Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery breaks Netflix records
Netflix has revealed that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler's new film Murder Mystery had a record-breaking opening weekend. Netflix has revealed that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler's new film Murder Mystery had a record-breaking opening weekend. 🚨ADAM SANDLER AND JENNIFER ANISTON BREAKING NEWS ALERT🚨30,869,863 accounts watched Murder Mystery in its first 3 days - the biggest opening weekend ever for a Netflix Film. — Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) June 18, 2019It is the biggest opening weekend ever for a Netflix film, according to Netflix. It was, at that time, the best first seven days ever for a Netflix film.
Source:Irish Independent
June 19, 2019 07:07 UTC
Losses increase at Dublin-listed Ormonde Mining
Dublin-listed Ormonde Mining has reported a loss after tax of €1.65m for 2018, an increase on the loss of €101,000 reported the prior year. Dublin-listed Ormonde Mining has reported a loss after tax of €1.65m for 2018, an increase on the loss of €101,000 reported the prior year. Almost half of this loss was attributed to completing a metal mine, the Barruecopardo Tungsten project, in western Spain. The Dublin-listed group also wrote off an impairment of €600,000 related to its La Zarza project. Meanwhile losses at Petrel Resources reduced to €239,000 in 2018, from a loss €4,392,000 in 2017.
Source:Irish Independent
June 19, 2019 06:56 UTC
21 people injured as powerful quake hits north-west Japan
A powerful earthquake has jolted north-western Japan, causing minor injuries to 21 people and a brief evacuation of coastal areas before the risk of a tsunami passed. A powerful earthquake has jolted north-western Japan, causing minor injuries to 21 people and a brief evacuation of coastal areas before the risk of a tsunami passed. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 21 people were injured, most of them in Yamagata prefecture. Two other nuclear power plants in the affected region were also intact, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority. On March 11 2011, a magnitude 9.0 quake offshore caused a tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Source:Irish Independent
June 19, 2019 06:56 UTC
Public calling for radical change to direct provision system
Up to 140 people and organisations are calling for radical changes to Ireland's direct-provision system. They have written to the Oireachtas justice committee, which is looking into care of asylum-seekers. Last Friday, the committee visited accommodation centres in Mosney and Monaghan, as part of a review of the system. The Cavan-Monaghan TD says the public have hit out at the system in their written submissions to the committee. He said: "There is an undoubted level of concern as to the suitability of the direct provision system as it is currently structured.
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 06:33 UTC
Grieving wife describes husband's final moments before dying at euthanasia clinic
Troy was suffering from multiple system atrophy, an incurable and untreatable disease. And as the fatal drugs flooded into his body he was able to hear his wife for roughly two more minutes before he died. Those applying must be determined by multiple doctors to be suffering intolerable pain and be of sound mind. (Image: Mornington Fire Brigade/ Facebook)Christine says there had been been no second guessing Troy's decision to die. Troy, a veteran firefighter, opted to die quickly, by lethal injection, rather than slowly from multiple system atrophy.
Source:Daily Mirror
June 19, 2019 06:31 UTC
Trauma service for adopted children expanded
A service that helps adopted children who suffered trauma is being expanded. Barnardos' post-adoption service supports more than 150 adopted children every year. From now on, all adopted children will have access to the service. She said: "Tusla has funded us to expand that service so that it will provide a service to children adopted from the Irish foster care system. "In providing that service we will be building all the knowledge we have gained about how you support parents and adopted children who may have experienced trauma in their early childhood."
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 06:22 UTC
CervicalCheck group welcomes Cabinet decision approving tribunal
A support group for victims of the CervicalCheck scandal is welcoming the decision by Cabinet to approve a bill allowing a tribunal to be set up for affected women. The CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill will go before the Dáil next week and if passed, it would mean the women won't have to go to court to have their cases heard. It was also announced that a 20,000 euro ex-gratia payment is being made available for all women affected by the non-disclosure of the CervicalCheck audit. He said: "With the details for this tribunal we haven't seen yet but the first step in the whole process is getting this legislation passed before we can get to what this tribunal means for us. "The commitment from the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to get this legislation passed before summer recess is an important step and we welcome it."
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 06:11 UTC
Fianna Fáil urge Government to make maternity services as safe as possible
The Dáil will today hear calls for the country's 'maternity crisis' to be urgently addressed. Fianna Fáil will urge the Government to make maternity services as safe as possible. He said: "A lot fo the maternity hospitals simply aren't fit for purpose; they were built a long time ago, they need to be updated and changed. "Women have very little choice - there was meant to be choice of having a birth outside of hospitals - that hasn't happened. He continued: "We have a chronic shortage of medical professionals, for example, we have the third lowest level of obstetricians in Europe, and we are several hundred midwives short what is deemed to be a safe level."
