Bomb part of ‘sectarian campaign’; Memory project ‘to help elderly’; Poots to give pseudomonas update; RTE’s head of news Ed Mulhall quits; RTÉ: Full statement on “two very serious editorial failures”; Flu killed care home residents
Bomb part of ‘sectarian campaign’
BBC – An Ulster Unionist councillor says a bomb left outside his home could be part of a campaign to intimidate Protestants in County Fermanagh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17602073
Memory project ‘to help elderly’
BBC – A project aimed at helping older people in care has been awarded a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17596635
Poots to give pseudomonas update
BBC – Health Minister Edwin Poots is to update the Stormont health committee on how the review of the pseudomonas outbreak is progressing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17602604
RTE’s head of news Ed Mulhall quits
Belfast Telegraph – RTE’s head of news Ed Mulhall has quit and the award-winning Prime Time Investigates taken off air for good over its defamatory Mission to Prey programme. The editorial chief left the State broadcaster last month under a retirement scheme and before a watchdog’s inquiry was complete or any findings made public. The second major scalp claimed by the hugely damaging documentary was Ken O’Shea who resigned as current affairs editor and will move into a new role at RTE Two.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/rtes-head-of-news-ed-mulhall-quits-16139870.html
RTÉ: Full statement on “two very serious editorial failures”
TheJournal.ie – Director General Noel Curran’s on ‘rebuilding trust’ between the State broadcaster and its audience. “They also expect that we do not lose our nerve…”
http://www.thejournal.ie/rte-full-statement-on-two-very-serious-editorial-failures-405937-Apr2012/
Flu killed care home residents
Belfast Telegraph – Influenza claimed the lives of six elderly people who died in a private nursing home, tests have revealed.
Eleven other residents at Nazareth House at Fahan, near Buncrana, Co Donegal, are also suffering with respiratory symptoms similar to the residents who died, said health chiefs.
The Sisters of Nazareth, the order of nuns which runs the private home, expressed its deepest condolences on the passing of six residents.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/flu-killed-care-home-residents-16139632.html