Bournemouth are expecting Liverpool to emerge as serious suitors for Antoine Semenyo in what would be a dramatic twist in the pursuit of the in-demand forward. Semenyo scored a consolation during the crushing 4-1 defeat at Brentford on Saturday and is set to leave the Cherries in the January transfer window, with meetings on his future planned for Monday with Manchester City. Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham have all registered interest in the player and would need to trigger the £65million release clause in the Ghana international’s contract. Liverpool are set to emerge as serious suitors for Antoine Semenyo in a dramatic twist to the race for the Bournemouth forward's signatureBut Liverpool have long been admirers of Semenyo, who has nine Premier League goals to his name this season. Semenyo would have a major decision to make were discussions to become serious.

Debris from a helicopter on the ground after a midair collision(WPVI-TV/6ABC/AP)One person has been killed and another is critically injured after two helicopters collided in the air in New Jersey. Hammonton police chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am local time on Sunday, and police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters. Video from the scene showed a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision and it is investigating. The National Transportation Safety Board has also been notified.

Olivia KelleherFuneral details have been announced for a 28-year-old teacher and Gaelic footballer from Meath who took ill and died on December 14th in Australia. Sarah Halpenny, who was a former teacher at St Joseph’s National School, Kingscourt, in Co Cavan was living in Melbourne at the time of her death. She was employed in a school and was a cherished member of St Kevin’s GAA club in Melbourne. Kingscourt Parish Facebook page posted that Sarah was an “amazing teacher” who was loved by her pupils. The Halpenny family would like to “sincerely thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support they have received from both home and abroad.”

But the economy has had another strong year of growth, unemployment remains low and – perhaps most remarkably– IDA Ireland reported another record year of inward investment. In turn, this strong growth rate has supported tax receipts, with another record year for corporation tax and income tax also performing well. Housing is, of course, part of a wider problem of Ireland’s creaking infrastructure, where development has fallen well behind population growth. ****Improving Ireland’s infrastructure and building more houses are vital to Ireland’s longer-term economic outlook. This means that the economic and political prospects of the Coalition remain uncomfortably reliant on the profits of a few big US companies and decisions made in their boardrooms.

Investigations into the Easkey, Co Sligo, incident are ongoing. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphotoTwo brothers in their 80s have died in a house fire near Easkey in Co Sligo. The brothers, who died at their home in the small village of Rathlee, have been named as Pa and Seamus Cuffe. The bodies of the two men were transferred to Sligo University Hospital for postmortems. The Garda Press Office has confirmed the fire broke out at a farm house overnight.

It's only the base-work, it's pure slog this time of year, but you learn a lot about fellas in that too. Ballinora full-back Shane Kingston impressed, while Finn O’Brien kept the scoreboard ticking over until a late injury. Finn O’Brien drew the foul but played on to feed Peter O’Shea to finish; 2-15 to 1-14. Scorers for UCC: B Cunningham (1-10, 1-8 frees, 0-1 65); P O’Shea (1-0); Finn O’Brien, W Buckley (0-3 each); R Troy (0-2). CORK: B Saunderson; E Roche, C Doolan, D O’Leary; C O’Brien, C Tobin, E Twomey; M Mullins, B O’Sullivan; C Darcy, Colm McCarthy, J O’Connor; A Walsh, S Desmond, J Cahalane.

It is “inevitable” that deepfake AI videos of Irish politicians aimed at misleading the public and undermining the integrity of our elections will surface in the coming years, the head of Ireland’s electoral commission has said. “Ultimately, the long-term solution here is digital and media literacy,” he said of AI deepfakes. “This stuff is happening so quickly in such volumes now, and it's hard to tell whether something is true or not. And that’s where the difficulty is with trying to regulate or hold the social media companies to account. Ms Connolly lodged a formal complaint with the Electoral Commission over the video, describing it as “malicious” and a “disgraceful attempt to mislead voters and undermine our democracy”.

