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• JAMES VINCENT McMORROW The Less I Knew HHHH Faction Records

  Has anyone managed to figure out James Vincent McMorrow yet? In many ways, the Dublin musician's career to date has been a series of contradictions. He is an artist who courts the mainstream and maintains healthy pockets of fan bases around the world, yet he regularly makes career choices that have probably turned his manager's hair prematurely grey — such as releasing two impromptu albums close together (as he has done in the past with True Care and now with this, the first of two full-length releases in 2022), or deciding to forego promotional duties for a record (as he has also done this time around).

• Cars and the Phoenix Park

  Sir, - Some drivers say their vehicles "literally" cannot drive at less than 30 km/h ("Drivers complain Phoenix Park speed limit causes engine damage," News, June 23rd).

• Gardaí seek relatives of couple found dead in Tipperary

  Gardaí investigating the deaths of a retired English couple in south Co Tipperary have made contact with British police through Interpol in an attempt to trace their next of kin who are believed to be living in the UK.

• Judge orders reports on man caught in ‘ruse’

  A man pleaded guilty to attempted child sexual exploitation after members of a vigilante group posed as a 14-year-old girl and arranged to meet him at a coffee shop in Cork.

• Civil servant distances himself from housing agency appointment

  One of the country's highest-ranking civil servants has distanced himself from a controversial appointment to a State housing agency that oversees billions of euro in funding for home-building.

• MSF calls for more routes to evacuate refugees from Libya

  International medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for more schemes to be developed by safe countries in Europe and North America to evacuate desperate refugees and migrants from Libya.

• Airports not to blame for chaos, says sector boss

  European airports had little time to prepare for governments' lifting of Covid curbs or the surge in travel that followed, according to a leading aviation industry chief.

• History suggests the Government will struggle with inflation

  The current balancing act by the government in relation to the cost of living is inevitably going to come under increasing strain. Warnings that you cannot chase inflation with hefty wage increases and that the essential causes of inflation are beyond domestic control will rest uneasily alongside increased outrage at the punitive price of essentials and demands that the State intervene more aggressively. The frailty of pay talks, combined with energy and fuel pressures and a drop in living standards, will make for a fraught winter.

• Liveline criticised in Dáil debate

  Irish society must recognise the struggle experienced by members of the trans community who are subjected to debate about their "very existence", the Minister for Equality Roderic O'Gorman has said.

• Dáil numbers set for a shake-up following census results

  One of the trickiest tasks of the planned new Electoral Commission will be to overhaul the Republic's Dáil constituencies ahead of the next general election to take account of the rise in population recorded in the census.

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