MORNING BULLETIN: Budget haggling goes to 11th hour; Ploughing returns to Screggan

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IRELAND: Housing, welfare and health are sticking points as budget haggling goes to 11th hour.

IRELAND: Three in a row for Screggan as in 2018 National Ploughing Championships to return in 2018.

IRELAND: Over 171,000 Irish businesses could be vulnerable to crippling ransomware attacks.

WORLD: Police say at least 12 people have died after an overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma capsized in the confluence of a river and the Bay of Bengal.

BUSINESS: Construction increased at a slightly faster pace in September but the rates of growth in new orders and employment both eased, according to the latest Ulster Bank purchasing managers’ index.

SPORT: The former chair of the Kerry County Board has backed Colm Cooper’s claim that Joe Brolly privately apologised for publicly criticising the Gooch’s upcoming testimonial dinner, which he described as “cheap and self- serving”.

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