Nearly 5,500 asylum seekers to be housed in new direct provision centres Mosney direct provision centre in Co Meath. File photograph: Frank Miller

Department of Justice seeks providers for centres across State

It would appear that the inspiration for Exeter’s strip came from the regurgitations of overeating beetroot and blueberries. Photograph: Getty Images Matt Williams Champions Cup awash with sheep, wolves and crass jerseys
Migrants found on Rosslare-bound ferry ‘thought they were going to UK’ The scene at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford, after 16 people were found alive in the back of a truck on a ferry sailing from France. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Gardaí investigating how 16 men came to be in back of lorry on sailing from Cherbourg

My 40-year school reunion: We hadn’t changed a bit? Of course we had ‘Those who had married young – often very young by today’s standards – lived in those hopeful, tender, fledgling unions through a bruising, prolonged recession in the 1980s.’ Photograph: iStock

We had survived, thrived even, finding our paths through a patriarchal network

Cannabis grow house discovered on Moore Street Rising site Cannabis plants worth an estimated €12,000 were found last week during searches at 22 and 23 Moore Street. Photograph: Darren England/EPA

Dublin city centre building forms part of the 1916 battlefield site

Stephen Collins: Our system favours chancers and crooks The system’s acceptance of insurance fraud is encouraging increased incidents of exaggerated claims and providing ‘an income supplement to the morally challenged’. Photograph: iStock

Utterly disproportionate awards for often trivial injuries have become the norm

Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still There are new challenges for the Queen. The World is Changing, something which is ever surprising to people in period dramas.

British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events

Femicide Watch: 230 women have died violently in State since 1996 Skaidrite Valdgeima (34), mother of three from Latvia, one of five women who died violently in State in 2019

Women’s Aid charity has monitored killing of women and girls by men for 23 years

Farmers accuse sustainable energy body of ‘demonising’ red meat Farmers protesting outside the Dáil. The IFA has accused the Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland of “straying outside its remit”. Photograph: Alan Betson

Delegates to energy conference are told that red meat will not be served

Seven in 10 older Irish children do not get enough exercise Prof Moyna said ‘cultural factors’ – including showers, make-up and headphone use – needed to be addressed to tackle the gender gap. Photograph: iStock

Results ‘very concerning’, with gender gap of 15% the largest outside the US

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Man convicted of murdering British backpacker in New Zealand Grace Millane went missing from a hostel in Auckland on December 1st, 2018 and a body was later found in the Waitakere Ranges. Photograph: Lucie Blackman Trust/PA
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Grace Millane (22) went missing in Auckland last year while travelling after finishing university

Catherine Murphy will not appear at Siteserv inquiry Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy was originally directed to appear at the Cregan commission in May. File photograph: Alan Betson

Social Democrats TD fears being forced to reveal source of information about O’Brien

Ulster need to be at their best to contain Clermont’s formidable threat Marcell Coetzee: his performance against Bath exemplified his quality and importance to Ulster. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho

The French side ooze quality but Ulster have had their measure before in Belfast

Time to stop hyperventilating about RTÉ’s finances and take calm decisions RTÉ director general Dee Forbes’s recent PR campaign to jolt the public and politicians into worrying about the broadcaster’s financial future is, by far, the most effective thing she has done

Caveat: No matter what its management says, RTÉ seems to be fishing for State bailout

Haulbowline Island transformation project takes top engineering award The East Tip Haulbowline Island remediation project by Cork County Council, RPS, PJ Hegarty & Sons and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has won the Engineering Project of the Year
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1 Femicide Watch: 230 women have died violently in State since 1996
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5 Nearly 5,500 asylum seekers to be housed in new direct provision centres across Ireland
6 Matt Williams: Champions Cup awash with sheep, wolves and crass jerseys
7 Migrants found on Rosslare-bound ferry ‘thought they were going to UK’
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