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Academy Award®-nominee Joachim Trier reunites with BAFTA nominee Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) for their universally acclaimed follow-up, SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Winner of the prestigious Cannes Grand Prix award, and featuring career-best performances from Golden Globe winner Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role, which she promptly declines, he turns his attention to Rachel Kemp (Fanning), an eager young Hollywood starlet primed for her big breakthrough. With their fraught dynamics made even more complex, Nora, Agnes and Gustav are each forced to confront their difficult pasts. SENTIMENTAL VALUE is in Irish Cinemas from Friday, December 26th.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s full address to Dáil Éireann on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025:Ceann Comhairle, Cathaoirleach, Deputies and Senators, dear friends, dear Ireland, thank you for your attention to Ukraine and for the fact that Ireland has truly stood the test of time. Ukraine wants peace. But to restore justice and defend what’s right, we need a community, a world made up of many different nations. It is the community of nations that decides, united by shared sentiments, shared aspirations, a shared desire for justice. Thank you Ireland.
When Kean Kavanagh watched Paul Mescal score a goal in Normal People he almost cried. The name has a double meaning given that, in the Irish sense, it might signify a footballer or hurler who has made the intercounty team. He talks about wanting to capture the “duality” of Ireland and the US in his songwriting – and his love of classic country music, that most American of genres, alongside punk, indie and hip-hop. He is wary about the way townie Ireland and GAA identity are often depicted in the media. “It wouldn’t be the style of country music I would be into at all.
The most notorious example – or the most confected, depending on your point of view – is the £50 million (€56 million) “fish disco” at a nuclear plant in Somerset. The Hinkley project’s system will suck in 12 million cubic metres of water a day from the Bristol Channel. This is where the fish disco comes in. Former Tory cabinet member and now Spectator editor Michael Gove coined the “fish disco” moniker in exasperation at the project’s cost and complexity. “[Britain] is now the most expensive place in the world to build nuclear projects,” Fingleton wrote.
One off costs of €1.22 million connected to the retirement of long-serving group CEO Eithne Scott Lennon was the chief factor in the Fitzpatrick Hotel Collection falling to a loss of €440,255 before tax last year. Ms Scott Lennon stepped down in November 2023 as group CEO and retired as a director of Emdora subsidiary, Killiney Hotels Ltd. The directors state that the retirement of Killiney Hotels Ltd’s director “resulted in once off retirement costs being incurred by the group” and the accounts under an exceptional item put the retirement cost at €1.22 million. The two paid tribute on Tuesday to their mother’s contribution to the hotel group. “Although she is no longer a director [of Killiney Hotels Ltd], she is still our mother, and we will always value and seek her advice on the business.
Minister for Finance Simon Harris: the Government collected a record €10 billion in corporation tax in November, according to the latest exchequer returns. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins PhotosThe Government collected a record €10 billion in corporation tax in November, according to the latest exchequer returns. The Government expects corporation tax receipts to hit €32 billion for the full year, providing it with another big surplus this year - in excess of €10 billion - despite significant overspending. November is a key month for the exchequer as it is the biggest month for corporation tax and also the last VAT-due month of the year. It noted that €9 in every €10 received in tax revenue last year was sourced from either income tax, corporation tax and VAT and that this concentration was “above the norms evident in other advanced economies”.
Overreliance on AI by medical students and trainee doctors poses several risks including automation bias and outsourcing of reasoning among others. Photograph: Getty ImagesOverreliance on generative artificial intelligence (AI) risks eroding future doctors’ critical thinking skills while reinforcing existing biases, a British Medical Journal editorial has warned. Overreliance on AI by medical students and trainee doctors poses several risks including automation bias, deskilling, cognitive offloading and outsourcing of reasoning, it said. Uncritical trust of automated information after extended use of AI tools, it added, can undermine critical thinking and memory retention, crucial to the profession. [ AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minoritiesOpens in new window ]The detrimental impact of artificial intelligence’s use in medicine has already been documented in recent research.
I did take a one-year career break, but I came back still bitter and that bled into my parent-teacher meetings. I think they’re sly.”“Right. I fully say mea culpa; I handled that incorrectly, even though I stand over what I said. I was minutes into the meeting when I realised that I had been led by the arm down an alley. “They don’t think they’re succeeding in your class.”It’s craven, but I took the low road and threw their previous teacher under the bus.
Judicial reviews that block vital infrastructure and housing will be restricted, and at the same time, Ministers and top civil servants will be given direct responsibility for delivering specific reforms to accelerate projects, under a plan to be unveiled by the Government this morning. It is expected to point the finger at the high number of judicial reviews, where someone goes to court to challenge the legality of a decision by an arm of the State, creating “longer timelines, higher costs, and cascading delays”. There will be changes to rules over legal costs to dissuade people from taking judicial reviews, while other reforms to the way judicial reviews work are due to be completed next year. The Cabinet also agreed to open a six-week public consultation on changes to legal fees paid in environmental judicial reviews. Further legal reforms will also be implemented to provide for emergency powers to push through critical infrastructure projects.
That will change later this week (subject to licence) when Díon (Irish for “roof”) opens on the top floor of what is now called One Central Plaza. Ambitiously for such a large space, Díon will open for breakfast, and stay open all day. Díon restaurant manager Barbaros KanigThere are different menus for brunch, all-day dining, evening, dessert and cocktails. The all-day dining menu offers a starter of Irish crab soldiers with Lambay crab and Béarnaise dipping sauce for €16.50. The weekend all-day menu runs from 4pm to 10pm.
The president’s comments in two separate public appearances on Tuesday follow a months-long selection process to replace Jay Powell as Fed chair that is nearing its conclusion. “I guess a potential Fed chair is here too. Potential?” Trump said, introducing Hassett during a White House event. “The truth is nobody knows who president Trump’s next pick for the Fed chair will be until he makes the announcement himself. Listen | 37:31Despite Mr Hassett’s apparent advantage, Mr Trump said he was not necessarily his first choice.
For a company car driver with a €30,000/€40,000/€60,000 limitCompany cars used to be the home turf of frugal diesels. Here’s our pick of the best cars for company user-choosers, based on some common company-applied upper price limits. At this price, there are lots of seriously talented electric cars, from the impressive VW ID.7 to your choice of Tesla “muskmobiles”. An upcoming update brings with it a seriously impressive high-performance all-wheel drive model. Also try: Lexus RXLexus RX450+ PHEV: Gives you a potential 75km of electric range, and entirely sensible fuel-economy figures on longer runs.
In the second-hand market, properties in turnkey condition will continue to attract a premium price. An increase in supply of ex-rental properties is expected as more small landlords indicate they intend to exit the market. While period homes remain popular, the practicality of modern or upgraded properties increasingly shaped buyer decisions. However, as landlords continue to exit the market in significant numbers, this will help supply, particularly at the lower end of the market. In the second-hand sales market, I expect price growth to remain moderate, in the region of 3-5 per cent nationally.
Since then, he has been served with a tax demand for almost €800,000 by the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Revenue Commissioners. The Standards in Public Office Act 2001 legally obliges any new member of the Oireachtas to produce a tax clearance certificate on taking up a seat. However, The Irish Times revealed at the weekend that a lacuna in the law means Hutch’s inability to produce a certificate would not stop him taking a Dáil seat. However, newly elected TDs cannot be blocked from taking up their seat if they are not tax compliant. And while they can be suspended from the Dáil for their noncompliance, they cannot lose their seat.
