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Politics - Latest - | Simon Harris distances himself from Varadkar comments that farmers 'bring costs on Ireland'

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Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Hard to avoid feeling there has been lasting damage done in Munster by an entirely avoidable crisis

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Manchester United eye Real Madrid star Aurelien Tchouameni as part of midfield revamp to replace Casemiro

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President Connolly to make quick decision on referring international protection bill to Supreme Court

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The government adviser, a child victim and the mystery TD condemned by the Taoiseach for giving a court reference

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Munster Rugby - Exclusive - | More resignations at Munster Rugby as fallout from decision to hire Roger Randle continues

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

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Life -- Frances Black: 'Meeting Brian was like winning the lottery, that he liked me, that he loved me'

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North America - LATEST - | US police release photo of Louisiana gunman who killed eight children, including seven of his own

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Food Reviews -- The supermarket tomato pasta sauce taste test: 'This Dublin-made sauce is the same as the version you'd make at home, if you had time'

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Health & Wellbeing -- Ask Allison: My parents have always favoured my brothers over my sisters and I – and now they're cutting us out of their will

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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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Money -- 15 of the best money-saving websites and tools for Irish shoppers

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Courts -- Woman who tasered official repossessing her home held in custody after refusing to enter behaviour bond

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Irish News -- Brother of Scarlett Faulkner dies two days after young mother's funeral

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Courts -- Gardener (37) defrauded elderly woman (82) out of over €50k for poor quality work

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Courts -- Company has more than €2m stolen from account following cyber attack

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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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Middle East - LIVE - | Iran weighs peace talks as ceasefire deadline approaches; Israel–Lebanon talks resume Thursday

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Crime -- 'He could kill another woman': Brother of murder victim hits out at authorities over how killer's release has been handled

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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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Irish News -- Teen who died after being struck by car in Cork had 'heart of pure gold'

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In The Workplace -- Bank of Ireland says bonuses on the line for staff who miss work-from-office days

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In The Workplace -- Dear Vicki: What should I do with staff who say 'that's not my job' when asked to do side-work?

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Asia-Pacific -- Major 7.5-magnitude quake hits off Japan, tsunami observed off coast

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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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Irish News -- Taoiseach insists he has "no idea" which TD provided a character reference for Daniel Ramamoorthy

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Irish News -- Energy firm attempts to take thousands of euros from customers in billing blunder

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

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Irish News -- Opting out of religious education needs to be made easier for parents

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Hurling - Colm Keys: Ben O'Connor's faith in Rebel youth is rewarded as William Buckley and Barry Walsh shine

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Courts -- 'One of main agitators': Man with megaphone allegedly urged crowds to charge at garda during Citywest riot

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

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

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

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'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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'It has paid for itself, many times over' – nine smart buys that will save you hundreds of euro in the long run

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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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Britain -- latest

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World News -- latest

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World News -- Poisoned baby food jars found in three EU countries part of attempted extortion of company, producer says

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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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North America -- Blue Origin achieves first landing with reused rocket booster in space mission

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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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Tanya Sweeney: Here's what I want to say to Dan, the man who emailed to call me 'Bosco's fat love child' and talk about my 'chubby cankles'

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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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Sex & Relationships -- Asking for a friend: 'My partner got really angry and hit me. They apologised a few days later but now keep telling me I just need to get over it'

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Snooker -- Jimmy White interview: 'If I look back on the past, there'd be 100 things I'd have done differently'

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Beef -- 'Quiet summer ahead': mart managers warn of tight cattle supply

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Irish News -- 'We pay all the bills, you get the subsidies,' says Leo Varadkar in 'shameful' dig at rural Ireland

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Beef -- A window opens: why maize should be part of your winter forage plan

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Forestry & Enviro -- Approval granted for 10-turbine windfarm in Tipperary despite local concern

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Homes -- Wexford farmhouse with large stables is on the market for €970,000

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

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Crime -- Gardaí drafted in during fuel protests 'were left hanging around' stations as response descended into 'chaos'

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South Kerry -- Kerry family 'lost for words' after huge support for walk in memory of beloved mother Elaine Conway

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News -- Popular Leitrim pub makes 'difficult decision' to stop serving food due to rising cost of living

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Roscommon developer lodges plans for houses, drive‑through restaurant and retail units in Termonbarry

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Donegal gets boost with new 1am bus service to bring people home after a night out

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Galway shop 'starstruck' by iconic actor's visit as star poses with staff during filming break

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News -- Visiting restrictions are lifted in all wards at Tipperary University Hospital

