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Lunchtime Fix: 7 things you need to know
Catch up as you refuel.
WHAT’S THE STORY?
1. YES, there will be an investigation into what happened to residents at mother and baby homes in Ireland. Yes, the investigators need documents for research.
But why has the Department of Health removed a dozen files from the National Archives – instead of copying, or leaving copies, for the public to access?
The department also removed over 40 State files relating to unmarried mothers in 1992 and 2006 – and still haven’t returned them, TheJournal.ie can reveal. Read Christina Finn’s exclusive story here.
2. THE Aer Lingus cabin crew strike is off but no-one’s happy, really. Aer Lingus believes its profits for 2014 will be down 20% because of it, and the Impact union has had to assure passengers that it is safe to book a flight with Aer Lingus this summer, promise.
3. IT’S no Labour of love for the junior coalition party – a new poll finds support for Labour at 4%. Could be worse – the leader of their coalition partners, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, was being told in the Seanad that he was trying to approve something even “Hitler himself… would have been ashamed of”.
4. HAPPY World Cup Day! It’s the opening day of one of the biggest global sports contest and TheScore.ie has you covered here. Meanwhile, the alcohol industry ‘runs the show’ at the World Cup, apparently.
5. INTEL has lost an EU court challenge to a ruling by the European Commission that they be fined €1 billion for offering clients price rebates to use their computer chips over a rival’s. That’s bound to sting.
6. MINI heatwave anyone? We like when the forecast is good – and accurate. We wouldn’t go as far as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un who has been making meteorologists in his country very nervous this week.
7. THE author Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been named the winner of the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Sound of Things Falling. Read Aoife Barry’s interview with Vásquez about how his Colombian childhood inspired the novel.
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