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'Major boost' for south Tipperary as significant road upgrade returns to national plan

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Celebrity News -- Irish actress Ruth Codd reveals she has had second leg amputation

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Minister confirms three-year nitrates derogation proposal after 'sensitive' negotiations with Brussels

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Thomas Frank cannot retreat now – the key to his Spurs revolution is clear

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See inside the Kildare mansion with Tesla charging station, cinema and guest house on the market for €2.85m

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WSPCA sheds light on horrendous living conditions of 17 large dogs that had to be euthanised

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Bank of Ireland's new 'Trading Down' loan will encourage older people to move to smaller homes

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Rugby - Exclusive - | 'The toughest part was saying it to my wife' – Garry Ringrose on his tough Lions call which he does not regret at all

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Inside the house crime boss 'Fat' Andy Connors' fought to keep from Cab

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Irish News -- Date announced for reopening of Luas Red Line services following three-month closure caused by fire

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Politics -- 'We messed up' – Barry Andrews on Fianna Fáil's botched presidential election campaign

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Asia-Pacific - LATEST - | Hong Kong apartment fire: 55 dead, hundreds missing as police blame 'grossly negligent' construction firm

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Food Reviews -- Restaurant review: Its Peruvian flavours are great but the prices are verging on punchy at Dublin's new Hoxton hotel

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Weather -- Met Éireann issues Status Yellow wind warning for two counties, warns of blustery weather and possible thunderstorms

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News -- Acclaimed actress and academic become latest to reject honorary doctorates at University of Galway over its Israeli ties

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Money -- Auto-enrolment – what employers, SMEs and employees need to know about My Future Fund pension scheme

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Dublin News -- Cannabis worth €2.2m found by detector dog Maggie at Dublin Airport

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Dublin News -- 'I'm 31 and I've never lived alone, it's just not possible' – Dublin woman forced to move house twice in four weeks as rent crisis worsens

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Irish News -- 'I'm a single parent, I'll have to drain my savings to be on campus three days a week' – UCD workers resist university's return-to-office mandate

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North America - LATEST - | Trump calls for all Afghan refugees to be investigated after shooting of two National Guard members

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Irish News -- 'It's like one big family' – retiring Dublin Bus driver Theresa on 41 years with the company

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Irish News Video -- Irish U19 forced to sing Amhrán na bhFiann themselves as organisers play God Save the King by mistake

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North America - BREAKING - | Two US National Guard members shot near White House in Washington DC; suspect in custody

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Irish News -- Woman set on fire as she answered door in Clondalkin may not have been intended target

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TV Reviews -- Stranger Things Season 5 review: Series looks tired as it heads toward the big showdown

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Revealed: Biggest winners of new multi-billion euro transport windfall

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'Three boys facing essentially their entire lives without their adoring father' – dangerous driver given suspended sentence over death of cyclist

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Manhunt for suspect who set woman alight as she is treated for burns to more than 60pc of her body

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League of Ireland -- Aidan Fitzmaurice: From bikes to Zinger burgers – Troy Parrott moving with a new authority in adopted Dutch home

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Commercial Property -- Fancy a project on the Wild Atlantic Way? HSE is selling three properties in coastal locations

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Twink: 'The man for that job was either Oliver Callan or Al Porter but they wouldn't have the balls to give it to him'

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They were keepers of the 'Guinness Book of Records' – but the McWhirter twins had a much darker side

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They're highly educated but some are hugely controversial – how the 10 Burke siblings are making their way in the world

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Gráinne Seoige: Running in the general election is the biggest regret of my life

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'One wants €45k for a week despite being 93km away' – Teeing up a rental windfall from the Ryder Cup? Here's how to set a realistic price

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A Tipperary stud owner made four wills in three years. Now a court row looms over which one is valid and who is set to inherit his €3m farm

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Victoria Mary Clarke on loneliness: 'I realised that I really don't want to spend the rest of my life just killing time until it's over'

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Asia-Pacific -- Bangkok court issues arrest warrant for Thai co-owner of Miss Universe pageant

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Britain -- British Chancellor to face more questions after UK budget overshadowed by major leak

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Middle East -- Israel launches new military operation in northern West Bank forcing residents from homes

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North America -- Trump appears in public 40pc less than in first term and begins work day later

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Asia-Pacific -- Thailand floods kill 33 as military joins relief efforts

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Deirdre Reynolds: Conor McGregor 'saw God' on a psychedelic trip in Mexico – so much for moving statues in Ballinspittle

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Will Leitch: How long until Thanksgiving turns into a Zoom event?

