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1. Uber protest: Assessment of taxi booking service licensing requested by Minister

   A six-day protest by taxi drivers had been suspended in anticipation of Government intervention on the issue

2. Church services

   Week beginning Saturday, December 13th, 2025

3. Former politician ordered to pay €50,000 damages for defaming Sinn Féin councillor

   Judge says Wayne Forde was ‘somewhat of a fantasist’ and his words were at the ‘highest level of defamation’

4. Tense negotiations, trad music sessions: How deal to extend nitrates derogation was done

   EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall needed convincing to renew contested exemption for Irish farmers

5. Ireland’s air traffic control operators not notified of drone activity during Zelenskiy visit

   Questions emerge over how vital security information was shared as anti-drone tech included in €1.7bn defence package

6. MI5 has ‘blind spot’ over Northern Ireland Troubles, PSNI chief says

   Police constable faces calls for ‘root-and-branch’ review of force’s relationship with MI5 following Operation Kenova report

7. Northern Ireland Justice Minister ‘misspoke’ when saying PSNI data-breach funding agreed

   2023 incident led to information about officers and staff getting into hands of dissident republicans

8. Mother seeks order so she can breastfeed newborn baby taken into care

   Woman is asking High Court to direct that the child be put back on her breast milk for the sake of his healthy development

9. Provisional liquidator appointed for firm linked to forged Garda vetting-cert scandal

   Earlier this year, a 22-year-old was convicted of 55 counts of forging certs to be provided to Tusla

10. Man (50) dies after wall collapses on him near Bandon, Cork

    The Health and Safety Authority has launched an investigation into the incident