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Aoife Noonan’s How to be a Better Baker Part 5: Fruity tea loaf Delicious: fruity tea loaf. Photograph: Harry Weir Photography

Packed with fruit and lightly spiked with warm spices, this is a perfect winter treat

Thirty-nine Irish toyshops for your online Christmas shopping Dozens of Irish websites sell toys and games for children of all ages. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

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David McWilliams: We need to reinvent our empty city car parks Car parks are ideal micro-projects for reimagining the broader city. Photograph: iStock

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Firearms and €100,000 worth of drugs seized by gardaí in Dublin A man in his 40s has been arrested. Photograph: An Garda Síochána

Items were found during a search of a property in Ballymun on Saturday

One man dies, five injured after partial building collapse in Tralee Emergency services at the scene in Tralee where a man died and several others were injured after a building partially collapsed. Photograph: Domnick Walsh

Dead man is named as Tom Ross (68), a married family man well-known as a builder

Man arrested over murder of Seema Banu and her two children Seema Banu with her son Faizan Syed and her daughter Asfira Riza.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield offers to ‘talk space’ with Adam from the Toy Show Adam King (6), from Cork, said he wanted to command a space mission with Nasa. Photograph: Irish Embassy USA Twitter account

Irish embassy says it will speak to Nasa about ‘bringing your dreams a little closer’

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Late Late Toy Show duet with musical hero ‘absolutely mad’ says delighted teen Sandra McLoughlin and her son Michael Maloney back home in Mayo on Saturday after his ‘mindblowing’ appearance on the Late Late Toy Show. Photograph: Sandra McLoughlin

Michael Maloney (14) didn’t know he would be singing with Dermot Kennedy on the show

Penneys reopens and plans for 39 consecutive hours next week Penneys has also announced that there will be extended opening hours across all 36 of its outlets in the State. Photograph: iStock

Two shops in Dublin will open at 7am on Tuesday and trade until 10pm on Wednesday

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