EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five things you need to know before you head out the door.
1. #COURTS Tom McFeely, the Priory Hall developer, has been declared bankrupt. Justice Elizabeth Dunne dismissed McFeely’s claim that his main business interests were in the UK, stating his base was the Republic of Ireland. The petition was brought against the developer by Theresa McGuinness over failure of his former company Coalport to pay an award over structural faults to a property.
2.#IRAN Iran is to execute four people convicted in the country’s biggest-ever banking scandal. They were sentenced to death by a court in Tehran after being found guilty of corruption in a scandal involving major bank fraud to the tune of $2.6 billion. In total, 39 people were put on trial in connection with the scandal.
3. #VIDEO GAMES The UK has begun legally enforcing age limits on video games in the country from today. Retailers could be prosecuted if they sell videos to children below certain age limits set under the Pegi system, a European ratings system.
4. #COURTS Businessman Anthony Lyons was sentenced to six years in prison, with five-and-a-half months suspended, for attacking and sexually assaulting a woman on Griffith Avenue in Dublin in October 2010. RTÉ reports that Mr Justice Desmond Hogan also ordered Lyons to pay €75,000 to the victim. The victim’s family told RTÉ’s Liveline that they believed the sentence was “very lenient”.
5. #TRANSPORT The majority of cyclists admit to breaking the rules of the road, according to a new survey by a group of engineering researchers from Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and the University of Hong Kong. Their study, ‘Perception of safety of cyclists in Dublin city’, found that the worst offenders were regular, confident and experienced cyclists.
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