A competitor in the Swamp Soccer World Cup being held at Hunters Hall Park in Edinburgh.
Image: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
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- The board of the Dublin Airport Authority has backed down over a bonus payment of €106,000 due to its CEO. Declan Collier will now forego the payment “in light of prevailing economic circumstances”. Transport Minister Leo Varadkar had said that seven of the 13 members of the board wouldn’t be re-appointed if the decision to award Collier his bonus wasn’t reversed.
- Three men have died in weekend road crashes in Monaghan, Mayo and Tyrone. A 19-year-old man died after a two car collision in Shrule in Mayo while in Monaghan a 20-year-old man is believed to have been struck by a car. A third young man, a 19-year-old, was killed in a single vehicle collision in Tyrone.
- A Fianna Fáil senator has denied that she was ejected from the Passport Office in Dublin after a row with security staff. Senator Mary White denies that she said “you’re lucky you have a job” to a security officer, after she went in to inquire about the status of a friend’s passport application.
- A senior member of the Tory party has been found dead at the Glastonbury festival in the UK. David Cameron’s constituency chairman Christopher Shale was found dead in a portaloo. Cameron has said he’s “devastated” by the news. Festival organiser Michael Eavis has told reporters that it was a “suicide situation”.
- It’s 15 years since journalist Veronica Guerin was shot dead in her car. Many have taken to Twitter today to remember her and her work.
- Two hundred Irish troops will leave Dublin airport at 2.30am tomorrow morning bound for Lebanon. They’re the second contingent of the 104th Battalion which is on a UN peacekeeping mission in the country. The youngest of the troops is 20-year-old Emma Furlong.
- The Israeli Prime Minister’s son has taken to Facebook to post derisive comments about Arabs and Muslims. Yair Netanyaho has also written that he hopes there “would never be” a Palestinian state.
- The Telegraph reports today that swearing at a police officer in the UK is not a crime. Policeman have been told that being on the receiving end of bad langauge is not enough reason to place someone in handcuffs.
- Gardaí back at home are on the hunt for a man who posed as one of them and stole a substantial amount of cash from a pensioner in Cork this morning.
- One of the founders of MySpace has said that he cringes whenever he looks at his profile page on the social networking site. Chris DeWolfe bowed out of the company in 2009 and has given an interview explaining the “culture clash” with new owners News Corp.
- Where is Hugo Chavez? It’s the question heard around the world this weekend as Venezuelan officials deny that he’s in a critical condition in a Cuban hospital.
- They must have been praying for rain in Edinburgh ahead of the Swamp Soccer World Cup. Otherwise the playing surface would have been ruined…
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