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Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

IRELAND

A sense of middle-class entitlement by a group of students looking for the greatest high formed the background to a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs, the sentencing judge said yesterday.

A woman who was attacked by her former partner at their home in Cork was convinced he was going to kill her, a court heard today.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that any imposition of extra checkpoints at ports or entries into Ireland from Brexit would cost jobs and would create enormous difficulties.

Kathleen Watkins is thanking the public for their generous support for her husband Gay Byrne following his recent health scare.

The HSE has confirmed it is responding to an “emerging suicide cluster” in Cork City.

WORLD 

Five men arrested this week in France were planning a terror attack as early as next week and were receiving their orders from an Islamic State group member based in Iraq or Syria, prosecutors have said.

Police are carrying out a major search for a man armed with a shotgun and a knife who stabbed an elderly woman to death at a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France.

Turkey's president has accused the European Union of dishonesty and betrayal, and threatened to remove controls from his country's borders, potentially allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants into Europe.

Serial killer Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life in prison in the UK for the murders of four young gay men.

SPORT

Sean O'Brien and Jared Payne are late doubts for Ireland's final autumn Test against Australia in Dublin on Saturday. Meanwhile, Rory Best admits reaching 100 caps could always rank as the top achievement of his glittering Ireland career.

The French for goal is ‘but’. I’m not a fan of the English equivalent of the spelling, says Ronan O'Gara.

Dundalk midfielder John Mountney says they believe they can still reach the Europa league knockout stages despite last night’s 1-0 defeat to Alkmaar in Tallaght.

British police are widening their enquiries into the historic sexual abuse of young footballers after receiving allegations against more than one person.

OPINION

A new UCC module encourages students to intervene in situations of social misconduct for the good of society, explains Louise Crowley

In a special report, we look at 20 years of the Femicide Watch Project and ask what needs to be done to better protect women and children from domestic abuse and homicide

BUSINESS

Dublin-based airline CityJet has revealed a 66% reduction in operating losses in 2015 over 2014 as it published results today.

Discount retailer Dealz has created 55 jobs with the opening of two new stores in Bandon and Killarney.

LIFESTYLE

A premature birth can be terrifying. The care of a pre-term baby is very different to that of a full-term baby, as one mother tells Áilín Quinlan

SHOWBIZ

With just weeks to go until the release of Rogue One, IMAX has released three awesome new posters for the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga.

VIRAL

Magician Julius Dein has almost six million fans on Facebook, but there’s one member of the audience more important than all the rest – his grandma.

VIDEO - OUR CHOICE

We have all had the experience at a party, when you get caught out not listening to a DMC one-to-one conversation, but thanks to Foil Arms and Hog, you now have 10 definitive ways of dealing with the situation.

TECHNOW

GAMING: The FIFA game series remains top of the heap for football titles and this years version added some interesting new features, including a full on story mode called The Journey.

MOVIES/TV: A male and female spy get married during the chaos of World War 2. We review the new Brad Pitt film, Allied.

TECH: The iPhone 7 has only just been released, but already the work has begun on the iPhone 8.

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A sense of middle-class entitlement by a group of students looking for the greatest high formed the background to a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs, the sentencing judge said yesterday.