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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news…
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny make a jobs announcement at the Global Economic Forum meeting in Dublin Castle. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)
A boy sleeps in a temporary camp in the Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
#ITALY: More than 200 people are still unaccounted for in the boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa. However, bad weather has hampered the search. [BBC News]
#USA: A bankrupt company called Tweeter has done quite well out of the Twitter IPO.
#PORTUGAL: Police in Britain are analysing mobile phone data from thousands of people who were in the Portuguese resort when Madeleine McCann disappeared.
#RIP: General Vo Nguyen Giap drove the French and Americans out…today Vietnam mourns a hero.
He’s been labelled the Justin Bieber of hurling and they’re not far wrong. This was the scene in Ennis this week as Clare goal-hero Shane O’Donnell tried to leave the field. Eventually, he had to get a garda escort out of the dressing room. There may be hoards of screaming girls outside RTÉ studios later so as the 19-year-old is due to appear on the Late Late Show. (Not alongside Sinéad O’Connor)
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Could he not just read the Journal and find out the truth
@Aideen Pollard: most truthful comments get b
@Aideen Pollard: You mean when U.S. intelligence stated there were Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
@Donal Desmond: US intelligence reports and memos also said there were no WMDs. The Bush administration basically “cherry picked” the intelligence that suited their narrative and ignored good intelligence reports and agents that were actually accurate.
He knows exactly what is happening the spineless little man
The Russia changed tactics after Feb 27, that is the day their troops went on a kamikaze mission into Kharkiv.
Putin was likely livid that no major city was taken 3 days after the invasion started (this was supposed to be a 3 – 4 day mission) and he ordered the generals to send troops into Kharkiv.
Bizarre scenes of un-armoured canvas covered trucks driving towards the heavily defended city centre and other scenes of a few troops walking nervously behind lightly armoured vehicles, with tactics so inept they looked like a bachelor party playing paintball.
After that mess Russian troops avoided direct confrontation with the motivated Ukrainian army, switched to sitting outside cities and firing artillery and cruise missiles at them, the invasion had failed on that day, it ground to a halt (only a few gains in the south, but that came as a cost of loosing generals that acted as cheerleaders on the front line, trying to rally the troops).
Mr putride, a thug of the highest order.
@Richard Ahern: Herr Putin.
I suppose that’s what happens when you surround yourself with sycophantic yes men?
They aren’t telling him because they are terrified of him.
Advisors also told Putin that ruble is best performing currency in March…
The truth must slip out occasionally, and the people who forget to button it get fired or put under house arrest.
Such a horrible face. His eyes are so close together. Isn’t that a sign of a looper?
They remember how his Uncle Adolf used to react to the truth?
@Gerry campbell: they reckon the battle for D Day could have been very different if anyone had dared to wake Hitler to tell him the invasion has started. As it was he slept on blissfully unaware and by the time he eventually found out priceless hours had been lost that could have been used to bolster defences.
Yeah what are the chances of that
It’ll end badly for Putin. It always does for despots like this. And soon in his case.
Beware of those whose eyebrows meet for in their heart there lies deceit.
@Aine O Connor: The hair on his head doesn’t even meet in the middle lol
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