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GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.

Michael Shine

1. There are fresh calls for an investigation into allegations that paedophile Michael Shine abused children in an orphanage in Drogheda, County Louth. 

Two men have come forward, separately but in recent weeks, to claim that they were sexually assaulted by the former surgeon while growing up in the institution run by the Daughters of Charity nuns.

House prices

2. House prices have increased by 6.2% in the year to September, and by 3.1% between in the quarter between June and September.

Hurricane Helene

3. The death toll from powerful Hurricane Helene has jumped to at least 93, with one county in North Carolina alone reporting 30 deaths, authorities said, as rescuers battled to reach people in need across the southeastern United States.

Alleged bomb threat

4. Taoiseach Simon Harris …