Selena Gomez at The MTV European Music Awards 2011, The Odyssey Arena, Belfast
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EVERY EVENING,TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed.
- A total of 14 schools were delivered this year under the Rapid Delivery programme. This Thursday will reveal if cuts to capital projects will affect the future building of schools under the scheme.
- Two former gardaí have been jailed, and a third garda has been given a suspended sentence, over the assault of a man in Waterford city in 2010. The three were convicted in connection with the assault of 38-year-old Anthony Holness on New Street in the city on 29 January 2010.
- The Bishop of Derry has tendered his resignation to the Vatican, citing health reasons. Dr Séamus Hegarty said in a statement today that he had recently been diagnosed with a condition “which is unfortunately, irreversible and progressive”.
- Three Irish authors have been nominated for the prestigious IMPAC Literary Award. Nominees were announced this morning, with Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’ considered a hot favourite for the €100,000 prize.
- One of the most prominent terrorists of the Cold War, Carlos the Jackal, has faced trial in France today over four deadly bombings in Europe in the 1980s.
- As the political crisis in Greece role on we take a closer look at Antonis Samaras – the man vying for current Prime Minister George Papandreou’s role.
- Feeling the cold today? Readers have been sending us their photographs of the frosty morning and winter sunshine - check them out…
Frost in @FionaLMcGrath’s garden this morning
- A popular and controversial book by a Tennessee preacher that promotes corporal punishment has come under fire after copies were found in three homes where children have died from abuse. Preacher Michael Pearl denies that his book, which advises parents to begin physically reprimanding children from six months of age, promotes child abuse – saying he insists parents should “never leave bruises” or raise their hands in anger against a child.
- A second person has died after being crushed at a nightclub in Northhampton, England, last month. Nineteen-year-old Laurene Danielle Jackson died yesterday as a result of her injuries, police confirmed.
- A new exhibition and book will be launched tomorrow evening which will bring a decade of revolutionary turmoil in Ireland into sharp focus – Mercier Press have provided us with a selection of striking images from the book for you to see here.
- Police in England are investigating the possibility that a firework display may have caused black smoke to drift across the M5 in Somerset, leading to an horrific multi-vehicle crash that killed seven people.
- A Brazilian man has been made to pay the price for jilting his fiancée – that price being $6,500 under court order, after a Rio de Janeiro judge ruled the would-be bride should be compensated for “moral and material” damages.
- AFL star James Kelly has found a novel excuse for Australia’s recent tonking by Ireland – blaming it on Dublin’s notorious Harcourt Street nightclub, Copper Face Jacks.
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