UN: Saudi Arabia may have been involved in hack of Jeff Bezos’ phone Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that a media report that the Kingdom is behind the hacking of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ (pictured) phone was ‘absurd’. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg.

Relations between Amazon, Washington Post owner and Kingdom soured after Khashoggi death

“Housing, by the way, is a broad-spectrum issue; it stretches from those families abandoned in emergency accommodation to the young middle class...” File photograph: Getty Michael McDowell Is Ireland moving left or are we simply moving on?
Live Election 2020: Bailey bows out of Dún Laoghaire, Casey to run in Dublin West

Mary Lou McDonald says people reaching for 'any reason imaginable' to keep Sinn Fein on sidelines

Harvey Weinstein was not just a Hollywood titan but ‘a rapist’, trial told Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein (centre) arrives with his defence lawyers for the first day of his sexual assault trial at New York state supreme court in New York on Wednesday. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
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Weinstein (67) has pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two women

Man who killed Jastine Valdez ‘looked possessed’ before shot by garda Garda told inquest Mark Hennessy looked uneasy and agitated.

Detective who fired gun tells inquest of Mark Hennessy he believed he had no other option

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The club deserve to be punished but the fallout could adversely affect England

Terry Jones was the John Lennon of comedy 1979: Terry Jones, star of Monty Python’s Flying Circus directed and starred in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

The Monty Python founder had the idea of dropping punchlines for an absurdist style

Dublin ranks 120th out of 150 cities for raising a family Family-friendly?: in coming 120th, Dublin’s overall score is 68.06, compared with Helsinki’s 100 and Istanbul’s 1

The Irish capital lags behind other European capitals in a survey topped by Helsinki

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It’s patronising to say an unmarried woman is a victim of her male partner’s indecision

Labour ‘certain’ extending temporary rent freeze not unconstitutional Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin speaks at a press briefing in Dublin on January 15th. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Party proposed three year freeze along with rent caps as part of policy to help renters

UK to prioritise EU trade deal over one with United States Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Sajid David.

US treasury secretary warns chancellor Sajid Javid over digital tax plan

Eyewitness to Auschwitz: ‘We were held in the wagons like animals’ The entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp near Krakow, Poland. Photograph: iStock

Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald’s diary details her deportation to surviving in the death camp

Fianna Fáil may have just pressed the pause button on the property market Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin: the party says in government it would give first-time buyers €1 for every €3 they save towards a mortgage, capped at €10,000. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The party’s new SSIA may cause a significant number of housebuyers to put their plans on hold for an unspecified period

Trump criticises ‘hoax’ impeachment trial as he departs Davos US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22nd, 2020. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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US president hails ‘tremendous two days’ in Switzerland after Senate trial gets under way

Fianna Fáil promises to postpone rise in pension age Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath: ‘We’re not getting involved in an auction with Fine Gael on income tax.’ Photograph: Fianna Fáil handout/PA Wire

Party commits to reducing USC and raising threshold for high rate of tax in €1.3bn package

Eating out in Dublin – the homeless way Cristina Moczek, her husband Constantin Neacsu and their son Emmanuel (2) with food from Feed Our Homeless at College Green, Dublin. Photograph: Damien Eagers

Growing number of children regularly get evening meals from free-food stalls in city

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