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The Daily Fix: Saturday

In today’s fix: Police say there are unexploded bombs in Oslo as the search for bodies continues on Utoya… and RIP Amy Winehouse.

EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the main news stories of the day as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.

  • The death toll in Norway rose to 92 today as more details emerged of the horror of the shooting spree on Utoya island, which police said went on for as long as 90 minutes. That death toll could still rise. Eighty-five people are now known to have died on the island, where a Labour Youth summer camp was being held. Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said that his “childhood paradise island” had been “transformed into Hell”.
  • Meanwhile Police began questioning 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik today. The Norwegian national who expressed right-wing views on the Internet was said to have surrendered immediately when police confronted him on the island yesterday. Police also say they have seized the car they believe he drove from Oslo to Utoya.
  • And in Oslo police said that the buildings surrounding yesterday’s blast site were still too dangerous to enter. They also said that they believe there are more unexploded bombs in the area.

Other news…

  • Amy Winehouse, the 27-year-old singer has been found dead at her London flat. Winehouse, who has publicly struggled with drug and alcohol problems, had recently cancelled a number of dates on her European tour. Take a look back at her music and her life.
  • The death toll from a high speed train collision in China has now risen to 32. Reuters reports that the crash happened on a bridge in the eastern Zhejiang province after one train lost power and another crashed into it from behind.
  • The Irish Medicines Board has said that it’s investigating any link between 13 possible cases of narcolepsy and the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix after the European Medicines Agency released details of a review which recommended that that drug should not be given to young people under the age of 20 except in exceptional circumstances.
  • Two Mayo publicans, who escaped punishment for serving out-of-hours, may have exposed a gaping hole in the legal system after it emerged that the appropriate laws weren’t translated into Irish. It’s now emerged that dozens of laws passed by the Oireachtas in recent years have have not been translated either, including the law which made legal every budget from 2000 to 2004, and the Equality Act 2004.
  • The Sunday Tribune and the Daily Mail have settled their legal action, which arose after the Mail allegedly produced an edition of its paper with a wraparound cover which was a mock version of the Tribune. The edition was published the first weekend after the Tribune ceased publication.
  • Fancy yourself as Harvard material? Could you pass the 1896 entrance exam?
  • And finally…

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    Mute Dan The Man
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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:27 PM

    Having an issue whatsoever with FFG will be outlawed eventually. When they are finished with the high fives and congratulating one another on being incredible, what are they doing to help the 4000 homeless children in the country? Probably just ban non government media on reporting on it.

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    Mute Lewis Armstrong
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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:11 PM

    The opposition voices are serial objectors to housing developments; champagne socialists. If they are upset then this indicates the bill aims to make it much easier to bypass the cranks in order to get housing built. I support the guillotine consequently.

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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:29 PM

    @Lewis Armstrong: As far as I can see, those opposition you refer to object to developments that would hand our housing over to vampire funds.

    I presume therefore you are in favour of such government policy.

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    Mute Dan The Man
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    Jun 11th 2024, 7:40 PM

    @Lewis Armstrong: what protections will be included to stop the government purposely delaying all debates and discussions to begin with so they can just guillotine anything they want.

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    Mute Paddy Short
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    Jun 11th 2024, 9:18 PM

    “There is a housing emergency and crisis,” said Harris. ” – the cheek of a FFG to utter that sentence!

    Is it the same bill that has had over 1,100 amendments made to it and half of those are by the Housing Minister himself.

    Is it the same bill that says an Bord Pleanala have to pay fines if they don’t complete a planning application in a set number of weeks.

    Harris says it had a 120 hours of debate and therefore meets the threshold and can be guillotined but it sounds like the 1,100 changes would have taken much of that time, maybe that was the plan all along when they obviously published shoddy policy.

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    Mute John Moore
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    Jun 12th 2024, 12:08 AM

    @Lewis Armstrong: True. SFs double speak in particular crying out for more housing while blocking developments all over the place was part of what turned me off voting for them. They points score at every opportunity rather than focussing on the task at hand. It’s irritating.

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    Mute Colette Byrne
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    Jun 12th 2024, 9:49 AM

    @Lewis Armstrong: No serious objectors, we have laws in place for a reason to keep governments in check.
    Neo liberal agendas favour the rich. Opposition is there to object to bad planning. I drive a lot and see plenty of new build, mostly apartments, lying empty for months.build to rent. Is that what we want in Ireland, faceless builders, reaping profits, money going out of the country to global entities.
    Or homes, people can be proud of, not ending up ghost estates, where crime is rampant.
    Thought we had moved on from those days.

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    Jun 12th 2024, 10:10 AM

    As a person who was involved in building thousands of homes , with in a few weeks after Nonnan and fg created the legislation to allow individuals to buy all houses and pay no social tax ,everything changing, and yet more then half the people that just voted, think that’s OK,

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