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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING,TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know before you head out the door.
1. #SWORDS: Gardaí have issued a renewed appeal for witnesses and any video footage of a brutal attack with a baseball bat on a man in Swords, Co Dublin yesterday.
2 .#GILLIGAN: Crime boss John Gilligan, who is due to be released form prison next week, said he will not do any media interviews when he gets out – not even for €1 million.
3. #SEX OFFENDERS: The government has promised that there will be “no foot-dragging” in publishing legislation to deal with sex offenders, as the Dáil debated Denis Naughten’s bill today.
4. #DUCK!: An animal rights group has blamed RTÉ’s crime drama Love/Hate for a horrific incident in Edenderry in which a large number of ducks had their heads cut off, saying it wasn’t a coincidence that the event happened a week after the programme showed a cat being shot dead.
5. #PEACE: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013, for its “long-standing efforts” to rid the world of chemical weapons.
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The best thing about todays news is those five ducks.
They cheered me up!
Glad to hear it Little Jim :) We like to try to lift your spirits at the end of the week. Have a good weekend!
Michelle
Cheers Michelle.
Same to yourself.
(off to lift some spirits)
I must say I am starting to rely on The Journal for News these days. RTE website is not as diverse and public commentary is mostly fasinating.
It was Mink the Merciless wot done the ducks…
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