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A view of the Olympic Cauldron on day 7 of the Games. Picture: EMPICS Sport/EMPICS Sport.
THINGS WE LEARNED:
#EXPENSES: More than €83,000 has been paid out by the state this year in expenses to four former taoisigh – despite the expenses scheme being scrapped at the beginning of 2012. The largest claimant was Bertie Ahern, who has received more than €450,000 in expenses since stepping down from the post. The funds claimed covered the costs of such things as secretarial assistants, airport VIP services and mobile phone usage.
#RIP: A one-year-old infant has died after falling from a sixth-floor window at an apartment complex in Phibsboro, Dublin. The child was taken to Temple Street Children’s hospital after the incident, which occurred at approximately 4.20 at the the Cross Guns Bridge area, but was pronounced dead a short while later.
#BLACKLIST: Construction workers in Britain, including around five Irish electricians and engineers, are to sue Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd over allegations the company used a blacklist to refuse them work. The workers have claimed the firm used information about trade union activity, employment history and workers’ personal lives to refuse them employment.
#SYRIA: At least 20 people have been killed by mortars that rained down on crowded marketplace in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus. It is thought the attack on Yarmouk camp may be connected to a two-day long skirmish in the nearby Tadamon neighbourhood, which has been repeatedly shelled by government troops. Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly was due to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes on the people of Aleppo and Damascus, and to demand Assad’s government keep its chemical and biological weapons warehoused and under strict control.
#ALCOHOL: Fewer than half of drivers involved in a fatal car accident in the second half of last year underwent a breath test for alcohol, despite laws which make such tests mandatory, figures compiled by the Department of Justice have shown. There were 107 drivers involved in fatal road crashes in the second half of last year but only 45 of them underwent the test.
Great Britain’s Rebecca Gallantree in during the Women’s 3m Springboard Preliminary Round at the Aquatic Centre, London, on the seventh day of the London 2012 Olympics. Photo: Julien Behal/PA Wire/Press Association Images.
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