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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest news stories of the day so far.
1. #HUMAN RIGHTS BREACH The High Court ruled that the State is breaching human rights law by failing to house almost 3,000 people who have sought international protection in Ireland since last year.
2. #PARENT’S LEAVE Paid Parent’s Leave is being extended from today, increasing from seven weeks to nine.
3. #OLYMPICS Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle won a Bronze medal for rowing in this morning’s men’s Double Sculls final.
4. #ARMAGH The PSNI officer who waved an Armagh flag from a policy vehicle to celebrate the county’s victory in the All-Ireland final will not be suspended or dismissed.
5. #RTÉ The Data Protection Commission has blocked RTÉ from publishing the names of workers who have earned extra money from freelance work outside of their contracts with the state entity.
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what a joke the HSE is! paying you sick pay will you work? children’s allowance for kids overage? makes my stomach turn. I know of a community welfare officer (who deals with rent allowance) rents a house out without reg with prtb or the tax man. of course I reported her ass to relevant authorities! just indicative of the system, rife with double standards and misuse of public funds??!! all this on top of the fact people dying on hospital beds, those responsible should be sacked straight away, no pussy around. I said it before you need someone from a business background to run the HSE, Michael smurfit or fergal Quinn
” The figures come at a time when the taxpayer is still paying 100,000 every week on the failed Personnel, Payroll and Related Systems software.” disgraceful.
Good news about DELL and 100 new jobs. It will only take 37 years to get the rest of ex DELL employees back to work.
what leaves me totally astonished that it is so obvious that some people can not make ends meet and they pay these sums to people who dont even deserve it…. NO EMPATHY at all, for gods sake where have we landed? Money is evil it makes us so dependent on it!!! Thats whats the crisis is for!!!
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