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Irish News -- Council's planned levies on housing charities 'will increase rents and reduce supply'

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Personal Finance -- Energy supplier took €13,500 from customer's bank account in smart meter billing blunder – and tried to charge another €23,700

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Health Features -- The dangers of extreme exercise: 'Bodybuilding took over my life – but I still kept telling myself I looked fat'

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Irish News -- Mamie Cadden – the socialite midwife who became Dublin's notorious backstreet abortionist

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Personal Finance -- Calls to bring in UK-style system to tackle uninsured driving as numbers here increase

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International Soccer -- David Kelly: Ambitious Ireland aiming to smash class ceiling and reach Women's World Cup again

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Irish News -- 'I've been tortured for two years': Beautician charged with illegally selling fillers says she's being 'harassed'

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United Rugby Championship -- Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Tight at the top but all four provinces are firmly in the URC play-off hunt

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Education -- 'It took a year just to nail down a basic structure' – parents tell of struggle to keep religion out of their twins' education

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Irish News -- Over €17m in emergency payments provided over last two years to people struggling with cost of burying loved ones

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News -- Call for increased garda presence in Clare amid anti-social behaviour concerns – 'People don't feel safe in their homes'

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Crime -- Gardaí raid drug gang linked to missing crime boss Sean Dunne, seizing €32,000 and designer goods

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Irish News -- Daniel Kinahan's final hours of freedom: How one of the world's most-wanted men was captured in Dubai

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Irish Business -- 'This could be groundbreaking for Ireland Inc and the midlands' – New research reveals transformative potential of 'energy parks'

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Television -- 'You're aware that this is the end': Home of the Year's Amanda Bone on watching Hugh Wallace in his final series

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Life -- Dermot Bannon on the homes of Joanne McNally, 'There were chairs that didn't fit. She sawed the legs off,' and Vogue Williams: 'People coming in and out all the time'

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Revealed: Children among nearly 200 patients kept in hospital last year because they had no home to go to

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My Money: 'I would love to be a better saver and have more money in my pension'

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Healthy eating: Need to defrost after your morning swim? Try a piping hot bowl of this fibre-rich porridge

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News -- Cork playwright inspired by her perusal of outfits worn by Rihanna and Cher to pen new play 'Diva'

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Movie News -- From Ace of Bass to Blondie and Johnny Cash, the unlikely Bond theme tunes that got shot down

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Boxing -- 'We're going through a transition' – Boxing Ireland looking to build on rebrand at World Cup in Brazil

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Caroline Foran: 'The first thing I said to my husband was, 'It's not our fault. It's not something we were doing''

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Norah Casey on losing husband, Richard Hannaford: 'Radiotherapy shifted the tumour, it cracked his spinal column. Three weeks after the diagnosis, he was in a wheelchair'

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Council investigates alleged unauthorised development at Marian Finucane's former home in Kildare

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'The Ireland we left has changed... it feels like we're emigrating to a new place' – five expats on the challenges of returning home

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Living with ambiguous loss: 'When someone is dead, you get to have a eulogy, you put a lid on a coffin. With missing, you get none of that'

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Middle East -- LIVE

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Middle East -- 'Dread of what regime could do next quickly erased joy of ceasefire' – Iranians tell of fears and hopes for future

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Europe -- Pro-Putin former president poised for runaway win in Bulgarian election

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Europe -- European allies fear unqualified US negotiators will botch Iran negotiations

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Britain -- Burnham meeting with Rayner fuels talk of plot to oust Starmer

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Fionnán Sheahan: Mary Lou McDonald's courting of Official Ireland ends with fuel protests

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Jenny Maguire: In a world thirsty for bloody war, Ireland must protect the Triple Lock at all costs

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Danielle Pletka: How America became home to the relatives of foreign thugs

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Letters: Census 1926 publication offers an extraordinary window on to our past

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The Irish Independent's View: President Catherine Connolly's defence of United Nations is a timely intervention

