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'Nothing further can be done' in case of Waterford Crystal pension action group

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Taxi driver cleared of drug charge after court finds error in summons

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Government to cut taxes on petrol by 17c and diesel by 22c for the next two months

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The Troy Parrott Effect: From songs to greeting cards – and even a parrot named Troy - we can't get enough of the Republic of Ireland's hat-trick hero

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Health -- Companies with doctors as directors awarded thousands of euro to treat waiting-list patients without going to tender, HSE audit finds

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Daniel McDonnell: Three reasons to be cheerful and three to be fearful about Ireland's play-off prospects against Czechia

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Food Reviews -- Lucinda O'Sullivan's restaurant review: 'As rubbish sacks were hauled past, it felt like we were bit players in a farcical demo of how not to run a restaurant'

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Money -- Revealed: How much war in the Middle East is expected to add to average grocery bill in Ireland this year

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Irish Business -- Donal O'Donovan: Markets can't keep up with war in Iran, and that's going to be bad for the real econony

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Gaelic Football -- Colm Keys: Paudie Clifford's absence spoils Donegal's chance to road test new approach for stopping Kerry's playmaker

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Crime -- Gangland killer Dessie Dundon gets prison cleaning job back as parole hearing looms

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North America -- Pilots killed and dozens injured as jet collides with fire truck on New York runway amid US travel chaos

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Money -- Rules revamp aims to make mortgage switching easier and protect vulnerable

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Music -- The great Irish festival guide – from all-night ragers to relaxing retreats, your summer fixtures, all mapped out

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Britain -- Arson attack on Jewish ambulances in London was 'antisemitic', says British prime minister Keir Starmer

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Britain -- Former BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards hits out furiously at TV drama about his downfall for grooming teenage boy

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Money -- Consumers don't believe multiple recent health insurance hikes are justified

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Irish News -- Taoiseach says inheritance tax reforms are needed as receipts hit record €1bn last year

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Entertainment -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers 'I never knew love, until I held my son'

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Irish News -- Managing the impact of social media on school life is very challenging, says principal of Dublin secondary school

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International Soccer -- Finding Heimir: An exclusive Irish Independent documentary

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Irish News -- Price of fuel surges close to €2.30 a litre – with further pain predicted at the pumps

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'I thought a five-day solo hike would reclaim a lost self. My menopausal body had other plans'

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Irish News - LATEST - | Fuel relief package: 20c diesel cut, 15c petrol cut until May; NORA levy to be suspended and diesel rebate scheme for hauliers agreed

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Worker removing rubble from demolished Meath home warned he'd be 'burnt out if he returned' by man with Northern Irish accent, court hears

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Family of Natalie McNally say she was 'the greatest joy we will ever have' as former partner convicted of her murder

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'You need to probably prepare yourself for the notion that you'll be broke': Mick Flannery on his parents' reaction to his career choice

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Gardaí seek men and women seen brandishing weapons during savage attack on Scarlett Faulkner

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Comment -- I'm trolled on TikTok but social media is driving customers to our farm shop

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International Soccer -- 'Maybe it would be better for me if I accept the apology, but I never accepted it' – ex-Czech star can't forgive Ciarán Clark

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Elbow's Guy Garvey: 'My advice for life? Have as much sex as possible'

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Ksenia Samotiy: Losing my phone was a brief relief from the digital dependency that has become the norm

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What to watch on TV and streaming today: Home of the Year, Theater Camp and Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers: 'I drank alone. I wanted oblivion all the time. I'd buy two bottles of vodka and lock the door'

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Two weeks after being ordered to prison, why are Enoch Burke's mother and sister still at large?

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Amy Molloy: How a massive dream home in rural Co Meath ended up as 'a costly pile of rubble'

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Dear Mary: My adult daughters are living at home and want their boyfriends to stay over but my husband says no

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Electric vehicles or petrol cars – which are cheaper to run?

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A lost boy: the harrowing story of one Dublin child, failed by those who should have protected him, whose life is now blighted by drugs and crime

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Europe -- As as it goes to polls, Denmark has turned its back on 'bullyboy' Trump

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Europe -- Tusk 'had suspicions' Hungary was giving EU info to Moscow

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North America -- Moby criticised by Kinks guitarist for calling 'Lola' transphobic

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David W Higgins: Why Ireland's ban on nuclear power and offshore drilling should be lifted

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The Irish Independent's View: World economy is at the mercy of Donald Trump's erratic whims

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Letters: Only Americans can stop Donald Trump's demolition of global peace and stability

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Fionnán Sheahan: Posh parents are spoiling Hot School Meals scheme for the plain people of Ireland

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Legal Advice -- 'I put the family home into my wife's name to get agricultural relief, but now we are separating and she says I have no entitlement to the house. Is this true?'

