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New report raises questions about State support for one-off housing

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Paper published by Department of Public Expenditure says subsidies of up to €100,000 available, and says further consideration needed on how better to target supports so State funds are maximised

Democrats need to find an alternative to Biden-Harris ticket

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Michael McDowell: The recent debate proved Biden is well past his political sell-by date and urgent action is required to prevent the unthinkable of Donald Trump reclaiming the White House

Quanta Capital in €20m deal for prime Grafton Street retail investments

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Irish-headquartered real estate investor in separate deals for two buildings on city’s foremost shopping street and 3-4 South Frederick Street

Tuesday, Jul 2

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Mother (40s) and young daughter killed in crash in Co Mayo

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‘I said prayers at the scene, that’s all I really could do,’ said priest called to the scene after collision between car and lorry

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Lucy Letby found guilty of trying to kill another child

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BRITAIN-COURT/LETBY (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-UK baby killer Letby found guilty of trying to kill another child

Prosecutors agree to Trump request to postpone ‘hush money’ sentencing

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Legal team says supreme court ruling on presidential immunity calls conviction into question

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Woman with history of mental illness killed her tirelessly supportive mother in ‘heartbreaking’ case

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Moire Bergin (47) has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering Mary Bergin (76) in Dublin 1 in 2022

Prisoners being tortured in Israel, says Palestinian hospital director

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Hospital director says abuse with batons and dogs occurs ‘almost daily’ in prisons

Man had ‘blank, vacant and detached’ look when gardaí arrived to investigate partner’s death, court told

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Andrei Dobra has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering Ioana Mihaela Pacala (30) in November 2022

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Case against man accused of publishing offensive material about politicians is adjourned

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Daragh O’Flaherty (47) alleges State has hidden data about infection rates for people ‘vaccinated with Covid-19 poison’

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Labour Court using powers under Industrial Relations Act in attempt to break deadlock between Aer Lingus and pilots

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With two sides at loggerheads over pay, Labour Court is formally intervening with a hearing on Wednesday

Man jailed over Temple Bar attack that left victim in need of life saving surgery

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Jordan Maguire (24) part of group that assaulted victim and left him with slash wounds to face and puncture wounds to back, neck and arms

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Canadian tourist dies after assault on Dublin’s O’Connell Street

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Neno Dolmajian (41), a single man from Montreal, critically injured and unresponsive in Mater Hospital since attack in early hours of June 23rd

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Former Social Democrats co-leaders Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall will not contest general election

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TDs announce they will not stand for re-election, saying it is ‘time for a new generation to take over’

Le Pen says she will seek to form government even if short of outright majority

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French far-right party leader says she will look for allies if RN fails to secure 289 parliamentary seats on Sunday

Thousands flee their homes as Israeli forces bomb southern Gaza

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Israel orders mass evacuation of eastern half of Khan Younis

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June temperatures fell below average ‘nearly everywhere’, Met Éireann says

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Averages some three degrees below those recorded in same month last year, which was hottest June on record

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Temperatures exceeding 30 degrees likely to become more common in Ireland - study

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Chance of temperature event of 33 degrees increases from 1 in 180-year event in 1942 to 1 in 9-year event in 2020

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Inside Politics: Cabinet discusses new immigration rules while TV licence decision nears

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Ministers will consider fresh proposals on accelerated decision times and new safe countries of origin.

Israel orders mass evacuation of eastern half of Khan Younis in Gaza

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Much of Khan Younis destroyed earlier this year, but Palestinians moved back to escape Israeli offensive in Rafah

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Joe Biden’s insistence on running again in November is an old man’s folly

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Fintan O’Toole: If the Democrats persist with Joe Biden, the United States is in imminent danger of being handed back to a Trump who is vastly more malign than he was in 2016

Michael McGrath: ‘Nothing is ever as it seems. We’ve ended up with seven children, but we had loss along the way’

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Parenting in My Shoes: Former minister reflects on the early ‘mad’ days of parenting and cherished moments of raising seven children

Future employment of people guilty of serious crimes of ‘limited concern’ when sentencing, judge says

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Comment comes just weeks after suspended sentence given to soldier Cathal Crotty in separate court

Who is buying a home in Ireland today? The changing profile of first-time buyers

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First-time buyers are getting older, buying smaller homes and are not necessarily in a couple. Some urban areas other than Dublin are seeing relatively low activity

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US presidential immunity ruling: ‘With fear for our democracy, I dissent’, supreme court judge says

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Legal decision makes it almost certain Trump will not face criminal proceedings ahead of the election, and if he wins he can get all federal charges against him dropped

Monday, Jul 1

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Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon surrenders to prison after conviction for contempt of Congress

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Right-wing firebrand calls himself a ‘political prisoner’ prosecuted by US justice department seeking to silence Trump’s Maga movement

Special Criminal Court cases delayed due to planned strike by barristers over pay

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Sentence hearing for Aaron Brady and hearings linked to killing of Tristan Sherry in Blanchardstown moved by judge due to action

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US supreme court rules Donald Trump entitled to degree of immunity from criminal prosecution

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Court decides ‘former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity from official acts but not from unofficial acts’

National Rally opponents race against time to keep French far right out of power

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Marine Le Pen’s Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant party came top in Sunday’s first-round election with 33% per cent of the vote

Palestinian militants fire rockets into Israel as tanks advance in Gaza

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Israeli releases 54 Palestinians detained during the war, including Al Shifa Hospital director Mohammad Abu Selmeyah