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1. Church services

   Week beginning Saturday, March 7th, 2026

2. Land Development Agency issued 423 rent reviews to cost-rental tenants in last six months

   Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin says LDA should not proceed with rent increases, as they will ‘add financial hardship to existing tenants’

3. Departments refuse to hand over records of institutional abuse to archive amid dispute

   Archivists at State’s own project blocked from looking at records by Government over legal concerns

4. Jailed Tipperary dentist charged patient who went for dentures for 19 extractions

   HSE dental inspectors said Jerome Kiely falsely claimed for many treatments he never provided

5. Man in his late 80s dies in crash in Co Louth

   Gardaí appeal for witnesses to come forward after single-vehicle crash in Ardee

6. Pregnant girl (16) can be given treatment despite religious objection to blood transfusion

   The girl told her court-appointed guardian that if the decision was taken out of her hands it would be easier, but she would still feel guilty about it

7. Priest lost nearly €50,000 in broadband phishing scam

   Priest tells Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he believes the bank failed him as a customer

8. ‘I was too honest’: Garda whistleblower ‘cut off’ after raising homicide errors, she says

   Lois West found there were 16 cases which ‘absolutely needed to be reclassified’

9. New Garda aircraft comes off runway at Baldonnel in ‘minor’ incident

   Incident happened in poor weather while aircraft was conducting training exercises at Casement Aerodrome in west Dublin

10. Senator sought to block promotion for key witness in Garda investigation, WRC hearing told

    Former chief executive at Inland Fisheries Ireland tell hearing that within hours of complaint against him shared with agency’s board a TD had read details into Dáil record