Before Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Taoiseach Enda Kenny implement the dictates of the IMF and troika, to hit every senior, child, student, chronically ill patient, unemployed, and least paid employee with €440m in cuts, let them first adjust the massive tax avoidance scheme maintained for Apple and other corporations, for which the US Senate called Ireland a tax haven.

A fight broke out in the stands of a girls' high-school basketball game, forcing police to fire Taser stun guns to stop it and clear the gym.