EACH DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you should know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #ABORTION: Today will mark the 27th time the Council of State has been convened to discuss legislation, with President Michael D Higgins asking the Council to consider the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013. The Council and president will consult on whether to ultimately refer the bill to the Supreme Court.
2. #ITALY: At least 36 people have been killed in Italy after a coach carrying pilgrims, including some children, plunged off a motorway flyover near the town of Avellino in the Campania region yesterday evening.
3. #IMMIGRANTS: Immigrants living in Ireland are far less likely to become citizens than those living in other European countries – with bureaucracy cited as one of the main barriers to citizenship, according to a Immigrant Council of Ireland study involving 15 European states.
4. #CRASH: One man aged in his 20s has died and two others are seriously injured following a two-car collision in Cavan overnight. Last night, a 17-year-old girl died and a man was seriously injured when the car they were travelling in collided with a Dublin Bus.
5. #ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet today in Washington DC for peace talks. They will be the first talks to be held in almost two years, after discussions stalled in 2010 over a dispute about settlements in the West Bank.
6. #SPAIN: The judge investigating last week’s train crash near Santiago de Compostela, in which 79 people died, has provisionally charged driver Francisco Jose Garzon Amo with multiple cases of reckless homicide.
7. #FLORIDA: Seven people have been killed by a gunman during a hostage situation which broke out in Miami, Florida, over the weekend. Two hostages were freed before police fatally shot the gunman, the BBC reports.
8. #TRAVEL: Good news for rail commuters – a new train station is to open today in Oranmore, Co Galway. The new station will serve people travelling between Galway and Dublin and also between Galway and Limerick.
9. #TWITTER: A 21-year-old man has been arrested in the UK as part of an investigation into threatening messages aimed at feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez on Twitter. Criado-Perez received a barrage of hostile tweets, which included threats to rape and kill her, after she campaigned for a woman’s picture to placed on a new banknote.
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