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LAST UPDATE | 3 Sep 2024
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. The officer in charge of the Naval Service’s operations has hit out at suggestions that the force is failing to meet its responsibilities and strongly criticised suggestions that it is a “one ship” service.
The Naval Service has had a difficult number of years, with extensive reports both in the media and in speeches in the Dáil that staffing numbers have plummeted, that the service was only able to put one ship out on patrol at a time and detailing an ongoing crisis in retaining highly trained specialists.
2. Irish demand for electricity increased last year driven largely by new grid connections for data centres, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has said.
3. Cabinet will meet for the first time since the summer break this morning ahead of the Dáil returning in mid-September.
The meeting comes after coalition leaders met last night where the focus was on budgetary discussions. Budget day will take place on 1 October.
4. The minister with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) has ordered a full review of the cost of a bike shelter in Leinster House, which set the State back €335,000.
5. A school bus ploughed into a crowd of people outside a middle school in eastern China on Tuesday, killing 11 parents and students, state media reported.
State broadcaster CCTV said the driver “lost control” of the vehicle as it approached the school in Shandong province’s Tai’an city at 7:27am (11:27pm GMT 0n Monday).
6. Dublin City councillors have unanimously agreed to a motion calling for legal gaps around horse drawn carriages to be “dealt with immediately”.
7. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has let his children get a new kitten while they live at Downing Street, after “a long summer of negotiations” about a dog.
A “Siberian kitten” will be the Starmer family’s new pet, he revealed in a BBC 5 Live interview with Matt Chorley.
8. Focus Ireland launched its Annual Report today, showing a 12.5% rise in the number of people it supported in 2023 (18,000 people) compared to 2022 (16,000).
The report also showed Focus Ireland helped 1,757 households to either keep their home (657 households) or support their exit from homelessness (1,100 households), an increase of nearly 10% on the previous year (1,598).
9. A quarter of children aged between 8 and 12 have been upset by harmful content online, according to new figures published by CyberSafeKids.
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I refused to give up my seat yesterday and got nothing but daggers from everyone else… Its not my fault she got pregnant!
I think its important to remember Claudette Colvin, who history has forgotten in relation to this story. Read her story.
Thanks for the info. Didn’t know that.
Meanderings, I didn’t know that piece of information. Cheers.
Meanderings , I also never knew that , fair play .
@Meanderings, thanks for your mention of Claudette. It appears her age, her colour(pigmentocracy) and her circumstance went against her. Its a sad indictment that she was never truly recognised as the first to stand up to the bus segregation in Al . Even today most of her work colleagues in NY dont know her story.
Totally right. The whole boycott is a tremendous story, and although Parks was pivotal, it was kind of a planned pivot. Colvin didn’t fit the bill they needed to really make headlines, make a stand and propel the cause forward, a sad reality. Parks was well known and respected in the community and they knew people would get behind her and that her story would make a real impact. I always tell people to read up on the Montgomery bus boycott whenever they mention Parks, to get them to see the whole picture. And there are so many other nuances to the civil rights movement that most folks aren’t aware of – some of which makes current tensions in certain US states a bit clearer. Fascinating stuff.
You have opened my eyes to something I never knew! I’m actually amazed at how they engineered it that Parks was the heroine because she fit the profile better.
If it was today she probably would’ve been shot
Doubt it but she would be all over Buzzfeed.
Such dignity & class. Wonder if our water warriors could learn a trick or two.
How about the pink ladies who stood in a line outside the garda station in coolock to highlight the abuse of woman by guards, pretty peaceful by any standards and the guards were peeping out the Windows like cowards at them, great community relations altogether.
Brave lady who helped change history and sounded quite stoical about to boot!
In America the percentage of African Americans unemployed is much higher than amongst the White community. Black politicians are rare and ones occupying positions of power even rarer(Obama being the exception). The booming IT market is run by predominantly white men and Silicon Valley has recently being charged with institutionalised racism. Every major American city has large communities of African Americans living in extreme poverty and let’s not forget that the police think that being black is reason enough to shoot on sight. So let’s ask the question; what has really changed for African Americans since Rosa Parks made her stand?
Hard to believe that the same country, the USA, was trying to transplant its so called version of democracy around the globe and yet did not afford its coloured citizens the same privileges. Makes you wonder!
The sad thing is that I could easily imagine our own guards doing exactly the same thing, “just following the law” I reckon a requirement of being a guard us that you have to be clueless.
I think ‘just following orders ‘is the mantra. The nazis said the same thing.
In fairness the cop was thinking that if he didn’t arrest her he was fit to be lynched himself.
Thankfully keelan some people don’t care about the consequences. Look up a guy called Wilhelm canaris, a nazi general who thwarted Hitler whenever he could.
Keelan that’s exactly my point, the govt hire people with no moral compass, why do you think Ireland’s always been such an insular society.
So cupid you would only inforce laws you agreed with??
Sometimes mark you have to do the right thing. You should never just accept what you’re told blindly!
Again are you saying you would only inforce laws you wanted too? Cupids comment was about ireland, what laws would he not inforce in Ireland?
The nazis weren’t racist. Hitler had black and chinese men in his armies. At the olympics in 1936 hitler was respectful of the black athletes when the yanks weren’t.
While the US wanted us to believe it was an open and fair society as opposed to the communists is Russia in the 50′s, it was a racist and apartheid one until President JFK. Guess what, Kennedy was assassinated and the racism there still continues. Here in racist Ireland we are no better with our No Blacks, no Dogs and now no Muslims ..anyone here with an open mind want to discuss this issue?
Sure the feckers went and shot black Friday last week
lol, I don’t think you can just say blacks. Maybe the black population of…
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You make a compelling argument Deborah
Harsh but fair.
It’s gas, when I first heard of her it was 40 years ago. Soon it will be 100.
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