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Courts - LATEST - | Watch: Drone footage shows Meath home demolition underway, as owner says 'send the bill to Mickey Mouse' because her family can't pay

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Entertainment -- Emotional speeches, a few boos and a missing actor – 10 big moments from the Oscars 2026

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Family -- The Divorce Diaries: 'I was planning on breaking up with him, and then I found out I was pregnant'

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International Soccer -- From Curtis Fleming to Troy Parrott, Vincent Butler's gift to Irish football with his lifelong service at Belvedere

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Soccer -- Nathan Collins calls for cool heads and 'dark arts' ahead of Ireland's Prague challenge

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Steak sales down 36pc and mince falls 10pc as shoppers cut back on beef

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Beef quotes take another hammering – despite soaring export sales

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Limited supplies drive up lamb prices by 90c/kg

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Funding cut by 90pc for some TAMS schemes – Department of Agriculture

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'We're not getting anything near market price' – How Irish farmers are being hit by the war in the Middle East

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Politics - latest - | Dublin Lord Mayor selected to contest by-election for Fine Gael

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Dublin News -- 'It's going to kill the centre' – Stillorgan retailers claim parking charges are causing 'devastating' drop in footfall

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Irish News -- Evictions to surge as sales by landlords make up almost half of homes on the market

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News -- An Coimisiún Pleanála dismisses Cavan GAA club's 'direct impact' concerns over multi-million euro development

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Limerick student says fuel price surge a major blow to commuters already at crisis point

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Kerry woman wins record breaking €300k on the Today FM cash machine

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North Mayo town set to follow Castlebar and Westport with new E-Bike scheme

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News -- Motorcyclist travelling at 132kmh arrested in Kildare for dangerous driving

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News -- Seven centuries of stained glass captured in new Clare archive

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South Kerry -- New lease of life for Kerry town's ground-breaking coffee cup project as younger generation embrace initiative

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Drogheda & South -- Drogheda Homeless Aid seeks support to replace meals on wheels van

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News -- N84 in Galway closed as driver hospitalised following early-morning crash

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Indo Sport podcast: Bits & Bobs | Michael Lyster remembered | Mick McCarthy shots fired | What do viewers want from their pundits?

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The Indo Daily: Extra: Trump announces five-day Iran pause as Simon Harris looks set to announce Irish fuel cuts

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Indo Sport podcast: The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney and Gary Breen

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TV Reviews -- 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead' review: The rise, fall and rise again of an enduring and endearing rocker

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Pat Stacey: The doom-mongers were wrong – SNL UK's first night delivers more hits than anyone expected

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Jedward star John Grimes set to enter 'Celebrity Ex on the Beach' next week

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'Charlie was so broken when I rescued him; it was from my other lurcher that he learned how to be a dog again' – Model Thalia Heffernan on her two rescue dogs

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Celebrity News -- Chappell Roan 'really sad' after security clash at hotel made footballer Jorginho's daughter cry

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Health & Wellbeing -- Notions and necessities: From Irish film clubs to book events and home pilates kits, it's all here

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The interiors edit: How to style the perfect 'shelfie'

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Kirsty Blake Knox: Was 2000s surgery show 'The Swan' the most offensive reality TV show of all?

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'When I see more women in the media making films, I'm inspired by that – if they can, I can'

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World -- 'Cairo is not just one city, it is many cities stacked on top of each other' – here's how to do a bucket-list trip

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Travel News -- ICE agents deployed to over a dozen US airports; activities to include 'arrest of all illegal immigrants'

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Travel News -- Remote Spanish airport once again becomes parking lot for planes, this time due to Iran war

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Ireland -- 10 Center Parcs swaps in Ireland - family-friendly stays that are cheaper, cosier or comfier

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Travel -- Rest in peace? Not on your life. Why celebrity tombstone tourism refuses to die

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Irish News -- Who is the Roscommon-born priest on verge of sainthood and whose life was portrayed in a Hollywood film?

