EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you up to speed with the five things you should know as you head out the door.
1. #CONFIDENCE: Fianna Fáil has tabled a Dáil motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter. Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman Niall Collins said Shatter had shown “extremely poor judgement” of late and that his position had become untenable following his disclosure of a Garda incident involving Mick Wallace. The motion will be debated by TDs next Tuesday and Wednesday, with a final vote on Wednesday evening.
2. #ATTACK: Two men suspected of killing a 25-year-old British solider in a vicious knife attack on the streets of London this week had both been part of previous police investigations into Islamist terrorist activity. The authorities have not confirmed whether off-duty soldier Lee Rigby, who was not in uniform at the time of the attack, had been targeted specifically because of his military service.
3. #PUBLIC SECTOR: Unions that do not sign up to the new Haddington Road agreement will see “less favourable” conditions applied to them, according to junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes. The ASTI and TUI unions have both said the Haddington Road proposals aren’t sufficiently different from the Croke Park II agreement.
4. #BRAY: A Bray garda appeared before Dublin District Court this morning following allegations that she fabricated an official document. Catherine McGowan, 46, from west Dublin allegedly forged a letter from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in a case investigating a sexual assault in June 2011. Judge Victor Blake ordered that she be remanded on bail until 19 July.
5. #SWEDEN: Two schools, a police station, and several cars have been torched in Sweden, as riots sparked by the fatal shooting of a 69-year-old man by police entered their fifth night. The troubles, which began Sunday in the immigrant-populated Husby suburb of Stockholm, are believed to have been triggered by the fatal police shooting of the local resident last week, after the man wielded a machete in public.
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