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We expect to feel overwhelming love for our newborn, but we shouldn’t panic if we don’t. These are the reassuring words of Dr Joanna Parga-Belinkie, an associate professor of paediatrics, neonatologist, and mother of Mira, seven, Simon, five, and Zelda, one. Parga-Belinkie wants parents to know that it is not a red flag, nor does it signify that you are ‘a bad parent’, if you do not feel a rush of love when you first see your new infant. “When I was pregnant with my first baby, I wasn’t sure I had made the right decision,” says Parga-Belinkie, author of…

Sexton anticipates taking on “a bit more of that responsibility” within his role with Ireland going forward. News Source : Irish Examiner

The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking trial witnessed excerpts of what prosecutors described as “freak-off” sex marathons. These videos, recorded by Combs during drug-fueled sessions, are central to the case. Prosecutors presented clips from three sex videos. These were recovered from a mobile phone belonging to Combs’s former girlfriend, Cassie, and provided to authorities. The videos offered jurors a direct look at the encounters they have been hearing about since the trial began on May 12. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs during his trial (Elizabeth Williams via AP) One video was dated October 14, 2012. Prosecutors allege that on this…

An Olympic hopeful was among the inaugural students to sit the first ever Leaving Cert Ukrainian exam, in a day of mixed emotions for the students who arrived in Ireland fleeing war. Schools across the country have welcomed thousands of students through their doors since 2022, many of whom arrived to Ireland without fluent English. More than 570 students nationwide were entered with the State Examinations Commission (SEC) to sit the first exam in the subject, which is now recognised as a non-curricular language. Non-curricular languages do not appear as part of the normal school curriculum but are offered to…

When my daughter had a short spell in hospital recently, I was curious to discover that her patient wristband used ‘Tierney’ as her surname. While this moniker likely did a fine job of identifying her to staff, it was officially incorrect, according to her birth certificate. People rarely call my daughters by their actual name. I don’t mean their first names…that’s the easy part. I mean their surname. This is because they have been burdened with a double-barrelled last name by their helplessly progressive parents. Our experience has been that friends, family and bureaucrats often don’t bother using both last…

Jack Goss, a 21-year-old from Balbutcher, Ballymun, Dublin 9, has been identified as the individual in question. He had recently begun an apprenticeship with Dublin City Council. News Source

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A man has been sentenced to six months in jail for stealing a CCTV system during a burglary at a church. Nathan Coughlan pleaded guilty to breaking into St Clare’s Church in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, on October 3, 2024. He is already serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for prior offenses. These previous crimes include burglaries at several other churches and making false emergency calls reporting bodies in the sea off the Donegal coast. Coughlan, a father of three, appeared at Letterkenny District Court via video link from Castlerea Prison and expressed his desire to resolve all outstanding matters. He has…

The man accused of killing a politician and wounding another went to the homes of two other lawmakers to carry out more carnage on the night of the shootings, a federal prosecutor said. But one of the other politicians was not home and the suspect left the other house after police arrived, acting US Attorney Joseph Thompson said at a press conference on Monday. The suspect, Vance Boelter, surrendered to police on Sunday after they found him in the woods near his home following a massive manhunt that began early on Saturday near Minneapolis. He is accused of posing as…

Brian Barry-Murphy, the 46-year-old Cork native, is set to depart from his position as a coach at Leicester City. News Source : Irish Examiner