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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #DEATH: Gardaí are treating as suspicious the death of a man in his 60s in Waterford city last night. A 47-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman have been arrested for questioning.
2. #MISSING: A search for a 43-year-old fisherman who failed to return home after taking his currach out to sea yesterday evening has resumed off Inish Mór. RTÉ reports that Valentia Coast Guard teams have found a boat but there is still no sign of the fisherman.
3. #LEVESON: James Murdoch, son to Rupert and former chairman of News International, is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into UK press standards at 10am today. He will be quizzed on whether he was aware that the practice of phone-hacking was more widespread at the News of the World and not just confined to the rogue behaviour of one reporter, Clive Goodman.
4. #RAPE TAPE: The Garda Ombudsman’s report into the so-called Corrib gas “rape tape” controversy is to be published this afternoon. The Irish Independent says that the five gardaí at the centre of the probe will be cleared of any serious wrongdoing.
5. #FLOODS: As Ireland faces a weather warning that a month’s worth of rain could fall in 36 hours, it has been revealed that the majority of flood repair work recommended by Dublin City Council has not yet been completed.
6. #DEATH PENALTY: Californians will be asked to vote on whether the State should abolish the death penalty as the measure has qualified for a ballot in November. The alternative punishment would be a lifetime jail sentence without parole.
7. #MARATHON DEATH: Charity organisation Samaritans has said it is overwhelmed by the response from people giving money in memory of Claire Squires, the 30-year-old runner who died while participating in the London Marathon on Sunday. More than £231,000 has been put into a tribute fund after 21,000 people logged on to donate to the hairdresser’s fundraising page.
8. #DRUGGED: Baby, the elephant who crushed a circus worker and broke free from her pen in Cork last month, has tested positive for drugs, according to the Irish Examiner. Another elephant, Belinda, also had opiates in her system. Circus bosses have said the results prove that the animals’ food was tampered with by an outside source.
9. #BIRTHDAYS: Ireland’s Taoiseach and Tánaiste share more than a bench in the Dáil – they also have the same birthday. Both Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore are celebrating their 61st and 57th birthdays today. Cake anyone?
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of course the Gardai will be cleared, sure weren’t the 2 ban gardai who were speeding in clonskeagh, dublin a few years ago, cleared of killing the 2 old ladies at the bus stop…. NO officials are held to account in this messed up country… What we need is some disgruntled postal worker to go nuts with a gun in the Dail and clear the place out
It may not be a postal worker, I have said this time and time again, someone will crack… Anther two years of cuts should do it…..
Circus is an antiquated form of entertainment and it’s time to say good bye… Well to the animals anyway.
Most Circuses don’t used Animals in fact in Ireland there are only two Big Tops that still use animals and most circus performers think it’s disgraceful.
Speaking as someone one does circus performance (also not on drugs)
Even the elephants are on drugs. Makes you look at the circus in a different light!! Also can anybody explain how that saying makes sense. ” you cannot have your cake and eat it” if you have cake , you can eat it.. Why not.
Of course the performers in the circus are on drugs Regina. What do you think the clowns are on ?!
What they mean by having your cake is to preserve you cake, as in keep it. Therefore you cannot have your cake and also eat it. It’s similar to the saying you can’t have it both ways.
That baby-cake video is disturbing on many levels
The elephants can’t speak for themselves. Jail the owners.
ya cant have your cake and eat it too
Enda can!
Of course the Gardai will be cleared. Did anyone expect any other outcome, The members of the force believe themselves to be above the LAW always have and always will. Every day for the past week there has been a story about the Gardai in the news for some wrong doing ie… driving without a licence, with no tax,with bald tyres… having illegal firearm, having sensitive information.. . the list goes on and on
News stories where the gardai are before the courts for offences. How is that not being held to account?
Poor bewildered baby. Stupid adults. Western opulence at it’s worst!
She is going to love this on her 21st
Poor child ..how stupid
Poor child! That’s terrible!!
It’s not nine yet.
What a pedantic numbnuts !
Will you tell my boss how efficient I was this morning?
nothing about the collapse of the dutch government?
@Erich, get a life you fool, it was meant in a light heart manner.
Nelly the elephant packed her junk and said goodbyecircusillmissyouallimustfollowthebigpinkbutterfly ( o o )
was the food tampered with or was it being used by someone to hide drugs ,, thus endangering the animals,,
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