EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #HSE: The chief executive of the Health Service Executive is set to resign today after less than two years in the job. Cathal Magee’s departure is expected as part of reforms to the HSE – which the government has committed to abolishing – that will be outlined at a press conference being held by Health Minister James Reilly later today. It was recently revealed that the HSE has a financial deficit of €280m so far this year.
2. #AER LINGUS: Aer Lingus shareholders have been told to reject Ryanair’s latest offer for the Irish airline. The company said that it will be outlining to shareholders that the offer of €1.30 per share “fundamentally undervalues” Aer Lingus. Ryanair yesterday submitted a formal takeover of Aer Lingus with an offer totalling €694m for the 70.2 per cent of the airline it does not already own.
3. #MIGRANTS: There have been calls for a new scheme to legalise the estimated 30,000 undocumented migrants currently living in Ireland. The Migrant Rights Centre is calling for the introduction of what’s called an Earned Regularisation Scheme which would allow undocumented migrants to legalise their immigration status without necessarily having to be in employment as is the case with a typical regularisation scheme.
4. #HSBC: Two of Ireland’s most prominent bankers have been implicated in the scandal that has engulfed HSBC bank after it was heavily criticised by a US Senate report which said the bank was used by drug kingpins in Mexico as well as facilitating the transfer of suspicious funds from countries such as Iran and Syria. AIB’s chairman David Hodgkinson and NAMA adviser Michael Geoghegan were both named in the report but AIB said this morning it’s chief executive is not implicated in the scandal, RTÉ Radio reports.
5. #STIMULUS: The government’s much-vaunted stimulus package has been criticised by opposition parties. Though the government announced €2.25billion of spending on a number of infrastructure projects including roads, healthcare facilities and the new DIT campus at Grangegorman, the plan has been criticised by Fianna Fáil as “spin driven” while Sinn Féin said what the government announced yesterday was “anaemic”.
6. #LIBYA: The first elections held in Libya sicne the downfall of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi in October of last year have seen significant gains for an alliance of parties who are seen as liberal. BBC News reports that the National Forces Alliance, led by the former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril, has won 39 of the 80 available seats in the newly-established National Assembly which is expected to be in place for a year.
7. #NEEDLES: An investigation has been launched by the FBI in the US following the discovery of needles in sandwiches served on four Delta Air Lines flights from the Netherlands to the US . The sewing needles were found in five pre-prepared sandwiches with one person injured in the incident which needles to say Delta is taking “extremely seriously”, according to BBC News.
8. #LAZINESS: Lack of exercise is causing as many deaths in the world as smoking a study by The Lancet medical journal has found. A third of adults are not doing enough physical activity causing around 5.3 million deaths a year the study says. The study ranks Ireland seventh out of 36 countries and says that more than half of Irish adults are not meeting the criteria of taking a half-hour walk five days a week.
9. #THE BOSS: Bruce Springsteen wowed crowds at the RDS in Dublin last night as he played the first of two gigs in Ireland. The rock legend began his show with a reference to being cut off at a concert in London over the weekend by playing the end Twist and Shout which he and his E Street Band had been playing with Paul McCartney before their mics were cut. Later ‘The Boss’ played I Fought the Law as part of a set that lasted over three hours.
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