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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
Job scams
1. In our main story this morning, Eimer McAuley reports that a leading advocacy group for migrant nurses working in Ireland has spoken out about “widespread” instances of recruitment agencies promising jobs that do not actually exist.
Migrant Nurses Ireland (MNI) is calling on nursing homes that hire nurses from abroad to ensure that they are working with legitimate agencies that are properly registered.
Louth
2. A rural community in Co Louth has said it will come together and stand by one another after three members of one family were found dead in a home yesterday.
The victims have been named locally as parents Louise Doherty O’Connor and Mark O’Connor, and their 27-year-old son Evan O’Connor.
Race for the Áras
3. Last night saw the first televised presidential debate take place between the three candidates – but if you were hoping for fireworks, sadly, they did not materialise.
Over the course of about an hour and twenty minutes, Independent Catherine Connolly, Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin and Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys discussed topics including neutrality, immigration, housing and Irish Unity. Jane Matthews has a rundown of how it went.
Housing
4. According to a new Daft report, the average price of a three-bed semi-detached house in Ireland in the third of quarter of this year was just over €421,000 – and in Dublin, it was €612,000.
Local authorities
5. Staying with housing, another report from the National Oversight and Audit Commission found that over 4,000 social houses sat empty last year, while it took local authorities an average of eight months to re-let homes.
Murder investigation
6. Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information on the murder of Dessie Fox, 47, who was fatally shot 35-years-ago today at Healy’s Bridge, Prosperous, Co Kildare on Sunday, 30 September 1990.
Passenger cap
7. Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien will seek approval today for legislation to remove the passenger cap at Dublin Airport, which is set at 32 million passengers per year.
Settlement
8. YouTube has agreed to pay $22 million to settle a lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump after the company suspended his account over the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
We D’Oh again
9. Disney’s 20th Century Studios have confirmed that The Simpsons are returning to the big screen after two decades.
