EVERY WEEKDAY evening,TheJournal.ie brings you the five things you should know at 5pm.
1. #HACKING: The burgeoning News of the World phone hacking scandal gathered force today, with major advertisers – including Bulmers, Aldi, Ford, Mitsubishi, Coca-Cola and Renault - pulling ads from the newspaper. Allegations have surfaced that the newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, had accessed the voicemail messages of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002, the parents of murdered children Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the victims of the London terrorist attacks. Suggestions that police officers have been paid for information by the paper are also to be investigated.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged a public inquiry – but how are News International and Rebekah Brooks responding so far to the allegations?
2. #CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: The Health Minister James Reilly has confirmed that the Mater Hospital will be the location for the National Children’s Hospital, after an independent review group named it as the ideal location for the facility. Planning permission will be now sought for the Mater site, however the government will not decide if it will be built until September.
3. #BUSINESS: More than 1,000 Irish companies were declared insolvent and went out of business in the first six months of the year, according to new figures compiled by Vision-net.ie. Over two-thirds of that number accounted for Creditor’s Voluntary Insolvencies.
4. #AFRICA: An estimated 12 million people have been affected this year by the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in six decades, as water and food shortages plunge the region into crisis. Aid agencies have appealed for urgent help, with the UN saying that many children are dying on route to refugee camps to receive emergency care and feeding.
5. #IT COULD BE YOU: Friday’s Euromillion jackpot has now reached the €185 million mark, as there were no winners of last night’s draw, when €176m was up for grabs.
TheJournal.ie‘s Gavan Reilly has been crunching numbers today and has determined that the odds are of winning are 116,531,800-to-1. In other words you would have to spend over €233m buying enough tickets to guarantee victory… Whip around, anyone?
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