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Bull Island today in Dublin: Dublin City Council are implementing a plan to close access to parts of the island, in order to protect and conserve wildlife. Sam Boal
news roundup
Here's What Happened Today: Thursday
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- The PSNI has received intelligence that dissident republicans are planning terror attacks against officers on Easter Monday – US President Joe Biden is set to arrive in Belfast the next day.
- What we know about Biden’s trip to Ireland next week: a walk about Dundalk, a trip to the Áras and a big address to the crowds in Ballina.
- The developer of a social housing scheme in Co Meath has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a subcontractor from removing kitchen units from the properties.
- A man has claimed adverse possession of land allegedly owned by the GAA and Cork County GAA board.
- The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said that the Government needs to deliver a fully funded staffing plan for its the new €1 billion hospital bed-building initiative to work.
- The government has failed to spend over €1 billion of its housing budget over the last three years.
- Irish motorists are being warned about an increase in scam text messages from fraudsters claiming to be a motorway operator.
INTERNATIONAL
#PROTESTS IN FRANCE are rumbling on as demonstrators took to the streets for another day of action against Macron’s pension reform, after talks between unions and the government ended in deadlock.
#LEBANON: Israel has accused Palestinian groups of firing rockets from Lebanon on the Jewish Passover holiday, which coincides with Ramadan this year.
#NORD STREAM EXPLOSIONS: A state actor was the most likely culprit for the explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream gas pipelines, an act deemed sabotage, Swedish prosecutors have said.
PARTING SHOT
Analysis: Don’t fall for the ‘groomer’ slur – it’s an old trick used to stir hatred of LGBTQ+ people.
Aoife Gallagher and Tim Squirrell of ISD look at the worrying rise of misinformation and dangerous narratives around people in the LGBTQ+ community:
”Attempts to claim that members of the LGBTQ+ community pose a danger to children are nothing new, and such narratives have resurfaced in different geographies for decades.
“These claims range from attempting to conflate homosexuality with child abuse to those implying children can be manipulated into becoming queer through exposure to the LGBTQ+ community.
“Despite victories for LGBTQ+ rights in countries across the world in recent years, this narrative has once again surfaced in ‘groomer’ rhetoric espoused by some prominent media, politicians and influential figures.”
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