EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.
1. #NEW ZEALAND: President Michael D Higgins has announced that Ireland will open an embassy in New Zealand shortly. We never had one up until now.
2. #WATER: Untreated raw sewage is being pumped into Irish waterways from 44 different urban locations.
3. #HUMPHRIES: Tom Humphries is to be sentenced for the defilement of a child this morning.
4. #REVENUE: The Revenue Commissioners threatened to dock the pay of a public servant they accused of owning properties without paying the required Local Property Tax.
5. #DISABILITY: A fifth of people aged 35 and over today will be living with a physical disability in 30 years’ time.
6. WEINSTEIN: New York’s attorney general has launched a civil rights investigation into The Harvey Weinstein Company.
7. #O’REILLY: Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has hit back at presenter Megyn Kelly’s comments about reports of sexual harassment at the news channel, the BBC says.
8. #NORTH KOREA: The two women accused of killing Kim Jong Un’s half-brother have returned to the crime scene.
9. #CHINA: The country’s Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping’s ideology in its constitution, making him the “most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong”.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
have your say