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10:23 MONAGHAN CRASH: PRINCIPAL DESCRIBES SCENE OF ‘UTTER HEARTBREAK AND DEVASTATION’ AT SCHOOL DONALD TRUMP INDICTED OVER ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN 2020 ELECTION SINN FÉIN PUBLISHES BILL TO BAN SEEKING SEX IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT AI-SUPPORTED MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING IS SAFE AND ALMOST HALVES RADIOLOGIST WORKLOAD, LANCET STUDY FINDS ‘FRUSTRATION’ AMONG PARENTS OVER UNIFORM COSTS, DIGITAL TOOLS AND VOLUNTARY FEES, DESPITE FREE BOOKS SCHEME KATHY SHERIDAN: THE AGA HAD TO GO AND SO DID MY SANITY RÓISÍN INGLE: I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ALL THE WOMEN LIKE SINÉAD O’CONNOR WHO WOULDN’T GET BACK IN THEIR BOXES KAREN DUGGAN: IF I WAS VERA PAUW, I’D PROBABLY SAY ‘THANKS FOR EVERYTHING’ AND SLIP AWAY QUIETLY MORE TOP STORIES US US IN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION AS TRUMP INDICTMENT OR SUBSEQUENT CONVICTION WILL NOT BAR HIM FROM PRESIDENCY Motors HOW NOT TO BUY AN SUV: THE COMPACT ALTERNATIVE CARS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT FIRST Ireland TV LICENCE REVENUE DROPS €2.7M IN JULY Inside Politics PODCAST: US POLITICS SPECIAL WITH CLARE MALONE OF THE NEW YORKER Listen | 52:34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ireland MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NUMBER LEAVING DEFENCE FORCES AS ARE BEING RECRUITED Subscriber Only ‘MY GIRLFRIEND HAS WORN ME DOWN AND I FEEL SHE WANTS TO SHAPE ME INTO HER CORPORATE PARTNER’ Business IDA PLEDGES TO HELP LAID OFF ACCENTURE WORKERS: ‘THEIR SKILLS CAN BE QUICKLY ADAPTED’ Ireland MOST-GOOGLED OVER PAST 20 YEARS SHOWS IRELAND’S OBSESSION WITH WEATHER UK SAY ‘MAAATE’: NEW ANTI-MISOGYNY CAMPAIGN AIMED AT YOUNG MEN IN UK DIVIDES OPINION Business CARTRAWLER BACKER HAS ‘NO PLANS TO SELL’ AS FIRM RETURNS TO PROFIT OPINION MICHAEL MCDOWELL: RIGHT-TO-HOUSING REFERENDUM WOULD NOT LAY A SINGLE BRICK Enshrining the right to housing in the Constitution won’t make the executive suddenly able to solve the housing crisis - all it will do is enrich the legal profession By Michael McDowell FRANK MCDONALD: IT MAY SOON BE TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT SOME AIRBNB LETS By Frank McDonald RHODE TO NOWHERE – FRANK MCNALLY ON A MISLEADING PLACENAME KATHY SHERIDAN KATHY SHERIDAN: THE AGA HAD TO GO AND SO DID MY SANITY THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON ACCENTURE JOB CUTS: A WORRYING SIGNAL THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON RON DESANTIS: FAILURE TO LAUNCH LATEST STORIES UK GOVERNMENT CLIMBS DOWN ON POST-BREXIT PRODUCT MARK HIQA REPORTS DEFICITS IN TUSLA SERVICE FOR AT RISK CHILDREN IN LOUTH AND MEATH PODCAST: US POLITICS SPECIAL WITH CLARE MALONE OF THE NEW YORKER Listen | 52:34 MONAGHAN CRASH: PRINCIPAL