The BBC is expected to apologise on Monday for the way in which a speech by the US president, Donald Trump, was edited in an episode of Panorama. He accused the BBC of selectively editing a Trump speech. The edited clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. BBC director general Tim Davie, who has resigned from the BBC. On Sunday evening, Davie, the BBC director general, announced his resignation, along with the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness.

The new National Maternity Hospital is to be developed on the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. Photograph: Nick BradshawThe Health Service Executive (HSE) is seeking a “delivery partner” with “programme management expertise” at an estimated cost of €20 million as part of the development of the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH). CPV codes listed in the notice include “business services”, “legal services”, “management related services” and “crisis management services”. In response to queries from The Irish Times, the HSE said the delivery partner “will form part of the overall team supporting the HSE on the NMH project”. The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) asked the Department of Health for a report on the costs of the NMH project.

A new deal would reopen the federal government and keep it funded until the end of January. Photograph: Eric Lee/The New York TimesThe US Senate took the first step to end the longest shutdown in history on Sunday night, after a group of Democratic lawmakers crossed party lines and endorsed a compromise plan to reopen the government. Eight Democrats voted along with all but one Republican senator to advance a deal, which was negotiated behind closed doors by rank-and-file Democrats, Republican senators and the White House. A deal would reopen the federal government and keep it funded until the end of January. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA/BloombergBut US president Donald Trump appeared confident late on Sunday, the 40th day of the shutdown.

But I still emailed BHP to find out more about an approach that appealed to my inner autocrat. For me, one of the excellent things about working for a newspaper with endless deadlines is that there is rarely time for people to faff around in pointless meetings. It advises organisations to have a meeting doomsday, or full-bore calendar cleanse, all the better to make meetings a last resort instead of the default. “The main aim is to have the right participants in the meeting and to have an outcome,” said a spokeswoman. I admit that this sort of thing will not suit all organisations and would cause a minor riot at some.

A correspondent to to the Irish Film Classification Office said they were 'alarmed at the misogyny towards girls and women' in the film. Photograph: Anora Productions/Augusta QuirkA mother wrote to officials responsible for film classifications in Ireland this year to say she “couldn’t believe” a film that “horrified” her autistic son was rated only PG. The woman wrote in August that her son was “horrified when the mother monkey got shot and the baby watched it all. I cannot believe this film was rated as only PG? She said it was “embarrassing to take my 14-year-old son” to a film that “should not be screened at all”.

In the UK, a major reform of the house-buying system has been proposed by the Labour Government. Photograph: iStockFor most people, the process of buying a house can be quite disheartening. The lack of housing supply across the country means houses often sell for way above asking price and usually after an excruciating bidding war. While the Government promises to address the supply issue, is there anything that needs to change about the way we buy houses? In the UK, a major reform of the house-buying system has been proposed by the Labour Government.

Photograph: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty ImagesUntil last year, Dubliner Leanne Brady (29) was among thousands of so-called ‘digital nomads’ living in Lisbon. These are Brady’s reflections while surfing in Lisbon on her decision to move home to Ireland after three years. I’ve wanted to leave Lisbon for a while now but it wasn’t always that way. I could never afford my own apartment in Ireland and moved house four times over the course of a year before I left for Lisbon. Questioning what we’re doing here, as people come and go, a transient city where you are used to saying goodbye.

Cristiano Ronaldo: thinks he is more handsome than David Beckham and more famous than Donald Trump. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA WireDid you watch Piers Morgan’s (latest) interview with Cristiano Ronaldo? And that’s my main objective: to meet Donald Trump and talk about world peace. “Me or Donald Trump? Imagine Cristiano and a normal guy in red speedos in Copacabana ... you think I’m not going to have a chance with anyone?

Changing Times believes it will sell 3,000 kegs of Bleedin Red Ale by the end of 2027. Changing Times products are now available in 33 venues across the country, up from the initial 15 pubs which stocked its products. Pat Rigney, owner of The Shed Distillery, which is home of Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, is another backer of Changing Times Brewery and also the group’s chairman. David Chawke, chief executive of Changing Times and owner of The Bank Bar and Restaurant on College Green, said: “We expect to see the number of keg sales double next year. “It has been a really positive first year of operation for Changing Times and we are very happy with how everything has progressed.

A jury in Liverpool Crown Court found Barton had “crossed the line between free speech and a crime”. After Ward and Aluko had appeared on television coverage of a FA Cup match between Crystal Palace and Everton last season, Barton wrote in a tweet that they were the “Fred and Rose West of football commentary”. As Ward reminded the jury in her testimony last week, Fred and Rose West had tortured, sexually abused and killed children. He also said he was attempting to be “provocative” and ignite a serious national debate about women broadcasting on the men’s game. In court she described comments from Barton on social media as “continuous harassment”.

Andy Farrell’s mood is always an accurate barometer, as was evident in the head coach’s frustrated mood after a decidedly uneven 41-10 win over Japan. “It was almost like a Charity Shield game,” added Farrell in likening the game to a seasonal warm-up, “and that’s that shouldn’t be the case. Anytime you play for Ireland, it should be a Test match where you go out there with proper intention from the start and play your game. During the 2025 Quilter Nations Series game between Ireland and Japan in Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Photograph: Tom O’Hanlon/ Inpho“We know that’s what we’re after,” said Farrell, before quickly refocusing on the negatives.

Tommy O'Brien celebrates scoring his team's sixth try during the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match between Ireland and Japan at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/ Getty ImagesIt’s one of the curious aspects of Tommy O’Brien’s career that he eventually earned his first three full international caps in Tbilisi, Lisbon and Chicago, but it’s another thing winning your first cap in Dublin. “It’s my first one in the Aviva, my first time playing for Ireland at home, so that was pretty special. He grew into the game and the ball also came his way more than in Soldier Field, where O’Brien had just three carries. [ Ireland v Japan player ratings: Tommy O’Brien stars as bench makes big impactOpens in new window ]Ireland's Tommy O'Brien says he is 'really enjoying myself so far'.

A young family in Co Kildare have been locked out of a State-funded affordable housing scheme for a second time this year because of a cap on their State-backed mortgage. Ms Rowe and her husband Joe have two children, Josh (9) and Ruby (12), meaning they need a three-bed home. The same thing happened to the family when they applied for another affordable housing scheme that went on sale in May at Lattin Place, on the Rathasker Road in Naas. While the department considers what changes might be made, Ms Rowe and her family are facing the same dilemma as before. “So that threshold is not working in the private sector or in the local authority sector,” Ms Rowe said.

They view women in the context of the “great replacement theory”, which calls for more white women to have more white babies, he adds. And then they say they’re trying to protect Irish women and children? I’m an Irish woman, I have Irish children. “If we really want to talk about safety for women and children, let’s talk about where the most amount of violence towards women happens. “When they talk about defending ‘our women’ it’s clear they mean white women.

I’m at Lake Kaindy in the south of Kazakhstan, a country where striking landscapes give way to staggering ones. Straddling eastern Europe and central Asia, Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country but has one of the lowest population densities on the planet. In the 19th century, the expanding Russian empire took control of Kazakhstan, and from 1936 until 1991 it was part of the USSR. In the Medeu Valley, for example, we take two ear-popping cable cars on our way to the Bogdanovich Glacier. Bogdanovich GlacierStarting from about 3,200m, we snake our way along a boulder-strewn trail, past corrie lakes and through huge sweeps of moraine.