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• Land of beautiful sewage plants and ugly data centres

  On the edge of the Avoca river, a pair of pale green forms sit against the horizon, low and sculpted, their surfaces serrated with angled louvres that catch the light. Without decorative cladding to soften their purpose, they stand in plain sight. What, then, is this architectural pleasure? Surprisingly, it’s a wastewater treatment plant.

• Garda working on strategy for Ireland v Israel

  CONOR LALLY Crime and Security Editor

• Lowe ruled out of final two games

  JOHNNY WATTERSON James Lowe has been ruled out of Ireland’s final two Six Nations games at home to Wales and Scotland after picking up a groin strain in the victory over England at Twickenham last Saturday.

• Dublin City Council move from Wood Quay to Kevin Street set to cost €670m

  OLIVIA KELLY Dublin Editor

• As AI anxiety jolts Wall Street, China wonders what all the fuss is about

  Wall Street had a moment of panic at the start of this week when a Substack post published on Sunday by Citrini, a little-known research firm, prompted a 1 per cent drop in the S&P index. Shares in IBM, Mastercard, American Express and Uber were among the hardest hit before investment banks and others with skin in the game rolled out analysts to calm market nerves.

• Woman tells court of losing unborn baby in crash

  BRENDAN FURLONG A Wexford woman who was pregnant

• Disquieting study of weaponised rhetoric

  AMPLIFIED: THE EXPORTATION OF THE CULTURE WARS * * * *

• Objector sued for defamation by quarry owner over claims

  CAROLINE O’DOHERTY

• Just another year of inexplicable price rises in insurance world

  The helpful woman on the phone was as perplexed as I was.

• WRC adjudicator takes gender-discrimination case

  STEPHEN BOURKE

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• How does social housing investment compare with being a traditional private landlord?

  There may have been a public outcry when a number of housing estates were snapped up by international investors of late, but it's not just institutional funds that are investing in social housing by buying up estates and apartment blocks to lease back to local authorities....

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  Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without at least one member of the Burke family from Co Mayo appearing in a courtroom....

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  Britons John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans first met in prison in England in the 1970s. In the long hot summer of 1976, they drove around Ireland, executing their grotesque pact. By the end of that time, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, both 23, had been murdered....

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  Convicted murderers Graham Dwyer and Patrick Quirke will seek to overturn their convictions in separate appeals set for hearing in the new law term opening next month....

• Proposals aim to make civil justice system more accessible after lengthy review

  Legal briefs in the 1980s fitted into large brown envelopes but they began arriving from 1995 in boxes that have been "multiplying at an alarming rate" in the years since, Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton lamented in a 2015 article advocating more precise claims and tighter management of...

• PIAB damages awards have almost halved since guidelines adopted

  Two brothers who suffered similar minor injuries in a motor accident had their claims assessed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) last year. One claim was in ahead of the other, which was awaiting a medical report....

• RISING TIDE OF ATTACKSLGBTQ+ PEOPLE LIVING IN FEAR

  Recently in the Oireachtas, Pádraig Rice of LGBT Ireland delivered a presentation called A Year of Hate. Representing the Coalition Against Hate Crime, 22 civil society organisations, he was briefing TDs and Senators who were considering Ireland's first hate crime legislation....

• President’s concerns about legislative process baffling

  Last week the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil and Cathaoirleach of the Seanad each received a letter from President Michael D Higgins. While the letters highlight some issues that point to failings in the legislative process, in many respects those concerns are not new....