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Videos -- Child runs on pitch with flare and PSNI attacked by missiles after chaotic Derry City clash

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News - LATEST - | Former boyfriend accused of murdering Sarah McNally 'cruelly and brazenly' stabbed Longford woman 19 times

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State of emergency declared due to an uncontrolled fire at an airport near explosive materials in Canada

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The 150 day search for the next Ireland manager

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Book Reviews -- Rick O'Shea: Reading about the world coming to a halt is way better than the reality

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International Soccer -- Aidan Fitzmaurice: How can you 'trust the process' when the process resembles a farce?

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Author John Connolly: 'Stephen King once gently corrected my grammar on a stage in New York in front of thousands of people'

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Middle East -- Iran's 'axis of resistance' ready and willing to take on more central role in conflict if called upon

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North America -- Jury is finally selected in Donald Trump 'hush-money' trial as man sets himself on fire outside court

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Europe -- US House pushes ahead with $95bn aid bill for Ukraine and Israel despite firestorm of protest from hardline Republicans

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Europe -- Ukraine air force claims to have shot down Russian bomber

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North America -- Analysis: Trump lawyers must convince jury that Stormy Daniels received payment to spare family's embarrassment

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Louise McSharry: What fat people have always suspected is true: you'd like us more if we were thin

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John Downing: Europe is hoping for the best while dreading the Donald

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Senan Molony: Charles Haughey expressed horror over the Stardust fire, but he never promised justice

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Richard Curran: The voices warning of financial Armageddon are getting louder. What's going on and should we be worried?

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Ireland -- 'I want people to come here and feel like they're at home' – Ireland's perfectly imperfect new guesthouse

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Home & Garden -- Ask an expert: My mother died and left me the family home – how can I afford the inheritance tax bill without selling it?

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Irish News -- The 45-minute read: How the Stardust disaster happened and why the families had to wait 43 years for the truth

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League of Ireland -- Noel King set to make shock return to League of Ireland as manager of Dundalk

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No prosperous future for Ireland without a growing agriculture sector – Taoiseach

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John Joyce: Why I'm confident my €7 bolus is worth the time and effort

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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Public sector's organic target is grand, but buying Irish would be better

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Charlie McConalogue's former driver awarded €30k after 'egregious treatment' when let go on Christmas Day

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Sinn Féin proposes new commission to fend off the loss of family farms

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News -- 'Stardust tragedy is always in our mind' – experts hope safety changes mean nightclub blaze cannot be repeated

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Courts -- Woman hugged man to 'discreetly transfer' bag of cannabis on Dublin street, court hears

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Dublin News -- 'Our home is under attack': Elderly couple living in fear as youths launch rocks from rail tracks

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Gardaí in Cork nab motorist driving more than double the speed limit on National Slow Down Day

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Galway motorist caught travelling 25kmh over speed limit on National Slow Day

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Gardaí launch hunt for thieves behind overnight Longford raids

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Major fish kill in Tipperary being investigated by Inland Fisheries Ireland

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Co Wexford councillor is chastised again over letters he sent with incorrect information

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News -- Longford TikTok queen Laura Packenham setting new records in Irish language quest

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Lifestyle -- Wicklow residents' Google searches for 'bed bugs' rise 48pc in past month

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South Kerry -- Kerry town launches awards to recognise the people and groups that maintain its high standards

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Wicklow & District -- Tents arrive at proposed Wicklow IPAS centre to accommodate estimated 160 asylum seekers

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Wexford & District -- Wexford General Hospital announces visitor restrictions amid Covid-19 outbreak on ward

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The Indo Daily: Revisited – The Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape and the manhunt that followed

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The Indo Daily: Jury in Stardust inquest reaches verdict of unlawful killing for all 48 victims

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Celebrity News -- Woman who stalked Harry Styles and sent him 8,000 cards is jailed

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The Fab 50 – Ireland's 50 best places to stay for 2024

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'It's an honest price – we've no reason to charge another €10 or €15 for B&B just because we can'

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Courts -- 'Nervous flyer' stole three bottles of wine from Dublin Airport shop before flight

