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ASHLING MURPHY TRIAL: WOMAN SAYS MAN WAS FOLLOWING HER ‘FOR QUITE A BIT OF TIME’ ON DAY OF KILLING MAN (40) WHO RAPED DAUGHTER’S FRIEND IS JAILED FOR 13 YEARS DUBLIN WOMAN FIRED BY ISRAELI COMPANY OVER ANTI-ISRAEL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ‘EVERYONE’S JUST NUMB’: FORMER WORKMATES PAY TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMAN KILLED IN SUSPECTED MURDER-SUICIDE IN NEW YORK OWEN DOYLE: SOUTH AFRICA’S WINNING KICK SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RESET SCRUM, NOT A PENALTY BRAIN TUMOUR AFTERMATH: ‘I WAS IN COMPLETE SHOCK FOR A WHOLE YEAR AS ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER HAPPENED TO ME’ VON DER LEYEN HAS DAMAGED EU’S REPUTATION IN IRELAND, PARTICULARLY AMONG YOUNGER PEOPLE MORE TOP STORIES Your Family LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BEFORE HALLOWEEN MIDTERM IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER DAY Politics UNITED IRELAND REFERENDUM SHOULD NEED ‘SUPER MAJORITY’ IN NORTH, REPUBLIC TO CARRY, SAYS BAKER Opinion ALEX KANE: JEFFREY DONALDSON’S ADMISSION ABOUT DIRECT RULE REFLECTS UNIONISM’S TOUGH CHOICES In the News WEEK ONE OF THE ASHLING MURPHY MURDER TRIAL: WHAT THE COURT HEARD Listen | 25:25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- US ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT DIVERTS AFTER OFF-DUTY PILOT ATTEMPTS TO DISABLE ENGINES Courts ‘PREJUDICE’ BEHIND UNMARRIED MAN’S EXCLUSION FROM WIDOWER’S PENSION Courts MAN WHO ‘BRUTALLY’ SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WOMAN WHO MISTOOK HIS CAR FOR TAXI JAILED FOR 19 YEARS Courts MAN WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER OF GRANDSON SAYS HE SHOOK BABY IN ATTEMPT TO CALM HIM Ireland TCD’S ‘HIST’ WINS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR MARATHON DEBATE Middle East WHO REPORTS 59 ATTACKS ON GAZA’S HEALTH FACILITIES, INCLUDING DAMAGE TO 26 HOSPITALS OPINION JEFFREY DONALDSON’S ADMISSION ABOUT DIRECT RULE REFLECTS UNIONISM’S TOUGH CHOICES Within the next couple of weeks the DUP will be presented with the final draft of Sunak’s proposals to nudge it back into the assembly and executive By Alex Kane WHAT THE FIRST COMEDIAN TO BE CANCELLED TEACHES US ABOUT GREED, TAXES AND RELATIONSHIPS By Joe Humphreys FIONNUALA WARD: SO LONG AUTOGRAPHS, SELFIES ARE TAKING OVER UNA MULLALLY VON DER LEYEN HAS DAMAGED EU’S REPUTATION IN IRELAND, PARTICULARLY AMONG YOUNGER PEOPLE THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON THE CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON DRUGS USE: A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO A NECESSARY DEBATE THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON INCREASING INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL RISKS: PLANNING FOR UNCERTAINTY LATEST STORIES FLOOD RELIEF PAYMENTS FOR FIRMS UNDER EXPANDED SCHEME OF UP TO €100,000 ST PAT’S GUARANTEE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR AS LEAVY STRIKE SEES OFF SLIGO ‘ALL WE ARE LEFT WITH ARE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS’: WHY DID YOUSEF PALANI GO ON A MURDEROUS RAMPAGE TARGETING