Morning Briefing: Top stories on Wednesday, November 24
Good morning everyone. Here's today's briefing from the early crew here on the newsdesk.
Here are the nine stories we are highlighting on the irishexaminer.com home page right now.
A specialist 130-bed rehabilitation hospital, to be just the second in Ireland, forms part of the first €350 million phase of a long-term development project for Cork City's South Docks.

Education Minister Norma Foley has announced a raft of new measures to relieve the staffing crisis faced by schools throughout the country.
A new America’s Cup ‘set-up’ in Cork, which could save the State an estimated €80m in staging costs, has been pitched to civil servants in a bid to keep the city’s hopes of hosting the 2024 yacht race afloat.
Some of the country's most vulnerable children who find the subject of their care before the courts face delays in therapeutic, disability, and mental health services, often exacerbating problems that begin in homes where they have suffered abuse or neglect.
Three directors of Tennis Ireland, including the president, were last night suspended from the organisation's board.
Construction work has commenced on a new €80m office and residential development on Limerick's Bishop's Quay.
When an experienced head like Peter O’Mahony proclaims that the last month in Irish camp has been “the most enjoyable in my career”, you have to take notice.
A winner has been crowned on the 12th series of The Great British Bake Off.
New York guitarist Mark Plati had a leading part in recording the 2002 album that's finally getting an official airing.
Fearne is nine, and her epilepsy has meant multiple stays in hospital, where her mum Sinéad was forced to sleep on a chair for weeks on end.
From unwashed plastic milk bottles, dirty nappies, and black bin-liners, to passports, guns, and a dead Labrador, Donal O’Keeffe learns the worst things you can put in your recycling.

A largely dry start this morning apart from isolated showers. However, it will turn cloudier through the morning as a band of rain spreads southeastwards from the Atlantic.
The rain will clear in the early afternoon, followed by scattered showers and sunny spells.
Feeling cold with afternoon temperatures of 6C to 8C in light to moderate southwest winds, veering northwest as the rain clears and increasing strong on western coasts.
For detailed national and regional weather forecasts see Met Eireann.




