A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Air survivor says wing hit runway
One of the survivors of last week’s disaster at Cork Airport told yesterday of how a wing tipped the runway as the aircraft came in to land and flipped the aircraft over, leaving him trapped upside down and incapacitated.
Mark Dickens from Watford in Britain, who is recovering in hospital, was one of six passengers to survive. “It is amazing that any of us got out alive. The fact that two or three people walked out is just absolutely amazing,” he told RTÉ Radio’s
News at One.
Millions of poor face food cost rise
Global food price rises are creating “a perfect storm” for the world’s poor which needs to be addressed with extreme urgency, the chief executive of Concern Worldwide, Tom Arnold warned yesterday,
writes Seán Mac Connell.
Mr Arnold said with global food prices at an all-time high, having risen seven straight months in a row
the World Bank said an estimated 44 million people had been pushed into poverty since last summer.
Man (24) in court for hijacking of taxi and robbing driver
A 24-year-old man appeared in court in Limerick yesterday charged with hijacking a taxi and robbing the driver at Talbot Avenue, Prospect, on February 12th last.
Mark Ryan of Lenihan Avenue, Prospect, Limerick, is accused of unlawfully interfering with the control of a taxi by making the driver drive to certain locations in Limerick city with a gun held to his head.
He is further charged with robbing the driver of €70 in notes, €90 in coins, three mobile phones and his driver’s licence, contrary to Section 14 of the Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences Act.
Judge Tom O’Donnell remanded the accused in custody to appear before the court again on February 24th next.