NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s news.

IRELAND

Iarnród Éireann has teamed up with Focus Ireland for the 6th successive year to launch a new campaign to raise vital funds to help more people to make it #HomeForChristmas Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• An analysis by Noteworthy has found that dozens of former Government officials who subsequently lobbied TDs and senior figures have incorrectly appeared as ‘ordinary’ lobbyists on Ireland’s register of lobbying. 
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has met UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the British-Irish Council Summit in Blackpool this evening.
• The Government has been called on the extend an emergency humanitarian support scheme to rural Co Wexford communities hit by a suspected tornado.
• Independent TD Marc MacSharry has become the subject of a complaint after he accosted Leas-Cheann Comhairle Catherine Connolly in the Dáil chamber.
• Tánaiste Leo Varadkar branded opposition TD Roisin Shortall a “hypocrite” today during fiery Dáil exchanges related to his leaking of a confidential document.
• Small landlords will be able to apply for a tax break of up to €10,000 to retrofit their properties while the tenant is still living there, under new measures announced today.
• The swimming pool at Templemore Garda college is to be re-opened to local community groups, following protests over its closure to the public.
• A teenager has died following a road traffic collision in Letterkenny in Co Donegal.
• The Mater Hospital has confirmed that its Long Covid Clinic is due to close in December. 

INTERNATIONAL

A car broke down on State Road A1A in Manalapan, Florida, with the roads flooded from Hurricane Nicole Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TWITTER: Elon Musk’s first email to Twitter staff has reportedly ended all remote working.

#UKRAINE: Moscow has said it has begun retreating from Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, as Kyiv said it had recaptured a dozen villages in the strategic Black Sea region.

#NICOLE: Tropical Storm Nicole has hit Florida as a hurricane, washing away the remaining protections for a stretch of beachfront properties that lost their seawall during Hurricane Ian only weeks before.

#KFC: KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a notification to German customers encouraging them to commemorate the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom with fried chicken and cheese.

PARTING SHOT

Redacted Lives is a new six-part documentary series by The Journal that explores the experiences of people who passed through the mother and baby home system.

Children born into these institutions were usually adopted or sent to industrial schools – often without their mother’s consent.

Many women have tried to find their children over the years, but to no avail. Adopted people have also struggled to find their parents, or information about their early life.

Redacted Lives gives these people the chance to tell the real story of mother and baby homes, and explores how the State continues to deny survivors access to information, proper redress and ownership of their true identities.

    

        
        
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