Completion of new children’s hospital to be delayed by nine months Cranes tower above the National Children’s Hospital site, as viewed from the South Circular Road in Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Long-awaited facility not expected to be ready to open until August 2022

Four Ford Transit vans lay burned out following Sunday night’s violence at the property in Strokestown. Photograph: Brian Farrell Miriam Lord Balaclava proves a red rag to bullish Varadkar
Dissident republicans suspected in Roscommon house attack The house in Strokestown, Co Roscommon, at the centre of an eviction controversy. Photograph: Brian Farrell

Gardaí think attackers believed security workers had British military backgrounds

Junior Anglo bondholders set to recoup 100% owed to them after holding out Taxpayers committed €29.3 billion to Anglo and €5.4 billion to INBS during the financial crisis, and face a minimal recovery on this, if anything. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Group owed €270m refused to share failed lender’s losses, despite Government pressure

‘The Irish Coast Guard was my life. That was all blown apart’ Bernard Lucas, husband of Caitríona, who died when her rib capsized during a rescue off Kilkee, Co Clare. Photograph: Eamon Ward

Bernard Lucas believes safety flaws were behind his volunteer wife Caitríona’s death at sea

Mary Poppins Returns: ‘No one can impersonate Julie Andrews so why would you bother trying’ Emily Mortimer, Nathanael Saleh, Pixie Davies, Julie Walters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Dawson and Emily Blunt in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’.

Mary Poppins Returns actors Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Rob Marshall on taking on a Disney classic

Pampering presents: Beauty gifts from under €10 to over €100 A well-thought-out gift set can be a handy idea, whether for your colleague or mother-in-law. Photograph: iStock

Secret santa or tricky in-laws? Salon-worthy ideas whether you want to save or splurge

Brexit: EU dismisses London’s talk of ‘managed no-deal’ Theresa May’s cabinet agreed to ramp up preparations in case MPs were to reject the withdrawal agreement next month. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
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Brussels to publish no-deal contingency plans as UK readies troops in case of disorder

Hauliers fear Brexit ‘nightmare’ as Irish Ferries may axe Rosslare-France route “Irish Ferries wish to inform our customers that we’re unlikely to operate a service between Rosslare and France in 2019. We continue to keep this situation under review. Our new WB Yeats ship will operate from Dublin to Cherbourg”

Company says it is ‘unlikely’ to operate a service on the crossing next year

Public health medicine specialists vote for industrial action The IMO said industrial action would commence on January 14th when members would put in place a work-to-rule in the public health out-of-hours service. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

IMO seeking release of long-delayed review of sector, and engagement with its findings

Friends, family of fatally stabbed lecturer bid him adieu The memorial service at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, where John Dowling taught English and European civilisation for 20 years. Photograph: Lara Marlowe

Memorial service for John Dowling, killed in Paris, was a joyful celebration of his life

Brexit heckler ejected from Irish Embassy annoyed at envoy’s second vote joke Journalist Joanna Bell (left) with Kim Kardashian. File photograph: Joanna Bell/Twitter

Daily Mail journalist apologises for disrupting ambassador’s speech at London party

Fintan O’Toole: One homeless child is a tragedy. Four thousand homeless children is a policy There are no angels or shepherds coming to adore our homeless children; no star from the east to hang over them. Above, a window in the lady chapel of the Catholic University Church, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

While we worship an image of a homeless child, thousands of children in Ireland will wake up at Christmas in places that are not homes

Family evicted from Roscommon farmhouse ‘overwhelmed by support’ Friends and neighbours help clean up the debris at the house in Strokestown, Co Roscommon, which was the centre of an eviction last week. Photograph: Brian Farrell

McGann family, in remarks issued through Sinn Féin MEP, say they ‘condemn all forms of violence’

Roscommon eviction: KBC seeking debt repayment since 2009 Broken window at the McGann house at Falsk, near Strokestown, Co Roscommon: land registry files show Anthony McGann has unpaid debts with a variety of financial institutions going back years. Photograph: Peter Murtagh

Anthony McGann agreed settlement with Revenue for €429,501 three years ago

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