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Minister for Housing survives no-confidence vote Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney are pictured with Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy (centre) during a motion of confidence in the Dáil on Mr Murphy on Tuesday. Image: Oireachtas screengrab.

Sinn Féin motion of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy defeated 59 votes to 49

Seclusion and restraint in schools: Children with disabilities at risk Paddy Connolly of Inclusion Ireland says a lack of training among staff means vulnerable children are being placed in isolation for hours at a time. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Many school staff not trained to deal with challenging behaviour, say campaigners

Paisley’s exclusivist nationalism lives on in Trump and Brexit Rev Ian Paisley in 1969: fostered close ties with American white supremacists. Photograph: Jimmy McCormack

God’s chosen people asserted right to govern settled lands from Ulster to US

Keith Duggan: GAA clubs face decision over JP McManus’s gift JP McManus has gifted €100,000 to each county board to be shared out between clubs. Photograph: Oisín Keniry/Inpho

There are GAA people out there who will want nothing to do with the billionaire’s money

Leading Irish authors sign letter against ‘forced resignation’ of editor over #MeToo essay Ian Buruma, ex-editor of The New York Review of Books: writers say his departure represents ‘an abandonment of the central mission of the review, which is the free exploration of ideas’. Photograph: Vincent Tullo/The New York Times

John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Roy Foster among over 100 writers to express dismay over departure of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma

Gate Theatre founders’ Ranelagh home for €1.75m on elegant Victorian square 61 Dartmouth Square, Ranelagh, Dublin 6

Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards once lived in this spacious, bright house

Michael O’Leary: ‘I asked Matt Cooper not to proceed with any such book’ Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary attends a press conference in London on September 12th. Photograph: Tolga Akmen, AFP

Cooper says the book is neither ‘a PR job’ nor ‘hostile to Ryanair or Michael O’Leary’

Trump’s speech to UN assembly draws unintended laughter US president Donald Trump addresses the United Nations general assembly at UN headquarters in New York, on Tuesday. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
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US president’s claim about his successes in office elicits unexpected response from world leaders

Demolished Apollo House site goes on sale for €40m-plus Computer-generated image of proposed new Apollo building on Tara Street, designed by architects Henry J Lyons

Land has permission for 11-storey block with double basement extending to 12,000sq m

Miriam Lord: Leo quells annual tizzy over Christmas bonus The money for the Christmas bonus will be found – but only after much effort on the Government’s part, it has to be said. And it was. Photograph: iStock

Kite-flying isn’t what it used to be. This one flew for barely a day

Guidelines on social media use in court trials due before Christmas Social media guidelines are being drafted by a committee made up of the presidents of all five court divisions including the chief justice Frank Clarke (above). Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan/Sharppix

Issue brought into focus by recent Jobstown and Belfast trials

Allowance increase could benefit 18,000 nurses, says Government The Psychiatric Nurses’ Association said it had identified up to 700 nursing vacancies in mental health services across the country. Photograph: Frank Miller

Pay Commission finding that nurse retention is not an issue is ‘inaccurate’, says nurses’ group

Error adding up Leaving Cert marks a ‘disgrace’, student says A student whose Leaving Certificate marks were wrongly totted up by an examiner has described the error, which has cost her a place in veterinary medicine at UCD, as a ‘disgrace’. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times.

Rebecca Carter says decision not to recheck her results now will cost her a place in UCD

‘You need that ability to bounce back from knockbacks’ Managing director Sinead McSweeney in Twitter’s Dublin headquarters. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
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