Your Monday lunchtime catch-up
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Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.
A student in Cork has had a lucky escape after she managed to get away from two men who she claims were trying to assault her in the city last Friday.
The Communication Workers Union says An Post’s decision to shut down postal services is "ludicrous" and unneccessary.
An emergency meeting of the Fianna Fáil members of the Metropolitan District of Limerick City and County Council was held last night to assess the position of the metropolitan mayor of the city following revelations that he is at the centre of an internal Garda probe into the failure of officers to investigate his involvement in a motoring incident.
WORLD
A typhoon that tore through the northern Philippines before roaring ashore in southern China has killed at least nine people and left dozens of fishermen missing.
Turkey has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest at the violation of its airspace by a Russian war plane near the border with Syria, the Foreign Ministry said.
