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Giveaway budget; Fintan O'Toole on Drumcree; Hugh Linehan on Cornell case
The Government will unveil another giveaway budget today, Tuesday October 6th, which will include reductions in tax for middle income earners worth up to €1,500 for a couple with a combined income of €100,000.
“Drumcree is the theatre of the absurd (https://irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/10/06/drumcree-is-theatre-of-the-absurd-straight-from-monty-pythons-ministry-of-silly-walks/), straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of silly walks,” according to Fintan O’Toole, who’s column this week focuses on the eruption of sectarian tension in Portadown.
As a new legal term begins in the Irish courts this week, Hugh Linehan is contrasting the reporting restrictions (https://irishtimes.com/media/2026/10/06/trial-by-everyone-cornell-case-shows-why-irelands-strict-court-reporting-rules-matter/) which apply to criminal cases here with those in the United States; as America grapples with the alleged gang rape of a woman at Cornell University in upstate New York.
Tributes are being paid to a Trinity College professor and oesophageal cancer surgeon at St. James’ Hospital in Dublin as he marks his retirement from the university. John Reynolds has been at the forefront of medical advances in Ireland (https://irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2026/10/06/treating-oesophageal-cancer-the-service-delivered-here-is-on-par-with-the-best-in-the-world/) which have led to a doubling of overall survival for the 500 plus people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the Republic each year.
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5 Oct 2026
Booming cannabis trade; Drumcree court hearing; and delays to the National Children’s Hospital
Irish drug gangs are now making as much money from cannabis as they are from cocaine, according to new Gardaí figures.
Housing, energy costs and childcare are among the main concerns people have been voicing ahead of Budget 2027.
Ireland’s borrowing costs are a fraction of bigger economies like France, the UK and the United States.
Garvaghy Road residents are in court today as the dispute over an Orange Order parade at Drumcree.
The latest delays to Ireland’s national children’s hospital are carrying a growing cost for patients waiting to use the new facility, new correspondence reveals.
Presented by Andrew McNair.
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2 Oct 2026
Opposition alternative budgets; Grinds 360 boardroom war; and the viability of domestic rugby
The opposition parties have laid out their alternative budgets ahead of the government’s Budget 2027 next week.
Grinds 360, Ireland’s biggest online education platform, was plunged into a boardroom battle after its CEO was temporarily suspended in a dispute over company finances and governance.
Next week, the European Union and China head into what could be one of their most consequential trade showdowns in years.
Domestic rugby falls far behind the financial viability of the international game, but what can fix it?
Presented by Andrew McNair.
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