LAST UPDATE | 29 Oct 2019

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1. #SMOKING: The no-smoking policy at two of Dublin’s maternity hospitals is being flouted by patients and visitors, six years after it was announced that the campuses would become smoke-free.

2. #ANA KRIEGEL: A sentence hearing for the two boys convicted of 14-year-old Ana Kriegel’s murder will take place today.

3. #FOURTH ATTEMPT: Boris Johnson will ask UK MPs to support his bid for a pre-Christmas election in order to break the Brexit deadlock. He failed last night to get two-thirds of the House of Commons to back his call for a snap poll. 

4. #CLARE: An elderly man has died following a road traffic collision in Cahercallamore in Co Clare yesterday afternoon. The driver and passenger of the same car were also hospitalised. 

5. CARBON PROOFING: A new charter will be introduced today, which will set the direction for local councils in a bid to tackle climate change. 

6. #INJECTING CENTRE: The deputy lord mayor of Dublin has likened health minister Simon Harris to a “dictator” following his criticism of Dublin City Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for Ireland’s first supervised drug injecting centre. 

7. #CALIFORNIA: Evacuations are underway in California after huge wildfires forced almost 200,000 people to leave their homes. 

8. #GRENFELL: An official report into the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017 has criticised “serious shortcomings” in the response of the London Fire Brigade. 

9. #IOWA: A gender reveal party has led to the death of a 56-year-old in Iowa, after a homemade device that was meant to discharge coloured powder instead exploded like a pipe bomb. 

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