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The 9 at 9 The people passing through Przemyśl, tributes paid to a Galway camogie player, and a vital French election debate.

LAST UPDATE | 20 Apr 2022

GOOD MORNING ALL.

Here’s all the news that you need to know this morning.

1. Ukraine

Ukrainian troops have accused Russian forces of bombing a hospital sheltering some 300 people in the devastated port city of Mariupol.

2. Ukrainian refugees

The Polish city of Przemyśl is now relatively calm, after its population spiked from 60,000 people to 100,000, as citizens fled Ukraine. Our reporter Céimin Burke speaks to the people passing through – some leaving Ukraine, some going back.

3. Kerry CAMHS compensation

A solicitor representing families affected by the failings in the HSE-run South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) has welcomed the establishment of a compensation scheme, which was approved by Government last week.

A report into the care of more than 1,300 children who attended South Kerry CAMHS, conducted by a team led by Dr Seán Maskey, was published in January.

It found that 46 children suffered “significant harm” while attending the service, and a review into 240 young people showed the service did not meet the standards which it should have.

4. Ukrainian refugees in Ireland

A one-stop information hub is to be launched next week for Ukrainian students who want to continue their education.

“We cannot allow Putin’s wish of depriving the next generation of Ukrainian leaders an opportunity to finish their education,” Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris said.

It comes as the Department of Agriculture revealed that over 600 pets of 485 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland, with 95% of them cats and dogs that are being assessed, microchipped, dewormed and vaccinated against rabies upon arrival.

5. Tributes

A Galway community has been left in shock after young camogie player Kate Moran died after suffering a head injury during a match in the county yesterday.

6. En garde: The French election

French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen go head-to-head in a crunch TV debate today, with four days left until the presidential election’s decisive second round.

Le Pen has cleared her diary to concentrate on preparing for the debate, hoping to avoid any repeat of the fiasco in 2017, when her ill-prepared performance contributed to her defeat at the hands of the centrist Macron.

7. Children and the pandemic

A new survey of children’s experiences of Covid-19 found that the nation’s youth felt they had missed out on some key growing up milestones but that they got to spend more time with their closest relatives.

The survey was carried out by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) in conjunction with Amárach Research among children aged 9-17.

8. Heart attacks

The Irish Times reports today that calling for help immediately when symptoms of a heart attack begin results in faster treatment and improved outcomes, according to a new report by the National Office of Clinical Audit (Noca).

9. Continue watching?

Netflix shares lost a quarter of their value today after the company revealed its ranks of subscribers shrank in the first quarter of this year. 

Netflix believes that factors hampering its growth include subscribers sharing their accounts with people not living in their home – with 222 million households paying for the service and Netflix being shared with over 100 million further households.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:06 PM

    All those dinosaurs will have died for nothing if the electric car wins

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:12 PM

    Ok explain.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:19 PM

    The self sacrifice of those great extinct animals and plants will be in vain if I can’t use them to power my V8

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    Jan 5th 2016, 1:06 PM

    Off by a couple of hundred million years. Good effort though…

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    Jan 5th 2016, 11:56 AM

    This is how far technology has come yet I still can’t get a text back…

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:12 PM

    2018….. Consumers being warned about Chinese cars catching fire while charging.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 11:56 AM

    It looks shite

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:47 PM

    Another totally impractical space-age design that we’ll never see on the roads. Why do we keep dreaming up this kind of car? Surely by now we know that the futuristic look is just a sci-fi fantasy.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:46 PM

    Looks rubbish. Old cars are way better.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 1:51 PM

    Nothing in the article about power or weight.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:56 PM

    Oh yeah this car will be a runaway success definitely. It’ll be up there with the DeLorean in no time at all. Wow I cant wait to buy one it looks so practical and cool and everyone is gonna want one. This is definitely a red letter day in motoring history… zzzzzz

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:02 PM

    Faraday so close!

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:45 PM

    A hidden front for VW perhaps

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:36 PM

    We have Faraday future and Tesla electric, will it be Volta or Maxwell next, or maybe Ampere, Gauss, Coulomb or Davy.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:51 PM

    Already have the volt, mitsi I think

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:10 PM

    That tail looks great on the car

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:58 PM

    There show casing things that they will use on there everyday cars when production starts. I think the phone in the steering wheel is a very simple but great idea. Some cars these days are like a cockpit of an airplane with that many buttons, climate control, Music system’s, GPS and god knows what else. Most of which is already on a smartphone in one way or another and usually people with them know how to use them.

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    Jan 6th 2016, 3:08 AM

    Good luck getting that over the ramps in ireland

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    Jan 5th 2016, 4:13 PM

    I’m just waiting for the apple i-car to be released.

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