EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door…
1. #INM: Gavin O’Reilly has unexpectedly stepped down as the CEO of Independent Newspapers and Media, the biggest newspaper company in the country, following a board meeting this afternoon. Earlier today it had emerged that an anonymous buyer had purchased 13 million shares – a 2 per cent share – in INM. A source has indicated that Vincent Crowley, the current Group Chief Operating Officer at INM, is to take over from O’Reilly.
2. #ABORTION: TDs have voted to reject legislation which would have permitted abortions to be carried out in Ireland under limited circumstances. The proposal, put forward by Socialist Party TD Clare Daly, was rejected by 111 votes to 20. Fine Gael, Labour and Fianna Fáil all voted against the draft legislation with Sinn Féin and some ULA and independent TDs voting in favour.
3. #FORNICATION: Meanwhile Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin sparked some controversy during the Dáil debate on the abortion bill when she told the chamber that fornication was “probably the single most likely cause of unwanted pregnancies in this country”.
4. #NORWAY: Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that he had planned to decapitate former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and post a video of the beheading on the internet. Brundtland, a social democratic politician who served three terms as PM in the 1980s and 1990s, had been on the island of Utoya on the day Breivik carried out his shooting massacre last July but had already left when he arrived on the island.
5. #OCCUPY: Members of the Occupy Dame Street movement occupied the Dublin City Sheriff office in Temple Bar this afternoon in protest at the eviction of a couple from their home in Killiney. Brendan and Asta Kelly were removed from their home yesterday on foot of a court warrant obtained by the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) in 2010.
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