The Briefing - Your Monday morning news catch up

Welcome to your Monday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

Mon, 01 Sep, 2014 - 01:00

Denise O’Donoghue

BRIEFING TOP STORY

MICK'S FANATICAL SUPPORT FOR MAYO REACHES FEVER PITCH

It was the game that had everything — blood, sweat, tears, and crazy behaviour from both players and fans at the All Ireland senior championship semi-final replay between Kerry and Mayo on Saturday.

IRISH NEWS

IRELAND 'MUST BE TOUGHER' ON SEX OFFENCES

Far too many sexual crimes are committed in our society with impunity, the head of the country’s biggest rape crisis agency has said.

MARTIN FIRES OPENING SALVO OF 2016 GENERAL ELECTION

Fianna Fáil have fired their first shots of the next general election campaign with promises to reduce the property tax for the vulnerable and not to enter into any coalition with Fine Gael.

WORLD NEWS

POLICE TO QUESTION PARENTS OF ILL BOY

British police have arrived in Malaga to question the parents of Ashya King, the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken out of a hospital in the UK on Thursday without doctors’ consent.

PEACEKEEPERS ESCAPE AFTER 7-HOUR GUN BATTLE WITH REBELS

Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers escaped their besieged outpost in the Golan Heights after a seven-hour gun battle with Syrian rebels, Philippine officials have said.

SPORT

LOVE BOMBING BEGINS AHEAD OF DREAM FINAL

As football game plans go for underdogs, this was almost utopian.

RODGERS JOY AS REDS END POCHETTINO'S HONEYMOON

Just three games in, and it seems the early assessments of Tottenham and Liverpool were delivered prematurely.

BUSINESS

VODAPHONE ANTI-COMPETITION CLAIM

Vodafone has been accused of restrictive competition practices by a former Greek partner of the telecommincations group.

VIEWPOINTS

IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE AND UNPLUG OUR MESSAGE OBSESSION

DIDN’T email Stephanie once last week. Not once.

EXAMVIRAL

EVER WONDERED WHAT'S INSIDE A DALEK?

Fortunately, on account of their mechanical nature, the insides of a Dalek didn’t have the same stench as Whitechapel in the 1890s. That didn’t stop them being seriously messed up though.

SHOWBIZ

KELLY REVEALS SHE HAD TWO MISCARRIAGES IN A YEAR

Kelly Brook suffered a second miscarriage while dating Thom Evans.

TOP FEATURES

SKINNY JEANS ARE TIGHT AND (STILL) SEXY

‘Vogue’ has declared that the vice-like grip of skinny jeans could be slackening in favour of a looser, slouchier silhouette. Rachel Marie Walsh disagrees