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Courts -- Cancer patient who claims employer cut her hours as it no longer wanted her as 'face' of company after treatment is awarded €20,000

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Courts -- Woman canvassing for President Catherine Connolly 'punched in face', court told

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Irish News -- Natalie McNally murder: How Stephen McCullagh's seemingly perfect live stream alibi was dismantled by cyber crime experts

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Courts -- Isis supporter claimed garda stabbing and pub arson were 'message to Government and Conor McGregor', court told

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Courts -- Creation of new body to compensate victims of violent crime urged by Law Reform Commission

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Courts -- Teen was pushed from moving car in late-night 'fake taxi scam' in Dublin, court hears

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Irish News -- Ukrainian father who died after Cork stabbing hailed as 'soulmate' by heartbroken wife

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Mark Keenan: Measures designed to boost rental supply are actually cutting it – and at a rapid pace

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The Irish Independent's View: Short-term pain for long-term gain is a hard sell to renters

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Martin Breheny: My friend Michael Lyster – the consummate professional who made it all look so simple

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Ruth Medjber: When we go away and rent a big house on Airbnb, we get a small taste of what life would be like if there was no Airbnb

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Senan Molony: Why Simon Harris must 'go big or go home' when it comes to Government's fuel package

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Paul Kearns: Invisible Palestinians and imaginary Iranians — how Israel's media is presenting this war

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Malachi O'Doherty: Gerry Adams' incredible run of good luck just won't stop

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Sarah Breen: What was I like in the 90s? I'm glad to say that little evidence remains

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Shane Ross: My father almost completely cut me out of his will as he felt I had lost the run of myself and become utterly obnoxious

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Brenda Power: Meath house demolition is another victory for the State against the small man

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Brendan O'Connor: Nothing builds community like the demoliton of a gigantic house

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Eilis O'Hanlon: Forget waiting for Superman or government handouts — if you want to beat the energy crisis, just layer up

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The Sunday Independent's View: For or against it, inheritance tax must be made fairer

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Colin Murphy: How post-apartheid plans for South Africa were forged in Foxrock

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Conor Skehan: Sudden switch to offshore wind could blow back on entire economy

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Irish Business -- Pre-tax profits surge 36pc to €48.96m at Irish arm of Sports Direct

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Business -- Mercosur deal to come into effect on May 1

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Business -- Don't expect cheaper petrol everywhere on Wednesday morning, industry warns

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Technology -- HubSpot invests €40m in Dublin to build AI ahead of 'SaaS-pocalypse'

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Irish Business -- Taoiseach opens €43m flagship university enterprise building on Waterford Crystal site

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Small Business -- How a Wicklow barista helped take Catalyst from coffee hatch to award‑winning café

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Business -- Irish shares rebound and oil falls as Trump talks up Iran talks

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Small Business -- Wexford entrepreneur who owns successful hair health business lends her expertise to five star Monart spa

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Money -- 'Even the simple distribution of heirlooms can become contentious' – how to divide inheritance in blended families and avoid arguments

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Comment -- Lynn Boylan: Oversimplifying causes of current fuel cost crisis risks enabling profiteers

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Irish Business -- The week ahead in business: war to dominate as investors watch markets closely

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Business -- Company planning €30m film studio in Tipperary hit with €500,000 debt judgment over Luxembourg loan

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Business -- Grid investment must enable 'rapid deployment' of renewables, says solar lobby group

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Athletics -- 'My stock has fallen off a cliff. I didn't realise how bad that would be. It's an ego hit but I just have to get on with'

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United Rugby Championship -- 'Mouthy' Leinster must do their talking on pitch, says Tyler Bleyendaal

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Golf -- Watch: John Daly falls down steep slope as caddie jumps to the rescue

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Gaelic Football -- Wexford defender Eoin Porter on cloud nine after Ryan's last-gasp goal secures back-to-back promotions

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International Soccer -- Bohs assistant Stephen O'Donnell links up with Ireland U-21s as assistant

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Leinster Rugby -- Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Rieko Ioane must produce much more to live up to his billing and get into Leinster's match-day 23 for Europe

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Gaelic Football -- 'There's nobody pulling rank, there's nobody that's pointing fingers or blaming anyone' – Kildare boss Brian Flanagan

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International Soccer - Exclusive - | Czechia legend Vladimir Smicer: 'The Irish play more with their heart, more for the country' 19:30

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Rugby -- Paul Neary slots home late penalty as St Mary's edge replay to secure first Leinster Schools Senior Cup in 24 years

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International Soccer -- 'Some of the Czech lads wouldn't even know the game is on' – Ireland's man behind enemy lines

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Premier League -- Heartbreak for Igor Tudor as he learns of father's death after Forest defeat

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Premier League -- Miguel Delaney: How Pep Guardiola created new problems for Mikel Arteta to solve that could define title race

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International Soccer -- John O'Shea channels spirit of Budapest with Irish camp upbeat ahead of 'cup final' in Prague

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Gaelic Football -- Ger Brennan facing potential 12-week suspension after altercation in defeat to Galway

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