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IRISH

Sleeping Beauty panto comes to Limerick's University Concert Hall. Alan Place / FusionShooters Alan Place / FusionShooters / FusionShooters

• A drunk driver who caused the death of a four-year-old boy has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
  
• The Web Summit kicked-off in Dublin and relations between organisers and the government are still frosty.
• A 30-year-old Galway man has died after a collision with a road train in Australia.
• A working group to examine allegations of abuse and trafficking in Ireland’s fishing industry has been set up.
• Questions have been raised about a 1916 chocolate bar.
• The woman at the centre of the Miss Y abortion controversy says she feels vindicated after a report into her care is to be quashed.
• Finian McGrath TD has denied that calling a rival politician ‘Little Miss Twitter’ was sexist.
• A tyre factory is to close in Ballymena with the loss of 900 jobs.
• The prison service is being blamed for the growth of criminal gangs in jails.
• Last month was the driest October in the past five years, according to Met Éireann.

INTERNATIONAL

The UK's new passports which have sparked a sexism row because they have 7 pictures of men and two of women. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#PISTORIUS: Attempts to have Oscar Pistorius convicted of murder instead of culpable homicide have been heard in court today.

#SINAI: The first examinations of the Metrojet black box recorder have recorded a “sudden emergency”.

#SUICIDE: Robin Williams’ widow says the Hollywood star was suffering from a range of medical problems including Lewy body dementia when he took his own life.

INNOVATION

• Facebook has outlined how it will help blind people ‘see’ photos.
  
• Guinness is abandoning its use of fish guts in the filtration process to make the stout suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

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