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Courts -- Kerry man who rang gardaí to assist woman finds himself arrested

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News -- Cork City is being 'defaced' by increasing graffiti, some of it of anti-immigrant sentiment

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Food & Drink -- Bray pub re-opens after years of closure with new owner banking on good food and community

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The Indo Daily: Trump, Hegseth and a Middle East crisis that shows no signs of stopping

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Indo Sport podcast: Cork blitz Tipp, electric Clare, Galway double down on Kilkenny, Offaly revival | Michael Duignan and Michael Verney

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

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The Indo Daily - Extra: Daniel Kinahan detained in Dubai in major breakthrough for Gardaí

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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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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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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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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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Celebrity News -- 'It was really upsetting' – Vogue Williams reveals she suffered pregnancy loss twice

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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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Celebrity -- Rapper D4vd charged with murder of 14-year-old girl in Los Angeles

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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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Celebrity News -- Charlize Theron delivers terse warning for Timothee Chalamet over 'reckless' comments about ballet and opera

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Horse Racing -- Notions and necessities: From film and music festivals to foodie must-haves and summery scents, it's all here

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Barbados: Sensational golf, a seaweed surprise, and beaches 'that belong to nobody'

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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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An all-female trek to Annapurna Base Camp: 'My sister-in-law and I joke we haven't seen this many helicopters since the 2006 Galway Races'

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'A baby-what?' – my family were babymoon sceptics, until I actually went and took one

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An Irish Goodbye... from Phuket: 'I feel like Thailand is one of the best countries in the world to live in as a gay woman'

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'We're no longer a pass-through place' - can a €7.5m Shackleton Experience breathe new life into this Irish town?

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Courts -- Judge refers personal trainer's injury claim to DPP saying his account was 'nothing but a lie'

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Courts -- Man admits brandishing running chainsaw in pub and threatening to 'decapitate' another man

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Courts -- Former soldier who harassed vulnerable rape survivor given suspended sentence

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Irish News -- 'Practical' to allow garden homes to be rented out privately, Taoiseach says as Government changes its mind

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Courts -- Man who raped stepdaughter is jailed as victim thanks detective who worked on the case for over 25 years

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Politics -- Kevin Barry death mask bought by State ahead of auction as Michael Collins business card sold for €12,500

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Courts -- Man (26) who killed pensioner with MMA-style kick remanded in custody ahead of sentencing

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Courts -- Hearing date to be set for proposed extradition of Jonathan Gill, wanted in connection with murder of Robbie Lawlor

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Courts -- Judge condemns 'manosphere' and controversial Tate brothers after female worker harassed with relentless lewd comments

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Irish News -- Taoiseach denies pushing Michael Healy-Rae out of Government

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Irish News -- Chernobyl sculpture unveiled in Cork as world warned never to forget lessons of the 1986 disaster

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Courts -- Isis supporter who stabbed garda after setting fire to Conor McGregor's pub has sentencing delayed

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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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Colin Murphy: What I learned about my street's storied history on a late-night journey down a historic rabbit hole

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

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Business -- Irish entity with €340m on its books is a 'sham', claims Korean firm

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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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Commercial Property -- Zurich building in Wexford is put on the market for €5.9million

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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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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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Premier League -- 'The last seasons they've come up short' – Erling Haaland taunts Arsenal and highlights Man City's experience for run-in

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Connacht Rugby -- 'I can't wait' – Connacht land World Cup winner Trevor Woodman as scrum coach for next season

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Premier League -- Ibrahima Konate close to agreeing new Liverpool contract despite 'tough year'

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Gaelic Football -- Dublin needed to play their 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card to escape from Wicklow with Leinster hopes intact

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Soccer -- Team talks, fist pumps and pyschometrics: Inside Frank Lampard's Coventry City dressing room

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Premier League -- Chris Wilson: How Michael Carrick channelled his inner Alex Ferguson as Man Utd secured vital win over Chelsea

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Golf -- Tom McKibbin enjoys $615,000 Mexico City pay day as Matt Fitzpatrick silences US crowd at RBC Heritage

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Soccer -- Managers react as Man City beat Arsenal in top of table clash

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

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Cycling -- 'It'd be a dream to go to a Grand Tour' – Donegal climber Jamie Meehan continues rapid rise with French pro team

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Premier League -- Miguel Delaney: The two major problems facing Arsenal after Man City take control of Premier League title race

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

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League of Ireland -- 'I'll get paranoid if I don't do enough' – Danny Grant aware of stiff competition at Shamrock Rovers

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