LAST UPDATE | 9 Mar 2020
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #CORONAVIRUS: Five new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Northern Ireland last night, bringing the total number of cases on the island to 33.
2. #CORONAVIRUS: A former Dublin Lord Mayor and the current chairperson of the capital’s central committee is demanding the country’s largest St Patrick’s Day parade be called off immediately.
3. #STATESIDE: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to travel to the United States to mark St Patrick’s Day in Washington DC and New York.
4. #NOT ATTENDING: It was also confirmed that US President Donald Trump would not be attending a St. Patrick’s Day lunch hosted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
5. #WESTMINSTER: A man has been shot dead by police in Westminster after brandishing two knives at officers in an incident police say is not terror-related.
6. #DACHSTEIN: Avalanches killed six people in the Austrian Alps in two separate incidents yesterday, police have said.
7. #DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: The number of people deported from Ireland last year who were here illegally or who had failed in their asylum application rose significantly to 293.
8. #ON TRIAL: Former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond is set to go on trial today over accusations of sexual assault, including one of attempted rape.
9. #MH17: The trial four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 opens in the Netherlands today, even though the suspects are still at large.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
have your say