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DUNNES Stores fans are set to love a major trench coat dupe after it landed on racks – and it’s €195 cheaper.

The Gallery Alexa Double Breasted Belted Trench Coat is available in stores and online now.

It is priced at €50 and comes in sizes XS to XL.

Dunnes wrote: “Crafted with impeccable attention to detail, this classic, double-breasted trench coat from Gallery features notch lapels, gleaming gold buttons, and a detachable tie belt that cinches the waist.

“Designed with a single back vent for ease of movement and adjustable button-tab cuffs for versatile styling, this fully lined coat ensures comfort and durability.

“Gallery is available exclusively at Dunnes Stores.”

The trench coat is a great dupe for the Sezane version – which is priced at €245.

The designer piece is described as a “trench coat with tie belt, raglan sleeves, button tabs at shoulders and cuffs, back slit with button.”

Meanwhile, Dunnes Stores is making it easy for shoppers to start in the gym this year – with their gorgeous activewear range.

The range features some stunning pieces including jackets, flattering leggings and additional items.

With bargain prices, shoppers are rushing to the tills to pick them up.

One shopper has tried some of the new range, and shared her opinion on social media.

TikTok user Lauren Egerton shared a short video to the platform for her followers.

In the caption of her post, she wrote: “I got a few new pieces from Dunnes Stores and I decided to wear a few of them today! These are all still available to purchase, even the rest that I showed you!”

At the beginning of the video, she can be seen wearing a luxury pair of black pyjamas from Dunnes Stores, with white lining along the edges.

The set costs just €20 in total.

Lauren said: “A very basic outfit for today, it’s only Tuesday. I’m actually off, but I might take myself somewhere nice.”

“I have new bits, they’re very basic.”

The first thing she shows off is a stunning khaki-coloured padded jacket that is perfect for the cold weather.

Holding it up, she said: “Has anyone else bought these jackets in Dunnes?”

She notes that she bought it two weeks ago in black, but went back to buy the second colour.

The Hooded Quilt Jacket comes in four colours: black, blue, khaki, and winter white.

It is available in sizes XS to XXL, and is set to fly off the shelves as it costs just €30.

In the official item description on the Dunnes Stores website, fashion chiefs wrote: “Designed in a diamond-quilted texture, this jacket has a high neck, zip pockets, dipped hems, and a hood.

“Lightweight and shower-resistant, it’s a great option for transitional weather.”

THE mother of Gareth Hutch has told how her son’s murder in an ambush outside his home over eight years ago was “a violent and callous crime with no value or thought given for a life”.

In a statement read out at a sentencing hearing for the fourth person to be convicted of the murder of Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s nephew Gareth Hutch, Vera Hutch said her son was “senselessly and cruelly taken” from her family in May 2016, tearing her life apart and changing their world “forever”.

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Having heard the victim impact statement from Mrs Hutch, in the Special Criminal Court, presiding judge Mr Justice Alexander Owens sentenced Thomas ‘Nicky’ McConnell to the mandatory term of life imprisonment, backdating it to July 20 2020, when he was taken into custody by Turkish authorities and then extradited back to Ireland.  

Last December, McConnell became the fourth person to be found guilty of the murder of Mr Hutch in an ambush in Dublin over eight years ago, following a verdict by the Special Criminal Court.

Revealing the verdict of the three-judge court last month, Mr Justice Owens said that the evidence showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that McConnell was the second assassin in the attack along with Jonathan Keogh, who followed Gareth Hutch from his home and shot him dead.

When passing judgement the court found that Keogh’s gun discharged a number of bullets at close range that caused the injuries which killed Mr Hutch.

McConnell’s gun was later found to have the safety catch on and did not fire any rounds during the assassination.

However, the court found that even if McConnell deliberately left the safety catch on, his other actions in preparation for the shooting showed that he was part of a common design with Keogh and others to commit murder and his actions were intended to result in Mr Hutch’s death.

Vera Hutch, whose victim impact statement was read to the court by Detective Garda Liam Lee, said she had the “privilege and honour of being Gareth’s mother for over 35 years before he was senseless and cruelly taken from” his family.  

She said: “Standing here in front of you today with my life torn apart, our world changed forever. Losing Gareth has caused my heart and all our families hearts to be broken, nothing can ever repair the emptiness that his death has caused.”

At today’s sitting of the non-jury court, Det Gda Lee told prosecution counsel Fiona Murphy SC that McConnell has 105 previous convictions including those for assault, threatening to kill and causing serious harm as well as possession of knives.

