EACH DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you should know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #MURDER: Gardaí have launched a murder inquiry into the deaths of Carlow brothers Eoghan Chada, 10, and Ruairí Chada, 5. Investigating officers are awaiting medical permission to speak to the children’s father Sanjeev Chada. The boy’s bodies are expected to be handed over to their family in the next 48 hours, RTÉ reports.
2. #CUTS: Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has criticised the troika’s insistence on Ireland imposing a €3.1 billion adjustment in October’s budget, describing the target as “arbitrary”, according to the Irish Times.
3. #FINE GAEL: Minister Richard Bruton has defended his colleague John Perry in a video interview with TheJournal.ie over recent allegations of unethical behaviour regarding unpaid business loans, describing Perry’s conduct in his government department as “exemplary” and saying he would not be asking him to resign.
4. #RECRUITMENT: A Dublin recruitment firm is to hold a recruitment roadshow in Australia in a bid to attract Irish workers to fill vacancies in Ireland. Robert Walters Ireland said many Irish professionals gain specific skills while on a one-year working visa in Australia that correspond with the permanent positions they are seeking to fill.
5. #AER LINGUS: Aer Lingus has reported operating profits of €29.1 million for the second quarter of this year, a drop of 8.2 per cent on the same period of 2012. However, revenues were noted to rise by 6.2 per cent to €398.2 million during the same period.
6. #OIL: A Government-commissioned report has stated that Ireland doesn’t need to have its own oil refinery as it can import enough to meet its needs – but that having an in-country operation is nevertheless “highly desirable”. The publication of the report comes in the wake of the owner of the country’s only oil refinery, Whitegate in Cork Harbour, announcing plans to sell the plant, which employs 180 people.
7. #MANNING: US Army Private Bradley Manning will be sentenced today after being convicted on 20 charges yesterday, including theft and computer fraud. Manning was found not guilty of the most serious charge – ‘aiding the enemy’ – but still faces a maximum of 136 years in prison.
8. #ZIMBABWE: Voters in Zimbabwe will cast their votes today in a presidential poll which will see 33-year incumbent Robert Mugabe up against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangira. Although Mugabe has vowed to step down if the vote goes against him, there has already been allegations of rigging, reports the BBC.
9. #FORGOTTEN: US student Daniel Chong, who was “forgotten” in a windowless jail cell for more than four days and had to drink his own urine to stay alive, has been awarded a $4.1m settlement by the US government.
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