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Peter McVerry Trust’s peacock enclosure, and Ireland to face Czechia in World Cup playoff
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The crisis-hit homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust, has revealed a former CEO signed off on spending for a peacock enclosure at one of its residential sites. Sarah Burns is reporting on the astounding revelation at the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.
The Republic of Ireland men’s team will face Czechia in the first of potentially two qualifying play-offs next year. Is that a game we can realistically win? Gavin Cummiskey is speaking to In The News.
The husband of an Irish citizen, detained by ICE agents in the US as part of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, has given emotional testimony at a congressional committee about Donna Hughes-Brown’s treatment in custody. Keith Duggan has been speaking to Jim Brown about his bid to free the 59 year-old.
And reader Shane McLoughlin has been in touch in a letter to the editor about how “low salaries, inconsistent public services and an impossible housing market were key reasons” why he emigrated to Australia. He doesn’t think the government’s attempt at persuading skilled construction workers to move home is connected to reality when nothing has meaningfully changed in the six years he’s been living in Melbourne.
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