Savage The Daily Fix: Monday no way!
EVERY EVENING,TheJournal. iebrings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…
- A senior economist at one of the world’s biggest banks saysIreland should negotiate a standby second bailout, in case it cannot return to the open bond markets when the first deal runs out. Willem Buiter of Citigroup also thinks the EU should let Ireland cut the interest rate on its promissory notes
- Gardaí in Waterford are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an 83-year-old woman at a Co Waterford nursing home earlier todayA 46-year-old man has been arrestedand is being questioned at Waterford Garda Station
- Priests in the Catholic diocese of Cashel and Emly have been asked tocontribute between €50 and €60 per monthto a diocesan fund which pays for the costs of child protection there
- More not-so-good news: thecost of getting an NCTfor your car is to rise by 10 per cent next month
- A teachers’ union has played down reports that the Revenue Commissioners have launched aprobe into teachers’ income for giving grinds
- Labour TD Michael McCarthy says university overspending has reached a ‘worrying’ level – after it emerged thatcolleges spent over €377,000 on taxisduring 2011
- Trim in Co Meath is Ireland’s cleanest town, according to a new nationwide survey, while areas of Cork and Dublin are among the country’s dirtiest
- A Polish military prosecutor hasshot himself during a break in a press conferenceSomehow, Mikolaj Przybyl survived his injuries. at which he denied army collusion in covering up the death of the former president Lech Kaczynski
- 99 per month. Netflix has launched in Ireland, offering unlimited viewing of its online film and TV database for €6. We’ve been having a look at howit compares with alternative offerings
- Police in the UK havesneaked a ‘fake bomb’ into London’s Olympic ParkThe news overshadowed a meeting of David Cameron’s cabinet at the park today. , just 200 days before the games get underway
Water, water everywhere… and plenty a drop to drink, but not at the prices we’re used to. Junior health minister Roisin Shortall says thegovernment is looking at a minimum price for alcohol (Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
- Irish consumer sentimenttook its biggest battering in over ten years in December, new data says
- That’s because. Have you ever been paid to borrow moneyyou’re not the German government
- A study has found that a simple non-invasive blood testcould be used to identify the sex of a foetus in the early stages of pregnancy
- Police searching for missing Tipperary man Christopher Cronin haverecovered a body from te River Suirin Clonmel today
- 16 people have been killedin two car bombs in Baghdad this evening
- A Russian toddler has been found dead today, a day afterfalling into an ‘urban sinkhole’which opened up beneath him yesterday
- Do you live in the north-east of the country. You might want toget hunting for a meteorite– because Astronomy Ireland thinks a meteor which fell to the Irish Sea last week left some rare souvenirs to pick up
- Antony Worrall Thompson has apologisedafter reportedly trying to take wine and cheese from Tesco without paying
- Sure, we’ve had our ‘Deputy Stagg’ moments, but business in Leinster Housedoesn’t usually get as heated as this
- Has Limerick been wiped off the face of Earth? Eh, no.
- ” If that’s bringing back bad memories for you, you’re not the only one – RTÉ’s new talent contest. Of Ireland. Of Ireland. Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, this is the voice. “This is the voiceThe Voice of Ireland picked up over 700,000 viewerslast night, despite its naff theme song
- Soccer fans will be in no way surprised to learn thatLionel Messi has won the FIFA Ballon d’Oraward for the third year running
- Have you ever lent your vocal talents to a recorded song. How old were you when you did. Bet you weren’t as young as Blue Ivy Carter – who hascontributed vocals to daddy Jay-Z’s new tune, at just twodaysold
- Finally this evening – we know this isn’t a sports round-up but this goal is worth sharing. It’s been officially named the best goal of 2011 by FIFA – it’s BrazilianwunderkindNeymar at his oddly-coiffured best, for Santos versus Flamengo
