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Competition watchdog launches court action against alarm companies PhoneWatch and HomeSecure
The competition watchdog has launched High Court proceedings against two of the State’s leading home alarm companies in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation.
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- Thousands of extra staff to be hired in health service despite recruitment freeze: Thousands of extra staff will be hired by the Health Service Executive this year despite an ongoing recruitment pause, an Oireachtas committee will be told on Wednesday.
- Garda spends €250,000 on drones ahead of legislation permiting use in policing: Gardaí have spent €250,000 on drones in recent years in advance of legislation allowing their use in policing operations.
- Warning on Sinn Féin Bill over funding of firms in Israeli settlements: A proposed law which would ban State investment in businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank could result in Ireland becoming an “international outlier”, an Oireachtas committee will be told today.
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- Trump’s image and vanity suffer blow as civil fraud case puts him in a $464m bond: I don’t have the money: it’s the one admission that represents a deep wound to Donald Trump’s vanity and the image he has perpetuated over decades in American public life as the figurehead of unfathomable wealth.
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- ‘Our mother was a bully and I am worried about my sister – she seems to have given up on life’: You are clearly very angry at your mother, even though you have created a good life for yourself. This anger is compounded by frustration that your sister is withdrawing from life and “wallowing” and the one way both of you demonstrate your distress is through food.
The best from Opinion
- Abeba Birhane: We’re headed for big problems if gardaí get facial recognition technology
- Michael McDowell: Every day Netanyahu stays in office conducting his war prolongs the barbarous treatment of innocent people
- Paddy Woodworth: Will Britain ever hold its own ‘state terrorists’ to account? Don’t hold your breath
Today's Business
- How to survive an Australian working holiday financially: More than 21,000 Australian working holiday visas were granted to young Irish citizens in 2023. Almost double the number granted the previous year, it is the highest number since the financial crash years.
Top Sports news
- Bring the noise: Ireland women’s rugby team prepare for encounter with France: Ahead of their opening game in this year’s Six Nations championship against France at Stade Marie-Marvingt on Saturday, the Ireland women’s rugby team have been doing their utmost to prepare themselves for what is expected to be a raucous atmosphere in the Le Mans venue.
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Culture and Life & Style Highlights
- Molly Furey: It takes some amount of notions to admit to writing for a living: We have so many different ways of calling out notions. “Isn’t it well for them?” is observed with a nod of the head and raise of the eyebrow. With a scoff and a finger-wag aunts are wont to exclaim: “Tis far from it you were reared.” A personal favourite of mine was my mother’s confounding call out that “if you were a Mars bar you’d eat yourself”.
- Who Trolled Amber? review: Relentless dig beneath Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard libel case makes a staggering revelation: I don’t know what I was expecting when I started to listen to the first episode of Who Trolled Amber?, a new podcast from the impressive Tortoise Media. But I didn’t expect to end up in Saudi Arabia, learning about Jack Sparrow’s bromance with Prince Mohammed bin Salman. I also didn’t expect to be examining my own failure to pay attention to a trial that has so greatly impeded, if not actively reversed, the progress made by the MeToo movement around sexual assault.
- Down syndrome and employment: ‘It shouldn’t be amazing anymore, it should just be the norm’: There have been huge improvements in recent years for people with Down syndrome, but not so much that parents don’t still tell Aoife Gaffney it is “amazing” when their adult sons and daughters secure meaningful employment they enjoy.
- ‘I’m going to be with the HR gang, working with the loveliest boss ever’: Recalling his reaction to being made permanent at Premier Lotteries Ireland, operator of the National Lottery, Liam Foley leaves little doubt about his delight.
- ‘Not many people around here support the English football team. Everyone’s got a grandfather who wouldn’t allow it’: Bill Ryder-Jones’s music is like his home, standing on the threshold between the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic worlds.
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