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Martin wades into abortion debateAs the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers "be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable".
Payment cuts see families pay rent shortfallLimits on rent supplement payments set by the Government are forcing thousands of families to make undeclared top-up payments to landlords to secure places to live.
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Anger as North Korea launches another missileNorth Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.
How Star Trek predicted the futureWHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.
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Warnings over future of eurozoneThe eurozone is heading towards a break up unless there are moves towards much closer political and fiscal union, according to chief economist with State Street Global Advisers, Chris Probyn.
Bruton defends corporate tax rateIreland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.
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Wilkinson inspires Toulon to gloryASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Toulon 16 Not for the first time this season, a matchday performance and the result have made a mockery of the statistics.
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First thoughts
Tigers In Red Weather
Liza Klaussmann
Picador, €13.99,
Kindle £4.99
Review: Chloe Chaplain
It’s 1945 and cousins Nick and Helena are on the brink of womanhood as they prepare for their new, post-war lives, full of expectation and hope.
Both women are faced with the less-than-perfect realities of their marriages, in a world still piecing itself back together after the devastation of the war.
The novel unfolds through five perspectives, exploring the intricate and complex relationships of a family desperate to preserve a polished exterior. New York Times journalist Liza Klaussmann’s first novel is nothing less than gripping.
The setting of the glamorous mid-century combined with this tale of secrets and betrayal immediately entraps the reader in pages telling of love, yearning and desperate fear.
Klaussmann’s skilled plotting keeps the story alive throughout the novel, carefully feeding the reader with more excitement on each page.
Broken Harbour
Tana French
Hodder & Stoughton, €17.15,
Kindle £6.99
Review: Philip Robinson
Tana French’s fourth novel about the Dublin Murder Squad centres around Detective Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, a seasoned officer with a high crime-solving rate who takes pride in his work.
To him, half the case is solved by winning the psychological battle with the killer: this means best suit, nicest car and positive attitude.
A half-built, half-inhabited coastal Irish housing estate sets the scene as a seemingly normal family become the victims of a brutal murder. Who would have thought the events surrounding this case would prove to be Kennedy’s toughest challenge?
That coupled with the arrival of his mentally unstable sister means this case could be the one that forces him to break all the rules.
It’s a page-turner with twists galore.
Not Me: A German Childhood
Joachim Fest
Atlantic Books, priced £20,
Kindle £11.15
Review: Anthony Looch
This story about a respectable, cultured German family living in Berlin throughout Hitler’s rise to power is moving and enlightening.
Joachim Fest, one of three sons and two daughters, was born in 1926. He distinguished himself in later years as a journalist, editor and author of highly acclaimed books about Hitler, Speer and the Third Reich.
The Fests, who were Roman Catholic, were always staunchly anti-Nazi. Joachim’s father lost his job and was banned from employment because of his public criticism of the regime.
Fest paints an alarming picture of how other Germans were seduced or intimidated into supporting the Nazis.
Apart from the loss of one son on the Eastern Front, and despite severe deprivations, the Fest family survived the war and its grim aftermath.
Fest married, had children, achieved great success, and died aged 79 in 2006.
It could so easily have been otherwise.
Protection
GJ Moffat Headline, £12.99,
ebook €8.49
Review: Rachel Howdle
GJ Moffat weaves four sides of this complicated whodunit into one gripping story.
Primarily, we follow bodyguard Logan Finch as he takes on his toughest assignment — keeping American serial killer Chase Black out of harm’s way.
When evidence tampering comes to light, Black is released from prison. But he is soon the target of another killer.
With Black now free, the question remains: who is guilty of the crimes? This is what Jake Hunter, a homicide detective, is wondering.
He was certain of Black’s guilt, but as new evidence comes to the surface he begins to reassess. Can he spot a killer after all?
Protection takes the reader on a journey through America and into the UK. Will the culprit ever be caught and brought to justice?