EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal brings you five things you should know before you head out the door for the evening…
1. #BUDGET 2012 There are growing fears over the proposed cut to child benefit that was reported in the weekend’s newspapers. One advocacy group has warned that families will be pushed into poverty if a €10/per month cut is imposed. A government minister has argued that the benefit is vulnerable to being reduced as it is not a “basic social welfare rate”.
2. #ASSAULT Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to an assault on a man in Rosslare, Co Wexford after the man in his 40s was found in a derelict hotel on Friday afternoon. He is currently recovering from his injuries at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
3. #AN POST An Post has had to apologise to a man after he filmed a staff member failing to deliver a package to his home. Instead the staff member posted a docket saying he could not deliver the package, in contravention of An Post policy.
4. #SMOKE SUIT Tobacco giant Philip Morris is planning to sue the Australian government over its plans to introduce mandatory plain packaging for cigarettes. The packaging would contain graphic images and health warnings if the law comes into effect at the end of next year as expected.
5. #GIVE IT A LASH TRAP A 72-year-old football manager and the leader of the country being all pally as they climb a mountain? Now there’s something we’d like to see. Enda Kenny has said he will accompany Giovanni Trapattoni if and when the Ireland boss sets off on his promised pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick. Kenny siad it would be great “for somebody of his (Trap’s) stature… to stand on top of the mountain and say ‘Here we are. I’m an Italian, I’ve come here, this is a great place.’” Indeed it would Enda, indeed it would.
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