Morning briefing: HSE orders review after 13 cancer cases found in recall. Catch up on all the headlines
IRELAND
The HSE has commissioned an external review of bowl screening measures in County Wexford. It is after thirteen cases of cancer were found - following a recall of over 600 patients in Wexford General Hospital.
Enda Kenny is facing a growing backlash over claims he has “no plan” to cope with the escalating Brexit crisis and has “sat on his hands” as the situation unfolded.
Gardaí are preparing a file for the DPP after a teenage boy, arrested in connection with the suspected drug-death of another teen in Cork, was released without charge.
David Hall, chief executive of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, has warned that home repossessions will begin in earnest this year, having a potentially catastrophic effect on the housing market.
Gardaí are trying to locate a gang which pursued and assaulted a man, before inflicting fatal injuries by driving a car over him.
A special compensation scheme for grain farmers has been rejected by the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed.
WORLD
Barack Obama has ended his last news conference as US president saying he thinks 'we're going to be okay'.
American politicians are rallying round on Twitter to send their support to former president George HW Bush who’s been admitted to an intensive care unit.
A truck loaded with sand has collided with a school bus, killing at least 24 young children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Gambia President Yahya Jammeh was clinging to power despite a midnight deadline set by the West African bloc for him to step down.
SPORT
Conor Murray has hit out at Glasgow’s “unsafe” and “very dangerous” targeting of his standing leg as he kicked from the base of rucks during Munster’s Champions Cup victory at Scotstoun last Saturday.
Robbie Keane is determined to play on for at least another 18 months and is considering options in England and further afield.
FAI chief executive John Delaney has given his backing to Fifa’s controversial expansion of the World Cup finals from 32 to 48 teams in 2026.
Cork’s Kieran Kingston had his bench to thank for a third consecutive Co-Op Superstores.ie Munster SHL win, with three of the players called down from the stand providing the crucial scores.
OPINION
It’s time to be afraid of super-strong, easily available drugs hat are suspected to have claimed another teenage life this year, writes Claire O’Sullivan.
IT’S ironic that People Before Profit are running a demonstration against new US president tomorrow because, just like Trump, PBP supports taking politics out of traditional democratic structures, says Victoria White.
BUSINESS
Sterling yesterday surrendered most of the ground it had gained after Theresa May outlined her hard Brexit vision for Britain on Tuesday, as investors looked to Irish property stocks as potential winners from the UK’s rupture with Brussels.
Most Irish businesses have now been victims of cyber attacks, with incidents increasing dramatically in the past three years, a survey has found.
LIFESTYLE
As 'Jackie' opens in cinemas, Ed Power looks at her love of and visits to Ireland.
SHOWBIZ
David Jason will look back at his prestigious television career in two new documentary specials, one of which will focus on his long-running sitcom Only Fools And Horses.
EXAMVIRAL
It might sound like something from Star Trek, but scientists have developed a tiny microscope that attaches to a mobile phone and can sequence DNA.
Bride-to-be Aisling McCarey, from Monaghan, decided to drive herself to the church in a shiny red Massey Ferguson while her groom, Mark Graham arrived, along with his groomsman, in a fleet of trucks!
VIDEO - OUR CHOICE
Almost as old as the state whose history he helped to write, John A Murphy’s work received permanent acknowledgement as University College Cork helped him mark his 90th birthday.
TECHNOW
: NetherRealm Studios, the legendary video game developer behind Mortal Kombat, has announced two special editions of its upcoming DC Comics superhero brawler Injustice 2 for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox 1.
: The upcoming Wonder Woman movie, one of the DC Extended Universes’ flagship films, could be a complete disaster if Schmoes Know host Sasha Perl-Raver to be believed.
: A team of researchers from Stanford University have developed something electronics giant Samsung will no doubt be interested in; a smartphone battery complete with a built-in ‘fire extinguisher’.
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Anti-fraud measures saved the State €510m last year, with the Department of Social Protection estimating as much as €110m was overpaid, of which €85m was recovered
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