Your top stories on Wednesday: UL ‘overpaid’ for student accommodation; Bambie Thug through to Eurovision final

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Your top stories on Wednesday: UL ‘overpaid’ for student accommodation; Bambie Thug through to Eurovision final

Singer-songwriter Bambie Thug representing Ireland with the song 'Doomsday blue' during the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden last night. Photograph: Getty Imageslacked “correct and clear” information on the cost of a botched student housing project before pressing ahead with a €11.9 million deal in which it paid “significantly above” market price, according to a damning report that raises new questions about the transaction.

The report by former civil servant Niamh O’Donoghue found the cost structure presented to UL leaders was not “clear and consistent” with the August 2022 contract.Josh Itseli who was shot dead in a gangland incident in south Dublin at the weekend came to the Garda’s attention for drug dealing was facing two charges, related to the cocaine trade, at the time of his murder.

Taoiseach Simon Harris has insisted that the appearance of almost 80 tents used by asylum seekers along the banks of the Grand Canal near Baggot Street is not another Mount Street encampment.The streak of record global temperatures has continued for the 11th month in a row, with April 2024 the hottest recorded, scientists have said.

Housing agency Threshold took 12,000 phone calls on housing issues during first three months of the yearEurovision semi-final: Euphoria for Ireland as Bambie Thug qualifies for Saturday’s final

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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