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Courts -- Dublin solicitor who was accused of sexual assault by son leaves almost €50m in his will

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Celebrity News -- 'We have pitched it lower to allow market decide': Shane Ross on slashing price of family home by €900,000

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Education -- Shorter school days and more breaks under review as Dáil committee pushes for 'holistic' Finnish model

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Soccer -- Aidan Fitzmaurice: Brian Barry-Murphy basks in Cardiff's promotion but job prospects of fellow Irish coaches show pitfalls

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Six Nations -- Ireland captain Erin King keen to get 'revenge' against France for World Cup heartbreak

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News -- EU eyes grants, subsidies to offset Iran war impact on farming, transport

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Forestry & Enviro -- Tirlán unveils new 16-acre solar farm in Kilkenny

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Forestry & Enviro -- New access point means Wexford homeowners will no longer have to drive on beach to get to their properties

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Dairy -- Spoiled at grass: why our cows have turned into springtime divas

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News -- IFA admit they didn't know the full details of €505m government package until 'it went public'

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Cork farmer who 'wiped out' over nine acres of woodland did so for 'profiteering', says Judge

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See inside Victorian home near Wicklow seafront for sale at €1.2 million

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New Ross -- Wexford residents can't get out to work 'without bursting a tyre' as wait continues for emergency roads funding

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News -- 150 jobs for Cork region as €8m expansion of Cygnum completed

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Galway train commuter leapt onto tracks to save dog as lucky pup to be up for adoption

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Road restrictions blamed for gridlock in north Mayo town to be removed next week

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Wexford based writer shares lived experience while serving in South African military – 'In those days you just had to continue'

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Cork court remands Limerick man who pleaded guilty to string of thefts in custody for a week

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Buyer wanted to take on Galway village pub as property goes on sale

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The Indo Daily: Could Nigel Farage lead the charge for a united Ireland?

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Entertainment -- Louise Duffy: 'I don't always have to be in front of a camera sharing. I don't just blast it all out there, which I think is why I haven't been cancelled'

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Books -- Top 20 titles of two decades – how the reading public voted for their favourite Irish Book Award winners

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Movies -- 'By looking in their eyes, you can really see what war does to a person, it kills a part of you' – A Kilkenny filmmaker's journey into Ukraine

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Book News -- 'I'd feel like a voyeur in another world' – Wicklow cancer survivor on novel she started from hospital bed

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Sex & Relationships -- Dear Mary: My husband keeps telling me I have to lose weight before our holiday so he will look good

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Beauty -- Triona McCarthy: Need a pep-tide in your step? Try these firming skin, hair and make-up wonders

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Passing on the backpack baton from mum to son – how Interrailing has changed since my days of print maps and guide books

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Courts -- Man punched female co-worker in face in 'vicious, unprovoked attack'

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Courts -- Crack-dealing cafe burglar and shoplifter gets suspeneded sentence after paying €1,000 in compensation

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Courts -- Hostel resident 'struck man on head with broom', court hears

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Irish News -- Department 'has no plans' to extend Cork primary school – despite teachers using toilet as a special education resource space

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Politics -- Accusations of 'carbon-tax gouging' as almost €250m flows into state coffers instead of climate schemes

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Politics -- There will be 'a number' of measures for workers in Budget 2027, says Taoiseach

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A snapshot of the fledgling Free State, featuring a Monto madam, literary legends and two five-year-old Eamon de Valeras

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Brendan O'Connor: When it comes to trolling, Donald Trump is no match for Pope Leo

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Letters: Term limits for taoisigh could help to ground our leaders in reality

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Fr Michael Collins: Donald Trump's crass insults have given Pope Leo a greater platform to speak against tyranny

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Donal Fallon finds the historic figures of 100 years ago, including 'jack of all trades' Maud Gonne and Kitty Kiernan

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Shane Ross: Jim O'Callaghan's army gaffe has spared the Taoiseach from a changing of the guard

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Eilis O'Hanlon: For Trump, admitting his AI Jesus post was a mistake would be the real blasphemy

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Brenda Power: Nameless TD who vouched for a paedophile owes us all an explanation

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Seán Kelly: Orban showed the danger of EU states having a veto – now we must seize our chance to scrap it

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Sam McBride: When one generation takes its lead from Rory McIlroy and the next from Kneecap, the future is impossible to predict

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Eoin O'Malley: Simon Harris avoids heat in fuel protest fallout, but for how much longer?