McConnell, 39, of Sillogue Gardens, Ballymun, Dublin 11 had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Gareth Hutch, 36, on May 24, 2016 at Avondale House, North Cumberland Street, Dublin 1.

FOURTH PERSON CONVICTED

He is the fourth person to be convicted of the murder. In November 2018 the Special Criminal Court found Regina Keogh, 47, of Cumberland St North, Dublin 1, Jonathan Keogh, 39, with an address at Gloucester Place, Dublin 1 and Thomas Fox, 32, with an address at Rutland Court, Dublin 1 guilty of the murder of Mr Hutch.

McConnell’s trial began in 2023 but was postponed for 16 months, firstly when one of the judges was unable to continue and then as the court awaited a Supreme Court ruling in a separate case.

McConnell’s trial continued after the Supreme Court found in that case that traffic and location data relating to mobile phones could be used as evidence, even though the data was harvested using a now-invalidated law.

The trial heard that McConnell and Jonathan Keogh used an apartment opposite Gareth Hutch’s home as a lookout spot and when Mr Hutch emerged from his front door, they followed him and shot him dead.

Mary McDonnell, who lived at the lookout apartment, told the trial in June 2023 that she could identify Jonathan Keogh because she had known him for many years but she did not know the second man.

When asked to identify the second man from CCTV footage showing Mr McConnell in a shop later the same day, she said she was “not really one hundred per cent” and that she was “half and half”.

COURT EVIDENCE

Mr Justice Owens said last month that Ms McDonnell’s evidence could not be used to prove McConnell was the second gunman.

The court instead relied on mobile phone data linking McConnell to the other murder plotters, CCTV footage connecting McConnell to various vehicles used in the plot, and lies told by the accused to gardai that were indicative of guilt.

In particular, the court was satisfied that McConnell parked a black BMW in front of Avondale House with the intention of using it as the getaway car. Following the shooting, Keogh and McConnell got into the BMW but could not get it started.

They then ran to a Skoda Octavia, which the court said had also been parked nearby by McConnell that morning. They left the scene in the Octavia.

When gardai searched the BMW, they found McConnell’s DNA, a can of petrol and two changes of clothes that prosecution counsel Fiona Murphy SC said marked it out as a getaway car. McConnell would later lie to gardai that he had sold the BMW to a man who was similar looking to himself.

Mr Justice Owens said this “yarn” was told to hide McConnell’s guilty role in the murder plot.

In reaching its verdict, the court relied on further lies told by the accused and emails on a phone linked to McConnell which showed he had an “intimate knowledge of the murder”.

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A DAD who claimed he was “play-fighting” with his 14-year-old daughter when he stabbed her to death has been found guilty of murder.

Scarlett Vickers suffered catastrophic blood loss after the blade was plunged 11cm into her chest and pierced her heart.

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Her dad Simon Vickers, 50, has been found guilty of murdering his teen daughter at their home in Darlington, Co Durham, on July 5.

The monster claimed he and Scarlett were just “messing about” when he accidentally threw the blade at her.

But Teesside Crown Court heard the 11cm wound was too deep to have been a tragic mistake.

The heartless dad also attempted to claim that he was the victim after his daughter died in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.

After his arrest, Vickers told police: “That was it. We were horse-playing.

“I must be the unluckiest man in the world.”

Vickers claimed the playfight started when he and Scarlett began throwing grapes at each other while mum Sarah Hall made dinner.

He said he went to “try and get her” but his daughter tried to push him away so he grabbed the tongs and chucked them.

The dad continued: “She just shouted ‘ah, ah ah’ and fell to the floor.

“Her lips were going bluer and she wasn’t listening when I was shouting at her.

“Sarah took over and the ambulance came and, f***ing hell.”

Vickers described his only child as the “love of my life” and told police his world had “gone to s***”.

He also denied telling paramedics at the scene that he picked up a knife and that it “just went in” after Scarlett “lunged towards me”.

The dad added: “There is no way in the world I would stab my child. I threw those tongs at her.

“I want to die myself. My only child – I don’t know what to say. I can’t even cry. I don’t even know what’s wrong.”

The court heard the dad gave “three different accounts at least before his formal police interview” of what happened.

Prosecutor Mark McKone KC said Vickers must have stabbed his daughter “deliberately with the knife”.

He told jurors the injury inflicted to Scarlett “could not have been caused by throwing the knife or indeed by throwing anything else.”

