Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Jim Gavin is due in Carlow for the Club Carlow Business Summit, which is understood to be his first public appearance since he withdrew from the presidential election race, after it emerged that he owed €3,300 to a former tenant

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has signed off on new wage levels for CEOs at Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann and Gas Networks Ireland. Approval was given on October 8 to increase the salary for the chief executive of Bus Éireann from €210,000 to €260,000. Jean O'Sullivan took up the position on November 1. The newly appointed CEO at Iarnród Éireann, Mary Considine, started on a €300,000 salary on September 15, up from €225,000.

It's Thursday morning and Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, 53, arrives at the Miro Room in La Moncloa, the seat of government, dressed in a blue suit and in good spirits. He seems eager to continue the fight. Neither the fierce legal pressure nor the withdrawal of parliamentary support by the Catalan separatist party Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia), announced just an hour earlier, appear to have affected the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader.

RTÉ bosses maintain relative silence, saying 'no comment' to questions about alleged meeting The reverberations from his departure are still being felt in RTÉ. The new schedule kicking off this morning on RTÉ Radio 1 is influenced by the fallout from the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal. In the new belt-tightened era in Montrose, stars have departed and presenters haven't had their ­contracts renewed as RTÉ hierarchy make it clear the "talent" are merely hosting the shows - not running the show.

This week, he will formally hand over the reins as leader of the State when president-elect Catherine Connolly is inaugurated as the newest first citizen of Ireland. What legacy does President Higgins leave behind? Where does he go next? And what are the biggest wins and losses of his time in Áras an Uachtaráin?

In a dishonest age when truth is under siege, media attention shatters into a thousand shards of glass and nothing is quite what it seems, what could be more precious than a voice of authority? Cue Morgan Freeman, an actor who has portrayed a US president, Nelson Mandela and the Almighty, and replaced Walter Cronkite on the voiceover introducing the CBS Evening News.

Rutte said that NATO exercises are successful and that he has "absolute confidence in the reliability of NATO's nuclear deterrent." The NATO chief warned that should Russia continue with their nuclear rhetoric then the public needs to know that the alliance has strong forces which "maintain peace, prevent coercion, and deter aggression." On 26 October Russia announced they had carried out a successful test of the long-range Burevestnik cruise missile from the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea.

'The Monk' was acquitted of the murder of Kinahan gangster David Byrne but Bonney and Murphy were jailed for helping the Hutch gang Lawyers for the men today confirmed they plan to go ahead with appeals against their respective sentences

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to the incident in Toomevara, Nenagh, that occurred sometime between 12 midnight and 2.20am. "The sole occupant of the car, a woman in her 80s, was pronounced deceased at the scene," a Garda spokesperson said. The Coroner was notified and the woman's body was removed to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick, where a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.

Fianna Fáil is facing a "demographic cliff edge" and isn't "even trying" to attract younger voters, according to the Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher.

As Catherine Connolly prepares to take over as Uachtarán na hÉireann after Tuesday's inauguration at Dublin Castle, questions have been raised again about the amount of money it takes to maintain the presidency. Running costs during her first year in the Áras are expected to exceed €6m, a sum that covers myriad expenses, including travel, gifts and food and drink for the many events that any president hosts.

The collision happened in 2023 when she and her husband were en route to watch their son play a match with Cork City FC

"The frequency requirements of mobile network operators in the upper 6 GHz band are assessed as greater with a view to future 6G applications" than those of Wi-Fi applications.

The mother of toddler Daniel Aruebose - who has admitted secretly burying her son on wasteland in Donabate, north Dublin - has handed over her Snapchat and email passwords to gardaí in order for them to examine her online conversations.

BBC Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday after criticism of the way the United Kingdom's public broadcaster edited a speech by US President Donald Trump. The scandal is the latest to hit the BBC, which has also been accused of failing to maintain its political neutrality in its reporting of the Israel-Hamas war.

That's the reason why I decided not to make a call: would I go to Turin or not earlier, because I wanted to see how the matches go, how I react, he told reporters. After yesterday's [Friday] match, I was hoping that it was not going to flare up. But then today, even before the match, it was not great. I had to take all the strong medications to be able to play the match.

Three people have died and at least 15 were injured in separate incidents linked to rough seas battering the Spanish island of Tenerife, pulling several victims into the ocean, emergency services said. A rescue helicopter airlifted a man who had fallen into the water at a beach in La Guancha, a municipality in the north of the island, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

Even though it's a small country, for various reasons I've found myself visiting this landlocked European destination on multiple occasions. It's a business and political hub, so work trips to Luxembourg are common, but I also find it a pleasant tourist city too. The aforementioned flight from London takes less than an hour and if you depart from London City Airport you can breeze through security in less than 5 minutes. Seriously, I timed it and that number is actually on the high side.

RTÉ chairman vows to clamp down on conflicts of interest in meeting with Culture Minister Former FG minister billed FF almost €10,000 for training in European and general elections Invoices suggest Micheál Martin did more than one session of debate preparation with Yates