LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: No money for wrongly convicted drivers; Girl, 11, among Stockholm victims

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

GET INFORMED ...

IRELAND: The Tánaiste and justice minister has admitted she has no money allocated in her budget this year to compensate thousands of people wrongly convicted in court.

IRELAND: Transport Minister Shane Ross has been criticised for being pictured draped in a feather boa with former Miss Ireland, Amanda Brunker, while talks to end weeks of crippling strikes at Bus Éireann were ongoing.

IRELAND: Plans to scrap the Good Friday alcohol ban will not end the block on sales in restaurants and other areas because of legal loopholes in the proposed legislation.

WORLD: A Swedish couple have told local media that their 11-year-old daughter was one of the four people killed when a truck rammed into a crowd in Stockholm.

WORLD: A man who stabbed his accountant wife to death a day after he discovered she was having an affair with a joiner has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years by a British court today.

BUSINESS: The room available for tax cuts and spending increases in future years appears limited despite the Government raising growth forecasts in its new economic outlook.

SPORT: Jonathan Sexton has warned that any attempt to run the Six Nations off over five consecutive weekends would result in a higher volume of injuries and favour England due to the reigning champions’ greater strength in depth

... SOME DISTRACTION

FEATURES: The season of communions and confirmations allows mums to take their place on fashion’s altar, so be a revelation with Irish design, says Paula Burns.

VIRAL: A remote Scottish island with a population of just 60 people has put an advert out for a new nurse.

SHOWBIZ: Ed Sheeran is out and about in County Galway filming the music video for the hit, Galway Girl.