DESCRIBES SCENE OF ‘UTTER HEARTBREAK AND DEVASTATION’ AT SCHOOL DUBLIN AIRPORT OPERATOR ORDERED TO RESTRICT NIGHT-TIME FLIGHTS MOST READ 1 MONAGHAN CRASH: CLONES MOURNERS FORM GUARD OF HONOUR AS REMAINS OF TEENAGER KILLED ON WAY TO DEBS RETURN HOME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 MONAGHAN CRASH: INVESTIGATION TO FOCUS ON WET WEATHER CONDITIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 KATHY SHERIDAN: THE AGA HAD TO GO AND SO DID MY SANITY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 ‘MY GIRLFRIEND HAS WORN ME DOWN AND I FEEL SHE WANTS TO SHAPE ME INTO HER CORPORATE PARTNER’ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 HOW NOT TO BUY AN SUV: THE COMPACT ALTERNATIVE CARS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT FIRST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WOMEN'S WORLD CUP Australia & New Zealand 2023 MARY HANNIGAN: AWKWARD HOMECOMING ON THE CARDS WHEN IRELAND RETURN FROM WOMEN’S WORLD CUP KAREN DUGGAN: IF I WAS VERA PAUW, I’D PROBABLY SAY ‘THANKS FOR EVERYTHING’ AND SLIP AWAY QUIETLY FAI FACING BIG DECISION AS THEY PONDER PAUW’S FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS AI CAN HELP YOU SAVE, BUT DON’T RELY ON IT TO FIX YOUR FINANCES DARRAGH Ó SÉ NAMES HIS TEAM OF THE YEAR WHY I STOPPED ASKING MY FRIENDS FOR ADVICE AND BEGAN TRUSTING MY INTUITION MORE DARA Ó BRIAIN TAKES ON THE MOON AND THE PLACES ‘IRISH PEOPLE KNOW BUT THE BRITISH SEEM NEVER TO HAVE HEARD OF’ SPORT DARRAGH Ó SÉ NAMES HIS TEAM OF THE YEAR Likes of Cluxton, McCarthy and Fenton led the way throughout but Kerry will feel this was one they may have left behind PAUL O’CONNELL: ‘I REALLY LIKE THE WAY WE’VE MANAGED THIS PRESEASON’ IT LOOKS LIKE A DONE DEAL THE IRISH OPEN WILL RETURN TO ROYAL COUNTY DOWN NEXT YEAR KAREN DUGGAN: IF I WAS VERA PAUW, I’D PROBABLY SAY ‘THANKS FOR EVERYTHING’ AND SLIP AWAY QUIETLY KILCRUIT CAN DELIVER ON EARLY PROMISE WITH GALWAY PLATE VICTORY BEIRNE TARGETING THREE WARM-UP TEST VICTORIES TO MAINTAIN IRELAND’S MOMENTUM MANNION POINTS TO SENSE OF DUTY AS HE SAVOURS ‘SWEETEST’ SUCCESS BUSINESS PTSB NUDGES UP FORECASTS ON RATE HIKES EVEN AS MORTGAGE MARKET STALLS Lender is benefitting from takeover of Ulster Bank loans SMURFIT KAPPA SALES FALL AS CARDBOARD BOX SALES DIP IN WEAKENING ECONOMY CARTRAWLER BACKER HAS ‘NO PLANS TO SELL’ AS FIRM RETURNS TO PROFIT AI CAN HELP YOU SAVE, BUT DON’T RELY ON IT TO FIX YOUR FINANCES UK GOVERNMENT CLIMBS DOWN ON POST-BREXIT PRODUCT MARK IDA PLEDGES TO HELP LAID OFF ACCENTURE WORKERS: ‘THEIR SKILLS CAN BE QUICKLY ADAPTED’ KERRY GROUP EXPECTS ‘MODEST INPUT PRICE DEFLATION’ IN SECOND HALF LIFE & STYLE Food THE BEST PLACES TO EAT IN DONEGAL RIGHT NOW Your Wellness ‘MY GIRLFRIEND HAS WORN ME DOWN AND I FEEL SHE WANTS TO SHAPE ME INTO HER CORPORATE PARTNER’ Life & Style WHY I STOPPED ASKING MY FRIENDS FOR ADVICE AND BEGAN TRUSTING MY