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Other Sports - Breaking - | 'I'm so excited, it's just mindblowing' – Ben Lynch becomes first Irish skier to qualify for Winter Olympics final

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Life -- Modern Morals: My neighbour calls to the door at the worst times – how can I set boundaries without hurting his feelings?

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Europe -- 'Everyone says hello, just like in Donegal' – I quit my career in finance to run cycling holidays in Spain

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Life -- Ukrainian stories: 'When we arrived here, we were like aliens from another planet. I had to start my life from scratch'

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World News -- Peter Mandelson-founded firm collapses into administration after clients cut ties due to Epstein links

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Irish News -- Ex‑wife of ICE detainee Séamus Culleton was granted restraining order after marriage broke down

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Pat Spillane: Give me a midfield pigsty any day and spare me the s**te we previously had to endure

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Tipperary man banned from owning dogs for 20 years

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'I was only a baby and you took my life away' – Man who abused his five children and locked them away for days without food jailed for 20 years

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Courts - BREAKING - | Enoch Burke returned to jail and hearing suspended amid chaotic scenes in High Court

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Irish News -- James Mago Gately's legal row continues over how much damage he did to home seized by CAB

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'No point' in releasing end date of SNA allocation review now, minister says after 'PR disaster'

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Holly Baxter: Arrest of former prince makes Donald Trump's Department of Justice look absolutely spineless

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Food & Drink -- Meet the home cooks going viral: 'I'm just a teacher, I live in a house in the country and I don't have any fancy notions'

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Six Nations -- Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Jack Crowley has the keys to No 10 – it's up to him to put debate to bed at Twickenham

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Golf -- Donald Trump 'likely' to attend Amgen Irish Open in Doonbeg

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Irish News -- North Kerry Camhs review limited to 2014, as minister in tears at families' ordeal

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Money -- Will adding a garden room or home sauna increase the value of your home?

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South Kerry -- Kind-hearted Kerry woman takes in two homeless girls – 'It was heartbreaking, you couldn't leave them there'

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Premier League -- Miguel Delaney: Mikel Arteta obsesses over the tiniest details. Is it now harming Arsenal's title chances?

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Irish News -- Tailgating a judge, a hidden shiv and assault in a stuck lift: logs reveal over 150 courthouse incidents

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Money -- Home economics: 'I moved in with my mother and she transferred 50pc of the house to me. What happens if she needs Fair Deal?

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Homes -- Airy and bright three-bed home in Harold's Cross is a model of well-judged decor

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Parenting -- 'It's not all tics and ear defenders, there's beauty in it as well' – 'Line of Duty' actor Amy De Bhrún on parenting autistic son

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Celebrity News -- Grey's Anatomy actor Eric Dane dies aged 53 after ALS battle

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Family Features -- Bill Linnane: My son visited Pompeii on a school trip – but the only thing he learned about the ancient world was how to use a landline

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Movies -- Baz Luhrmann: 'Bono read me his poem about Elvis... it was the perfect way to end our film'

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Homes -- 'We bought a derelict Victorian shopfront building and restored it as our family home, preserving the original 1860 shop'

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Irish Business -- Any Other Business: Irish Traitors proves a treat for prime-time UK viewers

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Dearbhla Mescal: 'I was at the centre court in Wimbledon one Sunday – it was my first outing as Paul's plus one – and the following Sunday I was in an oncology ward'

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'He had a late-onset autism, when he was about four or five. He met most of his markers when he was a baby': Eamon Ryan on his son, Tommy

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Laura Woods: 'I have financial responsibilities like everyone else. Suddenly you're working full-time and then you're told that your services are no longer required'

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'I can't help thinking this is the best first date I've ever had' – searching for love offline

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Exclusive - | Gary Lineker: 'What I remember from that period of my life was a recurring dream I would be carrying a little white coffin'

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North America -- Tehran must do a deal or face 'bad things' within 10 days, Donald Trump says

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World News -- Man convicted after girlfriend died as they climbed Austria's highest mountain

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Britain -- LATEST

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World News -- Breaking

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Europe -- Russians giving us historical lectures as a delay tactic, says furious Zelensky

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North America -- Trump 'doesn't know if aliens are real' but directs release of UFO files

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Martina Devlin: British royal family was always revered, but Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is reviled

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The Irish Independent's View: Potential of Epstein files to shake those in power seems endless after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest

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Catherine Prasifka: Fianna Fáil's 'Culture Card' for 18-year-olds is tone-deaf – young people need venues, not gift cards

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Letters: For the Irish economy to thrive, we must not bite the hand that has fed it

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Ireland's experience in conflict resolution is a priceless asset

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Life -- Copper Face Jacks turns 30: 'I met him, had a dance and a shift. I went back the next night, saw him, and thought, 'he's in Coppers two nights in a row – it's meant to be!'

