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GOOD MORNING. HERE’S everything you need to know as the day gets underway.
1. A private company will employ some former Irish Air Corps personnel to act as nighttime airfield controllers in order to keep the military flying, The Journal has learned.
The Irish Air Corps was forced to shifted to a part-time twelve hour and five-day-week at the start of the summer due to a shortfall of qualified controllers at its Baldonnel, Co Dublin base.
2. It is time to take the gloves off and force religious orders to pay redress to their victims, according to Labour leader Ivana Bacik.
Her party has put forward a Bill that seeks to enact landmark legislation to ensure that religious institutions, associated trusts, and other unincorporated organisations be held liable for historic child sexual abuse committed in their care.
3. A convicted killer who was driving at high speed on his motorbike struck a Ukrainian grandmother three years ago, leaving her with serious injuries.
Derek Moore (AKA Hutch) of Champions Avenue, Dublin 1, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious harm to Valentyna Linck on 27 May, 2022 at Amiens Street.
Moore (42) pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving and a count of driving under the influence of an intoxicant on the same date. Further counts of dangerous driving are to be taken into consideration by the court.
4. The Irish food safety regulator is considering whether to test food for the toxic ‘forever chemical’ trifluoroacetic acid (TFA).
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is reviewing recent research by the NGO Pesticide Action Network which revealed high levels of TFA in cereal-based foods, including bread, purchased across Europe.
The research identified particularly high levels of TFA in some wheat-based breakfast cereals bought in Irish supermarkets.
5. Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and temporary shelters across the Gaza Strip since late Wednesday, compounding the suffering of the territory’s residents, nearly all of whom were displaced during more than two years of war.
6. The HSE said that the National Gender Service does not have the authority to close its waiting list to new patients.
The National Gender Service (NGS) provides specialist support to people aged 17 and older who are seeking medical and surgical interventions to help them affirm their gender.
7. Democratic lawmakers released a new cache of photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein yesterday that includes images of US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton.
Other high-profile figures in the published pictures include former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, former Clinton treasury secretary Larry Summers, director Woody Allen and the former British prince now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
8. An Irish player scooped the €17 million jackpot from last night’s EuroMillions draw.
The numbers for the draw were 7, 25, 30, 37, 41, and the two lucky stars numbers 5 and 11.
9. Half of the country is set to come under Status Yellow weather warnings for rain today, with a wet weekend forecast.
The first weather warning will be in place across all of Connacht, as well as counties Clare, Cork, Donegal, Kerry and Limerick.
This alert will come into place at 6pm today and remain in place until midnight tomorrow, going into Monday.
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