Witnesses say a gunman walked in wearing body armour and started firing during the midnight showing of the new Batman movie: The Dark Knight Rises.
James Cameron was in the adjacent cinema screen when it happened….
He says bullets penetrated the walls and tear gas poured through the vents from next door:
style="text-align: left;"> style="text-align: left;"> style="text-align: left;">The High Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Sean Quinn’s nephew.Peter Quinn has failed to show up to court and is not answering his phone having earlier left a message with his solicitor that he’s sick.
The High Court Judge is expected to rule today, whether Sean Quinn, his son Sean Junior, and his nephew Peter Quinn should face jail for failing to comply with High Court orders.
Our Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn says Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne said in court this morning that if Peter Quinn is genuinely sick, a medical note should be brought before the courts.
style="text-align: left;"> style="text-align: left;">/> style="text-align: left;">The outgoing HSE boss has admitted there “are tensions from time to time” between him and the Health Minister.
Cathal Magee’s held a one hour meeting with the Taoiseach – but he says he wasn’t asked by Enda Kenny to re-consider his resignation.
He’s quitting after the Government decided to put a new structure in place at the HSE with a new director general post instead of a chief executive.
Speaking after this morning’s meeting, Cathal Magee denied he’d been shoved out as the opposition had claimed.
style="text-align: left;"> style="text-align: left;">The Minister for Children has launched what she says is a “blueprint” for the new Child Support and Family Agency./>
/> The agency will be established in 2013 – and will be independent of Government.
The blueprint says up until now, child services have been too fragmented – and it’s recommended that Public Health Nursing, speech and language therapy, mental health and psychology services and detention schools should come under the new agency’s control.
Minister Frances Fitzgerald says it will have its own separate budget – and it won’t just be another quango.
style="text-align: left;"> style="text-align: left;">Weather conditions are forecast to improve a little in the coming days.Met Eireann says it will be dry and warm in most parts of the country with temperatures reaching the low 20′s.
However forecasters Gerald Fleming and Evelyn Cusack say while it will be pleasant – the conditions won’t amount to a mini-heat wave.
