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Lunchtime Fix: 6 things you need to know
Catch up as you refuel.
WHAT’S THE STORY?
1. BAUSCH and Lomb workers in Waterford had a horrible start to the bank holiday weekend with news of 200 job cuts. Now unions and management are talking today to see if remaining staff will also have to accept a 20 per cent wage decrease at the company which specialises in eye health products.
2. AS allegations of bribery continue to dog the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, TheJournal.ie today reports on the kafala labour law in the country, which essentially sees vulnerable workers “owned” by their employer. What does this mean for the Irish companies operating in Qatar, we ask…
3. SAD news for several families this morning – that of an elderly man who died in a house fire in Ros Muc, Galway overnight; and of a young man who died in a crash in Adare, Limerick this morning; and of a man in his 70s killed driving near the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin.
4. IT’S not easy being a royal in Spain. Or rather it was, but now neither the king himself wants the job, nor do republicans in the country want there to be any king at all. See the massive protest in Madrid here.
5. HE hasn’t gone away you know (and sure, would you want him to.) Brian O’Driscoll enters the world of punditry in September, it has been announced. You’ll be waiting a while for Roy Keane to turn up in Brazil though – he’s pulled out of ITV’s World Cup coverage to focus on coaching. We do wonder what he’ll do next…
6. YOU know we won’t let you try to plough through the Apple spin on your own – our tech guy Quinton O’Reilly has an excellent breakdown of what last night’s keynote speech from the company means. Or if you prefer an ‘Apple for dopes’ analysis, Emer McLysaght has this great runthrough.
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