Your Friday morning catch-up
IRELAND
Full rail services will operate this morning, after more than 18 hours of negotiations to resolve a dispute at Irish Rail. Industrial action was called off when talks finished up at the Workplace Relations Commission just before 4am this morning.
The coalition is to stop landlords from raising rents every year and will limit rises to once every two years. After a climbdown by Environment Minister Alan Kelly to link rent rises to inflation, Fine Gael and Labour agreed on the plan last night.
Judge Keenan Johnson described a psychological report on a man he jailed for the false imprisonment of a young girl as “disturbing”. Judge Keenan Johnson described a psychological report on a man he jailed for the false imprisonment of a young girl as “disturbing”. Michael Martin, aged 36, a father of two originally from Dublin and now with an address at Shandon Court, Yellow Rd, Waterford City, admitted to the false imprisonment of an 11-year-old girl at Cullohill in Co Laois on March 4.
Insurance companies could be forced to hike premiums following an historic Appeals Court ruling which opens the way for higher compensation awards for people who suffer catastrophic injuries. The court upheld a €15.9m award made to nine-year-old Gill Russell from Aghada, Co Cork, who suffered brain damage at birth and has dyskinetic cerebral palsy.
WORLD
At least 50 arrests have been made and three police officers were injured during an anti-capitalist protest in central London last night. Thousands of demonstrators took part in the Million Mask March, organised by the Anonymous group, which began at Trafalgar Square before winding down to Whitehall.
Holidaymakers in Sharm el-Sheikh will be flown home today, but passengers will only be allowed hand luggage. Planes are banned from carrying bags in the hold, amid fears that a bomb brought down the Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt last week.
At least one person has been killed after a train hit a lorry at a crossing in southern Germany. Other people were injured in the accident on Thursday night near Freihung, eastern Bavaria, the dpa news agency said.
SPORT
Manchester United fans are struggling to decide whether their rose-tinted glass is half empty or half full; Louis van Gaal’s team may be more snorey-snorey than glory-glory at the moment but it is well-placed in the Premier League and Champions League, defensively sound, clearly evolving and still in with a chance of silverware in 2016.
Jordon Ibe scored his first goal for Liverpool in their Europa League win over Rubin Kazan. The 19-year-old got the game’s only goal in a 1-0 victory – and a very neat finish it was too.
BUSINESS
Toyota is investing $1bn (€920m) in a Silicon Valley research company to develop artificial intelligence and robotics. The move underlines the Japanese car maker’s determination to lead in futuristic vehicles that drive themselves and apply the technology to other areas of daily life.
China UnionPay, a state-owned payments processing- firm based in Shanghai, has emerged as a potential buyer for Galway-founded financial services firm Fintrax. Fintrax was founded in Ballinahown, Co Galway, in the early 1980s. It provides via subsidiary firms Vat- refund services for tourists buying goods overseas and currency conversion technology to allow for credit card purchases to be made in the buyer’s home currency when abroad.
ANALYSIS
Labour is also losing three of its most experienced members, three former leaders in fact, writes
LIFESTYLE
Travellers want to be officially recognised as an ethnic minority. Are they really? asks
VIDEO
Paul O’Connell is well used to plaudits but today he received an honour of a different kind. From now on, it’s ’Dr Paulie’ as the former Ireland and Munster star received his Doctor Of Science from the University of Limerick.
VIRAL
November can sometimes be a bit miserable when it comes to the weather. It gets dark earlier, it’s colder and usually it’s wet outside. But at the start of November this year we’ve seen some great weather. Our readers sent us in some brilliant pictures which shows off just how beautiful Ireland is and also proves weather in November isn’t always all bad.
John Lewis has partnered with Age UK for its latest Christmas TV ad – fondly regarded as the pinnacle of festive retail – with a reminder to consumers to consider those who will be alone this year. The full two-minute ad features the whimsical story of a young girl named Lily as she strikes up a connection with an elderly man who she spies through her telescope living alone on the moon.
TECHNOW
Game releases don’t come much bigger than Call of Duty and with the arrival of Black Ops 3 in just a few short hours, you can feel the hum in the air of thousands of gamers itching to get killing.
In case you weren’t aware, there’s a Deadpool movie coming in 2016 starring Ryan Reynolds. And he’s been wearing the costume a lot.
3D printing is an amazing new technology, creating complicated shapes using simple materials and machine which can be bought for just a few hundred quid. But they may also be harmful to some wildlife.
SHOWBIZ
Des Bishop has revealed his reason for returning home to Ireland was solely for his mum, Eileen. The comedian has admitted that his mum is currently unwell after suffering from lung cancer and sustaining some nasty injuries in the last few months.
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Two stuntmen using jet propelled wingsuits teamed up with Emirates Airlines to make this exhilaritng video. Jetman Dubai pilots Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet took to the skies over Dubai to fly alongside the Emirates A380 - the world’s largest passenger aircraft - at 4000 feet, reaching speeds of 170 knots.
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