The recent mild weather tricked the yellow flowers into coming out early - after temperatures reached a balmy 15C in the first two weeks of December. However, freezing conditions are on their way, with an amber health alert in place across parts of the UK. An amber cold health alert has been issued for the North East and North West of England from 8pm on Sunday to 12pm on January 5. <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>The agency also issued a yellow cold health alert for the East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West, East of England, Yorkshire and the Humber, and London. Temperatures are expected to fall to around 4-6C from New Year's Day in areas where the yellow health alert is in place.

Married At First Sight groom Tony Mojanovski has raised eyebrows after stepping out on Sydney Harbour with a much younger woman after his disastrous on-screen relationship with Morena Farina. Despite previously dating younger women, Tony previously told Daily Mail that he's looking for something deeper. I told them, "I'm going to call the police - give me my phone",' Morena told Daily Mail Australia. 'They told me, "Are you really going to let Tony get away with everything he's done to you? 'I grabbed his hand and told him, "Tony, if you wanted a baby, I would have let you go.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a businessman’s appeal over the rejection of his challenge to the process for nominating candidates in the presidential election. Niall Byrne sought a Supreme Court appeal after the High Court dismissed his claim that Fine Gael leader Simon Harris’s direction to the party’s local authority members against nominating Independent candidates in the election was unconstitutional. Mr Byrne sought a ‘leapfrog’ appeal, that is, one directly to the Supreme Court rather than the Court of Appeal, against the High Court’s rejection last October of his challenge. Mr Justice Cregan said any reform of the nomination process was in the political realm and, if there was reform, that would ultimately be a matter for the people in a referendum. If the court decides it is justiciable, it will then consider if such a direction amounts to an impermissible interference with the nomination process as provided for in Article 12.

Paul McGinley has paid an emotional tribute to his father Mick, who passed away on Sunday after a long health battle"We lost Dad today after a long battle with Dementia," Ryder Cup icon McGinley wrote on Twitter on Sunday. "Could not have asked for a better mentor, friend and Dad. We are all broken hearted and sad."

Emergency service crews are working to restore water supply to homes and businesses in Cork City this Sunday evening following a major burst to a water main. Uisce Éireann expects repair works to be completed by 1pm on Monday. Those affected have been asked by Uisce Éireann to use use their own containers when taking water from tankers and to boil water before consumption as a precautionary measure. “We understand the inconvenience of this outage and we would like to assure customers that we are doing everything we can to restore the water supply as quickly as possible,” James Goulding, operations manager for Uisce Éireann in Cork City said. In this event, running the cold kitchen tap for several minutes will usually restore the water to a clear colour.

One person has been killed and another is critically injured after two helicopters collided in the air in New Jersey. Hammonton police chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am local time on Sunday, and police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.

What happens when a small town sees its hotel become an Ipas centreAt a time when anti-immigration protests are sweeping the country, Co Galway is proving there is another way to do thingsKinvara for All group members Sharon Murphy, Anne O’Connor, Bernadette Divilly and Anna Murphy. Photo: Ray RyanLorna Siggins Today at 06:30There’s a magic to the twinkling lights illuminating the tranquil waterfront of Kinvara in south Galway.

The Musgrave Group has announced cuts of up to 15 per cent on their SuperValu and Centra own brand butter ranges in stores nationwide from Sunday. The grocery, retail and wholesale company say that the reductions will deliver savings of up to €0.60 per pack on own-brand Irish creamery butter products, including salted and unsalted options in both 227g and 454g pack sizes. This will see all SuperValu and Centra 454g own-brand butter products reduce from €3.99 to €3.39, while all 227g own-brand butter products will reduce from €2.39 to €2.09. Tesco’s 454g of butter is on sale at a price of €3.99 with its 227G pack also retailing for €2.39. Lidl’s 454g Dairy Manor own-brand butter has dropped in price from €3.99 to €3.39.