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, 27 Oct, 2014 - 00:00

Denise O’Donoghue

BRIEFING TOP STORY

JA. FOR SURE! VISITORS JAZZ UP WET WEEKEND

Hot licks, boogie woogies, and jive-talkin’ Janes — it has to be the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

IRISH NEWS

'NO MORE CALL' FOR TAXPAYER BANK BAILOUTS

There will be no further call on the Irish taxpayer to bail out the banks following the results of the ECB stress tests, which showed that Permanent TSB failed one part of the comprehensive assessment.xt month. The day he was born is a day his family will never forget — for all the wrong reasons.

'MISPLACED LOYALTY' BEHIND MISSING WOMEN CASES

Crumbling loyalties could lead to breakthroughs in many of the missing women cases, according to a senior garda who investigated them.

WORLD NEWS

BRITISH TROOPS END COMBAT OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan as they and US Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a US-led invasion launched the costly war against the Taliban.

'HERO' TEACHER ATTACKED STUDENT GUNMAN

A newly hired teacher is being hailed a hero after she struggled with a teenage killer during a gun rampage in the cafeteria of a Washington state high school.

SPORT

MID KERRY SPURN LATE CHANCES AND SAVE STACKS

No silverware presented here but no harm done really following an enjoyable afternoon where both sides were jointly responsible for good football as they were equally guilty of some bad.

UNITED RESCUED BY RELIANT ROBIN

Robin van Persie’s dramatic 94th minute equaliser finally made Jose Mourinho and his Premier League leaders look fallible but, more importantly to the Manchester United hordes, it breathed much-needed optimism into Old Trafford.

BUSINESS

SHIRE 'DUMBFOUNDED' BY ABBVIE DEAL COLLAPSE

Shire CEO Flemming Ornskov was preparing for a meeting in Chicago on the integration of his company with AbbVie when he got the news that AbbVie was reconsidering the $52bn (€40bn) takeover.

VIEWPOINTS

THE KANGAROO CREW JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS IN BID TO CONDEMN

SET to one side the morality of the quasi-judicial approach and let us deal instead with the craziness of it. The sheer, straight-up, no-messing craziness. The braindead loopiness that characterised this kind of procedure at the time and runs through any contemporary justification of it.

EXAMVIRAL