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The Daily Fix: Thursday

Your essential evening round-up of the day’s biggest news, plus the bits and pieces you may have missed…

EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the day’s biggest news stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.

  • The voter turnout for today’s referendum has reportedly been low so far. Here are some of those who have turned out. And if you haven’t voted yet but intend to head in before the polls close tonight, then here’s all you need to know about casting your vote.
  • The Defence Forces say that a suspicious device discovered outside the constituency office of Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou McDonald was a hoax.
  • The police chief inspector who led the investigation into the murder of Michaela McAreavey, 27, last year in Mauritius has denied allegations of police brutality made by one of the defendants.
  • An 11-year-old boy in Syria has described surviving the gun attack which killed his family by lying on the floor in blood-soaked clothing.
  • The European Commission has submitted a court application to start imposing €315-a-day fines on Germany over its delay in transposing an EU directive on data retention.
  • Check out some of the thousands of photographs taken around the world on the same day for an international project.
  • Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has welcomed plans to restore the FOI Act 1997 to its form before the 2003 amendments, but is still waiting for NAMA, the gardaí and the Central Bank to be brought under its remit.

Photography student Kieran Broderick of Cellbridge, Co Kildare pictured at the Griffith College Graduate Photography Exhibition & Media Show which was launched today and will run until the 5th June. (Photo: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

  • Ireland soccer manager Giovanni Trapattoni is clearly tired of getting asked questions about Kevin Foley.
  • The Central Bank has agreed a deal with NAMA to buy the building which was once set to become the Anglo Irish Bank HQ.
  • Household and mortgage lending dropped last month.
  • Did you know Ireland is going through a baby boom?
  • If you’re thinking of hitting the cinema this weekend, check out our Three-trailer Thursday.
  • Here’s the lowdown on dressing room demands being made by acts at this year’s Forbidden Fruit festival.
  • A library in Co Meath has decided to waive thousands of euros in late fees applying to a book borrowed from the branch in 1932 and returned last weekend.
  • New York City is set to ban the sale of large sugary drinks.
  • And finally, if you fancy something soothing this evening as we head towards the bank holiday, then you might enjoy this excellent choral rendition of Shake it Out:

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    Mute Peter B
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:34 PM

    Archdiocese and children are two words that should not be in the same sentence.

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    Mute Ian Downes
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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:40 PM

    @Peter B: I was just going to comment that exact sentence. It’s incredible that the catholic church would be let anywhere near children, or women, or anyone at this stage.

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    Mute Barry Somers
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    Apr 29th 2021, 6:02 AM

    @Ian Downes: and yet people think it’s fine for them to run 90% of our schools.

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    Mute Derek Moran
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:42 PM

    Honestly who would ever leave a child alone with a priest these days?

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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:54 PM

    @Derek Moran: The vast, vast majority of priests were, and are, decent people. But, hell, a good generalisation makes a good soundbite.

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    Mute Mango mango
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:57 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: do you have children? And would you?

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    Mute Lorcan OReilly
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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:02 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: really so the majority of them were speaking out against abuse and helping bring offenders to justice?

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    Mute Barry Somers
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    Apr 29th 2021, 6:06 AM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: it doesn’t matter if the vast majority of them are decent.

    The organisation is rotten to the core.

    It was the Vatican who wrote the rules to move abusing priests to other parishes, it was the Vatican that wrote the rules about silencing victims, it is the Vatican that refuses to this day to release countless records to governments and the United nations.

    It was the Vatican who sent people over to a commission in Ireland and told victims they were lieing and only in it for the money.

    Imagine if the GAA did all this. What same person who deal with the GAA as a whole afterwards?

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    Mute Derek Moran
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    Apr 29th 2021, 7:32 AM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: I used to look after the IT for a bunch of them. I’ve seen their viewing history. Let’s just say it doesn’t correspond with their teachings.

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    Mute Barry Somers
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:50 PM

    Church can’t be bothered to compensate abuse victims, spending money on child protection is a low priority.

    They have the money, it’s just tied up in assets, mainly land which they won’t sell.

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    Mute Mango mango
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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:02 PM

    @Barry Somers: lay management companies have the money, they have it tied up on purpose. It really shows how much they care.

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    Mute Jukebox Jim
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:45 PM

    Neighbourhood cat ‘committed to protecting mice’ despite slaughtering mice at every available opportunity…

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    Apr 29th 2021, 11:19 AM

    @Jukebox Jim: superb analogy!

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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:28 PM

    “and monitors the activities of priests known to have abused children in the past in order to minimise the chance of them doing so again.”

    I know a better way to make sure it never happens again.

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    Mute Amanda Ui Fhaircheallaigh
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    Apr 28th 2021, 9:40 PM

    Surely, the archdiocese is half as committed as protecting children

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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:16 PM

    @Amanda Ui Fhaircheallaigh: Wonder did ArchBishop take a pay cut.

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    Mute The only INFP in Ireland
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    Apr 28th 2021, 10:49 PM

    ‘moniters the activities of priests known to have abused children in the past in order to minimise the chance of them doing so again’ Is this a joke?!

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    Apr 29th 2021, 8:23 AM

    This staff cut certainly sends out the wrong message, though I expect the majority of comments here would be exactly the same if they had doubled the number of staff working in child protection.

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    Apr 29th 2021, 12:40 PM

    @Paul Whitehead: Using the analogy above, two cats looking after the mice isnt exactly better than one

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