EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.
- Fianna Fáil will be boosted by news tonight of a Red C poll in tomorrow’s Sunday Business Post which has shown it overtake Sinn Féin and Labour to become the second most popular party in the country.
- US presidential hopeful Herman Cain today suspended his run for the White House and said he would endorse someone else in the race to be the Republican nominee. It follows allegations of sexual harassment and an extra-marital affair by the one-time pizza magnate.
- Students occupying the office of a Fine Gael TD in Kildare remain defiant today as they head into a third day of occupation. Earlier they confronted Anthony Lawlor TD outside his own office. Watch what happened here.
- Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information about the hit-and-run incident in Dublin yesterday which left a 14-year-old boy seriously injured in hospital. The boy was struck by a car in Cabra yesterday evening.
- The Taoiseach will address the nation tomorrow night after the Nine O’Clock News but TV3 says it cannot interrupt its broadcast of The X Factor to carry the address and will instead broadcast it at 10.15pm. We’ve been asking if you will be watching it and so far most of you have said you will tune in after the news.
- A man has been arrested after a drug find of a quarter-of-a-million euro in Co Cork yesterday. Gardaí discovered 33 kilogrammes of cannabis resin and another two kilogrammes of cannabis herb.
- There have been over 50 convictions for witness and jury intimidation since 2006, figures have shown. The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter released the figures in response to a parliamentary question earlier this week.
- For some Saturday evening inspiration, here’s recently deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs’s vision of the world (via gocarlo):
- Emigrants will miss out on the chance to watch RTÉ’s live coverage of Euro 2012 next summer. The broadcaster has said it is looking at ways to make the expert analysis of Giles, Dunphy and co available to the Irish abroad.
- A British soldier was dismissed from the army after he stabbed an Afghan child, it has emerged. The Guardian reports that Daniel Crook had been drinking heavily the night before the incident.
- Women in Saudi Arabia will have options for pre-marital sex if they are allowed to drive according to a report which has allegedly been sent to the all-male Shura Council in the Kingdom which advises the monarchy there on laws which include male-only driving in the country.
- Want to see the worst first kiss ever? Check out these clips from the ‘Virgin Diaries’ due to air in the US tonight. Based on the trailers so far it looks like compulsive viewing.
- Details of Apple’s employee policy have emerged and while it is not entirely unusual, the details offer an insight into just how protective and secretive the company is about its brand.
- How did an ID tag for a Lobster pot washed away in a huge storm 20 years ago end up three thousand miles away on a beach in Co Kerry. Here’s your answer…
- In light of a number of recent high-profile stories about suicide, two of our columns today deal with the effects of depression and why suicide isn’t just all about depression.
- Also today, the football world paid tribute to Gary Speed, the former Wales manager, who committed suicide nearly a week ago.
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