October 11: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Gaza air strikes

At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight. Dozens of residential buildings, factories, mosques and shops were hit, and the Israeli military said fighter jets destroyed “advanced detection systems” that Hamas used to spot military aircraft. They also hit 80 Hamas targets in the Beit Hanoun area of the northeastern Gaza Strip, including two bank branches used by the Islamist group to “fund terrorism” in the enclave, the military said. The United Nations said over 260,000 people have been displaced, forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip.

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Budget forces fuel prices up overnight

Some of the Budget 2024 measures came into force at midnight after the Dáil voted to increase tobacco duties and maintain the lower VAT rate on household energy bills. While the vote means pending excise increases on petrol and diesel have been deferred until next year, fuel prices at petrol and diesel pumps went up overnight because of an increase in the carbon tax. From midnight €1.28 and €1.48 was added to the cost of a 60-litre fill of petrol and diesel respectively.

RTÉ

Tina Satchwell murder

Gardaí have begun using digging equipment to search a home in Youghal after a man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of murdering missing Cork woman Tina Satchwell, more than six years after she went missing from her home in Youghal. Garda technical experts cordoned off a house on Grattan St and scenes of crime examiners, equipped with chainsaws, jackhammers, shovels, pickaxes, and other digging tools, entered the property to begin the search. Sniffer dogs were also brought in to help investigators.

Irish Examiner

Aaron Brady

Lawyers for Aaron Brady, who was convicted of murdering Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, have argued that the prosecution had “zero appetite” to ask any questions of a key witness who had her testimony interrupted and were instead driven to keep the defendant’s trial going under any circumstances. They also submitted that although no investigation into the interruptions took place, the jury were read a transcript of an exchange between an unseen man and the witness that occurred in their absence, a decision that Brady’s counsel submitted was “baffling” and “completely unlawful”.

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