Your Thursday lunchtime catch-up

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

TOP STORIES

Prison terms ranging from five years to 16 years have been imposed on the seven men who admitted carrying out an aggravated burglary on the home of a young family two years ago.

Public Accounts Committee members have strongly criticised the late-night release of documents by Finance Minister Michael Noonan about Nama’s Project Eagle.

A Hiqa inspection at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Louth has highlighted hygiene issues, including the risk of contracting Legionnaires Disease.

When an elderly nun shouted “help” after being attacked when walking to morning mass in Limerick city centre, nobody came to her assistance.

Around 50,000 low-paid workers are set for pay rises under new regulations for contract cleaners and security workers.

A man in his 20s is in a serious condition following an alleged assault at a house in Tralee, Co Kerry last night.

WORLD

Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are targeting other terrorist groups as well as Islamic State militants, according to a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the US if he was elected because they may be so-called ’Islamic State’ militants in disguise.