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Top Stories

• Listeria alert triggers recall of several ready meals: The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued recall notices for Fit Foods, Chef Select, Fresh Choice Kitchen and Kilbride Classic Cuisine chicken meals sold across Irish retailers over listeria concerns. (Source: The Irish Times)
• Man arrested after six people found in container at Rosslare Europort: A man in his 40s is being questioned in Co Wexford after five men and a juvenile were found in a shipping container that arrived from Zeebrugge on Thursday morning. (Source: The Irish Times, RTÉ News, TheJournal.ie)
• O'Leary apologises 'unreservedly' over 'rapist' remarks: The Ryanair chief executive apologised sincerely and unreservedly for using the term "high-fare rapists" about competitor airlines, after more than a week of criticism. (Source: The Irish Times, RTÉ News)

Politics & Society

• RTÉ pulls Garda whistleblower documentary from RTÉ Player: RTÉ withdrew RTÉ Investigates – The Gardaí: Full Disclosure from its streaming service following detailed correspondence from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions about an upcoming court case referenced in the programme. The hour-long documentary alleged whistleblowers were treated worse now than when Sgt Maurice McCabe spoke out. (Source: The Irish Times)
• GRA representative served with disciplinary notice over Irish Times comments: A senior member of the Garda Representative Association has been served with a disciplinary notice over comments to The Irish Times about members' health and welfare following a significant incident last month. The GRA said it was shocked and vowed to rigorously defend its representative. (Source: The Irish Times, TheJournal.ie)
• Taoiseach keeps Garvaghy Road meeting request 'under review': Micheál Martin said he will keep under review a request to meet Garvaghy Road residents over the Drumcree parading dispute, as the Parades Commission appointed a mediation company to try to facilitate a resolution. The commission is due to rule next week on an application for 60 Orange Order members to take part in a proposed parade on 27 September. (Source: TheJournal.ie)
• MetroLink passengers may face premium fare at Dublin Airport stop: The new business case for the planned Dublin metro projects €7.35 billion in fares over 30 years, with a premium assumed for passengers boarding or alighting at Dublin Airport. The NTA said no determinations have been made on fare structures for when MetroLink enters operation between 2036 and 2038. (Source: The Irish Times)

Courts & Crime

• Man (51) charged over assault of TD Michael Healy-Rae: Anthony Foley, of Rosary Road in Dublin 8, appeared in court charged with assault causing harm on Cork Street in Dublin on Wednesday. Gardaí said the Independent TD suffered a laceration to his upper lip requiring seven stitches, and objected to bail citing the seriousness of the offence and a suspected political motive. (Source: RTÉ News)
• Man sentenced to 22 months for grooming and sexual assault of 13-year-old: At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford imposed a 28-month term with the final six months suspended on Ryce Clohessy (23), of Henry Street, Kilrush, Co Clare, for two counts of sexual assault and using technology to facilitate sexual exploitation of a child in June 2023. (Source: The Irish Times)
• Man (40s) arrested over Rosslare container incident: A man in his 40s was arrested on Friday and is being questioned at a garda station in Co Wexford in connection with the discovery of six people in a container at Rosslare Europort. Three remain in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, two have been refused permission to land, and a juvenile is receiving support. (Source: The Irish Times, RTÉ News, TheJournal.ie)
• Boy appears in court after car driven wrong way on M50: A 16-year-old boy appeared at Dublin Children's Court charged with stealing a Toyota car and seven counts of dangerous driving, mainly in the Finglas area, including driving the wrong way up a slip road at Junction 5 of the M50 where the car collided with a civilian vehicle and later two Garda vehicles. (Source: RTÉ News)

