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Mary Lou McDonald to run in Dublin Central alongside party councillor who previously fell out with Sinn Féin

Published: October 4, 2024 17:26

Sinn Féin election candidate Janice Boylan has said reports that she had fallen out with Mary Lou McDonald and planned to leave the party was a “non-story” that was “blown out of all proportion”.

Philly McMahon: Leave football alone, it’s original thinking – not rule changes – that the game needs

Published: October 4, 2024 15:00

What’s this now? A column in the inter-county off-season? There must be something big stirring. A disturbance in the GAA force. Some flaming issue that requires the insertion of my oar.

Boris Johnson’s ‘Unleashed’: A memoir that’s twisted, sour and full of yet more lies

Published: October 4, 2024 11:47

Lacking the benefit of Boris Johnson’s fine classical education – which is shown off liberally, once again, in his unreliable memoir Unleashed – I’m unable to quote with any sense of confidence whatever the antonym of mea culpa might be in Latin. So we’ll…

Billionaire Mike Lynch drowned on Bayesian superyacht, inquest confirms as deaths of three others under investigation

Published: October 4, 2024 11:14

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch drowned and the causes of the deaths of three other British nationals remain under investigation following the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht off the coast of Sicily, a series of inquest openings in the UK heard.

DPC opens inquiry into Ryanair for asking customers for extra biometric “verification” when booking outside Ryanair.com

Published: October 4, 2024 11:00

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened an inquiry into whether Ryanair is disproportionately asking for too much personal identification from people who book from third party websites or online travel agents instead of directly from Ryanair.

Israel blocks Lebanon's main crossing to Syria as it targets Hezbollah in Beirut

Published: October 4, 2024 10:14

Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria early on Friday, hours after an intense Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs that is thought to have targeted the heir apparent to Hezbollah's slain secretary general.

Interim FAI CEO David Courell to get job on permanent basis after filling in for six months since Jonathan Hill exit

Published: October 4, 2024 08:25

The FAI are set to appoint David Courell as its new permanent Chief Executive, almost six months after Jonathan Hill left the association amid controversy about his remuneration.

Chris Bascombe: How 11-v-11 practice matches and Rafa Benitez-like obsession have got Arne Slot’s Liverpool purring

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

Shortly after a Liverpool coach was recruited and made an instant impression with a few notable scalps, an Anfield executive made a timeless and universal observation.

Martina Devlin: Budget could have directed those Apple billions into building thousands of houses

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

“Be Brave” is quite the slogan these days. It’s found on clothing, banners, quilts and other items often aimed at children and young people. Books galore encourage kids to be plucky and access their inner lion – a positive message.

Injuries Board saves compensation claimants €75m in legal fees so they can settle cases without going to court

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

Around €75m was saved in legal costs last year by injuries claimants accepting awards from the state body that adjudicates compensation claims without having to go to court.

Prominent US Republican Party supporter establishes firm in Ireland to invest in luxury cars

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

Jon Hage, a prominent Republican supporter and millionaire businessman in Florida who has links to the state’s former governor, Jeb Bush, and a slew of other high-profile politicians, has just established a company in Ireland.

Suzanne Crowe: You shouldn’t need to study law to get the best medical attention for your child

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

I recently met a person who had decided to study law at night. A parent of a child with a serious disability, they had concluded after years of fighting for services that the only way to secure what their child needed was to become a lawyer. They had tried…

Christmas air fares already up 30pc this year, Ryanair’s Michael O'Leary says

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

Ryanair has 220,000 fewer seats at Dublin Airport this Christmas because of the passenger cap, its chief executive Michael O’Leary has said. This is 20pc less than usual, and has already resulted in fares increasing by 30pc over the same period last year.

What Bayern Munich’s rare defeat at Villa Park says about Vincent Kompany’s coaching powers

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

A first for Vincent Kompany and yet a very familiar experience. He became accustomed to defeats involving a team in claret and blue last season. There were 24 of them for Burnley in the Premier League alone, two to Aston Villa.

Israeli military warns people in southern Lebanon to evacuate as ground offensive against Hezbollah intensifies

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

The Israeli military yesterday warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a UN-declared buffer zone, signalling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against Hezbollah.

Lorcan Cranitch: ‘I’ve been acting for 45 years and I still think that I’m getting away with it’

Published: October 4, 2024 01:30

Actor Lorcan Cranitch (65) lives in Dublin, where he was born and bred. He moved to London to study acting in 1980, where he lived for 17 years. He became famous as villain DS Jimmy Beck in ‘Cracker’ and has also starred in ‘Ballykissangel’, ‘Bloodlands’,…

Interim FAI CEO David Courell gets the job on a permanent basis after filling in for six months since Jonathan Hill exit

Published: October 3, 2024 21:36

The FAI are set to appoint David Courell as its new permanent Chief Executive, almost six months after Jonathan Hill left the association amid controversy about his remuneration.

Inquest jury call for urgent electronic patient record keeping at Irish hospital after tragic death of father-of-one

Published: October 3, 2024 20:17

A coroner’s jury recommended that a leading Irish hospital introduce electronic patient record keeping as a matter of urgency after a 34-year-old father-of-one died from a dissected aortic aneurysm after being misdiagnosed as having a suspected kidney…

Aidan Fitzmaurice: Reality bites for Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson due to shallow pool of Irish talent right now

Published: October 3, 2024 18:59

?Just as he has called time – for now at least – on the international careers of three players who have 112 caps between them but are surplus to requirements, Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson is finding out, the hard way, how little time he has to put…

‘Contrived political theatre’ - Government backbenchers hit out at backlash to €9m phone pouch funding

Published: October 3, 2024 17:37

Government backbenchers have described the criticism over the allocation of €9 million for phone pouches to lock pupils’ phones away during school as “nonsense”, with others saying it is a reasonable measure to introduce.

‘We remove bottles of water, which tend to be full of vodka’ – Michael O’Leary reveals bag searches on Ryanair flights to Ibiza

Published: October 3, 2024 16:27

Passengers on Ryanair flights to Ibiza have their bags searched and all bottles of liquid removed, in a bid to cut down on drunken disruption on board, according to the airline’s chief executive Michael O’Leary.

Man (30s) charged with attempted murder of young father in spiralling midlands feud that left victim fighting for his life

Published: October 3, 2024 14:11

A father of four who has been accused of leaving a young man fighting for his life in hospital with multiple lacerations to his liver, lung and bowel during a feud related stabbing in a midlands town has been charged with his attempted murder.

Teen who bludgeoned woman to death and posted ‘sickening’ video online sentenced to life in detention

Published: October 3, 2024 13:49

A teenage boy who used a sledgehammer and a lump hammer to bludgeon 51-year-old Lorna Woodnutt to death before posting a video on Snapchat has been sentenced to life in detention with a review after 15 years.

Radio reviews: ‘All I know is I’m now living in fear of all the things I might not know until I listen to RTÉ daytime radio’

Published: October 3, 2024 13:30

You may remember a while back that I only found out from The Louise Duffy Show (RTÉ1, weekdays, noon) that Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel was written as a kind of Bob ­Dylan parody. I was so astonished that I didn’t know this, it forced me…

Irish peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have ‘ample supply’ of water and food as it stands says Defence Forces chief

Published: October 3, 2024 12:24

The Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces has said that Irish troops stationed in the Lebanon have “ample supply” of food, water and other necessities despite reports from sources on the ground in Lebanon that supplies are running low.

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