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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head out the door.
1. #HOSTAGES: Around 32 foreign nationals are still unaccounted for as a hostage situation continues in eastern Algeria. It is not known how many of the foreigners – who were taken hostage from a gas plant on Wednesday – may already have been killed. Earlier, David Cameron told the House of Commons that – as with Eamon Gilmore – he was not advised of the Algerian authorities’ attempts to free some hostages yesterday until the operation was underway. Irish hostage Stephen McFaul is due to arrive home later.
2. #INQUEST: An official inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar – the Indian woman who died from blood poisoning following a miscarriage, when she had asked for an abortion – has begun in Galway. The inquest will look at the circumstances surrounding Halappanavar’s death on 28 October last year. Her husband Praveen was among those in attendance today.
3. #SNEACHTA: Ireland has seen its first snow of 2013, with over 5cm of snowfall in areas in the east and south-east of the country. Met Éireann has warned of ‘blizzard conditions’ in the northeast and northwest of the country later today, while the Road Safety Authority has urged motorists to drive with caution as road conditions remain tricky (if not, ahem, worse).
4, #GOLD MINE: Further tests on a site in Co Monaghan have returned “highly positive” results for the presence of gold, a mining company has aid. Conway Gold and Natural Resources says the development of a mine at Clontibret – where gold flotation rates are higher, and sulphur rates lower, than expected – may now be able to begin more effectively.
5. #APOLOGY: The Irish woman who was sued by Lance Armstrong after raising claims of his doping habits, while she worked as his masseuse, has rejected an apology from the shamed cyclist. Despite Armstrong telling Oprah Winfrey that Dubliner Emma O’Reilly was “one of these people that I have to apologise to”, O’Reilly told ITV that Armstrong’s confession was “old news” and said an apology was “not at all” enough.
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Wow these poor souls are the collateral damage of Angela Merkel & Peter Sutherland’s forced population replacement policy.
@Chris M.: NGO’s aren’t helping these economic migrants. Their hands have just as much blood on them. The question is why is rich Africa failing economically?
@Danny foley: because it’s the third world and it’s resources are being exploited by the first world
@Chris M.:
This was migration from Somalia and Ethiopia into Yemen – nothing to do with mama merkel this time.
@Chris M.:
ahhaha , fake account who’s too much of a pussy to stand behind what he believes in
The cruel sentiments of some of the Irish commenters, disregarding of the suffering and deaths of fellow human beings, seeking to score points of billious prejudice off human tragedy, is beyond shocking.
@Tony Daly: just like you man, they got the shotgun, you got the briefcase
@Tony Daly: What on earth are you raving about this time?
@Frank Cooney: “the world is helping these people”
No.
The world is exploiting these people. While their leaders may be corrupt, so are many of ours and of course companies that get rich from it.
Fact is that we are all responsible for the turmoil in Africa, so if a few try to cross from the hellhole we created that is our fault, no?
You can remove your blame by researching and not purchasing from companies which exploit impovished nations.
@Andy K: Oh, and lets not forget all those countries bombing Africa for decades (hint: they are not only being bombed by third world countries).
@Tony Daly: agreed Tony. It’s disgusting. You have to hope that it’s not representative of our population
How bad must Somalia be for people to be desperate to get to Yemen?
@methodical2020:
hmm you seemed to have missed russia’s continued destabilization of Ukraine in your indignation of happenings around the world
@Stephen Coveney: Ukraine is not in Africa….
It will not stop, the majority are now economic migrants wanting a better life.
The traffickers / murderer are only one part of it..
Africa on the whole is corrupt and poorly run..
Countries that once thrived are now desolate.
Until Africa is sorted, the migration across the med will stay at this level for year’s to come…
I don’t care anymore.
have your say