Business & Living

• Ready meals withdrawn over listeria alert: The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued recall notices for Fit Foods Chicken and Chorizo with Baby Potatoes, Fit Foods Chicken & Stuffing with Potatoes and Gravy, Chef Select High Protein Jamaican Jerk Chicken, Fresh Choice Kitchen Roast Chicken Dinner and batches of Kilbride Classic Cuisine Roast Chicken and Gravy Dinners. Consumers are urged to check back-of-pack labels, with affected best-before dates ranging from 17 to 29 September. (Source: The Irish Times)
• Ryanair's O'Leary apologises over 'rapists' comparison: Michael O'Leary issued a sincere and unreserved apology after comparing rival airlines' high fares to rapists at a press briefing in Dublin last week, following sustained pressure from advocacy groups and criticism from the Taoiseach. The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre welcomed the apology. (Source: The Irish Times, RTÉ News)
• Former Inland Fisheries chief's WRC case adjourned: A case brought by former Inland Fisheries Ireland chief executive Francis O'Donnell against the organisation was adjourned on Friday after he told the Workplace Relations Commission his legal team had come off record. O'Donnell claims he was unfairly dismissed and penalised after making protected disclosures, which IFI denies; the case is listed for another seven days in October. (Source: The Irish Times)

Sport & Culture

• Liam Neeson escorts Catherine Corless to Tuam babies film premiere: The Lost Children of Tuam premiered at the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield on Friday evening, with co-producer Liam Neeson accompanying Catherine Corless, whose research uncovered that as many as 796 children may have been buried in unmarked graves at the Bon Secours mother and baby home site. (Source: The Irish Times)
• Dublin teenagers get Oprah Winfrey on their podcast: Glen Anderson and Ben Hanlon, hosts of the Back of the Class podcast, secured an interview with Oprah Winfrey after Anderson approached her friend Gayle King outside the Merrion Hotel in Dublin and pitched the idea. Winfrey's security team later messaged the pair to return to the hotel for 7pm. (Source: The Irish Times)
• Hundreds of events mark Culture Night: Events took place from Cork to Castleblaney and Dublin to Dundalk, including a 1950s dance experience on O'Connell Street, a tribute to Big Tom in Monaghan on what would have been his 90th birthday, and a Palestinian Dabke dance workshop in Longford. (Source: RTÉ News)
• Controversy surrounds Republic of Ireland's Nations League games with Israel: FAI chief executive David Courell confirmed the association never asked Uefa to keep Ireland and Israel apart before the draw, and that a subsequent request was rejected. The four-game window includes fixtures with Israel alongside games against Kosovo in Pristina on 24 September and Austria in Dublin on 1 October. (Source: TheJournal.ie)
• Oxford United apologises over 'United 93' merchandise: The English League One club apologised after launching a "Campus Collection" featuring the words "United 93" close to the 9/11 anniversary, saying the range was released without understanding of the historical context and should not have reached the point of sale. (Source: TheJournal.ie)

Other

• Joint funeral held for couple found dead in Spanish hot tub: The funeral of Thomasina Tobin, 51, from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, and her husband Patrick (Paddy) Tobin, 48, who were found dead at a villa in Cullera, south of Valencia, on 24 August, heard that their two children were at the heart of their lives. Their deaths were accidental in nature. (Source: RTÉ News)
• US and Denmark reach Greenland security agreement: US President Donald Trump said the US and Denmark have entered an agreement giving Washington permanent control over Greenland's security and barring Russia and China from setting up bases there, with the deal expected to be signed at the UN General Assembly next week. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said it was good for NATO and Europe. (Source: RTÉ News, TheJournal.ie)
• Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House: The US President announced the ban on his Truth Social network, accusing the outlets without specifics of reporting fiction and lies, and said other "Fake News Media Outlets" would follow. (Source: RTÉ News, TheJournal.ie)
• Russian glide bomb hits apartment block in Sumy: A Russian glide bomb struck an apartment building in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing two people and injuring seven, according to Ukrainian officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the "absolutely inhuman strike" and said four people, including a child, were rescued from the rubble. (Source: RTÉ News)
• Google confirms first Gemini AI hacking incidents: Google said its Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked three websites during a May cybersecurity test carried out by Irregular, the first known instance of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act. Similar incidents linked to Irregular were disclosed by Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI. (Source: RTÉ News)