From top: Ian Kehoe, Tom Lyons and Denis O’Brien arrive at the High Court today

This afternoon.

The High Court, Dublin.

Justice Bernard Barton is summing up his thoughts to the jury before they retire to consider a verdict in Denis O’Brien’s libel trial against the Sunday Business Post over articles on the 2008 banking crisis.

The ‘sheet‘s Olga Cronin is live tweeting from the court and can be followed here.

Rollingnews

UPDATE:




This afternoon.

Near Hollywood village, County Wicklow.

Eamonn writes;

Fire engulfes dry gorse in the West Wicklow Mountains, just beyond Hollywood Village. Since the start of the week fire services and the Defence Forces have been fighting fires in the Wicklow and Dublin Mountains which have been out of control and according to reports at one stage threatened Hollywood Village.

Today is the last day farmers are allowed to burn vegation on their lands and according to the emergency services most of the recent fires have been as a result of delibarate burning which got out of control.

That’s showbiz.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18CsM1aOw&feature=youtu.be

Paddy Holohan‘s No Shame podcast.

Episode #065: Film director, writer and activist Terry McMahon.

Paddy, a Sinn Féin candidate for Tallaght South in May’s local elections  (a decision inspired by Terry’s speech ‘This Is Ireland‘), writes:

This episode with Terry is an incredibly thought provoking discussion on where we’re at as a society, the challenges we’re facing as a nation and the potential we have to make real and meaningful change if we, the people, stand together against a system that has failed us for generations.

No Shame



So it begins.

This morning.

Dublin Port.

Customs check booths – in the glummest shade of battleship grey known to man – currently being built at Dublin Port for UK-bound trucks ‘leaving the EU’.

Are you Brexit-ready?

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UK Shadow chancellor John McDonnell (right) has called for a ‘massive listening exercise’ amid accusations of antisemitism against the British Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn (left)

Listening Exercise
after John McDonnell

When you paint hatred on my garden wall
and front door, I will read your words
with great interest.

When you try to burn my house down
I will listen to what the flames are saying.

Every lie you tell against me
I’ll help you spread
by earnestly, and in detail, answering your questions
about it over and over again.

When you burst through my living room door
with a chainsaw intended for me,
I’ll pour you a nice cup of tea
and say: let’s talk about this.

When the tumours come for me
I’ll know their opinion must be taken
absolutely on board.

And when the beetles and bacilli
begin to consume me,
I’ll realise I’ve long seen
their point of view.

Kevin Higgins

 

Pic: Getty

THis morning.

UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4

Taoiseach and Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Simon Coveney launch Ireland’s new ‘Policy for International Development, A Better World’.

This will ‘provide the framework for Ireland’s expanding development cooperation programme, in line with the Government’s commitment to reaching the UN target of allocating 0.7% of our GNI to official development assistance by 2030′.

FIGHT!

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