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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you really need to know as you start your day.
1. #DEBT BURDEN: Minister Michael Noonan will meet with his EU counterparts in Brussels to discuss the Greek debt crisis today and tomorrow. He is expected to push for any Greek debt burden-sharing arrangements to be extended to Ireland, according to the Sunday Business Post (print edition). An ECB source told the Sunday Times (subscription) that Noonan’s proposals to burn senior bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide couldn’t come at a worse time.
2. #LIBYA: The Libyan government says that five civilians have been killed in the latest NATO air strikes, which it says hit a residential area of Tripoli. NATO is investigating the claims.
3. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: The Labour Party will today choose which of Michael D Higgins, Fergus Finlay and Kathleen O’Meara will have its nomination for the presidential election. Meanwhile, publisher Niall O’Dowd will push to secure either the Sinn Féin or Fianna Fáil nomination this week, according to the Sunday Business Post (print).
4. #IRAQ: Iraq’s parliamentary speaker says that the amount of missing reconstruction funds could be as high as $18.7 billion, Al Jazeera reports. The money was withdrawn from a fund of Iraqi oil proceeds and was being safeguarded by the US.
5. #AWOL: Of the six TDs and one senator forced to return some of their expenses for failing to attend Leinster House and the Seanad for the required minimum of 100 days, former TD Jim McDaid came out on top. Having attended the Dáil for only 38 days last year, McDaid had to return €12,200, according to the Sunday Times (subscription).
6. #MICHAELA: A key prosecution witness at the trial of the men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey has told the Irish Mail on Sunday (print) that he regrets not intervening in her death and says his “conscience is not clear”. Raj Theekoy told the paper that he wants her husband John McAreavey and her father Mickey Harte to know he is sorry.
7. #HEALTH CUTS: Limerick MidWestern Regional Hospital is facing serious curtailments to their A&E services. The Limerick facility will not be providing night A&E services from 11 July, according to the Sunday Business Post, while HSE managers have been warned that A&E services at Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda are “unsustainable”.
8. #RIP: Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band has died from a stroke, aged 69. The New York Times describes Clemons as “one of rock’s most beloved sidemen”.
9. #MCILROY: Golfer Rory McIlroy, 22, is eight strokes ahead going into today’s final day at the US Open in Bethesda. He says that he’s becoming more and more comfortable with being in such a strong position, while Graeme McDowell says McIlroy is “playing golf the way it should be played”:
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Like a doctor saying you have 3 weeks to live instead of 2.
When a politician tells you one thing, you can be sure the opposite is true. Baldy, look me in the eye and say it ain’t so.
I wonder can he read is it really possible to be that stupid!! Jazus shame on limerick for electing that traitor
Whats next Mini farming budget ….give me a break! Get out now ppl if you have a chance to do so!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696
Have a look at this Mr Noonan ….
Each German owes €50,659,
Each French person owes €66,508
each person in Ireland owes €390,969.
Impossible We owe this thanks to the banks YET
http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/news/rich-list-irelands-wealthiest-named/
There is of course money in this country But Why is there so much
Austerity for the less well off ordinary workers ?
Eileen,
What is also interesting about the Foreign Debt graphs (that you gave the link to) is what it doesn’t show. The circle shows a number of countries that we own debt to including the 100 billion we OK (which of course is sort of balanced by the 100 billion or so that they owe us) but it only shows us owing 250 billion or so to the countries shown (even thought he caption underneath says that bank debt is included in those arrows and that financial services debt is substantial in Ireland’s case). So, which country’s people and banks are loaning us all this foreign credit if it is not the US, France or Germany?
Oh, and also is the money that we owe in the countries that are not shown on the graph balanced by monies that they owe us (like in the case of the UK) or do we just owe all the money to China?
That should be ’100 billion that we owe the UK’ not ’100 billion we OK’ :)
Trying to sweeten us up!
shut up noonan
Yeah but not as good as you’ve been saying either there noonie.
I don’t know ! But If YOU know or show me
another more detailed graph , I would
appreciate it .
Thanks Robert lynch.
Find it difficult to believe anything this man tells us. He told us that the bondholders took a hit in the region of 50% on the Anglo deal on Quinn Group. THEY TOOK NOT HIT OR WRITE DOWN WHATSOEVER..
Either he was played for a fool or he was playing the people of Ireland for fools.
See http://quinn-anglo-story.blogspot.com/
Michael Noon is Talking to his A,,
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