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When the Veil Grew Thin: Samhain Comes Alive at Bearna Golf ClubBRAND JURY OUT: ‘Disgusting, distasteful, immoral, who cares?’ Lawyer’s final plea as 12 jurors decide comedian’s fate‘I’M A LITTLE BIT HOMELESS’: Nicolas Cage living in hotels after sinkhole eats his $10.5m Malibu mansionGREENLAND SAYS YES: Island votes 16-0 for US bases deal after a year of Trump threatsTHE $6.3 BILLION JOB INTERVIEW: How a fake boss on a video call pulled off the biggest heist in historySHUTDOWN IRELAND: 300,000 workers to strike on the day 50 world leaders land in DublinBOMB HOAX CHAOS: Ryanair jet from Manchester among four flights hit by threats in a single dayFREEZER HACKERS HIT IRELAND: 13 SuperValu stores forced to bin food as cyber gang cooks Europe’s fridges‘THEY DON’T NEED IT’: Trump pulls the plug on $4 billion a year for IsraelSTRIKE IN THE STRAIT: US bombs Iranian island as Trump insists a peace deal is closeWhen the Veil Grew Thin: Samhain Comes Alive at Bearna Golf ClubBRAND JURY OUT: ‘Disgusting, distasteful, immoral, who cares?’ Lawyer’s final plea as 12 jurors decide comedian’s fate‘I’M A LITTLE BIT HOMELESS’: Nicolas Cage living in hotels after sinkhole eats his $10.5m Malibu mansionGREENLAND SAYS YES: Island votes 16-0 for US bases deal after a year of Trump threatsTHE $6.3 BILLION JOB INTERVIEW: How a fake boss on a video call pulled off the biggest heist in historySHUTDOWN IRELAND: 300,000 workers to strike on the day 50 world leaders land in DublinBOMB HOAX CHAOS: Ryanair jet from Manchester among four flights hit by threats in a single dayFREEZER HACKERS HIT IRELAND: 13 SuperValu stores forced to bin food as cyber gang cooks Europe’s fridges‘THEY DON’T NEED IT’: Trump pulls the plug on $4 billion a year for IsraelSTRIKE IN THE STRAIT: US bombs Iranian island as Trump insists a peace deal is close
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NIGHT OF TERROR: Putin unleashes biggest blitz of the year as 38 die and hospitals are hit
Russia fires 17 ballistic missiles, 59 cruise missiles and 289 drones in one night, leaving Kyiv in the dark and hospitals in Dnipro and Kharkiv in ruins, as Washington announces fresh peace talks for next week.
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BOMB HOAX CHAOS: Ryanair jet from Manchester among four flights hit by threats in a single day
FREEZER HACKERS HIT IRELAND: 13 SuperValu stores forced to bin food as cyber gang cooks Europe’s fridges
‘THEY DON’T NEED IT’: Trump pulls the plug on $4 billion a year for Israel
STRIKE IN THE STRAIT: US bombs Iranian island as Trump insists a peace deal is close
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BRAND JURY OUT: ‘Disgusting, distasteful, immoral, who cares?’ Lawyer’s final plea as 12 jurors decide comedian’s fate
After three weeks of evidence from six women, the jury in Russell Brand's rape and sexual assault trial begins deliberating at Southwark Crown Court. They must be unanimous.
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Spy ships on the seabed? Chinese vessels accused of mapping the cables that carry 99% of the world’s communications – and Ireland’s own strategy admits we’re exposed
Chinese research vessels are suspected of surveying vital undersea cables near Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. Ireland, home to some of the Atlantic's most important cable landings, has its own worries.
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Melbourne Cup 2026: Joseph O’Brien unleashes FIVE-horse Irish raid as Trustyourinstinct tipped to stop a nation
Joseph O'Brien saddles five of the 24 runners in Tuesday's A$10 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, with James McDonald-ridden Trustyourinstinct near the head of the market.
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Documentary STUNS Hollywood: Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes film beats DC’s Clayface to No 1, a first in 22 years
The forecasters were right: A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything edged DC's Clayface by about $200,000 to win a sleepy Halloween weekend in North America, a feat no non-concert documentary has managed…
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Double welfare payday: Christmas Bonus lands week of 7 December – exactly who gets it, and the payments that DON’T qualify
The 100% Christmas Bonus will be paid from the week starting 7 December. Here is who qualifies, the waiting rules that catch people out, and the rises coming in January.
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‘Brazen’: Former Waterford school principal, 91, jailed for abusing pupil in his office in the 1970s as victim says memories came back ‘like a dam breaking’
Con Desmond, who was known as Brother Cornelius, was found guilty of nine counts of indecent assault against a child between 1978 and 1980.
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Pay rise showdown looming? Twice as many big firms now brace for staff demanding more money, ECB survey reveals
An ECB survey of large companies shows 40% now expect or fear higher pay demands as the cost of living climbs, while the central bank has hinted at another rate rise.
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GTA 6 is just 17 days away – and it will reportedly gobble up a monster 210GB of your console
Grand Theft Auto VI lands on 19 November, and a widely reported 210GB install size means many gamers will need to start deleting before pre-loading opens on 12 November.
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Covid reckoning: Ireland’s pandemic verdict finally due within weeks after review sits down with Varadkar, Holohan and Martin
The independent review of Ireland's pandemic response says its final report is due by the end of the year, after sessions with the leaders who ran it.
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Connemara bus boost: EIGHT extra Route 424 services kick in for packed Spiddal and Carraroe commuters – plus every other public transport change this month
From 1 November, eight additional weekday services run on Route 424 between Galway city, Bearna and An Cheathrú Rua, as the NTA responds to overcrowding on one of the busiest rural routes in the…
