IRE - The Irish Times

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1. Almost 19,000 applications received from US citizens for Irish passports last year

   Many Americans seeking ‘Plan B’ to leave Trump’s America, says immigration lawyer

2. Former music producer and Celtic Woman creator loses home on foot of mortgage debts

   Court

3. Proposed evidence against Jonathan Gill would not be admissible under EU law, court hears

   Gill wanted in connection with murder of gangland criminal Robbie Lawlor

4. Romance fraudster who deceived widow out of €140,000 jailed for five years

   Peter McDonagh claimed he needed money for cancer treatment, a car and to pay off debts to ‘dangerous people’

5. Child homelessness up by 19% since last year, new figures show

   Number of people in emergency accommodation in Ireland reach another record high, now standing at 17,517

6. New date set for Jozef Puska’s appeal against conviction for murder of Ashling Murphy

   Puska (35) is serving a life sentence for the murder of the teacher in January 2022

7. Woman deported from US to Ireland fined for shoplifting items including €80 worth of ham

   Ciocolata Munteanu was arrested last month on her arrival at Dublin Airport

8. Man and woman arrested after two gardaí assaulted in Co Donegal

   The gardaí were treated in hospital after incident at Letterkenny premises on Thursday afternoon

9. Staycation once again: Should you holiday in Ireland this year?

   Last weekend Aer Lingus started cutting hundreds of flights from its schedule, while Ryanair has been talking up the risk of fuel shortages

10. Temperatures to reach 20 degrees with warm weather here to stay

    Met Éireann forecasts mostly dry weather into the middle of next week