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1. Virtual reality as a lifeline: ‘For some young people it’s the social’

   Foróige GoVirtual seeks to connect vulnerable and isolated young people through virtual reality

2. Number of road deaths so far this year passes total figure for 2024

   Garda data shows 180 people have died on Irish roads, 15 more than same period last year

3. State faces further lawsuit over cancelled international protection centre in Dublin

   Company suing over repudiation of contract to convert office building on Fumbally Square to accommodation

4. Tusla took ‘unprecedented’ steps to accommodate minor it considered most vulnerable in the State

   Judge directed the easing of stringent reporting restrictions in the proceedings, noting the significant public interest issues

5. Rapist Michael Murray’s appeal against 35-year sentences dismissed

   ‘Question of good character does not come into this’, judge said in case over offences at ‘highest level’

6. Woman (60s) killed in two-car crash in Cork

   A man, also in his 60s, has been taken to Cork University Hospital where he is being treated for injuries believed to be serious

7. Granddaughter of Chaim Herzog takes part in Hanukkah celebration in Dublin

   Minister for Justice among those at Herzog Park to mark Jewish festival and commemorate victims of Sydney attack

8. Man (35) due in court after Ryanair flight forced to divert

   The flight from Portugal to Dublin had to divert to Cork

9. Gaisce Gold Awards: ‘You have made an enormous difference’

   President Catherine Connolly says participants had taken meaningful steps towards ‘a lifetime of active citizenship’

10. Welshman to have his dying wish honoured with scattering of his ashes at Cork charity complex

    Kenyon Jones Ginn, fondly known as Taffy, lived in the Mount St Joseph Housing Complex off Blarney Street in Cork from 2007 to 2021