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1. Met Éireann forecasts heavy rain, spot flooding and cold nights over the weekend

   Friday weather will be mainly dry apart from showers on Atlantic coasts

2. Houses in Kildare and Offaly searched in connection with Edenderry firebomb attack that killed Tadgh Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60)

   Gardaí from the Serious Crime Unit began carrying out searches at three properties on Friday morning

3. Uber protest: Assessment of taxi booking service licensing requested by Minister

   A six-day protest by taxi drivers had been suspended in anticipation of Government intervention on the issue

4. Former politician ordered to pay €50,000 damages for defaming Sinn Féin councillor

   Judge says Wayne Forde was ‘somewhat of a fantasist’ and his words were at the ‘highest level of defamation’

5. Church services

   Week beginning Saturday, December 13th, 2025

6. Tense negotiations, trad music sessions: How deal to extend nitrates derogation was done

   EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall needed convincing to renew contested exemption for Irish farmers

7. Ireland’s air traffic control operators not notified of drone activity during Zelenskiy visit

   Questions emerge over how vital security information was shared as anti-drone tech included in €1.7bn defence package

8. MI5 has ‘blind spot’ over Northern Ireland Troubles, PSNI chief says

   Police constable faces calls for ‘root-and-branch’ review of force’s relationship with MI5 following Operation Kenova report

9. Northern Ireland Justice Minister ‘misspoke’ when saying PSNI data-breach funding agreed

   2023 incident led to information about officers and staff getting into hands of dissident republicans

10. Mother seeks order so she can breastfeed newborn baby taken into care

    Woman is asking High Court to direct that the child be put back on her breast milk for the sake of his healthy development