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LAST UPDATE | 13 Sep 2024
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
Over half of local councils queried will need to substantially increase their farm inspections of slurry spreading and management in order to meet targets set by the Environmental Protection Agency this year.
An investigation by Noteworthy found that most councils only inspect a tiny proportion of farms in their area, while two councils included on the EPA’s list did not conduct any planned inspections of farms last year.
233 people have died in the aftermath of a disastrous typhoon in Vietnam as rescue workers continue to operate in areas that were hit hard by flash floods and landslides.
More than 800 people have been injured in the tropical cyclone and 103 are registered as missing.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden will today discuss whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia in what is likely their last meeting before an election that could upend US policy on Ukraine.
The village of Dundrum in Co Tipperary has been the site of protests division in recent months over the housing of international protection applicants. This week’s episode of The Explainer podcast looks at exactly what is happening on the ground in Tipperary — and after similar incidents elsewhere, what the government can learn from the approach it has taken.
Donald Trump said he will not participate in a second debate against Kamala Harris.
A new road safety programme has been launched for transition year students to “help them become safer road users”.
Two men have been charged with burglary after a Banksy painting was stolen from a London gallery on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said.
Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty has revealed he thought he had given Pope Francis shingles after meeting him at the Vatican over the summer.
Thousands of factory workers for Boeing in the US have voted to strike, rejecting a proposed contract with a vote result of 94.6% and to strike with 96%
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More ‘good’ news. Every man for themselves, and a few locals doing the work a properly functoning would do.
And as for the things ONLY a government can do? Nothing but distant promises.
Classic Ireland.
Maybe if the rivers were cleaned up it might get rid of water quicker
@Max: your not allowed clean them out anymore.
@Max: Dredging rivers on a large scale was done in the 50′s and 60′s under the
Arterial Drainage Act, 1945. It was a measure to stop annual winter flooding of fields.
The rivers were deepened and widened and large flood banks built with the material.
The environmental impacts were huge. Salmon could no longer swim upstream in shallow rivers. Migratory water birds such as geese and ducks disappeared for lack of flooded fields.
There is a scheme to raise the river banks in Midelton, but without the worst side effects.
See https://www.floodinfo.ie/frs/en/midleton/home/
No doubt it will be contested all the way by the usual suspects.
Jeez is Cabbage Head a prophet now or just stating the obvious. Poverty is going to happen nationwide due to the taxes and increases we have to endure to fund Cabbage Head’s party’s policies. But he ain’t shouting about that!!
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