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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know a little before 9am.
1. #GOOD NEWS: The ESRI has predicted unemployment will fall to 9.8% next year, though it also said house prices in the Irish market are undervalued.
2. #EBOLA: A state of emergency has been declared in Liberia over the outbreak of the Ebola virus with the president commenting that extraordinary measures were needed “for the very survival of our state”.
3. #CORK: A 12-year-old boy was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Cork city last night. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses.
4. #FORGET ABOUT IT: Wikipedia has revealed that Google complied with a request to remove a link to a page about Gerry Hutch – better known as ‘The Monk’.
5. #GAZA: Israel has offered to extend the three-day ceasefire in Gaza, while Amnesty accused its army of deliberate attacks on health workers.
6. #ON TRIAL: Oscar Pistorius, accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa, will be back in court today for closing arguments as his trial comes to a close.
7. #CHECK YOURSELF: Screening for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by about 20%, according to a major study published today.
8. #DRUGS: A Dublin inner-city resident discovered a large number of pills scattered around a children’s playground and they were later found to be a brand of paracetamol not normally available in Ireland, the Irish Daily Star reports.
9. #CAMBODIA: Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed war crimes tribunal found two of the regime leaders guilty of crimes against humanity.
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How long can it take to write down that you will financially punish anyone with a car and crisscross the nation with cycle lanes?
@Mogh Roith: And state over and over again that you’re going to build more DART lines and metros/public transport but never build it. Must be costing the state tens of millions to keep the charade going.
Jayus that photo. Nauseating .
@Paul Gorry: you don’t like the Mazdas I take it Paulie?!
@Joe Kennedy: more a Toyota fan meself joe.
@Paul Gorry: same Paul….Toyota all day long!
You must be joking this government has missed a deadline
@kevin mc cormack: or two.
Choked and Air polluted Galway City has missed several deadlines for a Bypass over the last Five Years. Get your Green finger out and face the reality of necessity for clean air in the City.
Sure all the greens have done is put taxes on everything they could. Did it this government and did it the last time they were in government. They’re policy is put a carbon tax on it and more cycle lanes to nowhere.
Green or not so green all their rules haven’t worked or the cycle lanes time to go
Hard to believe that micro / smaller States within EU like Malta , Cyprus , Luxembourg with less resources can Lodge thier plans on time and Irekabd cannot , Odd also that with a ” Green Minister” that We could not achieve this deadline ..????? Is He ( Eamon Ryan ) seeking perfection or “what gives” as they say ? The sad thing is that it really does not matter that much anyway since China and India along with insane population growth in Africa + South + Central America etc has condemned us to exceeding 2% .yet the Woke Mib only interested in criticising Europe + North America exclusively.
Ryan probably missed the deadline because he was asleep
The Greens just don’t have time to draw up a plan. They are too busy blighting or streets with plastic poles to protect cyclists.
Half of the city (Dublin) has so much plastic poles that it looks like permanent roadworks.
Shame on you Green Party. You’ve blighted our city with plastic. The same plastic that you do whinge about. FAIL!
Saving up all the green tax. Long term savings plan.
What are all his assistants/advisers doing for their money. Just curious.
What about all the coal comming in to money point to fuel electricity cars and we are not allowed burn it
A simple fact that nothing gets done in good old Ireland !
A shur life goes on anyways,
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