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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. “Exciting” is one way to describe the change at 2FM, as Dan Healy did on RTÉ Radio One last week. Here are other words that sprung to mind for a group of broadcast industry veterans who have been surveying the past week for the state-funded station: unprecedented, astonishing and dangerous.
2. Donald Trump’s campaign said it had raised nearly $53 million in online small-dollar donations after he was convicted in his New York hush money trial, boasting that the verdict had galvanized his support “like never before.”
3. The Irish women’s football team lost 3-0 to Sweden in the Euro qualifiers last night, here’s a rundown of what happened on the pitch at the Aviva.
4. The number of people living in emergency accommodation increased last month to a record 14,009.
According to the latest figures from the Department of Housing, 9,803 adults and 4,206 children were in emergency accommodation in April.
5. A former Circuit Court judge who was convicted of sexually abusing six young men when he was a teacher 30 years ago has been jailed for four years.
Gerard O’Brien (59) of Old School House, Slievenamon Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary, was convicted last December at the Central Criminal Court of one count of attempted anal rape and eight counts of sexual assault in relation to six victims.
6. It’s the June bank holiday weekend – and as usual we’re in for a busy one on the travel front.
Today is set to be Dublin Airport’s busiest day over the bank holiday weekend, with 117,000 passengers expected to travel through the airport.
7. As Peter Flanagan travels around Mexico, he feels a nagging guilt about the impact of tourism on local communities.
8. The concert booking site Ticketmaster has confirmed that it was investigating a data breach after a hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed to have accessed 560 million customers’ information.
9. Credit rating agency Fitch has upgraded Ireland to AA on its metric that gauges the ability of countries to meet their financial commitments and repay long-term debts.
Ireland’s rating has risen from AA- to AA. It’s the country’s highest rating with Fitch since 2009 and the first upgrade since January 2022.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? You mean the pro-Al Nusra Brit in Coventry that refuses to cite his sources, data and methadology?
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: the SOHR the shifted is stance over the course of the war as the rebels became more extreme, while initially supporting the FSA during he first few years of the war, the SOHR does not support the rebels any more. The SOHR clearly sided with the Kurds during last January’s Turkish led Operation Olive Branch (the Turkish and Syrian Rebel invasion of Kurdish region of Afrin of NW Syria). The SOHR released a lot of inaccurate news reports that supported the Kurdish YPG (false claims of Kurdish victories against the Syrian Rebels). A bit like Comical Ali, remember him?
Here’s the bomb attack (graphic), seems it was a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest…
US backed terrorists killed by US backed terrorists?
Divide and conquer.
@paul kelly: wtf?
@paul kelly:
The US government supported the Free Syrian Army, which was not an Islamic militant organisation.
ISIS hates the Western powers. therefore, the idea that the US government would support ISIS is absurd.
@Ciarán Masterson: As absurd as them supporting the Taliban and Al Quida?
@Ciarán Masterson: LOL – America have been supporting ISIS for years in Syria,
They like to play both sides of the coin, You genuinely have blinkers on and a childlike understanding of Americas role in all of this
@paul kelly: “US backed terrorists killed by US backed terrorists?”
Eh no, 9 civilians killed and about 20 injured, including children, when an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in a cafe. Here’s the bomb attack (graphic)
@paul kelly: If you’re referring to the Kurds, no. The YPG doesn’t do suicide bombings and nowhere in the Journal article does it say who was responsible. And in any case, it was mostly civilians that were killed.
US-backed soldier? Who makes this shyte up? The word is Mercenary
Even thought US is leaving Syria the economic sanctions and sanctions against any ships going to Syria…By both the EU and US…..Will keep the people of Syria impoverished for years….Unable to rebuild their country….
5 US soldiers killed according to Turkish leader Erdogan in his address, He is stating that it was an attack designed to keep the us in Syria, but he thinks it won`t affect the US withdrawal as it would mean a victory for Daesh.
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