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HSE is being sued over alleged failures over years to intervene to protect girl

Tanya Sweeney. Tanya Sweeney 'I have to face the financial shock of becoming a mother’
Former Anglo junior bondholders to recover all of their money The IBRC offices in 2013 at Connaught House on Burlington Road.

State to recover some of Anglo Irish and INBS bailout cash ‘in time’

Taoiseach claims Sinn Féin ‘balaclava slipped’ in eviction row Pearse Doherty told Dáil : ‘Those enforcing evictions who are acting in a violent and abusive way need to be held accountable.’ Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Pearse Doherty tells Dáil: ‘It was an ordeal of thuggery from a group of men acting on behalf of a financial institution’

Fine Gael Minister ‘would rather fight election’ than pass Ross road bill It is understood Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met Minister for Transport Shane Ross before the Cabinet meeting and brokered a deal. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.

Measures removing Garda discretion to allow motorists present licence at station are stalled

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

Irish film ‘Late Afternoon’ shortlisted for Academy Award Late Afternoon, written and directed by Louise Bagnell, was made by the Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon

Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Late Afternoon’ is now in contention for Oscar nomination

Brexit stockpile: Favourite foods you might not know are British Time to stockpile your favourite UK-made goods, or switch to an Irish brand ahead of Brexit in March

We’re about four billion times more partial to British food than we’d like to admit

Driver who killed child (6) after breaking red light jailed for four years The late Cian Marren. His father Liam Marren said he and his wife visit his grave every night to read him a bedside story.

‘This will haunt us forever’ said father of dead boy who forgave driver James O’Brien (37)

Much blood on hands, clothes of mother who stabbed boy (3), court told

‘I did it, I stabbed my son and then stabbed myself’, doctor told garda, murder trial hears

Manchester United to appoint caretaker after sacking José Mourinho Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has left the club. Photo: Phil Noble/Reuters

Caretaker manager will take the rest of the season but will not be from inside the club

New children’s hospital will cost €1.433bn, Taoiseach confirms An artist’s impression of the exterior of the proposed new National Children’s Hospital at St James’s in Dublin

Varadkar says new facility is biggest investment in children’s health in State history

Call for forensic investigators to examine historic child abuse claims Special Rapporteur on Child Protection Geoffrey Shannon who submitted a report to the Cabinet on Tuesday. Photograph: The Irish Times

Geoffrey Shannon’s proposed reforms follow criticism of Tusla’s role in McCabe controversy

Nurses and midwives vote overwhelmingly to strike over pay The INMO’s executive will meet on January 7th and 8th to decide on the dates of the proposed strikes. Photograph: Frank Miller

INMO likely to stage number of 24-hour stoppages if no resolution found

Jastine Valdez died of asphyxia, inquest hears No family members of the Valdez family were present for the opening of an inquest into her death.

Body of student (24) was discovered in south Dublin, days after she was abducted

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