Your top stories on Friday: UK election sees huge Labour win and ‘seismic’ DUP defeat

UK Election results

Live Coverage: Labour wins landslide as DUP suffers ‘seismic’ defeat

Follow our live coverage of the UK election where the Labour Party has won the UK general election wit a landslide victory and the DUP has suffered a crushing defeat, including the loss of Ian Paisley jnr’s seat in Northern Ireland.

This morning, as the results became clear, incoming British prime minister Keir Starmer said: “We did it! You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived”

• UK elections - full coverage
• How did Northern Ireland vote?
• Analysis: DUP suffers ‘seismic’ defeat
• Analysis: Tories lost as much as Labour won

News in Ireland

• Conor McGregor stout brand cited over ‘sexually suggestive’ ad campaign: An advert for Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout which “put significant emphasis” on the “cleavages and bottoms” of female models has been deemed overtly sexual and in breach of advertising standards.
• Remains of Harry Gleeson, wrongly executed for murder 83 years ago, to return home: Eighty-three years after being wrongly convicted for the murder of a mother-of-seven, Harry Gleeson is to be reinterred in his native Tipperary.
• Co Kerry graveyard ‘honour killing’ was ‘ridiculous and stupid’, trial hears: Six murder accused used “medieval violence” to “butcher” a father of seven in “an honour killing” during a Co Kerry funeral, carrying out a “biblical atrocity” that was as “tragic and heartbreaking as it was ridiculous and stupid”, a prosecution barrister has claimed.
• Fianna Fáil supports renters’ tax credit increase o €1,000: Fianna Fáil Ministers are backing an increase to the renters’ tax credit in a move which could see the payment rise to €1,000.
• Weather forecast: A mainly dry start to Friday with some sunny spells. Scattered showers will move in from the west by afternoon. Some of the showers will be heavy. By evening time some showers merging to longer spells of rain with the chance of embedded thunderstorms and spot flooding. Highest temperatures of 14 to 18 degrees. Tonight will see further heavy scattered showers, with heavy rain for a time in parts of the north and east which may lead to spot flooding. Lowest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees.
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The Big Read

• The two reasons why it is so hard to say how many homes Ireland needs: Confused about the number of houses Ireland needs to build each year? You aren’t the only one, writes Cliff Taylor.

Opinion

• Justine McCarthy She has been abused, has turned to drugs. She is 17
• Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump ticks enough boxes to ensure debate about American fascism will continue

Sports

• Joe Canning: Clare are in the last-chance saloon: When you play a team twice in the same championship the danger is overthinking.

Life & Style

• I’m glad I never got the things my younger self thought I wanted: At the risk of sounding like an inspirational quote your recently divorced auntie posts at 3am on Facebook alongside a stock photo of a rainbow, I am glad I never got what I thought I wanted, writes Brianna Parkins.

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