Your Friday morning news round-up

The family of Clodagh Cogley has thanked people for their support as she recovers from horrendous injuries; Chinese puzzled over plan to move 5.5m Hong Kong residents to Derry; The chairman of the Revenue Commission has revealed that it uses Google Maps to help establish the value of houses. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Fri, 03 Jul, 2015 - 01:00

TOP STORY - BALTIMORE TRAGEDY

Clodagh Cogley says thanks for support after Berkeley tragedy

The family of Clodagh Cogley, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony tragedy, has thanked people for their support as she recovers from horrendous injuries.

VIDEO: Baltimore Drownings - Search and recovery mission set to continue

The walk up the hill to the imposing Beacon landmark in Baltimore can be a challenging climb at the best of times.

IRELAND

Chinese puzzled over plan to move 5.5m Hong Kong residents to Derry

Even at the time, it must have seemed like a truly bizarre idea.

Revenue reveals it uses Google Maps to value houses for local property tax

The chairman of the Revenue Commission has revealed that it uses Google Maps to help establish the value of houses for the purposes of calculating the Local Property Tax (LPT).

MOST READ: First of the drowning victims is laid to rest

The first of the victims of Tuesday’s triple drowning will be laid to rest tomorrow with the funeral of Cork student Niamh O’Connor.

SPORT

John Caulfield: No Euro crisis yet

Cork City 1 KR ReykjavikKR 1: Reykjavik will be favourites to advance after Oskar Hauksson’s first-half away goal gave the Icelandic a share of the spoils in last night’s entertaining Europa League clash at Turner’s Cross last night.

MOST READ: VIDEO: Colm Cooper dropped as Kerry bench stars for clash with Cork

They may very well consider a red carpet for Kerry’s Munster football final dugout following Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s bold decision to leave decorated stars out of his line-up.

WORLD

Smell test could diagnose autism

Testing a child’s reaction to smells may provide an effective way of diagnosing autism at young ages, research has shown.

BP pays €17bn to US gulf states for 2010 oil disaster

BP and five Gulf states have announced an $18.7bn (€16.87bn) settlement that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant’s oil spill in 2010.

ANALYSIS

MICHAEL CLIFFORD: Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention...

He threw his hands up now and again in deference to wisdom after the event, writes Michael Clifford

LIFESTYLE

Laya Healthcare City Spectacular: Do you have what it takes to join the team?

Once known as the World Street Performance Championship, it’s now the Laya Healthcare City Spectacular. Enchanted by the show for years, Ellie O’Byrne wanted to know what road leads you to earning your living as a professional contortionist, unicyclist or iron bender.

EXAMVIRAL

This Longford businessman has the best suit EVER

One man in Longford has redefined fashion with just one tweet.

MOST READ: Berkeley survivor Clodagh Cogley ’making great progress’ as thousands raised

The family of Clodagh Cogley, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony collapse, have posted photos of her rehabilitation process online.

TECHNOW

MasterCard testing if selfies could replace passwords | http://t.co/oL6Kb6xKXe (RMC) pic.twitter.com/GteJk5BR0x
— Irish Examiner Lifestyle (@IELifestyle_) July 3, 2015

MasterCard testing if selfies could replace passwords

MasterCard is trialling new technology that would let customers take a selfie to buy online rather than entering a password.

BUSINESS

ECB move shakes markets

The ECB shook markets yesterday morning, adding three Italian corporates to the list of names eligible for purchase under its quantitative easing programme.

MOST READ: ‘Inadequate infrastructure hampering Cork business’

The success of Cork businesses is being undermined by a number of infrastructural deficits in the region that need to be urgently addressed, a leading business representative body has claimed.

SHOWBIZ

Amy Winehouse film director wants to show new side to the singer | http://t.co/lU9cFcXNPP (RMC) pic.twitter.com/QOLvoAw8Og
— Irish Examiner Arts & Culture (@IEArtsCulture) July 3, 2015

Amy Winehouse film director wants to show new side to the singer

Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia has said he hopes the documentary will make people think about the effect they may have had on the singer before her death.