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LAST UPDATE | 19 Sep 2024
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
In a second wave of device explosions in as many days, 20 people have died and more than 450 were wounded yesterday in Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.
The Japanese firm Icom has said that it had stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in recent blasts in Lebanon around 10 years ago.
A sanctioned ship accused of breaching international sanctions against Russia has been spotted off the Galway coast.
The US has accused the ship of flouting sanctions imposed on Russian oil and gas which has been imposed since the invasion of Ukraine.
Two new veterinary schools are to be created at the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and South East Technological University (SETU) after many years of frustration that the veterinary course at University College Dublin was the only one in the country, leading many people to study abroad.
Armed gardaí have been deployed to a small seaside town on the west coast after a feud escalated between two factions in a drugs dispute.
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in “unwelcome” information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, the FBI and other federal agencies have said.
The leaders of four countries hit by Storm Boris will meet with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Poland today to discuss aid for regions badly affected by flooding.
The death toll from the storm that hit central and eastern Europe in recent days rose to 24 people as of yesterday and some areas are still under threat from rising waters.
Speaking before TDs and senators this morning, Irish pharmacists will say their industry has a “vital role” to play in the process of decriminalising drugs but will insist that any plans to do so must be front loaded with fully developed government policies.
Fine Gael TD and former junior minister Damien English will not contest the next general election. His decision means 17 Fine Gael TDs who were elected in 2020 will not stand in the upcoming election.
Taoiseach Simon Harris is set to chair an Online Safety Summit today in Government Buildings. Speaking ahead of the summit, he said that “we find ourselves at an important juncture in terms of regulating the digital world”.
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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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