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Spanish judge issues European arrest warrant for Puigdemont Deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in Brussels, Belgium. His lawyer has already said his client will fight extradition without seeking political asylum.

Deposed Catalan leader in Brussels while eight government members have been jailed

  • Seven days that shook Catalonia
  • Madrid playing into hands of nationalists
Hilary Fannin Swedish death cleaning:Put life in order so family don’t have to
Varadkar does not envisage Ministers’ North Korea visit going ahead North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. Photograph: KCNA / via REUTERS/File
  • Politics
  • 19:31

Department of Foreign Affairs says it does not support visit by any parliamentary delegation

Halawa on the ‘Late Late’: I did not go to Egypt to get involved in politics Ibrahim Halawa on the Late Late Show: he said he wants to help the homeless and people who are falsely imprisoned
  • Social Affairs
  • 23:20

Dublin man talks about decision to join protest and violence in prison

On-the-run North prisoner released in Dublin after fine  Stephen Henry (41), of no fixed abode, leaving the Criminal Courts of Justice after he appeared before the Dublin District Court on Friday. Photograph: Collins Courts
  • High Court
  • 20:49

Warrant for Stephen Henry, who killed man with Samurai sword, could take a week

FG councillor loses party whip after ‘Sharia law’ comment Cllr Brian Murphy who is a member of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council claimed that Sharia law was operating in Ireland
  • Politics
  • 21:31

Brian Murphy criticised Naval Service’s mission in Mediterranean on social media

Stephen Cluxton’s omission the big talking point of All Stars selection Mayo’s Andy Moran was named as the 2017 Footballer of the Year. Photograph:   Ryan Byrne/Inpho
  • Gaelic Games
  • 21:07

Andy Moran and Joe Canning named as Footballer and Hurler of the Year

  • 2017 Football All Stars profiled
  • GALLERY: 2017 Football All Stars
How I ended up with the cap that belonged to Pope Pius XII The Pope’s cap: He told her that she was more deserving of the cap than he was
  • People
  • 06:00

Family Fortunes: Moved by her story, his Holiness placed it on Katie’s mantilla-covered head

Post-Ironman, it’s back to reality and time for some relaxation Aileen Flynn during the Ironman World Championship race in Kona, Hawaii.
  • Fitness
  • 03:00

‘Now that I’m home, it seems strange not to have what is really like another job’

NYPD gathering evidence for arrest warrant for Weinstein Film producer Harvey Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” allegations of non-consensual sex. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
  • US
  • 22:13

Police investigating ‘credible’ rape allegation made by Paz de la Huerta against producer

  • UK police investigate Kevin Spacey claims
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College Green plaza decision delayed to next April Architect images for the College Green civic space: Dublin Bus wants to keep running buses through College Green.
  • Environment
  • 20:08

Delay means buses will still cross Luas line when trams start operating in December

Apple fails to confirm Athenry data centre plans at Varadkar meeting It is understood that during a meeting between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and chief executive Tim Cook the company did not confirm whether it was proceding with the project.
  • Technology
  • 15:26

Taoiseach told Tim Cook of value and importance Government attaches to project

  • iPhone X hits the spot
Dublin council ‘needs 100 inspectors’ to tackle rental overcrowding RTÉ Investigates revealed  serious over-crowding in buildings
  • Social Affairs
  • 15:15

Threshold calls for NCT-style certification for properties after investigation exposes flaws

  • Slum-like conditions exposed
Woman found dead in Galway hotel was a cancer survivor, funeral told The remains of Betty Harrington are removed by her sons and daughters, with a cortege from the Bishopstown hillwalking club, from St Lachteen’s Church in Stuake, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
  • Irish News
  • 15:07

Betty Harrington ‘lived life to the absolute fullest’ and loved her grandchildren and hillwalking

Jail term for rapist and child abductor increased to 19 years Michael Murray (in blue jumper, hiding behind black bag) whose sentence for the rape and sexual assault of a woman whose child he abducted in the same incident was increased to 19 years following an appeal by the DPP. File photograph: Courts Collins
  • Crime & Law
  • 16:12

Michael Murray tied woman up before abandoning her son (4) in city centre late at night

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Breeders’ Cup: Aidan O’Brien’s Mendelssohn takes $1m Juvenile Turf 23:27
Halawa on the ‘Late Late’: I did not go to Egypt to get involved in politics 23:20
Conte keen to reunite Drinkwater and Kanté 22:51
Colin Keane wraps up first Flat jockeys’ title with Dundalk win 22:45
Munster run in seven tries as Dragons demolished in Cork 22:34

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1 Stephen Cluxton’s omission the big talking point of All Stars selection
2 Ibrahim Halawa - the inside story
3 Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly ‘acted despicably’
4 ‘Swedish death cleaning’ Put your life in order so loved ones don’t have to
5 ‘Welcome to a nurse’s world: 14-hour days. €14 an hour. Panic’
6 Varadkar does not envisage Ministers’ North Korea visit going ahead
7 Halawa on the ‘Late Late’: I did not go to Egypt to get involved in politics
8 On-the-run North prisoner released in Dublin after fine
9 Woman (37) involved in money laundering gets suspended sentence
10 Munster run in seven tries as Dragons demolished in Cork
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“No one likes a pop idol with a tarnished reputation” Perfect Blue

 

