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The 9 at 9 Here’s all the news to know this morning.

LAST UPDATE | 26 Jul 2024

GOOD MORNING.

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

Pregnancy sickness

1. Women will be able to access a severe pregnancy sickness medication through their GP from August under new deal struck by the HSE.

The Department of Health has confirmed to The Journal that a pricing and reimbursement deal has been reached with the licence holder of a drug called Cariban which helps treat severe sickness during pregnancy.

Parliamentary questions

2. We’ve taken a look back over the parliamentary questions asked by TDs this year – specifically, who has asked the most and who has asked the fewest.

Parliamentary questions (PQs) are a key component of the toolkit given to TDs in Ireland, allowing them to ask the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and ministers questions on matters of public interest, policy and services.

Gaza

3. US Vice President Kamala Harris has signalled a shift on US Gaza policy, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be “silent” on the suffering in Gaza.

“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time,” Harris told reporters.

Olympics

4. Listen to the new daily Olympics podcast from The Journal and The 42.

Dublin riots

5. A man in his 20s has been charged in connection to ongoing investigations into the Dublin riots last November.

He was the 50th person to be arrested as part of the ongoing investigation.

Wildfire in Canada

6. A wildfire has devoured up to half of the main town in the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, authorities have said, with 400 foreign firefighters called in to help battle the blaze.

While the fire has so far caused no casualties, as many as 25,000 residents and tourists were evacuated from Jasper National Park before the conflagration suddenly grew in size, overtaking firefighters.

Transport plan

7. The first measures of the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan will come into effect next month.

The plan aims to reduce traffic in Dublin by preventing private cars from travelling through the city from one side to the other.

The first set of measures, being brought in on 25 August, will be implemented on the North Quays at Bachelors Walk and on the South Quays on Burgh Quay and Aston Quay.

Housing

8. The number of new homes completed over the second quarter of this year fell by over 5% from the same time last year, new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows.

There were 6,884 new dwelling completions in quarter two of this year, falling 5.4% compared to the same three-month period last year.

Weather forecast

9. The weather is set to pick up a little this weekend with sunnier skies but there are still some rain showers in store.

Met Éireann expects today to be a mix of sunny spells and scattered passing showers, with a few heavy showers across Ulster and Leinster into the afternoon. Temperatures today will reach highs of 16 to 20 degrees.

Tomorrow should be warm again with highs of 17 to 21 degrees.

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    Sep 7th 2021, 7:29 AM

    You forgot to mention the amount if technology around today that was directly inspired by Sci fi too…..

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    Sep 7th 2021, 10:10 AM

    @Aidan Leonard: a lot of the look of modern technology is inspired by sci-fi and how it shows how cool something could be, but a lot of the nuts and bolts come from just a need to get something done in a certain way or for efficiency. The first mainframes were mainly military linked and the development of the nuclear bomb and the organisation of large scale logistics and navigation of missiles and seas had a lot to do with it (see Grace Hopper) also educational, like the Plato project, they basically invented flat touchscreens and interconnected networks (independent of arpanet) in the 60s because they needed to but they weren’t thinking of the likes of star trek at all.

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    Sep 7th 2021, 9:20 AM

    We can make video calls to people around the world and travel to the other side of the planet in 24h, which we couldn’t do at the turn of the 20th century. No doubt big advancements will be made in the next 100 years, although with flight there was about 400 years in the difference between conception and realisation.

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    Sep 7th 2021, 12:53 PM

    @Jj: flight has slowed down in technological advances. Compare 1900-1940, 1940-1980 and 1980-2020. Maybe it will start up again but I feel that the billionaires might be engaging in pet projects. Definitely Bezos. Musk has something worthwhile going on.

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    Sep 7th 2021, 10:49 AM

    An interesting and enjoyable read, Mr Fennel. As a life-long fan of Science-Fiction myself, I can certainly relate.

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