Your Wednesday evening catch-up
IRELAND
The IFA’s executive council has today approved a review of the structures and pay levels in the organisation. Former IFA chief economist Con Lucey will head the review, which will look at all aspects of the pay and expenses given to former general secretary Pat Smith, president Eddie Downey and vice president Tim O’Leary.
An emergency operation is underway in Limerick City after a man became trapped under a pontoon on the River Shannon. The man, who is in a critical condition, entered the water around 3.30pm and became stuck underneath the floating decking.
A Fine Gael TD is to take his own party to court, over his failure to be nominated for next year’s general election. John Perry is the only outgoing Fine Gael TD not to be included on the party ticket, after he was defeated at his convention in Sligo-Leitrim.
Two Irish men have been killed while working on a building site in Australia. The deceased have been named as Joe McDermott, 24, from Omagh, Co Tyrone, who had just moved to Perth, and Gerry Bradley, aged in his 20s, from Coleraine, Co Derry.
A 25-year old man has been charged with the murder of his mother in Cork city earlier this week.
Feisty pensioner Phil Summer got her way with the water meter installers this morning, when they begain installing in her estate Sundrive Park, Ballinlough.
WORLD
A Russian airman who survived the downing of his military jet has said Turkish jets did not issue any warnings before the incident. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has ordered state-of-the-art air defence missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following incident.
The so-called ’Islamic State’ group has claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Tunisia which killed at least 13 people. In a statement posted online today, the group said a militant it identified as Abu Abdullah al-Tunisi carried out the attack in the capital Tunis after infiltrating the bus.
SPORT
The Fenway hurling classic may be under review by the GAA for the “mass brawl” that broke out between the Dublin and Galway hurlers midway through the second quarter, but one thing seems certain: the Americans loved it.
Six-time All-Ireland winning Cork camogie goalkeeper Aoife Murray has expressed frustration at how female sports, and its participants, are treated in Ireland.
BUSINESS
Online gambling firm Betfair, which is merging with rival Paddy Power, said its earnings lifted 9% to £80.5m in the six months to the end of October compared to a year ago.
Cpl Resources Plc, Ireland’s largest indigenous recruitment and outsourcing firm today announced the creation of 200 skilled, operational roles across the Group’s extensive branch network in the next two years.
ANALYSIS
There will be little sympathy for former IFA General Secretary Pat Smith, who received a well-buttered exit, says .
LIFESTYLE
Gay Byrne was a lifeline to a generation of housewives who tuned into his radio show after they got the kids out to school. And, says in her latest book, Gay Byrne gave them a badlyneeded voice.
VIDEO
Vandalism has delayed the opening of a community centre built in a €5m Traveller housing scheme in Cork. Several windows at the St Anthony’s Park facility in Hollyhill on the city’s northside have been broken and the exterior has been damaged.
VIRAL
If this video is anything to go by, three-year-old Bodhi Yelverton clearly has great taste in music. His dad, Colin, posted the clip to Youtube and it shows little Bodhi rocking out to The Bucket from Kings of Leon.
As the saying goes: ’Pele good, Maradona better, George Best’. Today marks 10 years since his passing and social media is remembering the man who made Pele bow down and admit that Georgie, the Belfast boy, was indeed, the best of his time.
TECHNOW
Star Wars Battlefront is now available, letting us live out our fantasies of being Rebel soldiers, Imperial stormtroopers, heroes, or villains.
Daddy’s Home is an hilarious-looking new comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell and the two superstars are bringing the film to Ireland.
It’s a busy time of the year for online shopping but Amazon has been forced to reset a number of passwords after a security concern was raised.
SHOWBIZ
Maria Walsh has insisted she was happy with the TV3 Toy Show – despite negative backlash.
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Feisty pensioner Phil Summer got her way with the water meter installers this morning, when they begain installing in her estate Sundrive Park, Ballinlough.
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