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Pete Matthews with his penny farthing on Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge for the launch of the Temple Bar Tradfest today
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Sunday
In tonight’s Fix: State assets, assassinations, apologies, and a glamour model turns to economics…
EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…
- The Troika are now losing faith in their own bailout programme for Ireland – suggesting that initial predictions were optimistic and we may now miss our targets, according to independent TD Shane Ross.
- A third body has been recovered from the water near the Tit Bonhomme trawler, which sank in Cork’s Glandore Bay a week ago today.
- The Government has yet to make a decision on whether to sell off the ESB – but still wants to raise €2billion from State assets, Minister Joan Burton has said.
- The owner of a Jewish newspaper in the US has been forced to apologise after outlining an idea for a Mossad hit on “unfriendly to Israel” president Barack Obama.
- Gerry Adams has said he won’t quit as Sinn Féin leader – while Martin McGuinness has said he might meet the Queen.
- Why are Tibetan monks setting themselves on fire? Allow us to explain.
- Interested in former glamour model Katie Price’s thoughts on the economy?
- Police in Italy have released an eerie video of underwater scenes inside the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship, on the day divers recovered another body from the wreck.
- Bad news for the groundbreaking triple limb transplant – doctors have had to remove the leg they attached only yesterday.
- “I mean I was accused in the past of shouting wolf and what I managed to do is knock a few teeth out of that wolf’s mouth but he’s still going to bite and it’s going to be sore.” Yes, Minister – it’s the Week In Quotes.
- Ireland doesn’t need a revolution – because we can do better. Derry Nairn lays out some fresh ideas for containing the Government in this evening’s column.
- Several TDs have raised concerns over the dismissal of a whistleblower who drew attention to the plight of patients at a Dublin mental hospital.
- Salvaging shipwrecks, life in derelict cities, and what exactly happens to stolen bikes? It’s all in our selection of the week’s best reads.
- And finally: If there is a better way to handle mobile phone interruptions, we don’t know it (starts around 0.33):
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