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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.
1. #REFERENDUM: It’s full steam ahead for the government following yesterday’s result in the Fiscal Compact referendum. As the Taoiseach and Tánaiste portrayed the result as a boost for sorting Ireland’s bank debts, the Dáil schedule for next week was released – showing that TDs will vote on amending the EU treaties, and then ratifying the ESM, in their first two days back at work.
2. #BUILDINGS: That’s not the only major item on the agenda this week, however. The technical group will force a vote on Thursday morning about whether the government should itself carry out the works necessary to fix crippled estates like Priory Hall – and then look to get the money back from the developers involved.
3. #LONDON 2012: A little of the Olympic spirit reaches these shores today, as the Olympic torch relay moves to Northern Ireland. The flame will travel around the province for four days, before taking a day trip to Dublin on Wednesday.
4. #EGYPT: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has arrived in court this morning ahead of a ruling on whether he will be convicted for killing demonstrators in last uprising. He could face the death penalty if found guilty.
5. #BILDERBERG: Finance minister Michael Noonan is in Virginia this weekend attending a meeting of elite businessmen and policy makers. The Bilderberg Meetings – best-known for the relative secrecy surrounding the discussions taking place – are discussing matters like the euro crisis and the role of Russia in global politics.
6. #EMPLOYMENT: The happiness of European leaders following Ireland’s referendum vote yesterday took a bit of a dent afterwards – new figures from the EU’s statistics body showed that unemployment in the Eurozone rose in April, to 11.0 per cent. That’s up from 9.9 per cent at the same time last year.
7. #WE ALL PARTIED: A new art exhibition opening in Dublin for a week-long run today examines the theme that all of Ireland benefited from the economic boom. The ‘Punt Nua: Creative Economics‘ includes exhibits like a new board game, Namopoly. Have a look.
8. #BOND MARKETS: The bond markets appeared to welcome yesterday’s referendum result, with the cost of a two-year loan to the Irish government coming down quite a bit. Longer-term borrowing costs were virtually unchanged, however – though the news did push the euro above what was almost a two-year low against the dollar.
9. #LATE LATE: The great and the good of Irish entertainment were in Montrose last night as RTÉ marked fifty full seasons of The Late Late Show. Guests on last night’s show included Tommy Tiernan, Sinead O’Connor, and former hosts Pat Kenny and Gay Byrne. Here’s our red carpet gallery – we’ll have more from last night’s show later in the morning.
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I seriously think its time that TD’s should wake up and take accountability for some of this mess. I think it should only be fair that All and I mean ALL TD’s should take a substantial pay cut just like the rest of the country. Why should they be on hundreds of thousands when A they work less than the average Joe and B they are obviously not doing their job right. For once I think Ireland should stand up and be counted. Look at greece they acted against their government and maybe its time we should too!
why should the tax payer be saddled yet again with the developers debt? if the govt is going to think about finishing off the ghost estates then it should just take them over without looking for any money from the developers and when finished use them as housing stock for local councils or sell them on at discounted cost for first time buyers, the developers who’ built’ these estates wont cough up a cent towards the cost of finishing them so why waste time and money trying? also well said to darren for the above post, too bloody right we should cut the number of t.d’s and their pay, 50 t.ds maximum and wage cap of 150k for the senior ones and 100k for juniors, with NO expenses vouched or otherwise, and cut the subsidised bars and restaurants in the dail too.
Thank you I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt this way!
Surely the Priory Hall issue is a no brainer?
Will anyone be held accountable, I doubt it and you can get away with everything in this country! Its a reminder of the corruption in this country, from the top down and we need to tear it up to start again!
Have you seen this complex. Level the ugly block make a park or playground and give the residents some of the unused Nama stuff littered around the same area. That’s the nobrainer. They could use the developers as foundation for the new park
“Finance minister Michael Noonan at bilderberg meeting” is he there in a private capacity?or is he representing the country? if so whats it all about?
Ahh sure he’ll come back and tell us all what he doing at these notoriously shady and secret meetings, isn’t he part of a crew that promised an open and transparent government?
Even if he is there in a private capacity he should declare it, a country’s minister for finance should come clean about his personal dealings with a capitalist cartel.
Don’t mind these [not] little things. Bring back [not] Cardinal Sean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.2nd-republic.ie/site/ , Take a look and think about it!
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