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1. Dubliner used racial epithets before being struck on St Patrick’s Day, US jury hears

   Bouncer Sanusi Sadiq is charged with manslaughter of Barry Whelan over altercation on a Boston street in 2023

2. Teaching has become an increasingly lonely profession

   In my past life, which included a stint as a private detective, there was time for a chat and a joke with a colleague. Not any more

3. Teacher with 15 years’ experience facing €4,000 cost to pursue career in Ireland

   ‘I don’t think people realise just how many obstacles there are for teachers who qualify abroad’, says Sinéad Ryan

4. Taoiseach acknowledges more needed to meet target of 50,000 new homes a year

   Micheál Martin spoke in Cork at launch of two new housing schemes

5. Drew Harris says prosecuting his father’s IRA killers would make little difference

   Former Garda commissioner says short sentences they would receive would not ‘weigh the scales’ for 1989 murder

6. Surge in Irish people being deported from overseas countries, Minister hears

   Department of Foreign Affairs briefing documents also warn of mounting resistance to ‘mainstreaming gender perspectives’

7. Pregnant woman (30s) dies Co Antrim car crash

   Cathrene Kith Quiñones Singco was a back seat passenger in one of two vehicles involved in collision

8. ‘Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin’: Judge reduces €50,000 damages award by 80%

   Court finds cyclist was mainly responsible for collision with motorbike in which he suffered brain and soft-tissue injuries

9. Permission for Luas extension to Finglas now facing three legal challenges

   Proposed route would run from the current Green line terminus at Broombridge to Charlestown

10. Army chaplain attacked with knife to receive military honour

    Three members of Defence Forces to receive distinguished service medals for response to 2024 incident