Your Tuesday morning news round-up

Greece plunges further into deep crisis today as the country looks set to default on its €1.6bn repayment to the IMF; Fifteen injecting drug users in Dublin have recently been infected with HIV; FAI debt hits €51.2m. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Tue, 30 Jun, 2015 - 01:00

TOP STORY - DEFAULT DAY IN GREECE

Greece default deepens euro crisis

Greece plunges further into deep crisis today as the country looks set to default on its €1.6bn repayment to the IMF, putting its membership of the euro in doubt.

Greece was urged to stay in eurozone

Alexander Saeedy and John O’Donnell report on the 10-point European Commission plan that has been published ‘in the interest of transparency and for the information of the Greek people’.

Long queues form at Greek banks and shops

Stunned Greeks faced shuttered banks, long supermarkets lines, and overwhelming uncertainty as a breakdown in talks between Athens and its international creditors plunged the country deep into crisis.

IRELAND

Limerick Shooting: From coal to drugs, Keane’s business empires

For decades Christy Keane’s family ran a sizeable coal delivery business from their base in St Mary’s Park, better known as the Island Field. He soon discovered his delivery business was an ideal cover to get into drugs.

Fifteen drug users infected with HIV

Fifteen injecting drug users in Dublin have recently been infected with HIV, with another case considered probable, the HSE has confirmed.

MOST READ: Pudding firm hires 5 ahead of relocation

An Irish-owned food business has hired five staff ahead of its move to a huge new factory which will help it target massive export growth.

SPORT

Crippling FAI debt hits €51.2m

The importance of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane rescuing Ireland’s Euro qualification ambitions in the autumn has again been highlighted by the latest set of published FAI accounts.

MOST READ: JOHN FOGARTY: Managing Cork and fickle fans can make you cynical creature

An old religion teacher of ours sure knew how to make an introduction.

WORLD

Long queues form at Greek banks and shops

Israel to release Palestinian hunger striker

A Palestinian held without charges by Israel for the past year is ending a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released in two weeks, his wife and an advocacy group for prisoners said.

ANALYSIS

FERGUS FINLAY: Greece needs democratic leaders to help, not a bureaucratic bashing

The ordinary people of Greece face the prospect of deep and sustained hardship, of a kind that is unprecedented in a European context, writes Fergus Finlay

LIFESTYLE

Wake up to e-mail etiquette

Email is the default communication method in offices. Yet, many people unwittingly alienate colleagues and clients by being impatient, rash and presumptuous in their mails, writes Ailín Quinlan.

EXAMVIRAL

VIDEO: Craic-having Irish J1 students bamboozle American commentators at first baseball game

Eight years and 10 models later, it’s difficult to remember a time the iPhone wasn’t making pockets and handbags vibrate across the globe.

MOST READ: Why is time about to stand still for a 'leap second'?

You probably won’t notice, but time is set to stand still this week, postponing Wednesday by one second.

TECHNOW

Huawei's Honor 7 could have two different designs

The upcoming Honor 7 from Huawei will be available in two variants. Huawei has done this before, but the most notable thing is that the design of the two variants could differ.

BUSINESS

Markets calm, but concern now switches to referendum

The shutting of bank doors in a eurozone country yesterday may not have riled markets, but there is no doubt that Europe’s big powers and Greece’s official creditors — the IMF and the European Central Bank — are still taking serious risks.

MOST READ: Disney settles lawsuit over ‘Frozen’ trailer

A copyright suit between Walt Disney and a California resident has been settled, according to a June 24 court filing.

SHOWBIZ

Katy Perry locked in real estate battle with nuns

The 'Roar' hitmaker is reportedly keen to snap up a hilltop property in Los Angeles for over $14 million after securing a deal with Archbishop Jose Gomez.