Politics at home and abroad dominated the news this week, with a historic ruling in New York
Only five days remain until polling stations open for the country’s first nationwide elections in almost 4½
There is no shortage of options. Some 73 candidates are vying for 14 seats in the European Parliament. An estimated 2,169 are in contention in 166 local electoral areas. And there are 15 contenders for the brand new office of Limerick mayor. Our political team has profiled the three European constituencies, with Jack Horgan-Jones on the sprawling five-seater of.
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Friday, 59-year-old Gerard O’Brien, a Circuit Court judge from 2014 until earlier this year, was sentenced to four years in jail for sexually assaulting six young men and boys in the 1990s. The offences occurred between 1991 and 1997, when O’Brien was a teacher at CBC Monkstown in Co Dublin.
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