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Catherine Prasifka: Giving up pleasure and forcing your body to suffer is too high a price for thinness

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Sophie White: That reassuring phrase 'Next week it'll all calm down' has run its course, so I've decided it's time to hire a life coach

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The Irish Independent's View: Tough choices on Ireland's population growth had to be addressed

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Letters: Accessibility of the UK's parliament puts Ireland's democracy to shame

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Courts -- 'I object, I object, I object': Residents protest over unauthorised extension to Sutton home they say looks more like 'an airport hangar'

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Irish News -- National Children's Hospital is to ditch half of its private rooms for consultants

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Champions League -- Arne Slot responds to Liverpool sack speculation after 'shock' of worst run for 70 years

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League of Ireland - Live - | November's League of Ireland transfers: Enda Stevens set for Shamrock Rovers return after 14-year career in England

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United Rugby Championship -- 'It's an undervalued resource' – Munster's lineout guru Alex Codling on the hunt for callers

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Farm Property -- 44ac North Cork tillage farm expected to make well over €15,000/ac

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Comment -- The next generation is eager to farm — but they can't access land

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News -- Solar farms should be moved from productive land to extensive areas – IFA

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Ladies Football -- 'You say to yourself we were so lucky to experience such a day, but now here we are about to do it all over again'

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Irish News -- 'Daniel took it once and it killed him, it's not worth it' – grieving teenager's plea after brother died from inhaling deodorant fumes

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From counting sheep to crafting sleep – How this Galway farmer is using wool to help the world rest easier

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Kerry resident acting as money mule told to come up with funds to repay €9k 'smishing' scam

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News -- Leitrim woman waited outside Sligo University Hospital in an ambulance for six hours

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Wexford & District -- Wexford wheelchair user could face five-year wait for adapted home as council admits shortage of disabled-friendly properties

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News -- Man (33) spat at Garda as he was leaving Sligo garda station

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South Kerry -- Kerry teenager says it was only natural for her to step up and care for family in time of need

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News -- Hundreds of flood-hit Cork homes and businesses without insurance since Storm Babet

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Courts -- Wicklow man accused of assaulting his mother told case may be dropped

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News -- Plans for new Galway wastewater treatment plant refused over potential 'unacceptable' risk to public health

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News -- Calls grow for indoor pool in Belmullet as Erris residents face 75km trip to nearest facility

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Just Between Us: 'Lube isn't kinky, it's helpful' – Laura Dowling on having better sex

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'If you look at the heart attack registry, it's often a smoker's registry' – Cardiologist Professor Robert Byrne

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Seachtain: Bill Clinton – Cuairt chonspóideach an chéad Uachtarán Meiriceánach ó thuaidh

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The Indo Daily: Breifne O'Brien – The fall of a Celtic Tiger fraudster and his post-jail reinvention

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Television -- Today's top TV and streaming choices: Stranger Things, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2025 and Beaches

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Radio -- Declan Lynch: 'There's nothing like that Divorce Referendum for recalling the enormity of the struggle to break the power of conservative forces'

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Books -- 'As soon as your book goes into the world, it's no longer yours' – author Wendy Erskine on her novel being adapted for the screen

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TV Reviews -- Eilis O'Hanlon: Where the BBC has fallen down most dramatically and why RTÉ's Prime Time segment on homelessness made us all sit up

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Movies -- How Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal unlocked the emotional power of 'Hamnet'

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Stuck for Christmas present ideas for moody teens and tricky mothers-in-law? We asked Ireland's personal shoppers for their trusty go-to gifts

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Louise McSharry: Six beauty gift sets to put on your Christmas list

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Brain worms, a family curse and division among political elites – meet the Kennedys

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Celebrity News -- Former Westlife star Brian McFadden to take part in Strictly Christmas Special

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Fashion News -- Leading Irish jewellery designer pays tribute to Paul Costelloe – 'A remarkable ambassador for Irish design'

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Celebrity News -- 'My best friend, my rock, my world' – Richard Branson shares tribute after death of wife

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Tanya Sweeney: Why do people hate Joanne McNally's South County Dublin accent so much? It's complicated

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Why women like me are 'decentring men' – and what that means

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Are you giving your children equal attention? You may be shocked to hear you don't have to

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Pól Ó Conghaile: Three things I learned about travel from four Irish twentysomethings

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'Both ordinary and cinematic' — my love letter to 100 years of American motels

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John and Francis Brennan: 'I don't understand why you would go into business in this country anymore'

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How a 'total novice' in wellness holidays got on in a Swiss oasis that attracts guests like Roger Federer

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'Once we pass Carnsore Point, the seas churn. By 9pm the hull is thumping off three and four metre waves.' After a choppy ferry ride, Paul Whitington and son embrace Brittany

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'Missing my mum, I travelled to a city she had loved – following in her footsteps brought her closer to me by the second'

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Irish News -- 'It's like one big family' - Theresa Lydon on retiring from Dublin Bus after 41 years service

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Health -- Online 'wellness' misinformation is fuelling disordered eating, dietitian warns

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Courts -- Former crack cocaine addict now sober for two years, court hears

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Irish News -- Correlation between climate change and extreme rainfall in Ireland, new research finds

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Irish News -- Nearly half of all babies born in some Irish hospitals last year were C-section deliveries – HSE report

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Irish News -- Dublin woman forced to move house twice in a month as rent crisis worsens

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Irish News -- New loan product aims to help older homeowners downsize

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Irish News -- Man dies after single-vehicle crash in Kildare

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Irish News -- Shotgun and cannabis worth €17,000 seized as four arrested in relation to shots fired in Limerick

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Irish News -- Explainer: What are the new rules around immigration set to be introduced?