GAY MEN? TWO ISRAELI HOSTAGES RELEASED AS EFFORTS INTENSIFY TO FREE PEOPLE HELD BY HAMAS JEAN KLEYN’S STRANGE YET FULFILLING RUGBY JOURNEY TAKES HIM TO A WORLD CUP FINAL MOST READ 1 TRIBUTES PAID TO IRISH WOMAN DENISE MORGAN FATALLY SHOT IN NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL AT 14, NOW SHE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EDUCATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 PAYING A PRICE FOR THE CASHLESS SOCIETY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 THE GONE: IS RTÉ TAKING LICENCE-FEE PAYERS FOR FOOLS BY PASSING THIS OFF AS IRISH DRAMA? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 YOUSEF PALANI JAILED FOR LIFE FOR MURDER OF AIDAN MOFFITT AND MICHAEL SNEE IN SLIGO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUGBY WORLD CUP France 2023 JEAN KLEYN’S STRANGE YET FULFILLING RUGBY JOURNEY TAKES HIM TO A WORLD CUP FINAL OWEN DOYLE: SOUTH AFRICA’S WINNING KICK SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RESET SCRUM, NOT A PENALTY WORLD RUGBY INVESTIGATING ALLEGED RACIST ABUSE BY SOUTH AFRICA’S BONGI MBONAMBI HIGHLIGHTS KEVIN KILBANE: THIS IS NOT THE WORST COLLECTION OF IRISH PLAYERS FOR 50 YEARS. IT’S NOT EVEN THE WORST IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS THE GONE: IS RTÉ TAKING LICENCE-FEE PAYERS FOR FOOLS BY PASSING THIS OFF AS IRISH DRAMA? GERRY THORNLEY: WE WILL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIKE OF JOHNNY SEXTON EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL AT 14, NOW SHE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EDUCATION SPORT OWEN DOYLE: SOUTH AFRICA’S WINNING KICK SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RESET SCRUM, NOT A PENALTY Referee Ben O’Keefe said that the Springboks scrummaged illegally only because England’s Ellis Genge dropped his knee to the floor ST PAT’S GUARANTEE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR AS LEAVY STRIKE SEES OFF SLIGO JOHNNY DOYLE ON COUNTY SUCCESS AT 45: ‘THAT’S AS GOOD A DAY AS WE’VE EVER HAD’ JEAN KLEYN’S STRANGE YET FULFILLING RUGBY JOURNEY TAKES HIM TO A WORLD CUP FINAL ‘YOU CAN’T BAN EMOTIONS’: MANCHESTER UNITED PREPARE FOR POIGNANT MATCH DENIS WALSH: BRUISED IRELAND CAN RECOVER FROM UNIQUE RUGBY WORLD CUP FAILURE MERCEDES ‘NEED TO TAKE LEWIS HAMILTON’S DISQUALIFICATION ON THE CHIN’ BUSINESS WEB SUMMIT SAYS IT IS DEALING WITH ‘VERY SMALL NUMBER’ OF REFUND REQUESTS Ticket prices start at €1,095 for general attendees NURSING HOME GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT TO BLAME FOR CLOSURES DUBLIN OFFICE TAKE-UP SLUMPS 63% IN 12 MONTHS FALLING OUTSIDE RULES ON RENT-A-ROOM SCHEME CAN PROVE COSTLY IRELAND IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF WORLD’S TOP TAX HAVENS MCCABES PHARMACY GROUP BOUGHT BY OWNER OF LLOYDSPHARMACY CHAIN TIKTOK CAN PURSUE CHALLENGE TO €345M FINE BY IRISH DATA COMMISSION OVER CHILDREN’S PRIVACY LIFE & STYLE Your Wellness BRAIN TUMOUR AFTERMATH: ‘I WAS IN COMPLETE SHOCK FOR A WHOLE YEAR AS ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER HAPPENED TO ME’ Fashion SIMONE ROCHA’S NEW MENSWEAR COLLECTION: WHITE LACE, SHEER FABRICS AND PEARLED TRIMS Your Family LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BEFORE HALLOWEEN MIDTERM IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER DAY Travel VALLEYS, VINEYARDS AND SURPRISINGLY EXCELLENT WINES ON A TRIP TO THE CZECH COUNTRYSIDE Life & Style ‘I LIED TO GET A BANK LOAN, AND CHUCKED IT ALL IN AND RAN OFF TO FOLLOW THE GREY WHALES’ CULTURE Music PATRICK FREYNE: THE WOLFE TONES LOVE IRELAND SO MUCH THEY LUXURIATE IN ITS TORTURED HISTORY Music CORK JAZZ FESTIVAL 2023: 10 CLASSIC ALBUMS THAT SHOULD BE IN ANY SELF-RESPECTING FINGER-CLICKER’S COLLECTION Film ‘ROCK HUDSON AND JAMES DEAN WERE FIGHTING OVER ELIZABETH TAYLOR – WHO’S HER BEST FAVOURITE GAY BOYFRIEND?’ Music ‘SLIABH LUACHRA MUSIC IS BASICALLY TUNES BENT INTO SHAPE TO SUIT THE DANCES WE INHERITED FROM THE ROYAL COURTS OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE’ TV & Radio THE GONE: IS RTÉ TAKING LICENCE-FEE PAYERS FOR FOOLS BY PASSING THIS OFF AS IRISH DRAMA? WORLD TWO ISRAELI HOSTAGES RELEASED AS EFFORTS INTENSIFY TO FREE PEOPLE HELD BY HAMAS Two elderly Israeli women were freed on Monday in response to mediation by Qatar and Egypt ‘EVERYONE’S JUST NUMB’: FORMER WORKMATES PAY TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMAN KILLED IN SUSPECTED MURDER-SUICIDE IN NEW YORK ISRAEL’S PM BINYAMIN NETANYAHU DENIES SPLITS OVER GAZA WAR STRATEGY EU EDGES TOWARDS CALL FOR HUMANITARIAN PAUSE IN GAZA BOMBARDMENT ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT DIVERTS AFTER OFF-DUTY PILOT ATTEMPTS TO DISABLE ENGINES WHO REPORTS 59 ATTACKS ON GAZA’S HEALTH FACILITIES, INCLUDING DAMAGE TO 26 HOSPITALS VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO IN MAYNOOTH: PUTIN IS ‘PROBLEM’ NOT ONLY FOR UKRAINE CRIME & LAW ‘ALL WE ARE LEFT WITH ARE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS’: WHY DID YOUSEF PALANI GO ON A MURDEROUS RAMPAGE TARGETING GAY MEN? Palani murdered Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee, blinded Anthony Burke in one eye in a knife attack and devastated countless lives in his April 2022 spree FAMILIES REMEMBER ‘KIND’, ‘FUN’ AND ‘CARING’ MICHAEL SNEE AND AIDAN MOFFITT WHO WERE MURDERED BY YOUSEF PALANI ‘EVERYONE’S JUST NUMB’: FORMER WORKMATES PAY TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMAN KILLED IN SUSPECTED MURDER-SUICIDE IN NEW YORK MAN WHO RAPED HIS YOUNGER COUSIN WHEN HE WAS 13 IS JAILED MAN (40) WHO RAPED DAUGHTER’S FRIEND IS JAILED FOR 13 YEARS MAN WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER OF GRANDSON SAYS HE SHOOK BABY IN ATTEMPT TO CALM HIM ‘PREJUDICE’ BEHIND UNMARRIED MAN’S EXCLUSION FROM WIDOWER’S PENSION POLITICS FLOOD RELIEF PAYMENTS FOR FIRMS UNDER EXPANDED SCHEME OF UP TO €100,000 Minister to seek agreement of Cabinet for exceptional aid to businesses, with quick payments approaching €10,000 FUNCTIONING NI EXECUTIVE NEEDED TO MAKE MOST OF OPPORTUNITIES, SAYS US SPECIAL ENVOY JOSEPH KENNEDY VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO IN MAYNOOTH: PUTIN IS ‘PROBLEM’ NOT ONLY FOR UKRAINE EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN IRELAND AND UAE DISCUSSED IN PHONE CALL BETWEEN MINISTERS FOR JUSTICE UNITED IRELAND REFERENDUM SHOULD NEED ‘SUPER MAJORITY’ IN