Your Monday evening catch-up
IRELAND
A homeless family has received a flood of offers for help after an emotional appeal on Cork radio station 96fm. Mother-of-two Rebecca Dela Vega Heelan described to Deirdre O'Shaughnessy on the show how she walks the streets each day with her husband and three-year-old son while her six-year-old is in school.
A Meath resident stole over €132,000 from a sugar distribution firm to repay €90,000 she had taken from a previous employer to help her family, a court has heard.
A group that advocates drinking bleach to cure illnesses, and conditions including autism will not be selling it at its Irish seminar next month, but may teach people how to use it.
Majella O’Donnell has said that she has never accepted she had cancer. Instead, the 55-year-old said she believes a “higher power” may have given her the condition so she could help others.
Staff at a unit treating child sex abuse victims are coming under increasing pressure from the courts and the DPP to release intimate details over and above that related to abuse concerns.
Tánaiste Joan Burton has risked sparking fresh tensions with Fine Gael by claiming Labour’s coalition partner has been forced to back-track into “adopting the Labour party position” on the universal social charge (USC).
Sinead O’Connor has apparently broken ties with two of her four children, and other named individuals, after the events of this weekend where a post on her Facebook page said she had taken an overdose.
WORLD
The German government is planning to send up to 1,200 troops to help in the fight against the so-called 'Islamic State' group.
Pope Francis yesterday arrived in Central African Republic, making the final stop of his first trip to Africa.
SPORT
French newspaper Midi Olympique are reporting that Ronan O'Gara has knocked back a move for him by the IRFU. According to the report the union wanted O'Gara to replace Les Kiss in the Ireland camp following his move to Ulster.
Well, that escalated quickly. A few months ago Phil Neville was joining Valencia as a first-team coach. Now he’s temporarily in charge.
BUSINESS
Shannon Group plc, which includes Shannon Airport, has received a significant boost with the news that a leading worldwide private aircraft charter operator is establishing a base in Co Clare.
Big decisions to be taken at two key meetings later this week could likely shape the future of the Irish economy for years to come. One is by the European Central Bank and the other is by the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries.
ANALYSIS
The GOP is fearful that, if the extremist billionaire wins its presidential nomination, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s election to the White House will become inevitable, writes
LIFESTYLE
Boredom is part of the most creative jobs and should be accepted, according to Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, who met up with in Dublin.
VIDEO
Hundreds of new beds are available to homeless people since Jonathan Corrie’s death galvanised us into action. But the number of people on the street is still growing, writes Elaine Loughlin
VIRAL
We always suspected the North Pole was a decoy... News broke recently that Santa is bringing his workshop to Bishop Lucey Park in Cork as part of the Glow festival this year.
The way birds talk and sing to each other turns out to be exactly the same as how us humans do it. A new study has found both humans and birds use a system which involves sound pulses being generated thousands of times per second as folds of tissue quickly vibrate.
TECHNOW
Rainbow Six Siege isn't a blockbuster movie, but you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise with this epic launch trailer.
A special pop up cinema experience is coming to Dun Laoighre in Dublin for Christmas. The Light House cinema is bringing festive fun with their Naughty or Nice series to the Maritime Museum in Dun Laoghaire over two weekends in December.
A new album called 8 Bit Music Power is coming out on the 31st of January and it features some classic sounding tracks with all the twanging goodness you expect from Chiptune. The kicker this time is that the album will be available on a cartridge and not just any cartridge - one that will only play in the original Nintendo Famicom which released in Japan in 1983.
SHOWBIZ
Hozier fans rejoice as the crooner will play a free gig this December 3 at St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre in Dublin..
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Immediately after the unanimous points win that saw him become the genuine heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson Fury credited his promoter and manager Mick Hennessy as being the ‘Jerry Maguire of boxing’.
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