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The 9 at 9 The nine stories you need to know this morning, including: Anglo, ministerial Mercs, and Eircom customer data…

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know before your morning coffee.

1. #SECURITY: Nearly 7,000 eMobile and Meteor customers have been affected after two Eircom laptops containing personal data were stolen last December. The telecoms company only revealed the data breach today and says it is writing to affect customers to inform them about the issue.

2. #ANGLO: A restructured deal to reduce the Anglo debt burden will be struck “in the next few weeks” Pat Rabbitte has said. The deal to restructure the promissory notes to the now-defunct bank worth €31 billion will be agreed by the end of March, the Communications Minister said in an interview today.

3. #SHOOTING: Gardaí have launched an investigation after a man in his 20s was shot dead at his home in Donegal last night. The scene at the house in Buncrana has been sealed off pending a forensic investigation.

4. #MINISTERIAL MERCS: Fancy owning a former ministerial car? The fleet of former State cars – which were used for ministers, former Taoisigh and ex-presidents – will be sold off at a public auction soon, the Minister for Justice has said.

5. #CORK AIR CRASH: The lawyer acting for families of people involved in the Cork air crash has said that pilot decisions were the main cause of the crash, which took place one year ago today. Meanwhile, there will be no official commemoration to mark the anniversary of the air disaster which claimed the lives of six people at Cork Airport.

6. #GREECE: EU finance ministers are refusing to release much-needed bailout funds to Greece despite a deal reached by political leaders in the debt-stricken country yesterday. Eurozone ministers say Greece must meet new conditions before the money can be released.

7. #FGM: More than 3,000 women living in Ireland have been subjected to female genital mutilation, a TD has revealed. New legislation which will categorise FGM as a distinct offence is nearing its final stages in the Dáil.

8. #HEALTH: Fewer than half of the number of academic clinician posts recommended in a 2006 report on undergraduate medical training in Ireland have been approved. New figures in the Medical Independent show that 49 clinical academic appointments have been made since 2006, far less than 99 posts recommended by a report six years ago.

9. #STEVE JOBS: The FBI has released the file it held on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in which the iconic business leader is described as a “deceptive individual” with “questionable” moral character.  The file also notes that Jobs used LSD and marijuana during his college days.

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    Mute mart_n
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:37 PM

    The wait for GTA 5 must have cracked her up.

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    Mute brianoceros
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:04 PM

    Born in 1990 & somehow becomes a senile 70 yr old.

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    Mute Marina Reilly
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:06 PM

    Missed the bit where it said she was born in 1990 did ya?

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    Mute Old Holborn
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:06 PM

    What has a 22/3 year old woman and compulsory testing of over 70′s got in common to this story??

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    Mute Jason O'Donoghue
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:06 PM

    Didn’t see that! Just some nut job so…, probably on the crack.

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    Mute Begrudgy
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:07 PM

    Ah 70. Math wasn’t your best subject in school was it.

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    Mute Peggy Flaherty
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:08 PM

    Jason, I find your comment incredibly insulting. We people of a certain age have much to offer the community.

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    Mute Old Holborn
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:10 PM

    Are you over 70 Jason?

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    Mute Old Holborn
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:14 PM

    Such as?

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    Mute Marina Reilly
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:15 PM

    Or maybe she has mental health issues or just felt like seizing the day!! Enough assumptions and stereotypes!

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    Mute Jack Bowden
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:15 PM

    Lighten up. I think he’s only messing. Don’t be extremely offended.

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    Mute Marina Reilly
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:17 PM

    Ah, troll. Everyone calm down and ignore Jason. Hopefully he’ll head back under his bridge

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    Mute Barry Basstard
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:30 PM

    Police are baffled as to what the loco motive for the crime was.

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    Mute Paul Martin
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:55 PM

    Apparently a disgruntled employee who was suspended for bringing stock home without permission in the past

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    Mute John Carolan
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:57 PM

    Nice try…

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    Mute Paul Martin
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:00 PM

    Too subtle?

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    Mute John Carolan
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:02 PM

    Maybe too subtle alright…see how many likes it gets!

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    Mute anthony byrne
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:49 PM

    She must have had no training !

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    Mute Mike Clinton
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:43 PM

    “Bing bong, Will the person who took the 18.12 to Stockholm please bring it back as the passengers and driver are looking for it”

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    Mute Dr.fury
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:44 PM

    I heard she came from the wrong side of the tracks

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    Mute Shane Carroll
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:26 PM

    Women drivers eh?

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    Mute Dr.fury
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:05 PM

    How did she escape the kitchen is what I’d like to know

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    Mute John Hayes
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:42 PM

    Maybe she’s just living out how she feels , off the rails ?

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    Mute Larry O'Doherty
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:52 PM

    She’s gone off the rails…completely.

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    Mute peter
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    Jan 15th 2013, 9:55 PM

    She left the immersion on!

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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:53 PM

    Don’t you just hate that…you work hard to build up your reputation and then throw it all away by crashing a train into a 3 storey building..

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    Mute Shane Carroll
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:15 PM

    Hate when that happens!

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    Mute Cornelius Crow
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    Jan 16th 2013, 12:18 AM

    Should hear my plane story

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    Mute Liam Brady
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:05 PM

    Probably just wanted a platform .

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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:38 PM

    [pedantic mode] Article sub title says no one was injured yet the woman that stole the carriage was seriously injured and flown to hospital?? Does she not count? ;)[/pedantic mode]

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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:31 PM

    I bet it still ran on time

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    Mute James Patrick Smith
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:56 PM

    She wanted to fast track her membership of the Swedish house Mafia

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    Mute Stephen Barry
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    Jan 16th 2013, 7:57 AM

    Give her a break , who hasn’t slammed a train into a three storey building at some stage in there life

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    Mute Billie Hetfield
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    Jan 16th 2013, 10:19 AM

    She should have used the brakes she had so she wouldn’t crash.

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    Mute Anne Fulton
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:02 PM

    Midnight train to Georgia???

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    Mute FlopFlipU
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:14 PM

    She was on the wrong gear

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    Mute Sarah
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:45 PM

    Looks like the crash in coronation street !!

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    Mute neuromancer
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:42 PM

    How do you not get injured physically?

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    Mute Shane Carroll
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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:46 PM

    Mentally

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    Jan 15th 2013, 10:54 PM

    Mentally injured. Eh, okay.

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    Mute Shane Carroll
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:05 PM

    Am….yes. Mental isint it?

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    Mute tax slave
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    Jan 16th 2013, 12:27 AM

    She needs a little bit more training
    That’s all

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    Mute Gary Fogarty
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    Jan 16th 2013, 3:36 AM

    Maybe the temptation of driving a train instead of cleaning it got the better of her so she decided to go for a short joyride.

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    Mute Louis CK
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:57 PM

    This is straight-up off the AP wire.

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    Mute Louis CK
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    Jan 15th 2013, 11:58 PM

    Author, Karl Ritter.

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    Jan 16th 2013, 6:57 AM

    Maybe she had just watched Spiderman 2 and wanted to meet him in person

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