‘A true lady... always smiling’: Tributes paid to Kildare nurse who died in Sardinia
Tributes have been paid to a Kildare hospital nurse who drowned while holidaying in Sardinia.
Evangeline Sapon Musch, a member of the Filipino community in Ireland who was living in Athy, Co Kildare and aged in her 60s, died last Tuesday after being swept out to sea.
Italian fire officials said her body was removed from the water near the village of Portu Maga in the southwest of Sardinia.
News in Ireland
- Irish universities risk ‘quiet and gradual decline’: Students and staff at Irish universities are left using outdated computers and research equipment, the provost of Trinity College Dublin has said as she warns of the risk of a “quiet and gradual decline” for the country’s institutions.
- Waterways Ireland begins canal patrols to prevent tents being pitched: Waterways Ireland has started 24-hour patrols of the Grand Canal in Dublin to stop homeless asylum seekers from erecting tents and to ensure fencing erected to deter encampments is not torn down.
- Almost a third of tenancies in Dublin had rent increases above legal limit in past two years: Almost a third of tenancies in Dublin rent pressure zones (RPZs) had rent increases above the legal limit of 2 per cent over the past two years, a new study has found.
- Tens of thousands of tracker mortgage holders to benefit from latest ECB rate cut: Tens of thousands of Irish tracker mortgage holders will immediately benefit from a cut to interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday.
- ‘You feel you’re doing the State’s work’: volunteers step in to help asylum seekers: On a Friday night in late June, Jane Jermyn was preparing to drive home from a table quiz in the tiny village of Knockanore in Co Waterford when her phone beeped.
- Weather forecast: Friday will start chilly with some mist patches clearing away and some early sunshine will quickly turn hazy as cloud moves in from the west this afternoon. Outbreaks of rain will develop in the northwest but remaining largely dry elsewhere. Highest temperatures of 12 to 16 degrees. Tonight will become mostly cloudy with patchy light rain spreading across the west and north. Dry and mild elsewhere with lowest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees
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The Big Read
- Apple and Ireland: A tale of two tax sweethearts: Legal twists and turns over Apple case have sent periodic shockwaves across the Atlantic in recent years
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Business
- Aerodynamic pricing: Air fares will rise to meet demand this Christmas: The 32 million cap on the annual number of passengers using Dublin Airport means that there will have to be fewer flights and fewer seats this winter. The result will be that some of those who plan to travel over Christmas will be disappointed.
Sports
- Perhaps it’s time to scrap the playing of national anthems at football grounds: Booing at the Aviva Stadium during England’s national anthem. Really? For proper, invested booing, try checking out Liverpool fans reacting to their national anthem at Anfield on the day of King Charles III’s coronation last year.
World
- US and UK edge towards approving Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons in Russia: United States president Joe Biden appears on the verge of clearing the way for Ukraine to launch long-range western weapons deep inside Russian territory, as long as it doesn’t use arms provided by the US, European officials say.
Radio Review
- Ray D’Arcy reveals sharp political eye and skewers Government on €13bn Apple case: The monologues of Ray D’Arcy (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) can be many things – witty or inane, earthily observant or faux-folksy – but with the best will in world, astute political analysis isn’t something usually associated with his introductory spiels.
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