The public will go to the polls on Friday and decide the political landscape for the next few years

The Fianna Fáil leader praised the heavy engagement from the public during canvassing.

Mary Lou McDonald said the Taoiseach’s remarks were a ‘mark of desperation’.

Jennifer Thomas (46), of Oakfield View, Glanmire, Co Cork, was also banned from driving for 10 years.

A record 205 families took refuge in The Salvation Army’s three family hubs across the capital, compared to 173 in 2022.

Simon Harris said it is not his place to tell people who to transfer their vote to but urged them to consider the make-up of the new government.

The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that the property owner, Patricia Geraghty, had discriminated against the tenancy applicant, Frank Zimmermann.

385 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 146 are in wards elsewhere in hospitals.

Independent candidate Matt Shanahan had a promotional display projected onto the gable end of a Waterford hospital building.

Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Trade and Employment Louise O’Reilly said that opinion polls were reflecting what she had experienced on the campaign trail.

Here are the lead stories making Thursday’s newspapers.

The General Election will be held on Friday.

The housing portfolio is held by Fianna Fail’s Darragh O’Brien.

The Dun Laoirghaire TD was speaking after the final leaders debate, which seen Mary Lou McDonald, Micheál Martin and Simon Harris fail to land a final blow before Friday. 

A man aged in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene.

Finance Director at O’Neills, Paul Towell said that the company plans to further increase sales in Australia and the UK due to the impact the shortened inter-county GAA season is having on domestic sales.

Harris has argued Ireland and other EU countries need to prepare for the possibility of trade shocks as he criticised the scale of Sinn Féin’s spending pledges as well as their saving plans.

Mr Lynskey, a former monk from Belfast who later joined the IRA, was abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1972.

He urged the public to “vote left and transfer left”, adding that 100 years of the two big parties should end.

The Criminal Assets Bureau conducted a search operation in west Dublin as part of ongoing CAB investigation into targets linked to a Dublin-based organised crime group.