Your Friday lunchtime catch-up
IRELAND
A man who stored his own excrement in an apartment for several months, causing €15,000 worth of damage, has been jailed for a year.
A purported Islamic State video which includes Ireland as a member of a “coalition of devils” should not be seen as a direct threat, an expert has cautioned.
Patients dying after being attacked, sexual assaults, deaths during surgery, and an abduction from a hospital feature in a shocking HSE report published yesterday.
The IFA is to withhold the €2m severance package agreed between its former president and its now- departed secretary general on the basis that it is legally void.
Six hundred new gardaí will be recruited next year, bringing the total number of new recruits since September 2014 to 1,150.
WORLD
French president Francois Hollande has promised the families of those killed and wounded in the Paris attacks that he will do everything to destroy the “army of fanatics” responsible.
Canada’s outspoken Miss World contestant said she was barred from entering China to take part in this year’s pageant in the island province of Hainan.
SPORT
Tournament organisers have announced that five European Champions Cup pool games postponed earlier this month following the Paris terror attacks will take place in January.
Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has come to the defence of current manager Louis van Gaal but also criticised the Dutchman’s team for lacking attacking ambition.
BUSINESS
Hundreds of thousands of euro is expected to be spent during Black Friday sales today.
The euro fell towards its weakest levels in seven months against the dollar yesterday as investors speculated the European Central Bank will expand a stimulus programme when it meets next week.
ANALYSIS
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LIFESTYLE
Christmas parties should be rockin’. So if you’re throwing one, says , seek inspiration from America’s most famous family, (not the Obamas) the Kardashians.
VIDEO
Kieran Coniry, volunteer crew member, reading the children's book, 'The Big Christmas Rescue', during a visit by pupils from three primary schools to Crosshaven lifeboat station. Video Denis Minihane.
VIRAL
Black Friday is upon us and we may find ourselves in a slight state of sudden panic, says
Like thousands of other children, Christian Hickey wrote a letter to Santa. But one of the requests on Christian’s list was unique to all the other letters sent to Santa.
TECHNOW
Black Friday is upon us, and while we certainly couldn't recommend getting into a punch up in the aisles over a really sweet TV, you can get some great deals right from your couch.
This new video brings together the best moments from two decades of The Force Awakens right here, feel the force by watching it with your brain via your eyeholes.
Google has even more Star Wars stuff to give us between now and the launch of The Force Awakens on December 17th, and the latest is all about learning a new language.
SHOWBIZ
JK Rowling has finally answered a question that has plagued Harry Potter fans since her final book was released.
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Black Friday is upon us and we may find ourselves in a slight state of sudden panic, says