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Sex & Relationships -- The Divorce Diaries: 'The sex stopped – he said you're the problem, you have to sort it out'

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Mayo GAA top the streaming charts as club gate receipts soar to €19m

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Cork's Shane Barrett fails in bid to overturn red card and will miss games against Kilkenny and Limerick

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Farm Property -- Leasing market off to a flying start with prices up to €540/ac for land

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Comment -- The climate policy that will hit farmers and consumers in the pocket

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Forestry & Enviro -- Emissions fall but due to falling herd numbers as nitrogen usage rises

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Irish News -- Claims of Brazilian beef flooding the Irish market are 'extremely misleading', says MEP Sean Kelly

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Crime -- Man fights for life after being hit in face with e-scooter during savage attack in Dublin's Temple Bar

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Irish News -- Road closed for six weeks in south Dublin after weather related collapse

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Dublin News -- Dublin player scoops €500,000 in EuroMillions Plus draw

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Dublin News -- Dublin's Mercantile Hotel signage branded 'totally inappropriate' by council

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News -- Housing boost for Tipperary as 307 homes to be built on site stalled for 15 years

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Father-of-three jailed over stolen jewellery from Wicklow burglary

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Even after Galway reversal, Kerry are in a strong position heading to Dublin this weekend

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Residents object to infill of lands in Waterford over contamination and ecological impact concerns

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Courts -- Wicklow man jailed for historic sexual assault of two young girls

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Courts -- Louth man threw cocaine out car window as Gardaí gave chase

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Obituaries -- Tributes pour in for Wexford businessman who was heavily involved in the Camolin community

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Courts -- Kerry pub doorman's statement gives another view in court: 'I got him through the kitchen door to safety'

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West Wicklow -- Fear has gripped West Wicklow for decades – search for missing women Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob enters fifth day

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The Indo Daily: Nancy Guthrie abduction: Ransom notes, key evidence and armchair detectives

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Indo Sport podcast: The Rugby Show | Crowley's Twickenham opportunity | Ireland's scrum problem

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Indo Sport podcast: The Football Show | Arsenal's anxiety | Mourinho's awful interview | At home with Eamon Dunphy

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The Indo Daily Extra: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested by UK police

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Music Reviews -- 'Days of Ash' review: Unlike recent forgettable singles, this EP truly feels like U2 pulling together

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Radio -- Declan Lynch: It was peculiar that Liveline didn't kick off Monday's or Tuesday's show with an update on the Seamus Culleton story which had changed over the weekend

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Mental Health -- Paul Mescal's mum invites us to find 'unexpected, unruly and beautiful' joy in the small pleasures of life

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Television -- Is ITV's 'The Lady' the unluckiest drama of the year?

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Fashion -- I tried 2026's hottest womenswear trend — and I've never had more compliments

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Fashion News -- Paul Costelloe's son William takes the helm at first London Fashion Week since Irish designer's death

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Celebrity -- Singer Fake Saint on becoming a dad while still at school and his unlikely friendship with Teddy Swims

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Family -- The Divorce Diaries: 'You can almost forgive the affair, but not all the gaslighting and horrible lies around it'

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Celebrity News -- Paul Mescal poses with Gracie Abrams at Paul McCartney documentary screening

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Health & Wellbeing -- Ruth Medjber's life stories: 'When I had my own children, I couldn't comprehend that it would be feasible or possible in any circumstances to hand your child away'

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Homes -- On the market: Four homes with saunas in Galway, Cork, Leitrim and Wexford

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Travel News -- Pól Ó Conghaile: What Center Parcs plans next for Longford Forest – from a 'Forest Glider' to six-bed lodges

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Ireland -- Go Ireland: 100 places to eat, sleep, sip and explore in 2026, including 'the best-value hour I spent in a week'

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In the Palma of my hand – even in off-season, the Mallorca capital has it all wrapped up

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20 perfect pubs you may not have heard of in Ireland: 'If you get the snug, guard it with your life...'

