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Property tax changes: What price to put on your home? Revaluation for the local property tax is finally taking place, on November 1st. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

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Judge jails anti-lockdown protester for striking woman with wooden post Ruth O’Rourke, AKA Izzy Kamikaze, is pictured outside Dublin Circuit Criminal Court where Martin Quinn, an anti-lockdown protester, was jailed for striking her with a wooden post last year. Photograph: Collins Courts

Lawyer for Martin Quinn (30) from Ardee offers apology to Ruth O’Rourke for assault

New gambling laws would see free bets banned There will be a clampdown on gambling advertising that will see the new gambling authority empowered to issue codes around the time and frequency that such advertising can appear on TV, radio and other media. Photograph: iStock

Social impact fund to be established which will place a levy on gambling companies

‘Appalling’: Eir was worst company for customers during Covid, survey finds Almost half of Eir’s customers (44 per cent) said the company failed to meet their expectations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Eamon Martin: Why I am participating in service to mark partition Archbishop Eamon Martin at the graves of his predecessors in Armagh: ‘I found myself sharing with them in prayer the sincere hopes that I, and the other church leaders in Ireland, have for the centenary service.’ Photograph: Janet Forbes

Rite&Reason: One has to take risks for peace regardless of hasty or ill-judged comments

Plans to sell rezoned Dublin jam factory site for €25m leave sour taste Last year An Bord Pleanála approved an increase in the number of apartments on the former Chivers jam factory site to 550. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw 2:26

Councillors say they were ‘fooled’ into rezoning with ‘sugared’ promises of housing

MCD faces claims of ‘abrasive management behaviour’ Concert promoter MCD runs the music festival Electric Picnic. Photograph: Alan Betson 2:36

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