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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. #ARREST A man has been arrested after protesters surrounded Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald’s car in East Wall last night.
2. #HOW MUCH WOOD Woodpeckers who have migrated from Wales to Ireland, have caused a damage to ESB-owned poles which was led to the company having to carry out “substantial upgrade work” to sections of its network this year.
3. #DOMESTIC VIOLENCE The sister of a woman who was killed by a “deranged monster” who had beaten, threatened and controlled his victim during their relationship has called for stricter laws on coercive control and domestic abuse.
4. #IRONMAN The organisers of the Ironman triathlon have called off their race in Youghal, Co Cork after two people died at the event this year.
5. #RESCUE Indian rescuers have safely brought out all 41 workers from a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel after a marathon 17-day engineering operation to free them, a minister said today.
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Is there any other online news forum that the Public can make comments on, as once again every article of significance has its comments section closed.
@Owen Mc: You mean the open comments on the article reporting on the damage to electricity poles caused by woodpeckers is not enough for you? What’s wrong with you, man!
@Paul Dowling: Pesky woodpeckers, coming over here, taking our poles, messing with our trees! Round them up and send them back!!! ; – )
No on a serious note, as someone who got my first mortgage at 22 and ended up on the streets by 30 I’m actually done and upset… not for myself but for the fact that our current Government consider certain homeless more worthy than the rest.
I thankfully have no children but I would heartbroken if I’d tried to bring them up in Direct Provision or a Hotel room and others who arrived undocumented were given priority.
Good craic that we’re running out of tents for immigrants. What will be the next hairbrained scheme?
The journal has lost sight of why people actually come on here. Closing comments on most articles in a totalitarian style. If I want to actually just read the news , there are plenty of other news apps for that ..
If business owned or operated by foreign nationals are having to close earlier out of fear of racial abuse or intimidation from gangs of roaming morons, then the Garda are not doing they job.
Also, the irony of someone telling two foreign people to talk in their language that they are in Ireland now, and to speak english is in a class of its own.
The icing on the cake is the complete lack of both imagination and intellectual capacity, which allows some people to default to blaming foreign nationals for all that is wrong in modern Ireland, when in fact it is the fault of the successive governments that are actually to blame for any shortfalls in both social housing and all other services, which are then used as alleged justification for xenophobia and racially motivated hatred..
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