NORTH, REPUBLIC TO CARRY, SAYS BAKER IRELAND PUSHES FOR HUMANITARIAN CEASEFIRE AT MEETING OF EU FOREIGN MINISTERS COVENEY RECEIVED BRIEFING ON TIKTOK BEFORE TALKS WITH CHINESE AMBASSADOR News Digests Stay on top of the latest news with our daily newsletters each morning, lunchtime and evening Sign up On The Money Save money and make smart spending decisions with our weekly personal finance digest Subscribe HEALTH WIDOW OF MAN WHO DIED IN UHL SAYS SHE WOULD RATHER DIE AT HOME THAN ATTEND ‘PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS’ LIMERICK HOSPITAL RECORD NUMBER OF PATIENTS RECORDED ON TROLLEYS IN LIMERICK HOSPITAL NURSING HOME GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT TO BLAME FOR CLOSURES RACISM AND ‘TOXIC SHAME’ CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH RATES OF DESPAIR IN TRAVELLERS, STUDY FINDS PROPERTY FOUR UNDER €350,000: HOMES IN TIPPERARY, CORK, DUBLIN AND WICKLOW REVAMPED 1940S SEMI-D BY THE SEA IN DÚN LAOGHAIRE FOR €1.395M WHAT WILL €1.2 MILLION BUY IN CHILE, FRANCE, SWEDEN, JAPAN AND MAYO? VERDANT VIEWS FROM BALLSBRIDGE FOUR-BED FOR €2.6M DON'T MISS THE 2 JOHNNIES LATE NIGHT LOCK IN: LADDISM IS ESPECIALLY JOLTING IN THIS ATTEMPT TO BRING 1990S BRITISH TV BACK WHAT THE IRISH ECONOMY NEEDS? MORE WORKING MOTHERS KEN EARLY: HAS THERE EVER BEEN A WORSE TIME TO BE A GOALKEEPER? RUGBY WORLD CUP: FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE SEMI-FINAL WEEKEND DAVID MCWILLIAMS: WHY NOT MOVE DUBLIN PORT NOW, RATHER THAN LATER, WHILE WE HAVE LOTS OF MONEY AND A HOUSING CRISIS? ‘HOW ARE YOU MEANT TO ENJOY SEX AND A RELATIONSHIP?’ THE REALITY OF LIVING WITH YOUR PARENTS IN YOUR 30S YOUR MONEY TEN WAYS TO REDUCE THE COSTS OF WINTER, THE MOST EXPENSIVE SEASON ‘THE TRICK WITH MONEY IS NOT TO LET IT BECOME TOO IMPORTANT’ FALLING OUTSIDE RULES ON RENT-A-ROOM SCHEME CAN PROVE COSTLY FOOD WICKEDLY GOOD DESSERT WITH A SEASONAL TWIST STICKY TOFFEE PUMPKIN CAKES WITH MAPLE SALTED CARAMEL DRINKING FROM THE RIGHT WINE GLASS CAN REALLY MAKE A WINE TASTE BETTER IRELAND DUBLIN WOMAN FIRED BY ISRAELI COMPANY OVER ANTI-ISRAEL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS EVERGREEN TREES A ‘BEAUTIFUL LIVING MEMORIAL’ TO VICTIMS OF SHANKILL ROAD BOMBING FUNCTIONING NI EXECUTIVE NEEDED TO MAKE MOST OF OPPORTUNITIES, SAYS US SPECIAL ENVOY JOSEPH KENNEDY ABROAD ‘MĀORI ARE NOT ENTIRELY UNLIKE THE IRISH IN TERMS OF SENSE OF HUMOUR AND TIES TO THE LAND, FAMILY, SONG AND CULTURE’ A DUBLINER IN ISRAEL: ‘I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE,’ MY FRIEND’S MOTHER SAID. ‘BUT I CAN’T GO THROUGH ANOTHER WAR’ ‘THE DOCTOR SEWED ME BACK UP IN IRELAND, BUT SWEDEN PUT ME BACK TOGETHER’ CLIMATE CRISIS ‘I LIED TO GET A BANK LOAN, AND CHUCKED IT ALL IN AND RAN OFF TO FOLLOW THE GREY WHALES’ STORM BABET: A SLOW-MOVING TRAIN OF RAIN HIT IRELAND. THE RESULTS WERE DISASTROUS FARMERS COULD BE PAID FOR USE OF LAND TO ‘SLOW DOWN’ FLOOD WATER, EAMON RYAN SAYS EDUCATION EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL AT 14, NOW SHE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EDUCATION EXPULSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS CLIMB SIGNIFICANTLY AT SECOND-LEVEL SCHOOLS