INTUITION MORE People RÓISÍN INGLE: I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ALL THE WOMEN LIKE SINÉAD O’CONNOR WHO WOULDN’T GET BACK IN THEIR BOXES Your Wellness BULLYING AT WORK: ‘THERE CAN BE SO MUCH SHAME ASSOCIATED WITH BEING BULLIED’ CULTURE Music ALL TOGETHER NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: STAGE TIMES, TICKET INFORMATION, HOW TO GET THERE AND MORE Music LIZZO ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT WEIGHT-SHAMING BY FORMER DANCERS Culture THE COMPLETELY FREE SPRAOI 2023: ‘THREE DAYS OF ENTERTAINMENT WITHOUT A WRISTBAND IN SIGHT’ Music THE MUSIC QUIZ: WHAT IS THE ONLY U2 SONG COVERED BY GEORGE MICHAEL? Film ALICE WINOCOUR: ‘I WANTED THE FILM TO CELEBRATE EVERYTHING THE TERRORISTS WANTED TO DESTROY’ WORLD BEIJING BATTERED BY HEAVIEST RAIN IN 140 YEARS AS CHINA DENIES OBSTRUCTING CLIMATE DISCUSSIONS China accounts for more than half of global coal production but has bristled at calls to cut emissions RUSSIAN DRONES CONTINUE TARGETING PORT AND GRAIN STORAGE FACILITIES AFTER COLLAPSE OF BLACK SEA DEAL US IN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION AS TRUMP INDICTMENT OR SUBSEQUENT CONVICTION WILL NOT BAR HIM FROM PRESIDENCY FOUR NIGERIANS SURVIVE 14 DAYS ON SHIP’S RUDDER BEFORE BRAZILIAN RESCUE DONALD TRUMP INDICTED OVER ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN 2020 ELECTION SAY ‘MAAATE’: NEW ANTI-MISOGYNY CAMPAIGN AIMED AT YOUNG MEN IN UK DIVIDES OPINION POLAND SENDS MORE TROOPS TO BELARUS BORDER AFTER ‘AIRSPACE BREACH’ CRIME & LAW PSNI CRITICISE ‘RECKLESS ACT’ AFTER PIPE BOMB EXPLODES IN BELFAST ALLEY A number of homes were evacuated on Tuesday night as a security operation was launched MAN HELD AS CANNABIS WORTH €700,000 SEIZED AT DUBLIN AIRPORT ALL EVIDENCE POINTS IN DIRECTION OF ACCUSED IN COLD CASE MURDER TRIAL, PROSECUTION TELLS JURY ‘IT’S MORE THAN THE HORSES NOW’: NORTH CO DUBLIN EQUINE THERAPY CENTRE SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOME BIKE RESTORATION PROJECT GETS BOOST FROM MEN’S SHED IN MOUNTJOY PRISON WOMEN TO APPEAL DISMISSAL OF ACTION AIMED AT HALTING PROSECUTION OVER ALLEGED COVID-19 QUARANTINE REFUSAL BROTHERS NOT GUILTY OF DUBLIN MURDER BUT CONVICTED OF LESSER OFFENCES POLITICS PODCAST: US POLITICS SPECIAL WITH CLARE MALONE OF THE NEW YORKER Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan Listen | 52:34 SINN FÉIN PUBLISHES BILL TO BAN SEEKING SEX IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT ‘I’M LISTENING TO IT NOW AND WANT TO HEADBUTT THE DESK’: MIRIAM LORD ON MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PODCAST CHILD POVERTY PLAN TO FOCUS ON EARLY LEARNING AND CARE, CHILDCARE AND FREE SCHOOL MEALS DEFECTIVE HOMES REPAIRS SHOULD BE FUNDED BY SURPLUSES, COALITION TOLD SIPO PLEDGES TO INVESTIGATE CONCERNS ABOUT NATIONAL PARTY GOLD JUSTIN BARRETT DENIES BEING OUSTED AS NATIONAL