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IRELAND

The characters from Grymm Tales, the halloween experience at Ghoulsleys Manor in East Cork, remind us that clocks are going back one hour on Sunday 29 October at 2am GERARD MCCARTHY GERARD MCCARTHY

• Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that the government strongly condemns the actions of the banking sector, calling the tracker mortgage scandal “disgraceful” and “simply unacceptable”.
• The head of the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) has said lenders are failing to engage with the personal insolvency legislation introduced in 2012 by the government to help keep families who are in financial distress in their homes.
• The French woman who was killed in Dublin last night has been named locally as Anna Colomines.
• Independent TD Mattie McGrath stormed out of today’s Oireachtas Eighth Amendment Committee hearing.
• The Minister for Health Simon Harris has announced that the CPE superbug has been declared a public health emergency.
• A Belfast woman won a discrimination case after a colleague shouted ‘tiocfaidh ár lá’ at her.
• A pharmaceutical company has announced 300 new jobs for Limerick.
• Gardaí chased a man through Finglas and discovered two handguns in his rucksack before arresting him.
• Bryan Dobson co-presented RTÉ’s Six One News for the final time this evening, before his move to RTÉ Radio.

INTERNATIONAL 

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#US: A Republican senator has announced that he will not seek re-election as he launched a verbal attack on US president Donald Trump.

#RIP: Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Fats Domino has died aged 89.

#EMINEM: A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay €352,156 in compensation in a breach of a copyright suit filed by Eminem, according to the BBC.

PARTING SHOT 

Storm Ophelia shook a blanket of apples out of a Tipperary cider orchard.

In the aftermath of winds and rain brought by Storm Ophelia, the apples gathered into a smooth blanket covering most of the cider orchard, making for an incredible sight.

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