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ELECTION 2016
The embattled Labour leader has come out fighting after criticism of her performance in this week’s TV election debate. Joan Burton says she has no intention of “standing back” and “doing a little bit of Downton Abbey and the tea cups”.
Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has urged people to continue to boycott water charges and make it a key election issue by attending a mass rally in Dublin this weekend.
The Social Democrats will not appoint Stephen Donnelly as its leader, despite his strong performance during the leader’s TV debate on Monday night.
A senior Fianna Fáil TD has refused to rule out his party supporting a minority Fine Gael-Labour government, saying “we will discuss all options” after the imminent election.
Enda Kenny was forced to admit that his message of “keep the recovery going” has not been understood by people. He says the weakness in his message is that the recovery has not translated into people’s lives.
Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Wednesday.
IRELAND
A recall of around 600 patients who had undergone bowel screening at Wexford General Hospital found that 12 cancers had been missed including one death which may well have been avoidable.
Tens of thousands of commuters in Dublin are being forced onto alternative transport in the second strike on the Luas network.
The European Commission is stepping in to break the deadlock threatening the launch of the first transatlantic flights from Cork.
Sixteen people remain in Garda custody this morning as part of Operation Thor. Gardaí, together with the Department of Agriculture, also seized 30 horses.
Eventbrite has pledged to create around 15 new jobs in Cork.
WORLD
Their bodies were dumped in alleys and rubbish bins in South Los Angeles, some naked, some covered with mattresses and trash. Most had been shot in the chest after sexual contact, others strangled. Lonnie Franklin Jnr has pleaded not guilty to killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl, between 1985 and 2007.
Bill Cosby has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a woman whose 2005 sexual assault accusation led to his recent arrest.
SPORT
The Cork Camogie Board and Camogie Association are at war over the latter’s refusal to regrade nine All-Ireland senior-medal winners to intermediate for the year ahead, throwing into doubt the county’s participation in the Division 2 league and All-Ireland intermediate championship.
This week’s news that Connacht star Robbie Henshaw has decided to leave his native province and link up with Leinster has come as another source of disappointment for Munster fans disenchanted with their team’s poor form and a perception that not a whole lot is being done about it.
BUSINESS
Irish airlines remained tight-lipped yesterday after a decision by the EU’s top court threw up a potential multimillion euro compensation claim threat.
New research has again found wide-scale dissatisfaction with the Government’s support of small businesses as political parties continue to argue the merits of their business policies ahead of the upcoming election.
VIEWPOINTS
As a merger between CIT and IT Tralee looms, the Government has attached conditions that poison the whole development and will impact on teaching, writes Tom O’Connor.
LIFESTYLE
Stop judging and attacking girls for sending sexts. Instead teach boys that sharing those images is a gross betrayal of trust, immature and a form of sexual assault says Gráinne McGuinness
VIDEO
Irish students give their views on Irish politics, the political system and what they think are the important issues in #GE16
VIRAL
An 85-year-old grandmother from Pennsylvania has made headlines – for having a great time playing in the snow on her birthday.
Hilary Clinton has revealed the US elections will make her life “miserable again”. Oh, and that she was once slapped by a French police officer.
TECHNOW
: In Consortium The Tower you play as an agent called Bishop Six who is dropped into a living, breathing world- and how you survive is up to you.
So remember when Vin Diesel's Xander Cage died in a short film setting up the sequel with Ice Cube? Yea let's forget all about that, because he's back baby.
We're less than a week from Huawei's announcement of its upcoming devices, but it looks like the Huawei P9 will be on the agenda.
SHOWBIZ
Angelina Jolie is as famous for being a mother-of-six as she is an actress, bombshell and wife of Brad Pitt. However, she has admitted she never had the desire to have a baby.
MOST READ RIGHT NOW
Actor Michael Crawford will reprise his famous role as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em in a one-off special for Sport Relief.
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