
An exhibition, In Her Shoes, opened in Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co Kerry, yesterday. It highlights the issues of domestic and sexual violence. Some 135 pairs of shoes are on display, each representing a woman who was murdered in Ireland since 1996.
Photograph: Domnick Walsh
- The Minister for Finance will announce new spending measures
totalling just under €2.52 billion in next month's
Budget.
- The proposed Poolbeg incinerator, which will be Dublin's first
municipal waste incinerator and one of the largest such facilities
in Europe, has been granted planning permission by An Bord
Pleanála.
- Police in India's Assam state have received a complaint from a
prospective groom against his would-be in-laws for allegedly
thrashing him for not disclosing that he wore a wig to conceal his
baldness.