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Courts -- Dangerous driver 'could have maimed or killed anyone – including himself', judge tells court

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Irish News -- Bairbre Power: As a young reporter at the 1981 Stardust tribunal, I saw the pain on the faces of survivors and relatives. It was a grim and unrelenting inquiry

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Irish News -- 'You can't toughen up your skull': rugby is forced to confront its concussion problem

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Irish News -- Protesters in standoff near migrant camp on Mount Street

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Courts -- Three men accused of conspiring to import drugs in west Cork denied bail

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Courts -- Labour Party drop councillor from election ticket after underpaying Bolivian seamstress

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Irish News -- Driver caught speeding at 194km/h as almost 500 people caught on National Slow Down Day

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Saoirse Hanley: I'm a huge Swiftie but I refuse to analyse her every move to death any more – I just enjoy the music instead

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Victoria Richards: If there's one thing that divides parenting today – it is surely the way we discipline our children

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Netanyahu has done what the world warned him not to

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Adrian Cummins: Lack of taxis has become an economic liability and a safety risk

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Letters: Our education system is broken when it comes to special needs children

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JJ Clarke: Why WB Yeats's lessons in love still rhyme in our material age

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Kevin Byrne: Mount Street's 'shanty town' is an appalling blight on Dublin, and calamity awaits if Government continues to ignore it

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Martina Devlin: Families just wanted to find out the truth – that wasn't too much to ask, was it?

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Editorial: After being failed by officialdom for decades, the least Stardust victims now deserve is a criminal inquiry

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Tanya Sweeney: 'Let's be honest, the phrase 'must meet soon' is also used for the friends we're not especially bothered meeting up with'

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Ellen Coyne: Five years on, women are still travelling to the UK – it's clear we didn't get the abortion law we wanted

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Jason Rezaian: What was Iran thinking? It's perhaps not what you imagined

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Roslyn Dee: We are what we wear, even if 80pc of our clothes go unworn

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Letters: Why we must use Constitution to restrict ownership of homes to one per person

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Editorial: Our children deserve better than having to wait for cancer care and scoliosis surgery

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Irish Business -- Most businesses yet to sign up for free money under €257m government scheme

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Irish Business -- 'Disappointed' Johnny Ronan firm to appeal against council's rejection of 17-storey scheme for Dublin's Docklands

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Technology -- Complaints keep coming after Eir pleads guilty over customer service

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Personal Finance -- Petrol and diesel back to nearly €2 a litre as drivers hit by biggest price rise this year

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Business -- Smell the money: Puig kicks off €2.6bn IPO

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Irish Business -- Drop in number of job vacancies listed as market 'stabilises' following Covid pandemic's talent boom

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Media -- The Journal tipped for possible takeover

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Politics -- Government promises on apprenticeships are 'nothing more than hot air', Sinn Féin say

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Irish News -- 'I felt betrayed and overwhelmed by power' – Siptu official claims she came 'under attack' from union for turning whistleblower

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Irish Business -- Record 39.2 million passengers at Ireland's airports last year

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Irish Business -- Russell Crowe and Ed Sheeran-backed Muff Liquor Company signs US distribution deal

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Irish Business -- Heineken Ireland is latest to hike price of pint from June

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United Rugby Championship -- You ain't seen nothing yet as Liam Turner's overdrive ramps up in South Africa

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League of Ireland -- The Athlone defender who took on Argentina – Meet German Fuentes Rodriguez who marked Man United's Alejandro Garnacho last month

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League of Ireland -- Jenna Slattery insists sky's the limit for pacesetters Galway as they target 2024 league title

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Six Nations -- Sinéad Kissane: What constitutes a success for Ireland in a battle already predetermined against England?

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GAA -- Your guide to all this weekend's GAA action

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Gaelic Football -- 'The more I have on, the better I perform' – Derry's Conor Glass won't shatter as he proves to be man of action

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Hurling -- Colm Keys: John Kiely and Co have enough in the Treaty tank to seal a famous five

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United Rugby Championship -- Munster require a statement performance to achieve the result they need against Bulls

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