IMPACT News Digest - Friday 23rd September 2016

Good morning colleagues,

Here's a look at some of today's front pages.  Calls for inspection of ambulance fleet after Naas death lead, along with coverage of the bus strike.   Dún Laoghaire library employees protest over ‘staffless’ Sunday opening is covered in the Irish Times.  The IRN contains updates on IMPACT disputes at Oberstown and CRC.

In other news, researchers at the University of Limerick have called for mandatory reporting of gender pay gaps and the Indo discusses the pensions crisis. TTIP and CETA trade deals with US and Canada have huge implications, yet lack coverage, according to the Irish Times.

Your moment of Zen this morning features Save the Day, a campaign designed to get as many people to the US ballot box as possible on 8th November.  The skittle saga continues in an interesting Tweet from Aodhan O'Riordain to @DonaldTrumpJnr.

The first film from the campaign - Important -  features 27 actors — including Robert Downey Jr (pictured), Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, and Martin Sheen — earnestly imploring people to vote, while also making fun of political ads featuring a parade of celebrities. Here's the film, which has already had more than 2.5m viewers since it first appeared on Wednesday.

Have a good weekend.


Niall Shanahan and Patricia O'Mahony

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