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1. Garda with severe asthma claims management ‘ignored’ Covid health advice

   WRC case hears evidence that being a garda is ‘not a role that can be completed from home’

2. Church services

   Week beginning Saturday, December 20th, 2025

3. Temperatures set to drop to -2 over weekend but white Christmas unlikely

   Met Éireann forecasts Saturday night will be very cold with frost and ice developing

4. Court to rule today on challenges over super junior ministers sitting at Cabinet

   Ruling has potentially significant implications for the Government

5. Man who ‘cut off’ bereaved stepchildren from income settles business ownership dispute ‘in principle’

   Rathfeigh nursing home co-owner Jim Cahill has ‘starved’ stepchildren of cash, court told

6. Tasers Q&A: Despite death risk, few hard restrictions on use of weapons by gardaí

   ‘The chances are very low; they’re not zero,’ said Garda firearms instructor about possible fatal effects

7. Presbyterian Church began safeguarding inquiry following recent sex abuse conviction

   ‘First and final and absolute commitment’ to those harmed or affected by church failings, meeting told

8. Judge calls for crackdown amid rise in ‘violent’ behaviour in court

   High Court president says litigants who engage in disruptive behaviour risk facing criminal prosecution

9. Judges deserve more ‘credit’ for their handling of planning cases, says High Court president

   Increased Garda presence sought at Four Courts after recent increase in hostile litigants attending court

10. ‘No climate justice without basic human rights’ – Greta Thunberg tells Dublin event

    Activist attends ‘evening of words and song’ for Gaza awareness at Dublin’s Dalymount Park