Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning coffee.
1. #BLOODBATH BUDGET: Assume the emergency position, please. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is set to unveil the level of budget cuts to be announced in December tomorrow.
2. #PROTESTS: The USI expects up to 20,000 students to take to the streets in Dublin in protest at the planned hike in registration fees today.
3. #EXPOSED: Aer Lingus is expected to make a complaint to gardaí after Cork’s 96FM radio presenter Neil Prendeville allegedly exposed himself and engaged in a solo sex act on a plane full of people, the Examiner reports. Since the incident, the presenter left a voicemail on the phone of the woman who was seated beside him, apologising for his behaviour and saying he had no memory of what happened. Prendeville is the most listened-to local radio presenter in the country.
4. #MISDIAGNOSIS: A Galway woman has settled her High Court action against the Health Service Executive over an alleged litany of failures over many years at University College Hospital Galway, in which multiple mammograms failed to diagnose her breast cancer.
5. #LEANA MARTIN: “When she smiled the room lit up…[it was] a smile that mended every heart” – Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin made a moving and emotional tribute to his seven year old daughter Léana, whom he called his “little princess” at her funeral yesterday.
6. #INTRUDER: RTE presenter John Creedon had to interrupt a confrontation with an intruder into his Cork studio while he was live on air in order to change a record, according to the Irish Daily Star. The cool-headed Creedon was presenting his night radio show on Monday night when he realised he had an unwelcome visitor in the control room next door. “When he squared up to me I said, ‘Listen you’re okay…Give me two minutes and I’ll sort it out for you’”, before nipping next door to change the track from Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick to Reasons To Be Cheerful. The man was later questioned by gardaí.
7. #TEA PARTY TIDAL WAVE: Obama’s administration is in turmoil after the Republican party made sweeping gains in the mid-term elections yesterday.
8. #RECESSIONOMICS: Tesco makes greater profits in Ireland than in any other part of its global empire apart from South Korea, according to a new report.
9. #FRANCE: A doctor in Paris caught an 18 month old baby who had fallen six floors and bounced off the awning of a café underneath. The man told how his son spotted the little boy outside the balcony railings and he waited on the pavement below to catch him. “I said to myself I mustn’t miss him,” local doctor Philippe Bensignor, told AFP. “I had time to move from side to side to get in the right position.”
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