According to information released to Cork City Councillor and Social Democrats general election candidate Pádraig Rice, the council spent over €1m per year compensating people who injured themselves on broken footpaths.

Manipulated picture shared by political campaigns originally showed a poster advertising chocolate rather than Simon Harris.

Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Tuesday's front pages

A man being questioned over the murder of Jo Jo Dullard must be released or charged today

Thomas O’Neill, (35), of Lenihan Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, Limerick, appeared before the court to affirm guilty pleas to six offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act

A Hungarian court has ordered that an Irish man being questioned by police in connection with the murder of American woman Mackenzie Michalski to remain for a further 30 days.

Seán Dunne has said it would be “beyond bizarre” for the High Court to strike out his application challenging the appointment of two officials overseeing his bankruptcy.

Tanya Kirwan (40), Killisk, The Ballagh, Co Wexford pleaded guilty to careless driving causing serious bodily harm at Wexford Circuit Court on July 7th, 2022.

Craig Coyle, of Holly Court, Ballybrack, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to threatening to publish intimate images of the woman without her consent on September 23rd, 2023.

The ICRIR has announced a number of new cases in its information recovery stage.

A report on the RTÉ Independent Productions Unit states that in 2023, “RTÉ presented a hugely increased number of drama hours”.

Claims of wrongdoing are roundly denied by all, while the facts alleged are also in dispute.

Aperee's total liabilities as of Monday stand at €3.97 million while a purchaser willing to pay in excess of that figure has been found, it is claimed

Anthony Ryan, with an address at Macoyle Upper, Inch, Gorey, Co Wexford, deserved an "immediate custodial sentence", lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions told the court on Monday

The two party leaders hit the campaign trail on Monday to vie for votes.

Sentencing the man on Monday, Judge Orla Crowe said he engaged in “utterly shameful violence”.

Gary Indiana David Keenan (23), a pizza chef from Seapark Drive, Clontarf, was pronounced dead at his home on the afternoon of September 25th, 2023.

The Nigerian man was also sentenced for threatening to kill or cause serious harm to both the woman and her sister when they tried to get back her “bride price”, thereby ending the marriage

Bretland Construction has today opened its new corporate headquarters in Edenderry, Co Offaly