内容摘要：The court will decide whether the trial can continue with a new judge or whether it will have to start again from the beginning.

The court will decide whether the trial can continue with a new judge or whether it will have to start again from the beginning.

"These events are inclusive, welcoming, you can shop in your PJs, and there's no need to head to the shopping mall," says Ms Krakora.Live shopping has been popular in the Asia-Pacific region for some time, where social networks such as China's Douyin regularly host live shopping streams, but now European and US brands are experimenting with this new way of selling their products.

Live shopping is a close relative to shopping channels like QVC, where viewers are urged to call in and buy the products demonstrated by presenters.But live shopping acts as a quicker shortcut from buyer to product, especially in the era of one-click purchases, made popular by online retailers such as Amazon.Also, as younger generations increasingly cut the cord and can't access cable TV, shopping channels don't hold the same relevance as they once did.

It's estimated the live shopping market has reached $32bn, with the most active sectors being fashion, cosmetics and collectibles.A 2024 survey from digital commerce platform VTEX found that 45% of US consumers have browsed or purchased from live shopping events in the past 12 months.

Guillaume Faure, chief executive of LiveMeUp, which provides live shopping video software, remembers when interest in live shopping surged.

"When Instagram introduced Reels, and when YouTube launched Shorts, we saw live shopping really take off."Tomas Gallagher, 42, of Rathanlacky, Dunkineely, County Donegal, was handed a five-year prison sentence, with the final 12 months suspended, for a range of offences committed in 2022 at St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Appearing before Letterkenny Circuit Court, the court heard Gallagher deceived his victims into helping him fix washing appliances in a laundry room before subjecting them to a series of sexual acts.In sentencing Gallagher, the judge described his crimes as "egregious acts of violence in a sacred place of pilgrimage".

Judge John Aylmer said an aggravating feature in the case was the ages of some of the victims, two of whom were teenagers, as well as the breach of trust involved.He described the incidents against the women, who cannot be named to protect their identities, as "deceitful and premeditated".