Two pelicans rest in the zoo of Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
Image: Michael Probst/AP/Press Association Images
EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed.
- The Defence Forces have confirmed that a viable grenade was discovered at an apartment complex in Distillery Road, in Dublin’s northside, today. The device, and other components, had been found in the outbuilding of the apartment block.
- The parents of a 10-day old baby who died from the Pseudomonas bacterium in a Co Derry hospital in December have called for a public inquiry into the situation. This month, three babies in Belfast’s Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital also died during a Pseudomonas outbreak.
- Gardaà in Cork have issued an appeal for public assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 16-year-old Trevor Hegarty, from Mallow in Co Cork, has not been seen since 13 January. He is described as being 5’9″ in height, of broad build and with short blond hair. When last seen he was wearing a grey hoodie, a black tracksuit and white trainers.
- Passengers who survived this month’s tragedy off the Italian coast have been offered €11,000 each in compensation by the company that owns the Costa Concordia cruise liner. However, one consumer group and two US law firms have advised survivors not to accept the amount, asserting that they are entitled to more for their pain and suffering.
- More than 5 million people are now unemployed in Spain – meaning the unemployment rate in the country has now hit a 15-year high.
- Credit ratings agency Fitch has downgraded five eurozone countries today – Italy, Spain, Belgium, Cyprus and Slovenia – but has not altered Ireland’s credit rating. All six countries remain on a negative outlook.
- Iran and UN nuclear inspectors are due to restart discussions regarding the country’s controversial nuclear programme this weekend.
- Today, as Jewish people across the world mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Justice Minister Alan Shatter writes in TheJournal.ie that we should never assume that the type of horror created by the Nazi killing machine could not be repeated in the future.
Holocaust surviver Eva Szirtes points onto names of her father Andor Schaeffer and her uncle Istvan Schaeffer on a memorial wall holding the engraved names of tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center during the United Nations Holocaust remembrance day in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, 27 January, 2012.
- The world’s largest social networking site, Facebook, will reportedly file for entry into the stock markets next week. It is expected that an entry into public ownership will make the site worth between $75 billion and $100 billion when it launches, and make an instant billionaire out of its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
- Artist Frank Buckley has plastered a house in Smithfield, Dublin, with €1.4 billion in shredded banknotes in the hope of provoking debate about the nature of currency, wealth and the financial system.
- An asteroid flew past Earth this afternoon – becoming one of the 20 closest approaches that any astronomical object has ever made to our home planet. No need for (belated) alarm however – it was still 60,000km away.
- The children of the late pop star Michael Jackson have pressed his famous silver glove and his shoes into wet cement in Hollywood. The imprints of Jackson’s possessions will now exist alongside those of John Wayne, Humphrey Bogard, Bette Davis, Sophia Loren and Clint Eastwood.
- Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner was in Dublin this afternoon. The public can’t access the plane – but we have some pics.
Just brilliant: 98fm’s Dermot and Dave pay a Bowie-inspired tribute to weather woman and national treasure Jean Byrne… and those leather rigouts, of course.
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