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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.
1.#BALBRIGGAN: A man was shot dead in Dublin this morning. A woman was also hit in the upper thigh in the incident in Balbriggan.
2.#MCNULTYSHAMBLES: The ongoing controversy over Fine Gael’s nominee for the Seanad by-election rumbles on. John McNulty today stepped down from the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, saying that his resignation was not linked to the furore over his appointment, rather to do with internal rules. Meanwhile, one Fine Gael TD said people are “disgusted” with how the party is run, while a woman overlooked in favour of McNulty left the party.
3.#TIGER KIDNAPPING: Three women were taken at gunpoint as part of a tiger kidnapping in Dublin. The incident occurred in Malahide this morning.
4.#INQUEST: Dhara Kivlehan, who died after undergoing an emergency c-section in Sligo General Hospital in 2010, did not see a specialist for 60 hours after she was diagnosed with acute renal failure. The inquest into the death heard that the delay was “not appropriate”, but did not affect overall care.
5.#GOING NOWHERE: The chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) says he has “no intention of resigning” nor do any of his commissioner colleagues. Simon O’Brien told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that GSOC had learned from the affair and they “wanted to move on”.
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Great we can burn them instead of coal!!!
@Diarmuid O Brien:
U can but you’ll have to pay VAT on the matches to light them.
@Paul O Connor: the other alternative is use the newspapers to wipe your derrière
Finally something positive for the people in the budget. Can’t remember last time I bought a paper.
I suppose they have to make sure their spin doctors dinosaur media companies don’t die off.
@Jason Walsh: Guess you never came across spin and misinformation on the internet or social media.
How about getting rid of 13% vat on kerosene ,doing something useful for a change ????
Only 5% in north
An answer to a question nobody asked.. political/media bubble to be strengthened.
Who needs to buy a newspaper when you have the Journal :)
@Míleata Watch Co: Well it might now finally be printed including the comments.
The abolition of vat on insulation products might be more useful, beneficial to everyone and address the current problems around fuel costs and energy usage.
But hey, yay for fecking newpapers, the real question is, could Irelands government be any more detached from reality or their responsibilities?
Steam engine manufacturers are aggrieved!
The Sunday Times costs €4
Minus vat €3.64
It was cheaper a few months ago
@Kevin Carroll: Yea but the Irish times is expensive.
Most people now of day have newpapers on their fone
@David Corcoran: What papers do you have?
@David Corcoran: And that’s why they’re semi-literate
And the could also cut the VAT on dog nuts whilst their at it. No VAT on them. In the North
Positive move for the Journalists in employment with the Newspapers
These news outlets have been beneficiaries of incredible amounts of government (people’s) money during covid while readership numbers over the last decade plummeted. That money allowed failed business models to miraculously turn a tidy profit while basically acting as non critical mouthpieces of government. Now These repeaters of government propaganda are in for another tidy sum while periodicals like Village and Phoenix magazine, who have been critical of government policy, will not benefit from this generosity. I guess they always look after there friends so nobody should be surprised
Local newspapers are judged to be more important than national ones. If their journalists are independent, then they are great at exposing corruption at a local level.
@François Pignon: all local papers are owned by the National Newspaper groups
Haven’t bought one in years and don’t intend to ever again.
And is anyone under the illusion that any tax abolished will benefit the customer? Haha! In the board rooms they are salivating.
Sunday Business Post almost 4 Eur. It’s their own fault/greed people are not buying, shovelling their own grave.
As I read theJournal ie
Good news at last.
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