WORLD’S OLDEST DEBATING SOCIETY UNDERTAKES FRESH WORLD RECORD BID IN DUBLIN PODCASTS Ross O'Carroll-Kelly ‘ROSS, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, YOU SNIGGERING HALFWIT - THAT DAUGHTER OF YOURS HAS BEEN GOING WRONG SINCE THE DAY SHE WAS BORN’ Inside Politics PODCAST: DISMAY OVER HEALTH FUNDING SPILLS INTO THE OPEN Listen | 42:04 The Women's Podcast PERIMENOPAUSE: 'I WAS GETTING ON WITH MY DAY TO DAY STUFF, BUT INSIDE I FELT LIKE I WAS CRUMBLING' Listen | 38:35 In the News ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: TWO WEEKS THAT SHOOK THE MIDDLE EAST Listen | 26:32 SUBSCRIBER ONLY Subscriber Only PATRICK FREYNE: THE WOLFE TONES LOVE IRELAND SO MUCH THEY LUXURIATE IN ITS TORTURED HISTORY By Patrick Freyne Subscriber Only RHINO REVIEW: IONESCO REIMAGINED IN THE VIRTUAL WORLDS OF GAMING AND AUTOMATON-LIKE AVATARS By Jane Coyle Subscriber Only TEN WAYS TO REDUCE THE COSTS OF WINTER, THE MOST EXPENSIVE SEASON By Conor Pope VIDEO Families with children were seen fleeing the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City after an Israeli strike hit the area. Video: Reuters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOGRAPHY Cork flooding: Storm brought a month’s worth of rainfall to parts of Cork in just one day, leaving many buildings flooded and roads blocked -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN DUBLIN’S SCIENCE HERITAGE CELEBRATED IN NEW EXHIBITION WOMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF CARRYING OUT RESTAURANT ACID ATTACK BY REASON OF INSANITY SMITHFIELD VOTED SECOND ‘COOLEST NEIGHBOURHOOD’ IN THE WORLD SOCIAL AFFAIRS FUNDING TO RESIDENTIAL DRUG TREATMENT SHOULD INCREASE AS ALTERNATIVE TO CUSTODY, SAYS ASSEMBLY THINKING ANEW: WE MUST PRIORITISE THE POWERLESS IN OUR PRAYERS AND ACTIONS CHURCH SERVICES TECHNOLOGY LINKEDIN ISSUES WARNING TO SITE SHAMING EMPLOYEES FOR PRO-PALESTINIAN SENTIMENTS PADDY COSGRAVE RESIGNS AS WEB SUMMIT CHIEF WITH ‘IMMEDIATE EFFECT’ OVER ISRAEL-HAMAS COMMENTS ELON MUSK’S X TO LAUNCH PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTIONS SOON TRANSPORT MALTA TO BAN RENTED E-SCOOTERS DUBLIN AIRPORT IN TALKS WITH AIRLINES ON STAYING BELOW 32M PASSENGER ‘CAP’ FOR FLIGHTS MOTORISTS MAY FACE HIGHER PENALTY POINTS AT BANK HOLIDAYS HISTORY HOW IRISH WOMEN FAILED TO PERSUADE ÉAMON DE VALERA TO TREAT THEM AS EQUAL CITIZENS MICHAEL COLLINS STATUE BACKED BY CROWD-FUNDING UNVEILED IN CORK CITY IN PICTURES: WICKLOW LIGHTHOUSE SHINES ONCE AGAIN AFTER ALMOST 50 YEARS OBITUARIES SR BOSCO MURRAY – DYNAMIC AND PIONEERING PROVINCIAL OF THE BON SECOURS ORDER LOUISE GLÜCK OBITUARY: POEMS FULL OF DARK OBSERVATIONS ABOUT LOVE, LOSS AND BETRAYAL MARTTI AHTISAARI OBITUARY: FORMER FINNISH PRESIDENT WHO PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN PEACE PROCESS TUARASCÁIL AN FEARANN FOLAMH FEASTA BÁSAITHE CEAL TACAÍOCHTA NAÍONRAÍ ‘AG STAD NA GÉARCHÉIME’ MOTORS ORA’S MODEL 3 RIVAL MAKES IRISH DEBUT OUR TEST DRIVE: LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110 P40E 75TH ANNIVERSARY DACIA JOGGER PROVES ITS FESTIVAL METTLE YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... 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