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'I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel conflicted' - Irish parents on the true costs and savings of taking kids out of school for holidays

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Irish News -- Paul Costelloe's son William carries on tradition with label's first collection since father's death

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Politics -- Mary Regan: TikTok Tánaiste fails to click with Taoiseach on social media ban messaging

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Health -- 'I had open-heart surgery at just 16, I was worried I wouldn't survive': Dublin woman on lifelong health battle

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Irish News -- 'It has taken a sense of home from us' – the solar farm, a community divided and plans for protest

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Irish News -- French owner of Irish lottery operator to seek 'synergies'

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Politics -- Cost of asylum accommodation to State reaches record €1.2bn in 2025

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Courts -- Father of five fined €200 after knife threat during hotel noise row

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Irish News -- Pre-tax profits decline at engineering firm that worked on the National Children's Hospital

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Irish News -- Former wife of Seamus Culleton took out a restraining order after marriage collapse

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Politics -- Government should tackle algorithms and ask Big Tech for more data in bid to tackle online harms, experts say

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Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: A few missed school days in Marbella is nothing. More serious absences need our attention

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The Irish Independent's View: Social media age bans will only work if the 'Broligarchy' is held to account

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Deirdre Reynolds: If clothes maketh the man, would it kill people to maketh an effort in the office?

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Donal Fallon: From Selma to Derry and Seán McDermott Street, how Jesse Jackson touched Ireland with his energy

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Max Boot: Even far-right leaders are fed up of Donald Trump butting into elections

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Lorraine Courtney: If Ireland v Israel goes ahead, it will be the young men in green who will bear the moral fallout – that is deeply unfair

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Dónal Lynch: The boy influencers who want to win the gender battle – for dibs on the mirror

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Letters: Technological progress did not start with AI – it is merely the latest update

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The Irish Independent's View: Government needs to take urgent action to set in train viable climate change plans

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Peter Flanagan: British right-wing caricatures of the Irish as 'Paddystinians' ignores our successes – and our genuine failures

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Saoirse Hanley: The love cheat Olympian trying to win his girlfriend back in public got it all wrong - grand gestures don't work in real life

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Paul Williams: 'The Monk' play would have been so much better without one thing – Gerry Hutch himself

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Sinead Ryan: We don't need another inflationary state savings scheme – just overhaul the punitive tax measures on investments

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David W Higgins: Morgan McSweeney's legacy is starting an open and honest conversation about immigration

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Letters: As the world gets more dangerous, Ireland must seek closer ties with EU

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Commercial Property -- Former Wexford boutique with two apartments is on the market for €250,000

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Business -- Transport minister rules out changes to taxi system to benefit Uber

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Irish Business -- More than 363 million trips were made on public transport last year

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Technology -- Apple unveils new Dublin office and says 'no barriers' to more investment in Ireland

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Business - LATEST - | Minister says 'no intention' of cutting taxi regulations, despite watchdog's call for removal of Uber restrictions - 14:30

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Business -- 'Valuable lessons' learned in building power plants, says Bord Gáis Energy owner

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Business -- Bank of Ireland UK is fined £3.78m for failing to implement anti-fraud measures in time

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Money -- Milk, meat, cheese and butter all up in price as inflation continues to hit hard

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Business -- Ireland 'back on radar' for international housing investors, says Ires Reit boss

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Technology -- Review: Telephoto zoom camera and AI detection tools make Honor Magic 8 Pro stand out from its rivals

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World Business -- London Stock Exchange owner urged to review sprawl of assets

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Business -- AirNav to free up €310m for dividends as 'summer of chaos' looms

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Business -- €30bn worth of contactless payments made in 2025 as cash usage continues to decline

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Commercial Property -- Indices differ on capital values for offices

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Six Nations -- Ireland U-20s need to tighten their defence to challenge England in difficult Six Nations test

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Gaelic Football -- 'If he needs a break, let him at it' – Niall Morgan hopeful refreshed Darragh Canavan will give Tyrone summer lift

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GAA -- 'We take it at face value, we expect full integration of GAA by 2027,' insists GPA chief Tom Parsons

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Soccer -- Martin O'Neill's 1,000th game as a manager a damp squib as Celtic hammered by Stuttgart at home in Europa League

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Athletics -- Andrew Coscoran finishes third at French meet, breaking his own Irish indoor 1,500m record

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Soccer -- Crysytal Palace rue missed chances after Zrinjski Mostar come from behind to draw Conference League clash in Bosnia

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Soccer -- Vitor Pereira enjoys dream start to reign as Forest thump Fenerbahce in first leg of Europa League play-off

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Six Nations -- Michael Sadlier: It's no shock to see major changes for Ireland's England clash but axing Cormac Izuchukwu is a harsh call

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Gaelic Football -- 'There was a rivalry, but a great respect at the same time' – How a rebranding of the old Cork-Meath feud is taking shape

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League of Ireland - Latest - | League of Ireland transfers: Ireland youth international Aidan Gabbidon makes move home from Malmo to rejoin Sligo - 20:00

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League of Ireland -- League of Ireland previews, team news and verdicts for Friday night

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Soccer -- Celtic to be offered 7,500 tickets in complete Broomloan Stand for Scottish Cup quarter-final at Ibrox

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