MORNING BULLETIN: Five-strong contest expected for presidency; 7,000 referrals made to Bernardos last year

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MORNING BULLETIN: Five-strong contest expected for presidency; 7,000 referrals made to Bernardos last year

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IRELAND: Five candidates now look set to contest the position of President, following a series of votes at local authorities across the country

IRELAND: As work nears completion on a €1.2m clean-up and repair project on St Patrick’s Bridge, a rare image of 1860s Cork shows its original construction as it too approached an end.

IRELAND: Hotels charging more than €150 nightly could be slapped with higher taxes in a likely budget proposal

SPECIAL REPORT: Children’s charity Barnardos dealt with almost 7,000 new referrals about children and families in crisis last year, up 10% in one year

WORLD: America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) has come to a crashing halt, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates US troops in Afghanistan.

VIEWS: Candidates are limbering up for a competitive race for the Áras, writes Juno McEnroe

SPORT: A bad look when Roy’s rollickings go a step too far, by Larry Ryan

SPORT: Joey Carbery prepares for a possible first start for Munster this Friday admitting he left Leinster to “get out of the shadow of Johnny Sexton”

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CULTURE: Joey Tempest of the big-haired metal band tells Ed Power about megahit ‘The Final Countdown’ and his time living in this country

FEATURE: Never too early to start planning for the festive season

SHOWBIZ: Charlie Puth says he tried to help Mac Miller get ‘clean’ before his death

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