Your Tuesday morning catch-up

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Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 00:00

IRELAND

The 25-year-old son of a woman found dead in the family home in Cork City was being questioned by gardaí last night.

The announcement that Irish Farmers Association president Eddie Downey was stepping aside to allow a review into the remuneration of its general secretary followed a motion of no confidence by an IFA branch.

The prime minister of New Zealand has said the Irish Examiner’s tribute to Jonah Lomu shows the country needs a new flag.

A former solicitor was jailed for two years yesterday for stealing money from his clients to prop up his ailing ventures in the pub trade.

Despite the much publicised economic recovery the public still plan to spend less on Christmas this year than in 2014, according to the Irish League of Credit Unions.

WORLD

Lawyers for a 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested after taking a home made clock to his Texas school say he was publicly mistreated and deserves US$15m.

The atmosphere in Brussels is funereal. The Christmas lights are up but the pretty Christmas market stalls are all shut tight. The streets are almost empty and even the police sirens of the past week are silent.

SPORT

Arsene Wenger has called on Uefa to change its rules on drug cheats, saying the current regulations “basically accept doping”.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez last night offered his backing to under-pressure coach Rafa Benitez, while stating reports he was considering selling out-of-form galactico Cristiano Ronaldo were “lies”.

BUSINESS

The parent company of Whitegate oil refinery has confirmed that the country’s only such facility is back on the market after it reported losses of more than $280m (€263.13m) last year.

Seven years after the market instruments known as Contracts for difference — or CFDs — helped destablise Anglo Irish Bank and added to the country’s huge losses from the fallout of the banking collapse, they are again causing the regulators here some concern.

ANALYSIS

Nobody can be neutral in the face of merciless terror or injustice, says Fergus Finlay. You help, in whatever way you can

LIFESTYLE

Barbara Scully meets up with author, Felicity Hayes-McCoy who in a new book tries to explore the silence that surrounded her relative, Marion Stokes, a Easter 1916 activist and leading member of Cumann na mBan in the South East.

VIDEO

The ostensibly violent manner in which Marian Horgan, a mother of three, died in her home appears radically at odds with the normalcy of her life. Described as “a fantastic lady” and “a great community leader”, her passing was mourned by neighbours in the usually tranquil Cork City suburb of Montenotte yesterday.

VIRAL

Last night’s RTÉ News saw one Lotto winner get more than she bargained for while trying to open a bottle of bubbly.

Do you cry easily? If you do or if you know someone who does, you might enjoy this brilliant list shared by Aaron Gillies of all the things that have made his wife, Lex, cry recently.

TECHNOW

GAMING: It’s a pretty amazing time to be a Star Wars fan, with a huge new movie on the way in just a few short weeks. And they’ve also got the chance to play in this universe like never before with Star Wars Battlefront on consoles and PC.

MOVIES: The Planet of the Apes reboot seemed like a terrible idea but ended up being an very impressive sci-fi film. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes followed and managed to be almost as good, and now we’re waiting on the war.

TECH: Ever wondered what might happen if you stick an Apple Pencil into an industrial pencil sharpener? Well, rather than risking your own, you can just watch this video for the answer.