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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie bring you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.
1. #FÁS: Employees of the soon-to-be-disbanded State training agency FÁS are to take their fight to the Labour Court to retain up to 44 days of extra annual leave in the last two years before they retire. SIPTU has said today that the pre-retirement leave issue had reared its head even before the Government announced the transfer of employees to new agency Solas. Here they explain why FÁS workers deserve the extra leave>
2. #AUSTRALIA: It has taken explosive specialists ten hours to free a teenage girl from a device which was strapped to her neck at her home in an upmarket suburb of Sydney. Police are now investigating to see if the device could have exploded – and hunting the person who put it there.
3. #ÁRAS 2011: Sources close to former MEP, former presidential candidate and former Eurovision winner Dana say she’s considering putting her name forward for a run at the Áras this year.
4. #HACKING: Beware an increase in phone hacking in Ireland. No, not NoTW-style hacking – the Communications Regulator explains that this type involves someone hacking into a company’s phone system to make free calls at the business’s expense. This is already an increase of such cases reported this year.
5. #TALL SHIPS: Something to soothe you into the evening… photographer Paul O’Neill has captured the 72 hours at the Waterford Tall Ships festival in this stunning bird’s-eye view timelapse video. Aaaanndd relax.
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Put the heavy things at the back I said, not the front.
@Alan Byrne: locking pin for front gear appears to have been put in incorrectly.
Slow news day eh
They’ll probably hold an enquiry, but it seems plane enough.
Even planes are taking the knee now
Any word on the 4 dead pilots from British airways ??
@Larry Williams: one died from covid having spent the over 8 months in hospital. Looks like another was a biking accident. Not sure about the other 2, but it’d be great to stop making assumptions and wait until facts come out……
@Anthony Keenan: BA have also since confirmed that none of the 4 are linked and none relate to the vaccine
@Larry Williams: Two are certainly not linked. One was a bike accident, another was from complications having spent over a year in hospital in the States following an illness.
@Anthony Keenan: Take what they say with a pinch of salt. The BBC also tried to cover up Lisa Shaw’s death until her family went public. Now another reporter, Dom Nugent, is dead after “a short illness”. 11 weeks after the vaccine.
@Dave: yeah because dead after a short illness was never heard of before covid
@johnny onion eye: You keep pretending to yourself that all of these deaths of young, healthy people have absolutely nothing to do with these jabs if you want. They also said Lisa Shaw’s death was from a short illness also until her family spoke out.
@Larry Williams: bunch of w4nkers, I never mentioned anything about vaccine, but you jumped to conclusions, a$$ holes as always
@Larry Williams: Call us whatever names you like, but it’s looking like they were vaccine related. Someone mentioned the one that died from a bike accident as if it can’t be related. The autopsy shows he died from internal abdominal bleeding not consistent with the accident. Abdominal bleeding, like clots, is another much more common occurence than is being reported.
I see Ryan Air gave started to sneak those doggy Boeings across the Atlantic.
@Bala mc blaha: bow wow!
The McVities weren’t at rhe back.
Even planes are taking the knee now
@first_timer: this would be a second timer post
The all new 787 Max. Aka 737-8!
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