EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories, a little before nine, that you need to know with your morning coffee.
1. #AER LINGUS: Aer Lingus services are returning to normal today after a 24-hour strike, which is estimated to have cost the company €10m.
2. #HIT-AND-RUN: A woman has died following suspected hit-and-run in Drimnagh, Dublin, last night. Witnesses identified the offending vehicle as a dark-coloured car, possibly a Ford Focus with an 08 or 09 registration, which left in the direction of the Nass road at approximately 10.30pm.
3. #NO TOBACCO: Doctors and policy experts have urged the UN’s health agency to embrace e-cigarettes as a life saver, saying the gadgets could help prevent much of the cancer, heart and lung disease and strokes caused by the toxins in tobacco.
4. #YAHOO: Yahoo’s Australian arm is shifting its operations from Ireland to the Netherlands, another country associated with US multinational tax avoidance, according to the Irish Times.
5. #EU: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruffled some feathers in Europe by throwing her support behind Jean-Claude Junker in the race to select the next EU Commission president.
6. #MANUFACTURING: Irish company VistaMed has announced a €7m investment and the creation of 125 new jobs at its facilities at Carrick-on-Shannon and Roosky, Leitrim.
7. #TURKEY: The first anniversary of Turkey’s Taskim Square demonstrations will be marked by activists across the country today. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged young people to ignore it.
8. #UKRAINE: US President Barack Obama has confirmed he will meet with the Ukrainian president-elect during his visit to Europe next week.
9. #BLOOM: Tens of thousands of people are due to gather in Dublin’s Phoenix Park today for the Bloom festival. Met Éireann predicts today will be mainly dry with sunny patches.
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