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Sarah Breen: I thought Coachella was some kind of utopia, until I realised it was missing something very important

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Louise McSharry: Things can be bleak, but Artemis moon mission showed us that at our core, humans are good

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Iona Cleave: How China and Russia are becoming Iran's eyes in the sky

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Irish Business -- Bankers and builders lead 2025 CEO pay surge as bonus caps are scrapped

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In The Workplace -- Gina London: Use it or lose it – make being human an advantage in this AI business world

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Technology -- Adrian Weckler: Addiction to FDI money tree tightens its grip as underlying deficit deepens

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Money -- Your Questions Answered: 'We're due to fly via the Middle East in 10 days. Can we get a refund?'

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Money -- How to find Ireland's best value current account in a very crowded banking market

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Irish Business -- Richard Curran: Austrians got PTSB at bargain price but now face thorny issue of bank branches and costs

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Media -- Any Other Business: Prudence and budgetary planning goes out the window when the pickets call

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Irish Business -- Here's how to how we develop and advance Ireland's digital healthcare sector even further

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Money -- Your Money Questions: When will I be hit by the reduction in benefits on my Laya health insurance?

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Irish Business -- East Coast Bakehouse co-founder will not be part of its rescue plan

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Money -- Home Economics: 'I'm a cancer survivor– will I still be able to get life insurance in order to obtain a mortgage?'

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Comment -- Richard Curran: Government didn't cause fuel crisis, but that won't stop MAGA mob making it pay the price

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Business -- OceanR Ventures enters small business rescue process

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Irish Business -- Ryanair leads Irish shares higher as tankers freed to sail through Hormuz

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Technology -- Adrian Weckler: People are getting it wrong on EVs, electric is now the cheaper choice

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Six Nations -- Sinéad Kissane: Record win over Italy heralds a new era for Ireland

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Hurling -- 'I don't care if we don't get a goal for the rest of the year' – Ben O'Connor unfazed by lack of Cork goals

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Premier League -- Richard Jolly: How Erling Haaland inspired Man City to a massive momentum shift over Arsenal

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Golf -- Luke Furlong claims Irish Boys Amateur Open title following play-off

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Soccer -- Troy Parrott on target as AZ Alkmaar claim Dutch Cup final victory

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Horse Racing -- Great Barrier Reef makes big splash on Curragh debut

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Gaelic Football -- Kevin Feely and Ben McCormack key as Kildare shake off league relegation blues with win over Laois

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Premier League -- Erling Haaland strikes to allow Manchester City slash Arsenal's lead to three points

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Gaelic Football -- 'We just have to accept Ger won't be with us for a few weeks' – relief for Dean Rock as Dublin survive Wicklow scare

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Hurling -- Second-half blitz proves decisive as Rebels surge to perfect provincial start against Tipperary

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Gaelic Football -- Rory Beggan proves Monaghan's saviour in Ulster derby duel as spirited Cavan rally falls short

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Hurling -- Brian Lohan 'pulling the hair out' over Waterford goals but Clare's attack sizzles in Munster SHC opener

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Gaelic Football -- Sam Mulroy to the fore as Louth ease past Wexford to set up Dublin semi-final

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Gaelic Football -- 'If we can beat Meath, why can't we win Leinster?' – Mark McHugh throws down gauntlet to Westmeath heroes

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Premier League -- Morgan Gibbs-White hits 15-minute hat-trick as Nottingham Forest boost survival hopes with victory over Burnley

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