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The 9 at 9 A hat-trick at the Golden Globes, Andrew Tate’s influence and a knife attack in Paris.

LAST UPDATE | 11 Jan 2023

GOOD MORNING. 

Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.

Golden Globes

1. The Banshees of Inisherin has come away with three of the top awards from the Golden Globes.  

Colin Farrell took home best actor in a motion picture musical or comedy, director Martin McDonagh was recognised for best screenplay and the film won in the best motion picture, musical or comedy category.

Farrell paid tribute to his co-star Brendan Gleeson in his acceptance speech, also thanking the entire cast and crew and his other screen partner, Jenny the Donkey.

Paris knife attack

2. Seven people have been wounded in a knife attack at the busy railway station in Paris.

Details are still emerging but police sources have said the man was arrested by police at the station, which serves as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe, after they opened fire and wounded him. 

Andrew Tate

3. The impact of the influencer on young men is a cause for “deep concern” according to teachers and youth workers who have spoken to The Journal.

He and his brother Tristan were detained in Romania last month as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation. 

Asylum seekers

4. Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman is expected to brief his Cabinet colleagues later today about the challenges around accommodating international protection applicants and people fleeing Ukraine.

While it is expected that he will outline his view that Ireland has done remarkably well to date, he is also due to warn them that sourcing accommodation is becoming increasingly difficult as it is expected that many hotels currently under contract for this purpose will soon revert to the tourist trade. 

Tax breaks for landlords

5. A tax break for smaller landlords is “not off the table”, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

At a summit with housing stakeholders held yesterday in Government Buildings, a number of proposals are understood to have been put forward to benefit landlords, from lowering the 52% tax rate on rental income, to deductions and reliefs on expenses and changes to capital gains tax.

Stormont 

6. The SDLP is to propose a change to the process of appointing a Speaker in Stormont in an attempt to move the assembly beyond the impasse that has prevented it from fully functioning for more than half a year.

The Democratic Unionist Party had held the first minister position for well over a decade, but Sinn Féin’s electoral success last year saw it move into the dominant position.

Eating disorders

7. The slow rollout of specialist eating disorder teams is “destroying lives”, according to those awaiting the recruitment of the professionals.

Noteworthy reports on how just three of the planned specialist eating disorder teams are operating, with recruitment issues cited by the HSE for the delay.

Death of Cardinal Pell

8. Cardinal George Pell, who was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse before his convictions were later overturned, has died in Rome at the age of 81.

Vatican news agency EWTN reported that his death yesterday was due to complications from hip replacement surgery. 

John Lydon’s Eurovision entry

9. Former Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Lydon has said that the song he wrote in a bid to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest is about his wife Nora, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, and who he is now caring for full time.

“I cried my eyes out writing it and recording it and for them to have appreciated it and put it forward, my wife is just going to melt,” the singer told RTÉ Radio 1.

Lydon, who was born to parents from Galway and Cork, is now one of the six final acts who will perform on a special Late Late Show on Friday, 3 February, where the winner who will go on to compete in Eurovision in Liverpool.

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    Mute Bobby
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    Jun 6th 2014, 5:31 PM

    Id say those under 60 are not much better.

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    Mute richardmccarthy
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    Jun 6th 2014, 4:47 PM

    I must be one of the 18%,ever since i stopped smoking 7 years ago i took to cycling excersize with a vengence, clocking up anything from 150/200 km per week on mostly coastal trips,as a form of excersize to help keep the body in shape it is very hard to beat, and would have no hesitation whatever in recommending it,just remember to wear proper hi vis clothing with helmet and a good pair of extra strong sole shoes used just for cycling shoes,and of course a good hibrid bike with strong tyres are a must.

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    Jun 6th 2014, 5:41 PM

    You do 200k on a hybrid? Is your back made of titanium?

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    Mute richardmccarthy
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    Jun 6th 2014, 7:11 PM

    Well Emily i never had a problem with back strenght,and even hills are not a problem to me now,but as an ex marathon runner back in the eighties i know that regular exersize builds up mental as well as body strenght and things you once thought impossible you take them in your stride, cycling is easy compared to running marathons and of course the fact you enjoy it is a big plus.

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    Jun 6th 2014, 7:52 PM

    Fair play to you. When my commute went to 11k my back said fook that, and it’s been a road bike ever since. Apparently someone did the Wicklow 200 on a DublinBike last year. Insane.

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    Mute Good News Caravan
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    Jun 6th 2014, 6:43 PM

    Old folk really are lazy. It takes an age to coax my grandma out the back garden for burpees and high intensity interval training.

    I take a carrot and stick approach whereby if she doesn’t go she gets her meals taken from her.

    Fair is fair after all

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    Jun 6th 2014, 5:16 PM

    no reason not to be physically healthy through to your 70′s, use it lose it.

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    Jun 6th 2014, 4:57 PM

    I think the next generation or two will be much more physically active as they age.

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    Jun 6th 2014, 10:55 PM

    Some will, but many will be too fat.

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    Jun 6th 2014, 6:46 PM

    OK then.
    No smoking in the car.
    No giant sized drinks.
    Get yer cervix checked
    Embrace a Gay lifestyle
    Don’t drink the water from a private well
    Make eyer mind up, do you want a fry or a bale of briquettes
    Be careful flying with a certain American Airline
    I think that’s it ,now off for a walk and just hope the TV is not nicked while I’m out. :-)

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    Mute Sheik Yahbouti
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    Jun 6th 2014, 11:42 PM

    Spot on, Hallie, my man:-)

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    Mute Marjorie Magee
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    Jun 6th 2014, 10:54 PM

    Exercise is the key to a healthy old age. I am in my sixties and do a lot more than the recommended amount. I feel the same as I did 40 years ago and have no stiffness and soreness of joints. But you have to like doing it…..

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    Jun 6th 2014, 11:40 PM

    I’m puzzled. In thread after thread the over sixties are vilified, or at least criticised for consuming health care, for drawing pensions (which they have worked for) and for having paid off their mortgages. Why the sudden interest in extending our lives? I had thought it could only be a couple of years before we received a cyanide pill in the post from Ms Burton and her Department of social protection (try saying that name with a straight face).

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    Jun 6th 2014, 6:22 PM

    Nanny state.

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    Mute Marc O'Donoghue
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    Jun 6th 2014, 10:54 PM

    Fewer than half, not less than half.

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