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1. Storm Bram to bring ‘significant’ flood risk as orange wind warnings extended to 18 counties

   National Directorate for Fire & Emergency Management meets to prepare for ‘multi-hazard event’

2. Man arrested on suspicion of murder of missing Co Down woman Lisa Dorrian is released

   Bangor woman (25) disappeared after attending party at a caravan park

3. How do parents feel about Christmas gifts for teachers?

   ‘There’s never anything about teacher gifts. It just puts unnecessary pressure on families’

4. Fatal firebombing in Edenderry may be linked to prison fight

   Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60) were killed in attack on family home in Offaly

5. Drones passed within 500m of naval ship during Zelenskiy visit

   Naval officers on LÉ William Butler Yeats felt rules of engagement in place meant they could not open fire

6. Uber in Dublin: How are taxi drivers and passengers affected?

   Global transportation giant has started offering Irish customers fixed rates – but on Friday, drivers seemed reluctant to accept them

7. Final report into activities of British army’s top IRA agent during Troubles to be released

   Agent, known as Stakeknife, widely accepted to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci who died in 2023

8. Woman (80s) dies after being struck by car in Co Carlow

   Gardaí appeal for witnesses to fatal incident at Myshall on Monday afternoon

9. Appeal by couple who beat a grandmother with a hammer rejected

   Gerard Stokes (44) and his co-accused Samantha Campbell (36) were convicted of inflicting what a judge described as a ‘punishment beating’ on the woman over alleged missing drugs

10. Doctor jailed in the UK for attempted murder struck off Medical Council register

    Dr Thomas Kwan injected his mother’s partner with a poison in a row over an inheritance