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 06:00 UTC
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda announces next Broadway project
Hamilton and In The Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced his next Broadway project. Hamilton and In The Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced his next Broadway project. Freestyle Love Supreme, an improvisational hip-hop group, will begin a four-month run in September, the acclaimed composer, actor and playwright said. The group was formed by Miranda in 2004 while he was working on his first hit Broadway musical, In The Heights. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced his next Broadway project (So TV/PA)Hamilton premiered in 2015 and uses a combination of singing and rapping to tell the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
Source:Irish Independent
June 19, 2019 06:00 UTC
Trust in vaccines weaker in wealthier countries, survey shows
“Over the last century, vaccines have made many devastating infectious diseases a distant memory,” said Charlie Weller, head of vaccines at the Wellcome Trust health charity, which co-led the Wellcome Global Monitor study. Only 72 per cent of people in North America and 73 pre cent in Northern Europe agree that vaccines are safe. Heidi Larson, director of the vaccine confidence project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, worked with researchers on this study. She said it “exposes the paradox of Europe” which, despite being a region with among the highest income and education levels, also has the world’s highest levels of vaccine scepticism. In poorer regions, trust levels tend to be much higher, with 95 per cent in South Asia and 92 per cent in Eastern Africa feeling confident that vaccines are safe and effective.
Source:The Irish Times
June 19, 2019 06:00 UTC
Rape cases increased by almost 80% since 2014
The number of rape court-cases in Ireland has increased by nearly 80% in recent years. In 2014, the DPP directed 65 cases for prosecution in the Central Criminal Court, where all rape claims are dealt with. But this rose rapidly in subsequent years, to 116 by 2017. Noeline Blackwell, the chief executive of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, is n0t surprised by the new statistics. She said: "This would be consistent with what we see in the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and what we hear on the national helpline.
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 05:48 UTC
Two charged following €230k drug seizure in Dublin
Two women have been charged after the seizure of €320,000 worth of drugs in North Dublin. Several Garda units carried out raids in Finglas yesterday. Heroin and cocaine was seized, along with clothes, cash, Rolex watches, a BMW and bullets. Two women in their early 40s were charged and have since been released on bail. A man in his late 40s was also arrested over drug-trafficking, but he's been released without charge, with a file to be sent to the DPP.
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 05:37 UTC
Gaps in information hampers dealing with child safety claims
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland has warned against complacency when it comes to child safety following a slight increase in the number of allegations notified to it. Of the 143 allegations notified, 82 (57%) related to diocesan clergy, and 61 (43%) related to members of religious congregations, including three from female congregations. Of the 143 notifications, 88 were of the sexual abuse of a child, equating to 59% of all notifications. However, in the report the national board said there were sometimes issues over incomplete information leading to gaps in the data being reported, in addition to some difficulties created by the implementation of the Data Protection Acts 2018. “The National Board considers this to be a worrying situation and a strong reminder to everyone of the need for vigilance and strict adherence to the child safeguarding standards.
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 04:07 UTC
Mickey Graham credits ‘lifestyle coaching’ for Cavan renewal
Cavan manager Mickey Graham has credited former goalkeeper and mental health advocate Alan O’Mara with playing a key role in the county’s resurgence this summer. “He’s gone through a lot in his own personal life and he’s been a great addition to our backroom team. Graham isn’t so caught up with trying to plot Donegal’s downfall in Sunday’s Ulster final that he can’t reflect on how much the game has changed in the intervening two decades. I’m sure these lads have dreamed of the day they’d play in an Ulster final, or wondered would they ever play in an Ulster final. A different story for his players, though, meaning O’Mara, Graham, and Co have their work cut out this week.
Source:Irish Examiner
June 19, 2019 03:56 UTC
Kathy Sheridan: How Ireland and the Garda closed ranks on Majella Moynihan
Yet, in a country in deep recession, haemorrhaging the baby boomers of the 1960s to emigration, she won a place in the Garda Síochána. The year her son David was born, an inquiry had been set up in Kerry to investigate how gardaí had extracted false confessions of infanticide from Joanne Hayes. There’s only a few hundred ban garda and by and large they are an extremely highly moral group of ladies and I see the Garda Síochána as people who should be giving a lead”. The “missing” Garda file is just another offensive, brazen legacy of all the years of closing ranks. If Hayes “was the anvil on which the new Ireland was hammered out”, as Nell McCafferty put it, the lives of Moynihan and her son David were sacrificed on the same crucible.
Source:The Irish Times
June 19, 2019 03:56 UTC