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lunch wrap
Lunchtime Fix: 6 things to know
Catch up as you refuel.
WHAT’S THE STORY?
1. LET’S start with the good jobs news – a total of 270 new jobs are coming with a new manufacturing plant for Ethicon Biosurgery at Plassey, Limerick. Hurray!
2. MORE Garda whistleblowers are coming forward with “serious allegations in relation to malpractice and corruption”, according to Garda whistleblower John Wilson. Now, he says, we need a professional structure to process their claims.
3. HAVE you a banana in your lunchbox? Enjoy it while you can – the UN is warning of ‘massive destruction’ of the banana crop from a strain of ‘Panama disease‘.
4. AND if you did buy a banana today, chances are higher now that you got it in an Aldi or a Lidl - yup, the latest supermarket share research shows how attached we are to the ‘bargain’ outlets.
5. A devastating bus station bomb on the outskirts of Nigerian capital Abuja has killed at least 71 people – there are over 120 injured and the death toll may rise.
6. THIRTY years ago today, the body of a newborn baby boy was found on a beach in Cahersiveen, sparking what became known as the Kerry Babies scandal. Read this stark lookback at one of the most shocking episodes in recent Irish history.
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