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SINN FÉIN would have preferred not to have to highlight their ill-judged and self-serving campaign to abolish the Special Criminal Court (SCC) just as tit-for-tat gangland murders claimed two victims in Dublin, once again underlining how essential such an option is in our justice system.

WHEN someone who knows what they are talking about gives you stern, challenging advice, you’d be a fool to ignore them — or at the very least unwise and reckless.

Advocacy group Age Action has called for a ministry to represent the interests of older people in the next government, a call driven by the changing demographics of Ireland’s population. It is estimated that Ireland’s population of older people will rise to something around 1.5m over the next three decades.

The audacity of the assassins who murdered David Byrne, 32, a member of an Irish-led crime cartel based in southern Spain, in a northside Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match last week, was as breathtaking as it was challenging. It also raises fears about the likelihood of a resurgence in gangland tit-for-tat murders.

An enriching and welcome tradition came to an end in Cork this weekend when the city’s synagogue closed ending a relationship that, in this iteration at least, stretched over 135 years.