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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day…
1. #ROADS: Five people have been seriously injured in two separate crashes in Munster overnight. Three young men sustained major injuries after a single car collision in Togher in Cork at around 11.30pm last night. Separately two men – aged 19 and 20 – were seriously injured in a crash in Holycross Village in Tipperary at around 2.30am this morning. Both are being treated in Clonmel Hospital.
2. #IRAN: At least 250 people have died and more than 2,000 people are injured after two major earthquakes hit Iran. Al Jazeera reports that rescue teams have been trying to dig survivors out of the rubble of villages which have been destroyed by the powerful earthquakes. The earthquakes struck within 11 minutes of each other and measured 6.2 and 6.0 on the Richter scale.
3. #TIA SHARP: Stuart Hazell, the 37-year-old partner of Tia Sharp’s grandmother, has been charged with murder after the body of the 12-year-old was found at her grandmother’s home on Friday. Hazell was charged late on Saturday night and will appear before court on Monday. The Metropolitan Police in London have apologised to Tia Sharp’s mother for the delay in finding her daughter’s body.
4. #HOMECOMING: A number of newspapers report this morning that there will be no official homecoming for Irish athletes returning from the London Olympics tomorrow. A dispute over who would pay for the event is believed to have led to problems in organising the event.
Separately, the Sunday Times reports that the family of John Joe Nevin, who won a silver medal in the bantamweight boxing final last night, were refused entry to watch the fight at a number of pubs in Mullingar. The family instead had to watch the fight in Multyfarnham.
5 #COSTS: The HSE is reported to have spent €185,000 on a report on HR problems in the radiology department of Waterford Regional Hospital that was never published. The Sunday Independent reports that a draft report written by the HSE has not been published following legal advice.
6. #MENTAL HEALTH: A total of 347 people in Ireland received electroshock therapy in Ireland in 2010, according to figures received by TheJournal.ie. The procedure was performed on approximately 35 patients who were either unwilling or unable to give their consent to treatment.
7. #QWITTER: Former Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews has quit the party citing his disenchantment the party’s lack of direction. A report by the Sunday Independent found that Andrews had been behind a Twitter account masquerading as a disillusioned former member of Fianna Fáil which tweeted negative comments about fellow party members. Andrews said he takes full responsibility and regrets being involved with the account.
8. #BERTIE: In more Fianna Fáil news, the Sunday Times reports that Bertie Ahern lobbied Dublin City Council to build a statue of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately in the inner city where the singer was born. However the former Taoiseach was told that statues for entertainers cannot be erected until at least 20 years after the death of the person.
9. #LONDON 2012: Well, that’s it. Today is the final day of the London Olympics, bringing to a close what has been one of the most successful Olympics ever for Irish athletes who won five medals. Irish boxer Darren O’Neill will lead Team Ireland at the closing ceremony tonight, which is expected to see performances from a number of high-profile groups. For the final time this summer, here’s your round-up of everything you need to know about what’s happening at the Olympics today. Sob. It’s been emotional…
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Sickening.
Clearly not an isolated incident if there are such widespread protests, especially since the alleged perpetrators are all in custody. Sounds like the bale of straw that broke the camel’s back.
reading prelimanary reports that other people had posted last week in fb from other sources, if the level of violence and brutality is half true, the death penlaty is too good for them. According to other reports she will nevr have kids, and nearly bled to death from her lower regions, and was in a coma for a while after…yet she was allowed to lie unhelped on the street for an hour…totally and utterly sickening!
Yes apparently they raped her with an iron bar and disembowelled her – she had to have surgery on her intestines and may have to eat through a tube for the rest of her life. Absolutely disgusting. The death penalty reaction is kneejerk though. There’s a whole culture of violence against women and sexual harassment known as ‘Eve-teasing’ in India that needs to be addressed and the judicial system is ridiculously slow so rapists can literally be out awaiting trial for years. Loads of MPs and candidates in the elections also have rape charges pending against them but this was no bar to the parties nominating them.
The police beat protestors with batons ….. Surely it’s the rapists that should be subjected to this treatment . They should be locked away for life and if I had my way I would have part of their anatomy cut off !
What a vile and disgusting attack on any woman !Surely the scars of this brutal attack will be with her for life !
T !
Well said Mary.
And this is the same country that had headlines recently blazing with..’ Ireland hospital murders Indian dentist’.. etc etc etc.. Why don’t they clean up their own doorstep first…
South Asia doesnt like women does it. Non stop rape, stoning rape victims for adultery, acid attacks and so on. Baffled as to they female tourists go there.
frightening ….!!! imagine coming home from a cinema and this happening … doesn’t bare to think of… she’ll be in my prayers …
Hang the bastards by their genitals and whip them with barbed wire . 30 days and 30 nights and if they still alive after that feed them to wild boars .
Absolutely sickening. We still have a long way to go before we deal with rape adequately. No matter where you are in the world conviction rates are far too low. However I’d cation against the death penalty as it would incentivise rapists to kill their victims. If the death penalty for violent rape had been in place beforehand she most surely would not have been let off the bus alive.
Animals! And while we’re on the subject can we give severe sentences to women who lie about being raped as they ruin it for genuine women like this Indian woman. No sentence is good enough for these animals. I hope this woman finds the strength to move on with her life.
castrate them!!
India ranks no 20 among G20 states for its treatment of women, below Saudi Arabia.
This was a disgusting and animalistic attack on this woman and there is no condoning it but the victim must have been of a high caste for it to have even made the news as apparently untouchable women are regularly subjected to violent rape which leads to agonising death through the injuries or infection from the injuries. The whole caste system needs to be looked at
Shirley, my partner said the same thing, either he wasnt very dark or she was a foreigner…but on saying that it went viral very quickly on fb etc
Animalistic. They should never be let out as protection and punishment.
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