camp on the island state of Nauru have restored calm after riots broke out yesterday, BBC reports. The riot was sparked by the Australian Prime Minister’s announcement that asylum-seekers arriving by boat will now be processed through Papua New Guinea for assessment.
9. #SEX: A new study has indicated that a sexual addiction may not be a mental disorder at all and could simply be linked to a high libido. The study found that brain responses of people with the ‘addiction’ to sexual images were not related in any way to the severity of their hypersexuality, but instead were tied to their level of sexual desire.
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Great. Looking forward to ”quarterly service charges” rising.
Yep. Anything charged to the banks will simply be put back on the customer. They need to find more creative ways to get a few quid out of the banks.
Likewise raising th the price of cigs. It’s the cigarette companies they should go after – target their finances directly. Hurt them directly.
Yes double taxiation is a wonderful thing
When you tax an entity it always gets passed on to the consumer one way or another. There will be no way of reclaiming money from the banks. The best we can do is seek alternatives to the bailout banks.
So this levy has an end date, but the “temporary” USC does not?
Are you only coping on to that now?
The banks slashed the interest rates on deposits last week, all of them, my Boi account has gone from 1.75% to 0.03%.
It’s almost as if they knew what was in the budget in advance.
But of course that wouldn’t be possible now, would it?
Any journalists going to investigate?
total funding for the six banks by the ECB and the Irish Central Bank came to about €150 billion;
150 million x 2 years x 6 banks = ?
oh and that was up to 2011, Its not counting this year.
Dont know why banks were levied they will just add a bit more on and pass it on to customers
Because under law a levy is not a tax so in Government La La land world they can claim they did not raise tax.
Meanwhile in the real world we know this is a Governmemt tax as it will be paid by the people through higher bank charges.
Open a bank account in Turkey. They’re paying up to 15% (depending on the bank, and there are plenty to choose from) interest on all deposits, access to your money whenever you want and citizenship not necessary. I sh*t you not. It does obviously help to have contacts though.
Wow! We should all move to Turkey !!
Don’t have to live there either Michael and they’re outside the control of Europe. I’m lucky enough to have some business contacts there and they put their strong economy down to Arab investment. Worth having a look at. I’m just back from Istanbul and the amount of investment there at the moment is staggering.
Above comment was meant as a reply to your’s Michael. Ghost in the machine methinks.
I presume that our esteemed minister for finance added a clause prohibiting the banks from simply raising customer charges to make the money they will need to pay this ???? I don’t think !
Surely they mean “levy on bank customers”?
The banks will just pass it on to all of us like the snake in the grass serpents they are.
Wonderful piece of stealth taxation. I’d say the banks are devastated
Passing it on to customers in 3, 2, 1
how can working people avoid the banks when most people are payed direct into the bank and u have to pay to pay to get ur money out. is it not about time we said no we want cash we are going backwards.
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