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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #SURROUNDED: A garda operation involving armed units supported by the army surrounding a house in north Donegal has ended without an arrest.
2. #PIPS: A month in, the Insolvency Service of Ireland has 52 Personal Insolvency Practitioners (PIPs) working around the country but four counties have none at all.
3. #MIGRANTS: The Maltese Prime Minister has told the BBC that European waters close to Africa are turning into a cemetery after another boat laden with migrants capsized killing an estimated 50 people.
4. #MARCH: A union supported anti-austerity pre-budget march is planned for Dublin today. SIPTU’s president Jack O’Connor was reluctant to predict numbers.
5. #SNOWDEN: Former US secretary of state Hilary Clinton has said that a “sensible adult conversation” is needed about state surveillance in the wake of the leaking of secret NSA files.
6. #DETENTION: Construction of the new juvenile detention facility in Lusk, Co Dublin will begin on Monday. It comes as pressure from human rights groups led to a Government closure order of St Patrick’s Institution.
7. #MEDICAL CARDS: The issue of discretionary medical cards was placed firmly on politicians’ agenda this week as the Dáil heard a number of horror stories.
8. #DO THE MATHS: A fear of maths is hurting Ireland’s economy but it could also damage society according to the national director of MathsWeek.ie.
9. #CHEVRON: The memorial service will take place today of former Pogues guitarist Phil Chevron who was also a founding member of influential Dublin punk band the Radiators from Space.
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It was a petrol bomb but I think we’re missing the point here. How is the wee girl and has anyone been apprehended for this vicious act. ?
I think this story is about a device being thrown at a 4 yr old child….if your that desperate for detail or accuracy read a Tim Pat Coogin book
I just like to know the story and the real facts. A pipe bomb is far more deadlier than a petrol bomb. Is it too much to ask for the right information?
Pipe bomb or Petrol bomb? They are two different things!
Its sectarian so its a sect bomb sect bomb shane your sect bomb
Should be no bombs of any kind thrown by anybody. Wtf is going on there. When are decent people going to get the chance to have peace all year round and the opportunity to prosper side by side.
I can confirm that it was definitely a petrol bomb.
The Nationalist Short Strand enclave under attack once more
Its hardly the west bank anymore fella
Sometimes it takes forensics a bit of time to establish the true nature of the device..meanwhile the story is breaking so sometimes we have to expect some detail lacking/errors.
Funny the way the journal didnt report on the petrol bomb that was fired from Short Strand into Cluan place the other day. Biased media.
Cool, there we have it a Petrol bomb. Feel a whole lot better knowing :)
You’re mental David. Grow up. Have you any kids of your own. You don’t want anyone throwing any kind of bombs at your kids. And it wouldn’t make any difference if a child was blown up or burnt to death to grieving parents or siblings.
Will this crazy thing ever ends in NI?
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