Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for historical child sex crimes. The ex-DUP leader was sentenced to 11 years for rape against Complainant B and four years for all offences against Complainant A, to be served consecutively. He will also be on the sex offenders register indefinitely. This extra episode of The Indo Daily is brought to you by our sister podcast The BelTel, as Ciaran Dunbar speaks with Allison Morris outside Newry Crown Court.

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“I could hear screams like in a horror film – it will never leave my mind.”

These are the stark words of an onlooker on the streets of the Birchwood estate in Waterford as a scene of devastation stood before them.

Philip and Kim English, alongside their two children Callum (12) and Jayden (9), died following an arson attack on their house in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The family had been repeatedly intimidated, and their home targeted in connection with a drug debt – one that they themselves had nothing to do with.

Now, four people are dead, and two children remain in hospital.

A murder investigation is under way, and there is considerable fury amid the sorrow.

On this episode of The Indo Daily, host Kevin Doyle is joined by Pádraig Byrne, senior journalist with the Irish Independent, to get the latest from Waterford.

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They collect millions in rent every year and own thousands of homes, but most Irish tenants have never heard of them.

From a former Anglo Irish banker to Galway plasterers, Ireland’s super-landlords have quietly built property empires worth hundreds of millions of euro.

So, who are the people shaping Ireland’s rental market, and how did they become some of the most powerful players in housing?

Today on the Indo Daily, Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Irish Independent features writer Kim Bielenberg and author and Crazy House Prices podcaster Ciarán Mulqueen to go behind the front door of Ireland’s landlord class.

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