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Minister for Climate Action Denis Naughten at the handover of his new 100% electric car. Last month, he flew to Brussels to demand that the State be allowed to opt out of even the basic emissions commitments we had already signed up to. File photograph: Maxwell Photography
John Gibbons Ireland showing reckless disregard for climate justice
 
While the EU early on adopted policy measures to reduce emissions in electricity generation, the results have shown these policies to date have been very ineffective. File photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
John FitzGerald Sustainable electricity is the key to lower emissions
 
Emily Mulvihill with her son Eoin (15) and mentoring volunteer Brian Doherty in Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
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Sport

Mayo’s Andy Moran was named as the 2017 Footballer of the Year. Photograph:   Ryan Byrne/Inpho Stephen Cluxton’s omission the big talking point of All Stars selection
  • Gaelic Games

Andy Moran and Joe Canning named as Footballer and Hurler of the Year

Mendelssohn, second from right,  ridden by jockey Ryan Moore on the way to winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf  at Del Mar Race Track in  California. Photograph: Harry How/Getty Images Breeders’ Cup: Aidan O’Brien’s Mendelssohn takes $1m Juvenile Turf
Colin Keane wrapped up his first Flat jockeys’ championship with a victory at Dundalk on Friday night. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho Colin Keane wraps up first Flat jockeys’ title with Dundalk win
  • Munster run in seven tries as Dragons demolished in Cork
  • Leinster fail to claw back runaway leaders Glasgow

Life & Style

Aileen Flynn during the 2017 Ironman World Championship race in Kona, Hawaii My Fitness Diary: Feeling the heat on the lava fields of Hawaii
  • Aileen Flynn

Competing in the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii for the second time, I learnt plenty of lessons from the last time – particularly staying cool and hydrated

Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters Irish in US: Has your America changed since Trump’s election?
Designer and author Helen James: Moving to New York with three small children was scary, but pizza and Irish tea  made a memorable first meal. Photograph: Dave Meehan ‘One bite of that pizza, the like of which you could never get in Ireland, and a slurp of Irish tea'
  • Completed a marathon? Give yourself a pat on the back
  • Róisín Meets podcast: ‘I ended up in a mental institution so I wrote a show about it’

Culture

Colin Farrell in The Killing of a Sacred Deer Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Donald Clarke

Colin Farrell reunites with his Lobster director for the Killing of a Sacred Deer, a moving Holocaust documentary and a lesbian puzzler from Norway

Donald Clarke's Movie Quiz: Are you (a) smooth like Cary Grant or (b) a bit of a Borat?
Tomi Reichental: “What is happening in Syria is because of civil war and what happened to the Jewish people was very specific. But the end product – people trying to escape – is the same thing.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne ‘Sometimes I say that this is worse than with the Holocaust’
  • Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
  • Johnny Depp and Judi Dench can't save Murder on the Orient Express

Columnists

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John FitzGerald: Sustainable electricity the key to lower emissions

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Ryanair’s governance critics are growing bored of its ‘independent’ board

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‘Swedish death cleaning’ Put your life in order so loved ones don’t have to

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Noel Whelan: Britain distracted as Irish relationship faces strain

Business

It is understood that during a meeting between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and chief executive Tim Cook the company did not confirm whether it was proceding with the project. Apple fails to confirm Athenry data centre plans at Varadkar meeting
  • Technology

Taoiseach told Tim Cook of value and importance Government attaches to project

US President Donald Trump speaks while holding up “Simple, Fair, ‘Postcard’ Tax Filing” cards as US house speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin (left) and Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and chairman of the house ways and means committee, react during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Photograph: Olivier Douliery / Bloomberg US tax reform targets avoidance by multinationals
Customers look at the new iPhone X at an Apple store during its launch at Dubai Mall. iPhone X hits the spot as buyers surge to get new Apple smartphone
  • Connected gadgets and smart TVs vulnerable to data theft, report warns
  • Fishing from a small gene pool: Irish boards and interlocking directorships

Opinion

Noel Whelan: Britain distracted as Irish relationship faces strain Noel Whelan: Britain distracted as Irish relationship faces strain
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Brexit

Noel Whelan: Britain distracted as Irish relationship faces strain

Noel Whelan: Britain distracted as Irish relationship faces strain We are about to see first public divergence by governments on North since Belfast Agreement

British want business as usual in North post-Brexit – Grayling

‘Very committed to maintaining free-moving border between NI and Republic of Ireland’

Border can be invisible but cameras needed, Swiss customs advise MPs

Technology, intelligence and joint British-Irish mobile patrols deemed necessary

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John FitzGerald: Sustainable electricity the key to lower emissions Ireland should join coalition of countries driving decarbonisation of electricity systems

Newton Emerson: Why a Stormont deal remains likely

Sinn Féin and DUP supporters would have no option but to accept a new accord

Conor Cruise O’Brien forced Ireland to reconsider nationalism

The intellectual challenged the idea the pursuit of unity was the State’s main goal

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Abroad

Christelle McKillen: ‘Chanel is one of the most renowned luxury brands in the world, and we have some great perks, but the average working day is fairly standard.’ The Irish woman leading fight against fake Chanel goods
  • Christelle McKillen

Christelle McKillen works on the brand’s legal team, protecting against counterfeit

Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters Irish in US: Has your America changed since Trump’s election?
A police officer secures an area where flowers are left near the site of a terror attack in New York on the previous day. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Blaming green card system for NY attack ‘missing the mark’
  • Irish in New York: ‘I fear we’re becoming desensitised’
  • ‘Companies buy teams over here, not solo founders’

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