Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #COONANNA: Post-mortems are due to be carried out today on the bodies of three men recovered from a sunken vessel in Co Kerry yesterday.
2. #ÁRAS 2018: The Irish Times is reporting that presidential candidate Joan Freeman did not donate her Seanad salary to Pieta House, as she had pledged to do.
3. #BRETT KAVANAUGH: The FBI have begun interviewing people in connection to allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
4. #TRAGEDY: A homeless mother carried two stillborn twins into a Dublin hospital after giving birth in emergency accomodation, the Irish Daily Mail reports.
5. #TSUNAMI: Indonesian volunteers have begun burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
6. #ESRI: A report has found that people with disabilities are much more likely to experience discrimination (16%) compared to those who don’t have a disability (11%).
7. #HOSPITAL FEES: The HSE spent more than €600,000 on debt collection agencies last year, hired to chase up patients who had not paid their medical bills.
8. #CO MAYO: The constituency of Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring got almost one eighth of the national pot of money from a recreation scheme funded by his Department.
9. #BREXIT FEARS: The KBC Bank/ESRI consumer sentiment index fell to 96.4 in September, its lowest level since December 2016. The report said concerns about Brexit partly contributed to the drop - we heard some of the fears that communities have, during a recent road trip along the Irish border.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
have your say