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Last year
2025
Michael Shine
"I would have preferred to have had 50 years of a rotten appendix than have him ‘cure’ me"
Michael Shine claimed during his trial that he had no memory of any of his victims – but in a new interview, recalled the medical treatment he gave one patient.
HSE
Hospital consultants using waiting lists to funnel business to their private companies, Dáil told
Courts
Driver in Monaghan debs crash that killed two teenagers had driven at average speed of 139 km/h
Housing Crisis
Minister says new housing tsar will have to be 'forthright with any conflicts of interest'
High Court
Gerry Adams criticises ‘grievous smear’ in BBC Spotlight programme during defamation trial
warning
Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU
rent pressure zones
RPZ changes will have 'significant impact' says Minister, who claims he understands renters' fears
Deposit Protection Scheme
Bill that would see deposits kept by third party rather than landlord brought to Leinster House
Kashmir
DFA issues travel warning to citizens heading to India and Pakistan amid soaring tensions
It has reclassified both countries’ security status as ‘High Degree of Caution’.
At least seven civilians were also killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir by Pakistani shelling, the Indian army said in a statement.
Pakistan's military said India damaged a hydropower plant in Pakistani Kashmir.
Pakistan said the country’s air force shot down five Indian jets in retaliation.
Dignity4Patients
Victims' group calls for review of ruling 'being used' to stop paedophile Michael Shine from facing fresh trial
Conclave
Irish archbishop who heads abuse investigations says tackling crisis will top next pope's agenda
Bobby sands
Investigation into Bobby Sands statue erected in West Belfast without planning permission
Kashmir
Explainer: Violence in disputed Kashmir has long risked an all-out war between India and Pakistan
The Morning Lead
‘Not conservative or liberal, but holy’: What are Vatican insiders looking for from the next pope?
‘I don’t know if they’re looking for conservative, liberal, progressive, traditional, fat or thin.. I think they’re just looking for someone holy.’
housing tsar
Taoiseach and Housing Minister unaware that McDonagh advertised Cabra home as short-term let
Irish Nationwide Building Society
Michael Fingleton mismanaged and 'gambled' with Irish Nationwide funds, High Court hears
Jim O'Callaghan
Bill to outlaw sex for rent and give gardaí power to remove protesters' masks approved by government
High Court
Gerry Adams tells High Court he won't 'speculate' about who was in charge of the IRA in 1970s
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