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1. Department must pay €30,000 to visually impaired employee over ‘protracted’ discrimination

   Paul Hill ‘humiliated’ by Department of Social Protection’s failure to provide reasonable accommodations for over 12-year period

2. Siptu asks Oireachtas committee to invite childcare employers in to explain stall on pay deal negotiations

   Union warns millions allocated by Government could again be returned unspent if the process does not start soon

3. Fuel costs: NI consumers could face ‘tsunami’ of high energy prices if Iran warn drags on

   Committee told £100 voucher scheme for home heating oil ‘isn’t going to cut it’ with ‘very difficult’ winter ahead

4. Teen facing rape and child pornography charges sent for trial to Central Criminal Court

   Boy, who was 14 when alleged offences occurred, appeared at Dublin Children’s Court, which does not have jurisdiction to hear case

5. Bishop criticises ‘false’ depiction of Catholic schools as ‘grim places of indoctrination’

   Groups funded by ‘ideological entities, many from outside the State’ are spreading distorted narrative, chair of bishops’ council says

6. Housing charity concerned at risk to tenants under modular home plan

   Threshold raises concerns over proposed planning exemption and rent-a-room changes

7. ‘Substantial shift’ among EU states on Israel, says McEntee

   Government ‘making progress’ on Occupied Territories Bill, says Minister for Foreign Affairs

8. Appropriate sentence for man who ‘stamped’ homeless victim to death, court rules

   Defence argued that Ireland had rejected ‘three strikes and you’re out’ principle of sentencing

9. More than 30% of women face barriers accessing free contraception scheme, report finds

   Migrant women, LGBTQ+ people, Travellers and people with a disability can struggle to avail of the service

10. Mother of three ‘doing everything’ to find alternative home ordered to vacate

    Residential Tenancies Board tribunal hears landlord needs house for own use as no longer feasible to live on farm