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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #IT’S A NO: Scotland has rejected independence. We’re awaiting the final result following counting overnight, but it’s looking like a 55 to 45 per cent margin. Turnout is being estimated at a massive 86 per cent.
2. #CONCEDING: First Minister Alex Salmond has said he expects all of Scotland to accept the result, but that people will now expect Westminster to come good on its promises.
3. #GUN ATTACK: There’s been a mass shooting in the US state of Florida. A 51-year-old man killed six of his grandchildren and his adult daughter before turning the gun on himself.
4. #PREFAB SPROUT?: Sinn Féin councillors in Dublin have been advised by their strategists to back a contentious plan to house people in prefabs, the Irish Independent reports. It could be a ‘temporary solution’ the councillors were told.
5. #REBELS: US President Barack Obama has welcomed the backing of Congress for his $500 million plan to aid moderate rebel groups in Syria, the BBC reports.
6. #UNLUCKY: RTÉ journalist Philip Boucher Hayes had his recording equipment stolen, after he was mugged while covering the Scottish referendum. He had to pay £200 to get it back.
7. #BACK IN THE PARK The position of US ambassador to Ireland has been filled, having been vacant for 22 months. The Senate last night approved the appointment of President Obama’s nominee for the role, Kevin O’Malley.
8. #LOCKDOWN: A nationwide lockdown is under way in Sierra Leone to try and halt the spread of Ebola, CNN reports. No-one is being allowed to leave their home for the next three days.
9. #THE OUTLOOK: So how’s the weather looking? A foggy morning, with some hazy sunshine — but then heavy, thundery downpours later. Top temperatures of 21 degrees.
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I take it there is no drive tru McDonald’s there yeah?
@Gerry Fallon: there is, but they only sell McNuggets. And they dont have any szechuan dipping sauce…
Also, anyone else read that headline and think of a ‘cows with guns’ type situation? Sneaky cows
@Gerry Fallon: haha you beat me to it. Bet you dont get a nice steak there. Funny thing is although Hindus treat the cow as sacred
I never saw them being fed or watered by these same devoted people. They just walk around slowly starving
@Gerry Fallon: There is Gerry, you just gotta drive really really fast.
We live in a mad mad world of crazy beliefs
@Mel Fitzpatrick: why are our beliefs not crazy..
@Jimmy Berg: generally civilised counties don’t kill someone over a cow. That’s mainly left to religions
@Michael Hayden: did it ever occur that they might be right, and we shouldnt be eating cows. Hindu beliefs are far more believable than our own.
@Jimmy Berg: There’s always one.
@Jimmy Berg: If by beliefs, you mean the unprovable existence of a so called omnipotent diety that people believe would help them find their car keys but can’t be bothered curing cancer, that loves all his children but created a place for them to be in torment for eternity, that asks his followers to engage in a cannabilistic ritual involving the eating of his flesh and the drinking of his blood, etc., then yes, your beliefs are every bit as crazy.
@Just Me: yep i dont believe in zombies.
@Jimmy Berg Whatever.
@Jimmy Berg: I never once implied that our beliefs aren’t crazy either lad, calm down
don’t kill cows because they are sacred but kill people because they aren’t .. you’ve got to love their logic
@Dean Anderson: i gave decided that my fog Rocky is actually sacred, I am living with a God!
@Gus Sheridan: dog. Dog. Dog. Sorry God
@Gus Sheridan:
Boxer…??
@Dean Anderson: There is no logic, look at how the peace loving Buddhists in Myanmar treat the Rohingya people, prejudice seems to be a splinter of all religions.
@Austin Rock:
it takes a lot of provocation to upset the ‘peace loving Buddhists’
the Rohinga are 100% muslim, and their looting, raping, murder & violence drove the ‘peace loving Buddhists’ to defend themselves.
@Gus Sheridan: Well Holy doG!!!
A Jesus I’ll have to tell my local butcher to beef up his security so
Pity they don’t see human life as sacred
What’s a Hindu?… lay eggs… I’ll get my coat.
India is such a progressive country
Holy cow !!!!
Bovine stupidity.
Religion! The more wrong and irrational it is, the more likely it is to claim it is the truth.
@Tony Daly: I think you’ll find all religions claim theirs to be the true one.
@Just Me: too true.
Religion, where would we be without it. Killin each other and hatin each other a little less maybe. I used to think, religion isn’t really the motivator, people do horrible stuff and religion is a good excuse/ scapegoat. Now I dunno. I’d like to see religion gone and see if we miss it. In our holes we would.
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