EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head out the door.
1. #GARDA DEATH: The Minister for Justice has confirmed that a burnt out car found in Armagh yesterday is likely to be the one used by the gang who killed Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. A further appeal for information has been issued today in relation to the fatal shooting of the 41-year-old father of two last Friday.
2. #TOBACCO: MEP Nessa Childers has criticised two government departments for not disclosing meetings with the tobacco industry, which she said breaks the terms of a WHO treaty which Ireland has signed. Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton confirmed that officials from their departments had meet with industry representatives.
3. # PRIVACY: An Irish MEP has called on the European Commission to investigate the legality of Facebook’s new ‘graph search’ feature – which aims to allow users to search their friends list or the general user database to identify people based in certain areas, or who work at a certain place, and who share common hobbies or interests. Labour MEP Phil Prendergast has questioned whether the feature breaches a citizen’s right to the protection of their personal data.
4. #SENTENCING: The average sentence handed down to perpetrators of rape in Ireland is 5 – 7 years, according to an analysis undertaken by Katharina Ó Cathaoir of the Judicial Researchers’ Office. The cases receiving longer sentences – up to 12 years imprisonment – included crimes involving children, unusual violence or pre-meditation, or other aggravating factors.
5. #PHONE SCAM: Ireland’s telecommunications regulator has said that mobile users shouldn’t pay the price for a Slovenian phone scam that has targeted Irish mobile numbers. A spokesman for ComReg said the regulator was working with Ireland’s four mobile phone operators to ensure that anybody who returned a missed call from a Slovenian number, which may have been mistaken for an Irish one, was not charged for doing so saying: “we don’t foresee anybody being left out of pocket because of this”.
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