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1. Irish Water has confirmed that people won’t be fined for not registering by midnight.
2. UK agents are allegedly involved in the arrest and torture of an Irish resident in Saudi Arabia.
3. Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial today accused of “pimping” as part of a prostitution ring.
4. Michael O’Leary has said that the focus on the Aer Lingus’s slots at Heathrow Airport are ‘largely irrelevant’.
5. Some 60,000 of the poorest citizens in Croatia will have their slates wiped clean from today after the government passed a plan to write off their debts.
6. Centra plans to open 16 new shops creating 380 jobs this year after it made record profits in 2014.
(Main pic: Garda forensic team lead by State Pathologist Marie Cassidy as investigation is under way following the discovery of a man’s body at his home in Dublin. Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland).
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Folks, when I called for a referendum to fix ownership of irish water (not IW) in public ownership, many people on this forum said it was unnecessary. Indah, JobBridge Joan, Alan Kelly and other td said there was absolutely no plan to privatise water services, and they could not envisage any government privatising it. Now thanks to Rte (amazingly) we know that yet again the government have flat out lied about yet another solemn pledge. In 2013 this Government’s plan was to have councils compete with private operators to provide water services FROM 2017. Now because of all the problems and protest this deadline has been pushed out a few years, but the plan to privatise remains the same and we have again been deceived. This Government no longer has any mandate. Referendum now.
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