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RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal
by reporter Conor Ryan and producer/director Frank Shouldice, next on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, 21:35

Family calls for release of report into Cloverhill Prison death More than five years after a psychiatric patient died in Cloverhill Prison, his family says a key report remains unreleased.

The family of a psychiatric patient who died in Cloverhill Prison more than five years ago have called for the immediate release of a report into the circumstances of his death.

Surge in actively psychotic patients held in prisons, RTÉ finds A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.

A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

It could be a while before normal service resumes at Salthill Co Dublin.
Rail services are currently suspended.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X The Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that a search was underway at the French office of Elon Musk's social media network X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Ukrainian cities struck by Russia in fresh strikes Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new ⁠blows to energy infrastructure.

Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new ⁠blows to energy infrastructure

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing "further embarrassment" to party as result of Epstein links.

Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?

Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED"

Musk to Epstein emails:
• “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
• "I really want to hit the party scene"
• "Is there a good time to visit?

Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct: "This has to stop" "Many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault," the Obamas wrote in a statement following the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct: "This has to stop"

FOLLOWING THE NEWS OF YET ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, A CITY THAT HAS BEEN ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICES, NBA PLAYERS CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE IN MINNESOTA PROTESTING AND RISKING THEIR LIVES TO DEMAND JUSTICE. THE FRATERNITY OF NBA PLAYERS, LIKE THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, IS A COMMUNITY ENRICHED BY ITS GLOBAL CITIZENS, AND WE REFUSE TO LET THE FLAMES OF DIVISION THREATEN THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THAT ARE MEANT TO PROTECT US ALL. THE NBPA AND ITS MEMBERS EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALEX PRETTI AND RENEE GOOD, JUST AS OUR THOUGHTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. NBPA

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis:

“Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

Pam Bondi Offers to Pull ICE Out of Minneapolis if Voter Files Handed Over

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.

Man shot dead in Minneapolis was veteran's hospital nurse The US citizen shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a local veterans' hospital who "wanted to make a difference in this world," family members said.

The US citizen shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a local veterans' hospital who "wanted to make a difference in this world," family members said.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"

Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.

Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

US federal agents shoot dead second person in Minneapolis US federal agents have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, local and federal officials said, the second fatal shooting involving federal agents this month during a surge in immigration enforcement i...

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How Trump blindsided Davos and shattered Western Alliance Reports in 2019 that Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland were instant fodder for late night TV comedians but dismissed as another example of a president operating on fantastical whims.

Back in 2019 Donald Trump’s musings on Greenland were fodder for late night TV comedians and dismissed as more of his fantastical whims, but it turns out he was very serious, writes Tony Connelly.

We’ll hear a lot of noise about what Trump did and said at Davos, but Canada is in the room, and it is worth listening to

IDA would consider removing X from its books if firm deliberately breaches online safety rules Agency chief also warns about corrosive impact to transatlantic trade from current Greenland debacle

IDA would consider removing X from its books if firm deliberately breaches online safety rules

Trump's tariffs announcement 'unacceptable' - Taoiseach Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the threat of tariffs by the United States as "extraordinary" and "unacceptable".

The Taoiseach has described the threat of tariffs by US President Donald Trump on European countries as "extraordinary" and "unacceptable"