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Lunchtime Fix: 6 things you need to know
Catch up as you refuel.
WHAT’S THE STORY?
1. THE Government launched its plans to ensure everyone in Ireland will have health insurance.
2. RETIRING is the new resignation, it seems. Angela Kerins announced her retirement from Rehab today. And Mary Lou McDonald was less than sympathetic about the stress of her €240,000 job.
3. THE home of Alan Shatter received very unwelcome attention this morning – the Defence Forces were called to deal with what turned out to be “a hoax”. A package containing white powder and a swastika had been delivered to the Justice Minister’s door.
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4. #TRINITYGATE: Another incident but one that actually involves a gate. A 68-year-old was arrested this morning after crashing into Trinity College Dublin’s historic Front Gate.
5. A SECOND man has been arrested in relation to the abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-ten Jean McConville in 1972.
6. TWO major artworks by Gauguin and Bonnard taken in an art heist from a London house in 1970 have been recovered in Italy. The thieves had posed as burglar alarm engineers and stole the paintings while the housekeeper made them a cup of tea. Can’t wait for the movie version.
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