During her evidence, Scarlett’s mum Sarah Hall said she believed it was an accident and her partner of 27 years would never harm their daughter.

Vickers, who denied murder, has been remanded into custody to be sentenced at a later date.

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  Відносини Дональда Трампа з авторитарними лідерами давно викликають жваві обговорення. Від його похвали Сі Цзіньпіну (“Я вважаю його другом… Він сильний хлопець, жорсткий хлопець”) до взаємної симпатії з Кім Чен Ином (“Я йому подобався… мені він дуже сподобався”). Однак найбільше уваги й здогадок завжди викликали його періодичні взаємини з Володимиром Путіним, пише The Times. З […]

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BRAVE 40 Day Health Challenge recruit Olivia Fitzgerald brought show viewers to tears when she opened up on an overlooked issue many people face.

The mum-of-four told clinical psychologist Dr Eddie Murphy that her biggest challenge so far is facing others.

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Olivia admitted: “I definitely think about what other people think about me.”

Dr Eddie discussed how the Limerick woman needs to have a kinder voice towards herself.

He explained: “So that’s called mind reading. You are trying to think what the other person’s thinking about me. And that’s an anxiety type behaviour.

“It’s a big feature of social anxiety. Sometimes, people in social situations, are always trying to figure what the other person is thinking about me.”

Dr Eddie discussed how these thoughts can be an indicator of social anxiety – and how many people just ignore it.

Social anxiety affects nearly one in eight adults in Ireland, according to Social Anxiety Ireland.

He said: “It’s actually one of the most missed of all the anxiety presentations.

“There’s 13 per cent of people, a huge amount of people with social anxiety.

“There’s very good website called socialanxietyireland.com.

“Some people have very specific social anxiety say like giving a best man speech or something like that.”

Social anxiety was the last anxiety disorder to be “discovered”, which was only formally recognised in 1979.

It continues to be last in terms of public and professional understanding.

Olivia admitted she sometimes had thoughts that she “wasn’t worth it” and hopes to “change that mind-set” during the 40 Day Health Challenge.

Dr Eddie said: “It’s so brave of you to put yourself forward for the 40 day health challenge when this is not your comfort zone.

“Everything you do here is outside your comfort zone, and that is total respect from us. Everything you do, all respectfulness.”

TREATMENT

Experts at Social Anxiety Ireland said exercise has been studied as a possible treatment option for anxiety symptoms – both as an extra treatment coupled with medication or psychotherapy, and as a stand-alone treatment.

The disorder most often surfaces in adolescence or early adulthood, but can occur at any time, including early childhood.

Dr Eddie said: “No matter what you do in this 40 Day Health Challenge, if you come away with all the things, but not the internal peace, then there’s a sadness then for everybody, really.

“We want to see that [peace], and that’s going to be slow. But that starts with compassion.”

The psychologist advised there’s “super strong evidence” to achieving self-peace through journaling.

He said: “What I’d like you to do is transcribe the comments that people did, whether privately or publicly, what they said to you into your journal.

“So I’d like you to do that so and I want you then to look at that.”

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MANCHESTER UNITED stars had to be driven back home by coach after their Premier League match at Fulham.

United defeated the Cottagers 1-0 on Sunday thanks to Lisandro Martinez’s winner at Craven Cottage.

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Eamonn and James Clarke

Eamonn and James Clarke

Eamonn and James Clarke

The Red Devils were scheduled to fly back to Manchester Airport but the flight was cancelled.

Problems with the airline meant going back home by plane was no longer an option.

And so Man Utd had to endure a THREE-AND-A-HALF-HOUR coach journey to Manchester.

Ruben Amorim’s men faced Fulham at 7pm and the manager finished his post-match press conference at about 9.40pm.

The team arrived back at Manchester Airport at about 1.30AM to get on their cars that they had parked nearby anticipating a flight back.

Some players, such as Manuel Ugarte, seemed visibly frustrated after the horrendous ordeal.

United are training on Monday despite the horrible journey, but have Tuesday off.

Amorim will hold practice again on Wednesday morning before the three-hour flight to Romania.

That is where they will take on FCSB on Thursday’s crunch Europa League clash as they look to seal a place in the top eight.

That leads straight to the Last 16, which is quite important for United amid their ongoing woes in the Premier League.

The Red Devils have plunged down to 12th place in the table, which means winning the Europa League poses as their best chance of gaining Champions League qualification next season.

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