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Dublin: 10 °C Wednesday 22 May, 2013

Take 5: Wednesday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.

Image: Oscar Ray Tuohy

EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie bring you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.

1. #FÁS: Employees of the soon-to-be-disbanded State training agency FÁS are to take their fight to the Labour Court to retain up to 44 days of extra annual leave in the last two years before they retire. SIPTU has said today that the pre-retirement leave issue had reared its head even before the Government announced the transfer of employees to new agency Solas. Here they explain why FÁS workers deserve the extra leave>

2. #AUSTRALIA: It has taken explosive specialists ten hours to free a teenage girl from a device which was strapped to her neck at her home in an upmarket suburb of Sydney. Police are now investigating to see if the device could have exploded – and hunting the person who put it there.

3. #ÁRAS 2011: Sources close to former MEP, former presidential candidate and former Eurovision winner Dana say she’s considering putting her name forward for a run at the Áras this year.

4. #HACKING: Beware an increase in phone hacking in Ireland. No, not NoTW-style hacking – the Communications Regulator explains that this type involves someone hacking into a company’s phone system to make free calls at the business’s expense. This is already an increase of such cases reported this year.

5. #TALL SHIPS: Something to soothe you into the evening… photographer Paul O’Neill has captured the 72 hours at the Waterford Tall Ships festival in this stunning bird’s-eye view timelapse video. Aaaanndd relax.

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Comments (15 Comments)

  • Feck off Dana – that will be all!

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  • Just shows you how out of touch and useless Irish unions are. Big Jim Larkin must be doing cartwheels in his grave

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  • Because some women choose to travel abroad to have a procedure which terminates the life of an unborn child is no reason to make it legal here. Those women need compassion and support here, not the feeling that abortion is the only option. It leaves terrible psychological scars and guilt feeling later on.

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    • Who’s going to give them that compassion? People like you and the child-rapists in the Catholic Church? I don’t think so. No, the real compassion that should be offered is an understanding of a woman’s right to choose whether or not to support a POTENTIAL life. A man is free to run and choose, why shouldn’t a woman be?

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    • Certainly not the child rapists in the Catholic Church! Hopefully there’s an end to that now.

      It’s not a potential life – it’s alive from the moment of conception – you can see it under a microscope, a wonderful thing, a new human life.

      A man doesn’t get pregnant. But a responsible man wouldn’t run, they’d support the lady and support the child when it was born.

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  • Well I hope its not going to be all like this.

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    • You’re a joke! We need someone who understands the role of the presidency, someone who has an understanding of constitutional law, someone who will be a states person, the chief diplomat. We don’t need some has-been singer and right-wing lunatic ” nuclear family values” and anti-abortion nut. Do us a favour Dana and stop meddling in things that you have no understanding of. What can you really offer the country in this time of great need? What do you understand about the financial crisis? What knowledge do you have of the European Union other than its something scary and big, so you’re frightened of it. Do us a favour Dana and disappear!

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    • What is the country in great need of? Abortion? Why?

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    • Because an abortion ban in this country does not prevent a single abortion. It forces Irish women to travel in difficult circumstances under great financial pressure, or where they cannot come up with the money, seek back-street procedures. We need to grow up and recognise that as a nation we cannot continue to export social problems elsewhere.

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    • sorry about the thread, i should have replied!

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  • i TOTALLY agrewith Maurice ,A feotus is a life and NOBODY has the right to take that!!!!!!. ie;DONT GET PREGNANT ,!!!!condoms are not that expensive and prevent pregnancy !!Women will never be liberated until they COP ON to themselves

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    • Big John 03/08/11 #

      Are you serious? Women don’t deserve the right to control their reproductive organs, they should just cop on. That’s mental!! What do you think about the morning after pill then?

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    • It’s a chemically induced abortion, isn’t it?

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    • Condoms are not 100% effective Annette. Perhaps we should start beating the ‘abstinence’ drum eh? You’re might be correct: women will never be liberated until they cop on but I feel in a very different way to how you see it. BTW: you know it’s said that using multiple exclamation marks in a sentence is a sign of mental illness? Get well soon Annette, in the mean time get off your soap box and do not dare to peach to me about whom has the right to do what in this country.

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