Your morning briefing: Cash find at Sligo murderer’s home sparked terrorism fears, Israeli firm fires Dublin woman over social posts

Anti-terrorism gardaí worked with overseas security agencies to determine if Yousef Palani, who was on Monday sentenced to life for the murder of two gay men, was engaged in terrorism.

The presence of €350,000 in cash in two suitcases in Palani’s home in Sligo town raised fears he had been paid by an Islamic terrorism group to carry out the attacks.

However, gardaí concluded there were no outside groups or individuals involved in the attack. A sentencing hearing at the Central Criminal Court on Monday heard gardaí did not believe Palani was “radicalised despite some suggestions to the contrary”.

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