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  • Budget fall-out; Laois solicitor suspended, Irish-Jewish community safety fears; Deep fakes
    Oct 8 2026

    An enormous post budget row has erupted between the government and RTE over a shortfall in funding for the broadcaster agreed in this week’s budget.


    A solicitor known for establishing the Co Laois music festival, Forest Fest, has been suspended from legal practice by the High Court.


    Security concerns for Jewish people in Ireland have prevented Dublin’s primary synagogue from organising a public-facing memorial to mark the October 7th attacks.


    In her tech column today, Ciara O’Brien is making the case for removing the phrase “we didn’t mean it” from tech companies’ book of excuses when it comes to deep fakes.


    Patrick Freyne is writing about a “new rich-person documentary.” The Beckhams were the patients zero of the celebumentary. Now it’s the turn of Wayne and Coleen Rooney.


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    11 min
  • Record public spending; the cost of policing big events; and algae in Lough Derg
    Oct 7 2026

    The Government has unveiled an €8.5 billion Budget package bringing public spending to a record €125.6 billion next year.


    Tighter spending controls on policing major events after a review of the policing operation around last year’s Europa League final in Dublin, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly is expected to tell an Oireachtas committee.


    A workplace dispute involving HIV Ireland has heard evidence about tensions within the charity and a decision to withdraw from a major HSE awareness campaign.


    Swimmers in Lough Derg talk of skin irritation and respiratory problems from blue-green algae.


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    8 min
  • Giveaway budget; Fintan O'Toole on Drumcree; Hugh Linehan on Cornell case
    Oct 6 2026

    The Government will unveil another giveaway budget today, Tuesday October 6th, which will include reductions in tax for middle income earners worth up to €1,500 for a couple with a combined income of €100,000.


    “Drumcree is the theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of silly walks,” according to Fintan O’Toole, who’s column this week focuses on the eruption of sectarian tension in Portadown.


    As a new legal term begins in the Irish courts this week, Hugh Linehan is contrasting the reporting restrictions which apply to criminal cases here with those in the United States; as America grapples with the alleged gang rape of a woman at Cornell University in upstate New York.


    Tributes are being paid to a Trinity College professor and oesophageal cancer surgeon at St. James’ Hospital in Dublin as he marks his retirement from the university. John Reynolds has been at the forefront of medical advances in Ireland which have led to a doubling of overall survival for the 500 plus people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the Republic each year.


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    11 min
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