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evening fix
Here's What Happened Today: Monday
Hospital waiting lists, arrests in Amsterdam, and the freedom of Dublin for Obama – it’s the Evening Fix.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Minister for Health Simon Harris says that stories of people on hospital waiting lists are “absolutely inexcusable”.
- Barack Obama is to get the freedom of Dublin, but not every councillor was impressed with the decision.
- Two Irishmen, one understood to be closely linked to the Kinahan drug cartel, were arrested in Amsterdam.
- Arlene Foster says that Gerry Adams has a ‘radical agenda’ for Northern Ireland.
- A woman who won the lottery in 2011, and has been ordered to pay €560,000 of the winnings to her stepson, has had her assets frozen.
- The landlords of a five-bedroom property which housed 70 tenants have been ordered to pay €60,000 in legal costs.
- Leo Varadkar became the first minister to say that Donald Trump shouldn’t be invited to Ireland.
- An Irishman died in Barcelona at the weekend, after falling ill.
- The Pixies and Bell X1 are just two of the bands set for a series of outdoor gigs at Trinity College in July.
- Irish retailers said they didn’t have a good Christmas.
- 140 new jobs are on the way to Kilkenny.
WORLD
#UK: Donald Trump will not be allowed to address the House of Commons according to the house speaker.
#ROMANIA: Half a million Romanians have taken to the street in the biggest protests seen since the fall of communism.
#BECKHAM: Emails relating to a possible knighthood for former footballer David Beckham were leaked after hackers demanded payment.
#VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Rugby legend and World Cup winner Joost van der Westhuizen has died aged just 45.
PARTING SHOT
A paddle boarder takes advantage of the waves at Tynemouth, England, this morning.
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