Your Thursday evening catch-up

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Ireland will allow the 4,000 refugees coming here to work. The first groups of between 50 and 100 refugees will begin to arrive within weeks.

Time to get your weatherproofs down from the attic, folks - autumn weather arrives this weekend.

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson is standing aside, and the majority of his Democratic Unionist ministers are to resign, with party colleague Arlene Foster to take over as acting First Minister.