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1. Luas Red line reopens after fire as Dublin night service for Christmas announced

   Service is 21 years old and will cater for 55 million passenger journeys this year

2. Asylum seekers sleep rough in freezing temperatures as 3,500 refugee beds lie empty

   Handing out tents and sleeping bags, most of which are then destroyed, a `huge waste’, says volunteer

3. Met Éireann issues yellow wind warning for two counties in north west

   Rain, mist, hill and coastal fog, scattered showers and some sunny spells forecast

4. About €400,000 spent on mothballed accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Wicklow

   Residents had to be moved from Newtownmountkennedy site to alternative accommodation last year due to severe weather

5. Review into forged Garda vetting flagged employee unsuitable for work with children

   Forged background checks a ‘serious risk’ to safety of vulnerable children in care of private company

6. HSE tried to conceal ties to company at centre of forged Garda vetting controversy

   Internal inquiry opened into HSE contract awarded to firm that supplied falsified checks on care workers

7. Americans in Ireland think of home at Thanksgiving: ‘There are troubled times over there’

   From citizenship milestones to memories of the Dublin riots, US expats share what the holiday means to them now

8. Man (80s) killed in single-vehicle crash in Kildare

   Gardaí have appealed for witnesses who were in the Curragh Road area of the town on Wednesday afternoon

9. Husband settles action over death of Army captain from cervical cancer

   Edel O’Halloran, a retired Army captain, was 59 when she died of metastatic cervical cancer

10. ‘I just hope she’s going to be okay’: Clondalkin residents react to fire attack on woman

    Locals say people in the area are often living in fear of intimidation