PARTY LEADER News Digests Stay on top of the latest news with our daily newsletters each morning, lunchtime and evening Sign up On The Money Save money and make smart spending decisions with our weekly personal finance digest Subscribe HEALTH HIQA REPORTS DEFICITS IN TUSLA SERVICE FOR AT RISK CHILDREN IN LOUTH AND MEATH ‘MY GIRLFRIEND HAS WORN ME DOWN AND I FEEL SHE WANTS TO SHAPE ME INTO HER CORPORATE PARTNER’ BULLYING AT WORK: ‘THERE CAN BE SO MUCH SHAME ASSOCIATED WITH BEING BULLIED’ AI-SUPPORTED MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING IS SAFE AND ALMOST HALVES RADIOLOGIST WORKLOAD, LANCET STUDY FINDS PROPERTY FOUR FOR €195,000 AND UNDER: HOMES IN LOUTH, WESTMEATH, TIPPERARY AND MEATH FOUR FOR €325,000 AND UNDER: HOMES IN KERRY, LOUTH, LAOIS AND DUBLIN WHAT WILL €370,000 BUY IN FRANCE, THE US, SWEDEN, SPAIN AND MAYO? LANDMARK VICTORIAN HOME ON QUIET, LEAFY RATHMINES STRETCH FOR €3.5M DON'T MISS SEÁN MORAN: STRIKING A BALANCE AND OTHER NOTES FROM A TROUBLED CHAMPIONSHIP HOW NOT TO BUY AN SUV: THE COMPACT ALTERNATIVE CARS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT FIRST ALICE WINOCOUR: ‘I WANTED THE FILM TO CELEBRATE EVERYTHING THE TERRORISTS WANTED TO DESTROY’ ‘I DON’T THINK ANYBODY CAN SAY MONEY IS NOT IMPORTANT TO THEM’ ‘SHE’S LEARNED HOW TO CLOSE THE DOOR’: THE STRIKING SILENCE OF MELANIA TRUMP THE BEST RESTAURANTS TO VISIT IN CLARE RIGHT NOW YOUR MONEY AI CAN HELP YOU SAVE, BUT DON’T RELY ON IT TO FIX YOUR FINANCES THAT SKY ‘WOULD TREAT A RECENTLY WIDOWED SENIOR CITIZEN LIKE THIS IS DESPICABLE’ MONEY, WORKING HOURS, MEAL BREAKS AND TAX: WHAT YOUNG WORKERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUMMER JOBS FOOD THE BEST PLACES TO EAT IN DONEGAL RIGHT NOW IRELAND’S BEST CHEESES, RIBS ROASTS, ICE CREAM AND MORE: WINNERS OF THE GREAT TASTE AWARDS 2023 REVEALED AN EASY PASTA DISH THAT IS A SUMMER STAPLE IRELAND HIQA REPORTS DEFICITS IN TUSLA SERVICE FOR AT RISK CHILDREN IN LOUTH AND MEATH MONAGHAN CRASH: PRINCIPAL DESCRIBES SCENE OF ‘UTTER HEARTBREAK AND DEVASTATION’ AT SCHOOL NI FIREFIGHTER LEAVES RETIREMENT PARTY TO SAVE 28 CALVES TRAPPED IN SLURRY TANK ABROAD IRELAND FANS CELEBRATE IN BRISBANE AS WOMEN BOW OUT OF WORLD CUP: ‘THEY’VE PUT FOOTBALL ON THE MAP FOR LITTLE GIRLS’ ‘THE HAPPINESS I HAVE DISCOVERED IN JAPAN CANNOT USURP MY GRÁ FOR IRELAND’ WE WENT ON A TV PROPERTY PROGRAMME: HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT CLIMATE CRISIS BEIJING BATTERED BY HEAVIEST RAIN IN 140 YEARS AS CHINA DENIES OBSTRUCTING CLIMATE DISCUSSIONS SUNAK DRAWS BATTLE LINE WITH LABOUR ON CLIMATE POLICY HEATWAVES: 15 DEATHS IN JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA AS TEMPERATURES SOAR EDUCATION ‘FRUSTRATION’ AMONG PARENTS OVER UNIFORM COSTS, DIGITAL TOOLS AND VOLUNTARY FEES, DESPITE FREE BOOKS SCHEME UNIVERSITIES TO HIRE MORE THAN 1,500 STAFF TO TACKLE LARGE CLASS SIZES