Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected following reports of three people suffering severe breathing difficulties on a private boat on Lake Windemere.
A storyline on today’s episode centres around a deadly gas boiler – and there are warnings as around 10,000 gas boilers were illegally installed in Ireland last year.
The aim of the campaign is to make sure that people know its cause, how to prevent it, and how to detect it.
The Trident Hotel in Kinsale – where Miriam Reidy died earlier this month – will reopen before the investigation finishes.
LESS THAN HALF of the 7,500 faulty gas cookers recalled by the National Consumer Agency last year have been returned.
Certain models of Beko, Flavel, Leisure and New World gas cookers with a separate oven and grill pose a carbon monoxide poisoning threat.
The risk of poisoning occurs when the grill is used but the grill door is left closed.
Call 1800 252 925 (Beko, Flavel, Leisure) or 1800 569 569 (New World) for more details or check this list. The NCA can be contacted on 1800 432 432.
TWO RESTAURANTS have been ordered to close following inspections by health officials examining gas appliances – near the location where two teenagers died of carbon monoxide poisoning, RTÉ reports.
The Ice House restaurant in Portstewart, Co Derry, and a chip shop Rasharkin, Co Antrim, were forced to close shop by inspectors. It has been reported that the proprietors contacted the HSENI themselves.
Up to 500 people have contacted the helpline following the deaths of the teenagers, which were caused by a gas leak in the holiday apartment they had been staying in to celebrate finishing finishing secondary school.
Stormont ministers will meet tomorrow in order to discuss the possibility of introducing compulsory carbon monoxide detectors in new buildings in Northern Ireland.
The HSENI in partnership with gas supply companies have been trying to make a number of premises safe in the Castlerock and Coleraine areas, as part of the ongoing emergency response.
The HSENI Emergency Helpline number – 0800 0320 121 – will continue to operate between 8am and midnight until at least Friday.
A FAULTY GAS appliance is believed to be linked to the deaths of two teenage boys in Derry on Tuesday night, according to investigators. The teenagers are suspected to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Friends Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson, both 18, died in an apartment in Castlerock, Co Derry.
A third boy found unconscious at the scene was successfully resuscitated. He is still recovering in hospital.
Davidson’s mother has spoken of her shock and sadness at discovering her son and his friend dead in the apartment. She told hte BBC that the four parents headed to the flat when they had not heard from the boys and thought something was wrong.
She said they had to force their way into the flat, and she knew immediately that her son was dead although attempts were made to resuscitate him and McFerran.
Carbon monoxide is produced by all flames and is extremely toxic. It can be fatal if the quantity of the gas is present in as little as 0.1% of a room’s air supply.
AT A HIGH-profile US Senate meeting, technology giant Apple was accused of using Ireland as a ‘tax haven’.
The multinational firm, which employs 4,000 people in Ireland, reportedly avoided paying €34 billion in US taxes by negotiating a tax rate of less than 2 per cent with the Irish government – significantly lower than that nation’s 12.5 per cent statutory rate.
The Senate heard that American children are losing out on education because Apple is transferring profits to Irish subsidiaries.
However, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied that Ireland is a tax haven and rejected claims that authorities had negotiated deals with multi-national companies.
So, today we want to know, what do you think? Should Ireland be tougher on multi-national companies when it comes to tax?
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