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Saoirse Hanley: I have been in the same room, even on the same couch, as the people I love and felt alone because we're scrolling our phones separately

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Adrian Weckler: The National Broadband plan is coming in under time and on budget - where did it all go right?

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New €750m 'Inspire fund' can turn ideas into economic activity

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Suzanne Crowe: Men's heart health is about more than drinking less or a Christmas gym gift

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Letters: Taoiseach doesn't seem to realise the Irish dream has turned into a nightmare

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Andreas Kluth: While rudderless Republicans argue, Donald Trump's shameless peace plan will condemn Ukraine

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Ksenia Samotiy: Noise around this delusional so-called 'peace plan' adds to trauma in Ukraine

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Alexander Larman: Sarah Ferguson can redeem herself by showing genuine compassion for Epstein's victims

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The Irish Independent's View: Relief in Europe, for now, as Donald Trump rows back on complete capitulation to Russia

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Jason Willick: With great power, comes great blame, as Donald Trump discovers

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Letters: Winter Lights predate Christmas by millennia, so deal with it, Peadar

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David W Higgins: A lean country is no good, Ireland needs to build some muscle for better state spending

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Max Boot: Trump deal would make a wider war with Russia more likely, and not less

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Fionnán Sheahan: Allowing Simon Harris to appoint himself to Finance is a symptom of Micheál Martin's weakness

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Nick Ferris: Lack of leadership was the ultimate stumbling block for Cop30

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Money -- What I spend on Christmas: 'I usually spend around €150 on each of my adult children'

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Business -- ESB-Ørsted joint venture wins auction to develop €2bn wind farm off Waterford

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In The Workplace -- This Working Life: 'I was always a questioning child, and I'd drive my parents insane'

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Irish Business -- Dromoland Castle has 'only a few rooms left' for Ryder Cup in 2027

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Money -- Workers urged to 'carefully examine' alternative pension offers made ahead of auto-enrolment deadline

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Britain -- Irish betting shops avoid big tax increase in UK budget but remote gaming hit with hike

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Irish Business -- IBM's Irish unit pays $2.6bn in dividends despite profit fall

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Technology -- Clio chief Ronnie Gurion predicts a golden age for legal eagles, with AI doing the heavy lifting

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World Business -- UK budget hikes taxes by almost €30bn – hitting homes, gambling and investments

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Business -- Staycity revenues top €243m as Dubs sponsor expands across Europe

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Business -- Delay the minimum wage hike or risk jobs, state warned

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Hurling -- Life after Patrick Horgan – retired Cork legend ready for TJ Reid to take record and insists Rebels can end 21-year wait

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Champions League -- Champions League wrap: Kylian Mbappe nets hat-trick as Real Madrid win thriller against Olympiacos while Atleti beat Inter

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Champions League -- 'That's not good enough' – Steven Gerrard gives his verdict on Liverpool's demise after another horrible defeat

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Champions League -- Arsenal maintain perfect Champions League record after second half surge shakes off Bayern Munich

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Champions League -- Tottenham throw away two leads in topsy-turvy Champions League thriller against champions PSG

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Champions League -- Pressure mounts on Arne Slot as PSV exploit Liverpool's frailties at Anfield in Champions League humiliation

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Soccer -- Watch: Roy Keane 'raging' after being left red-faced as his phone rings while filming Stick To Football

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Soccer -- Stephen Bradley says Shamrock Rovers targeting seven points from European group as Shakhtar Donetsk visit Tallaght

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Ulster Rugby -- Richie Murphy reveals how Ulster treated five-week break ahead of return against Benetton

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Women's Sport -- 'It's been insane' – Kate O'Connor caps stunning season with Athlete of the Year gong at National Athletics Awards

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Soccer -- 'It'll be pretty difficult' – Martin O'Neill facing tough Feyenoord challenge in last match in charge of Celtic

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GAA -- A manager for all seasons ... Anthony Cunningham's epic journey across codes, provinces and age grades

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Soccer -- 'The lift he gave football was needed' – Shels boss Joey O'Brien hails Troy Parrott but looks to get out of jail against AZ

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GAA -- Oisín McConville: Pay for play is a real headache for the GAA... but I believe I've found a way to reward our stars

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