LARGE CLASS SIZES, REDUCED SUPPORT, PRECARIOUS WORK: IMPACT OF THIRD-LEVEL RECRUITMENT RESTRICTIONS PODCASTS In the News OZEMPIC - THE REALITY OF THE ‘MIRACLE’ WEIGHT-LOSS JAB Listen | 26:33 In the News BULLYING IN SCHOOLS, HOW IT’S CHANGED AND HOW TO HANDLE IT Listen | 25:27 In the News GILGO BEACH MURDERS: COULD A MANHATTAN ARCHITECT BE THE LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER? Listen | 23:25 Ross O'Carroll-Kelly FATHER AND SON. FROM THE SAME CITY. AND WE MIGHT AS WELL BE A DONKEY TALKING TO A PARROT Listen | 05:52 SUBSCRIBER ONLY Subscriber Only ‘MY GIRLFRIEND HAS WORN ME DOWN AND I FEEL SHE WANTS TO SHAPE ME INTO HER CORPORATE PARTNER’ By Trish Murphy Subscriber Only RÓISÍN INGLE: I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ALL THE WOMEN LIKE SINÉAD O’CONNOR WHO WOULDN’T GET BACK IN THEIR BOXES By Róisín Ingle Subscriber Only DARRAGH Ó SÉ NAMES HIS TEAM OF THE YEAR By Darragh Ó Sé VIDEO Rishi Sunak has defended the UK's "fantastic" climate record amid criticism over the awarding of hundreds of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery A selection of Monday's best pictures as chosen by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN DUBLIN AIRPORT OPERATOR ORDERED TO RESTRICT NIGHT-TIME FLIGHTS OPERATOR OF KAYAK TOUR BUSINESS DENIED PERMISSION TO CHALLENGE MARINE CASUALTY REPORT DUBLIN CELEBRATES 31ST ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL TITLE: ‘LET’S HAVE A PARTY FOR THE BOYS IN BLUE’ SOCIAL AFFAIRS HIQA REPORTS DEFICITS IN TUSLA SERVICE FOR AT RISK CHILDREN IN LOUTH AND MEATH UCD STUDENT WHO LIVED IN TENT ON BELFIELD CAMPUS ON BRINK OF RETURNING TO HOMELESSNESS TALKS ON PAY INCREASES FOR VOLUNTARY-SECTOR HEALTH WORKERS COLLAPSE TECHNOLOGY ELON MUSK DRAWS HEAT FROM SAN FRANCISCO OVER GIANT X LOGO KARLIN LILLINGTON: X? REALLY? REALLY, ELON MUSK? X? META UNFRIENDS NEWS MEDIA IN GROWING RIFT WITH PUBLISHERS TRANSPORT DUBLIN AIRPORT OPERATOR ORDERED TO RESTRICT NIGHT-TIME FLIGHTS CIRCLE K APOLOGISES AFTER ‘INADVERTENTLY’ FILLING PETROL PUMPS WITH DIESEL IN KILDARE SERVICE STATION IRELAND’S TRAIN PLAN: A ‘NEW AGE OF RAIL’ OR A PIPE DREAM? TELL US WHAT YOU THINK HISTORY PLAQUE COMMEMORATING JAMES CONNOLLY UNVEILED IN DUBLIN ‘WE’VE FINALLY GIVEN THEM THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE’: NATIONAL ARMY CIVIL WAR DEAD HONOURED WITH MONUMENT ‘VIKING MEN WERE TALL, BLONDE LADS. THEY DEFINITELY HAD BETTER STANDARDS OF HYGIENE THAN THE IRISH’ OBITUARIES DAVID HONE RHA – DISTINGUISHED PAINTER WHO WON WIDESPREAD ACCLAIM FOR HIS PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES OBITUARY: GLENDA JACKSON: OUTSTANDING, FEROCIOUS PRESENCE IN THEATRE AND ON SCREEN SINÉAD O’CONNOR OBITUARY: ‘PROUD TO BE A TROUBLEMAKER’ TUARASCÁIL CÉ MHÉAD ATÁ MUID SÁSTA A DHÉANAMH AR MHAITHE LE TURASÓIRÍ A MHEALLADH? 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