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The 9 at 9: Saturday

The nine stories you need to know this morning.

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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.

1. #QUINN: Businessman Seán Quinn has spent his first night in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin as he begins his nine week sentence for contempt of court for putting assets out of reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank. The former billionaire will spend his 67th birthday and Christmas Day as prisoner number 82809 in the Dublin jail. Sentencing him yesterday, Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne said she could not ignore the extent and degree of contempt by Quinn.

2. #NORTHERN IRELAND: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the killing of prison officer David Black in Armagh was an “outrageous and cowardly act”. Clinton praised the PSNI for its swift efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice and said the United States remains resolute in its support of the people of Northern Ireland.

3. #CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: The Government is set to pick St James’s Hospital in Dublin as the location for the new national children’s hospital, according to reports in today’s papers. The Irish Independent reports that Health Minister James Reilly will formally reveal his recommendation at a Cabinet meeting later this week.

4. #NEW YORK CITY: The New York City marathon, which was due to take place tomorrow, has been cancelled after a backlash against plans to hold the race in the wake of ‘superstorm’ Sandy. Opposition to holding the race grew over the past two days as the scale of the devastation caused by the storm became clear.

5. #SEXUAL HEALTH: The number of STIs in Ireland increased by 12 per cent last year with the number of cases of gonorrhoea now at its highest rate ever recorded. The report by the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre found that more than half of all STIs were recorded in people aged between 20 and 29.

6. #ARREST: A second man has been arrested by Gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing of 22-year-old Shane O’Connor in Coolock last Monday. The man in his 20s is being held at Coolock Garda Station. Shane O’Connor was found on the street near his front door with major injuries in the early hours of 29 October.

7. #SHOOTING: A man who shot himself in his car in Drogheda yesterday morning following an exchange with Gardaí had been questioned about an alleged rape. The Irish Examiner reports that Gardaí in Louth had been preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the alleged incident.

8. #WASTE: Dublin’s controversial waste plant at Poolbeg has been postponed once again as Dublin City Council has pushed back the date for when building must restart on the long-awaited project. The US operator of the Dublin Waste to Energy Plant has been given extra time to secure financing for the plant.

9. #USA 2012: There’s just three days to go before the US presidential election and candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are spending the final hours of campaigning in pivotal swing states. Polls show incumbent Barack Obama holds a slight lead over Mitt Romney in opinion polls which is being attributed to better than expected employment figures released yesterday.

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Comments (19 Comments)

  • I sincerely hope that James’s hospital is not the new site for the children’s hospital. I thought it was going to be James Connolly Memorial hospital, a much better option. Out of the city centre, giving parents a much more cost efficient option. I used to feel so sorry for the parents of children from outside Dublin when I saw them in Temple St, the expense of having to stay in the city just to spend time with their sick children. There is a travel lodge 5 minutes away from James Connolly, it’s just off the M50 and M3,there are several bus routes and a train stop in close proximity.

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    • This government are not concerned about the cost to parents of sick children, or where they will sleep or if they can get to and from the hospital. Any more than they are concerned about children’s educational needs, or whether they have enough to eat or clothes to wear. They just want to get their hands on them to pass them on to other “adopted parents”!

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  • Sean Quinn has not only shown contempt for the Court of this state, he has also shown contempt to its people.. Nobody is above the law, lets just hope this is the example that the courts plan to set when we see Seanie Fitz and his cohorts facing justice..

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  • Yes we are being taken for a ride, but lets be honest what are we doing about it?? Sweet fanny Adam so until the people stand up and are counted it will continue.

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  • Those STD figures are incredible. Just incredible.

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  • Y.F. 03/11/12 #

    Quinn has been jailed for breaching court orders, nothing more. The orders themselves are highly questionable, as in, how were Anglo able to get court orders to stop him moving assets that they have no legal right over? Until the ownership of the assets are established in court, Anglo, nor anyone else have any hold on them. The foreign assets were never used as gaurantees on any loans given.If Anglo were so worried about tax-payer’s money, why have they spent 80million euro, to date, of our money, in legal proceedings against Quinn? Why are they paying a Russian company 155million in the hope that they can help retrieve some assets? IN THE HOPE! NO GUARANTEE? And Noonan approved this. We’re being taken for a ride, but not by Quinn.

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  • what if anything are we going to achieve by putting Sean Quinn in jail ? , he will do his time like his son and then go back to his millions . I don’t agree with what he is doing nor do I support his cause but the way they are,dealing with his charges is getting pathetic . just think this is a big smoke screen again to take our attention away from much more important issues in this country .

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    • he’s not in jail for his crooked deals, he’s in jail for contempt, nothing else. once he’s out he will still have the Anglo issue to continue. People need to understand the actual facts, and why he’s behind bars at last. It’s for contempt, his inability to abide by court requests. And deservedly so!!!

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  • Its only right that the (formerly) rich and mighty should feel the force of the law in exactly the same way as anybody else if they are in contempt of court. And Mr Quinn must be sent back in until he makes full disclosure of what the judge has asked him to tell the court. No sympathy for the man whatsoever, all he has to do is comply with the law and he doesn’t need to do porridge. Simple as that.

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    • He HAS attempted to make full disclosure but Anglo have refused to engage in talks with him. Anglo have so far spent approx 140 million (of taxpayers money) chasing these assets which the Quinns claim have gone. I for one do not understand how this can be happening. What if the Quinns have been telling the truth all along? Egg on faces or what???

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  • Clinton speaks out about the murder of the prison officer in Northern Ireland. How about I strongly condemn you, Hillary, for spying on everyone in the UN!! You can stick your words where the sun don’t shine you dirty rotten tramp!! RIP to the poor prison officer but Hillary Clinton pretending to be outraged as her country goes around killing people and poisoning the countries they’re dropping bombs on is ok is it?? Get up the feicing road you ámadán

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