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Here’s What Happened Today: Monday

Everyone’s talking about e-cigarettes being banned for under-18s, the priest who ‘bored’ burglars, jobs and penalty points.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…

imageHeavy machinery removing burning waste from inside the Ballymount Industrial Estate. Pic: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

  • Ireland is to ban e-cigarettes for under-18s, Health Minister James Reilly announced.
  • A priest said he ‘bored’ armed burglars out of his home in Dublin.
  • There could be up to 500 jobs in Cork on the way as Tyco proposes a move to the city.
  • Former solicitor, Mary Miley, has been jailed for three years for borrowing €900k on false and forged documentation. [RTE]
  • Fire units will remain at Ballymount Industrial estate for a number of days.
  • The Garda Ombudsman is to be asked to investigate the penalty points controversy, a move welcomed by the Garda Commissioner.
  • A man was questioned over the killing of Kevin Kearney, whose body was found in a pond.
  • GAA referee Shane Hourigan died in a road crash in Limerick.
  • A man will be sentenced in March for the rape of two young girls in a Westmeath town. [RTE]
  • It was ‘unfair’ of the HSE to reject an application from a boy with ADHD for the Long Term Illness Scheme, the Ombudsman has said.
  • Kerry is now a ‘stargazing reserve’, thanks to its ‘dark sky’.
  • There could be another referendum – this time on the offence of blasphemy.
  • Irish Water’s staffing numbers will ‘reduce over time’, the ESRI has said.

WORLD

imageEmergency workers continue the search for victims in a frozen nursing home that went on fire. Pic: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press/Press Association Images

#AMERICA A high school student set himself on fire inside a school cafeteria.

#UK Nigella Lawson won’t be jailed for her admission of drug use.

#SYRIA Journalists from rival Syrian sides came close to blows in Geneva during peace talks.

#PHILIPPINES Police officers are accused of playing ‘torture roulette’ with inmates of a detention facility.

#ITALY An Italian court has heard that the Concordia captain ‘refused the chance‘ to return to the sinking ship.

#QUEBEC Firefighters have to de-ice a nursing home after a fire so they can recover bodies.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

imagePic: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

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