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EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the day’s biggest news stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.
- The latest banking stress tests say we’ll need to put another €24bn into those infamous banks. As a result, Michael Noonan is to merge AIB with EBS, forming two ‘pillar banks’. Here, to make that more digestible, are some of the details broken down in numbers – and an explanation from economist Ronan Lyons on what the stress tests actually mean.
- It’s not all negative for the Irish economy today: if you are yet to be a first-time buyer, you may be interested in the Sherry Fitzgerald survey that says house prices are now back at 2002 levels. Oh, and our exports are doing rather well. The bad news? Six businesses a day have been going into insolvency into the first three months of this year.
- Notwithstanding the busy schedule of business in the Dáil today, Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin found time to delay business to wish a happy retirement to head barman of the Dail members’ bar, Denis Reid. Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett remarked that Denis was the “best-informed political commentator” in the country.
- If you feel like washing down the bad financial news with your local chipper’s finest, beware: one third of all takeaways apparently mislabel their fish, according to a new survey.
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council says it didn’t mean to cause offence by proclaiming Brian O’Driscoll, a native of Clontarf – which, you might have guessed, is north of the Liffey – as an “honorary southsider”.
- Muammar Gaddafi likes to turn the tables, doesn’t he? Instead of bowing to international pressure to resign, he’s now calling on the leaders of the countries opposing him to do precisely the same thing. “You’re a despot.” “No, you’re a despot!”
- High winds have collapsed a building in Florida at the Sun ‘n’ Fun aviation fair – CNN are reporting that about 70 people are trapped inside.
- You’ve seen that house that looks like Hitler – and you may have seen Adolfish the goldfish. Then there’s the Facebook page dedicated to the notion that Dennis the Menace’s dad looked like Hitler. But do you own a Kitler? Every day, www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com finds another set of moggies who bear a close resemblance to the dead dictator. As far as we’re concerned, there’s no Kitler quite like Snowball:
Additional reporting by Gavan Reilly
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