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An enormous post budget row has erupted between the government and RTE over a shortfall in funding for the broadcaster agreed in this week’s budget.

A solicitor known for establishing the Co Laois music festival, Forest Fest, has been suspended from legal practice by the High Court.

Security concerns for Jewish people in Ireland have prevented Dublin’s primary synagogue from organising a public-facing memorial to mark the October 7th attacks.

In her tech column today, Ciara O’Brien is making the case for removing the phrase “we didn’t mean it” from tech companies’ book of excuses when it comes to deep fakes.

Patrick Freyne is writing about a “new rich-person documentary.” The Beckhams were the patients zero of the celebumentary. Now it’s the turn of Wayne and Coleen Rooney.

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The Government has unveiled an €8.5 billion Budget package bringing public spending to a record €125.6 billion next year.

Tighter spending controls on policing major events after a review of the policing operation around last year’s Europa League final in Dublin, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly is expected to tell an Oireachtas committee.

A workplace dispute involving HIV Ireland has heard evidence about tensions within the charity and a decision to withdraw from a major HSE awareness campaign.

Swimmers in Lough Derg talk of skin irritation and respiratory problems from blue-green algae.

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The Government will unveil another giveaway budget today, Tuesday October 6th, which will include reductions in tax for middle income earners worth up to €1,500 for a couple with a combined income of €100,000.

“Drumcree is the theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of silly walks,” according to Fintan O’Toole, who’s column this week focuses on the eruption of sectarian tension in Portadown.

As a new legal term begins in the Irish courts this week, Hugh Linehan is contrasting the reporting restrictions which apply to criminal cases here with those in the United States; as America grapples with the alleged gang rape of a woman at Cornell University in upstate New York.

Tributes are being paid to a Trinity College professor and oesophageal cancer surgeon at St. James’ Hospital in Dublin as he marks his retirement from the university. John Reynolds has been at the forefront of medical advances in Ireland which have led to a doubling of overall survival for the 500 plus people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the Republic each year.

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Irish drug gangs are now making as much money from cannabis as they are from cocaine, according to new Gardaí figures.

Housing, energy costs and childcare are among the main concerns people have been voicing ahead of Budget 2027.

Ireland’s borrowing costs are a fraction of bigger economies like France, the UK and the United States.

Garvaghy Road residents are in court today as the dispute over an Orange Order parade at Drumcree.

The latest delays to Ireland’s national children’s hospital are carrying a growing cost for patients waiting to use the new facility, new correspondence reveals.

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The opposition parties have laid out their alternative budgets ahead of the government’s Budget 2027 next week.

Grinds 360, Ireland’s biggest online education platform, was plunged into a boardroom battle after its CEO was temporarily suspended in a dispute over company finances and governance.

Next week, the European Union and China head into what could be one of their most consequential trade showdowns in years.

Domestic rugby falls far behind the financial viability of the international game, but what can fix it?

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