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IRELAND

• Residents of Garvaghy Road in Portadown have agreed to enter mediation aimed at resolving the ongoing Drumcree stand-off, calling for an international mediator to oversee the process.
• Residents from the Dublin 7 area staged a protest outside City Hall this evening over plans to replace bin bag collection with wheelie bins. 
• A man and a woman have died following a workplace incident at Banagher Precast Concrete Ltd in Co Offaly.
• A man has been charged with the alleged assault of a garda who was hospitalised after she was attacked while on duty protecting Dublin Castle.
• Lidl officially announced that it will be launching Lidl Connect. Its limited price for life offer will become available from Monday 5 October.
• The government has accepted the recommendation to carry out a commission of investigation into spinal and orthopaedic care by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) rather than a public inquiry.
• The 45th Dublin Marathon will be broadcast live on TG4 next month.
• FAI president Paul Cooke defended the football association’s handling of the Irish team’s controversial fixture against Israel Sunday night. 

INTERNATIONAL 

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#UKRAINE One woman was killed and three people wounded in a Russian drone strike that triggered a fire inside Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, authorities said. 

#GLOUCESTERSHIRE Five British nationals were released today after being arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and terrorism on Sunday after three suspicious vans were found near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which is used by the US.

#IRELAND V ISRAEL One of the few Irish fans who attended Ireland’s match against Israel on Sunday says he wanted to support the players after a turbulent week.

#VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS Irish actor Colin Farrell stars in the music video for Taylor Swift’s new single, which premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.

PARTING SHOT

A vegetarian who took a sample of pâté from a tasting display of one of the country’s best-known cheesemongers has lost a claim that she was discriminated against on religious grounds.

The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that Sheridan’s Cheesemongers had not breached the Equal Status Act as claimed by Vanessa Maria Corral Fernandez over the incident at one of the company’s retail concessions on 6 June 2025 when she felt “sick to [her] stomach.”

Corral Fernandez claimed she saw a food-sampling display with a sign that referenced hummus, pesto and olives.

She accepted she did not consume the pâté but had felt sick to her stomach at the thought that she might have consumed meat.