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BREAKING - | Number of people living in homelessness surpasses 17,000 including more than 5,000 children - 15:41

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Irish News -- European Newspaper Awards: Mediahuis Ireland wins 10 prizes, including for podcast and cover design

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Courts - BREAKING - | Dublin man (22) charged with murder of English tourist Anthony Herron in Temple Bar

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€60,000 worth of illegal vapes and edibles seized in major Wicklow Garda operation

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Longford man to fight child sex abuse charges following extradition to US, court hears

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Who are your club's top young talents aiming to light up the League of Ireland in 2026?

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Maximum awards to Zimbabwean care workers left living in poverty when promised jobs in Ireland fell through

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Convicted dangerous driver who is linked to Kinahan gunman is questioned after garda knocked down by e-bike

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Former auctioneer who was jailed for stealing is hit with judgment of €45,000 for outstanding debts

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'Despite a post-mortem and a grave, the law says my baby didn't exist' – Wexford mum launches campaign after crash tragedy

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Six Nations -- Doubts over futures of James Lowe, Bundee Aki and Jamison Gibson-Park as trio offered to English and French clubs

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Irish News -- High rent, huge demand, poor supply, flaky landlords – young Irish emigrants discover housing crisis isn't just at home

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Food & Drink -- Food worth queuing for? How social media is creating a feeding frenzy for cool coffee shops and hipster pizza joints

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Sex & Relationships -- Modern Morals: Would it be wrong to sign up to a sugar daddy site? I'm a single mum and would like to be looked after financially

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Irish News -- Flares controversy: FAI agrees to CCTV and sniffer dogs at stadiums after minister's funding threat

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Comment -- Mary Kenny: Fifteen years after the success of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Ireland, her legacy is now tainted

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Money - Updated - | Irish Life and Level Health to both hike medical insurance premiums

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Money -- Money experts on the pros and cons of borrowing – and whether they have any loans themselves

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Money -- Home economics: 'A friend and my daughter each own part of my house – if I need to go into a nursing home, how will I finance it?'

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GAA -- Colm Keys: Going through the most important motions being put to Congress this weekend

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News -- '22 at the top of the world' – Waterford climber hopes to become youngest Irish person to summit Everest

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Britain -- Plumber-turned-Greens MP Hannah Spencer wins UK by-election in blow to Keir Starmer

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Life -- 'At 17 all my heroes were gangsters – at 19 I did my first jail sentence': the ex-prisoner helping others to change

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Homes - 'I just couldn't live in one of those bland houses – I simply love colour' – A home full of character in Phibsborough

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Fionnán Sheahan: Not for the first time, best-laid plans of Mary Lou in Dublin Central have gone awry

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Row erupts as Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan moves to cut solicitors' criminal legal aid fees

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Hotel review: I stayed in the fairytale castle where Ryan Tubridy tied the knot

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Revealed: The shop where €11 million-winning Lotto jackpot ticket was sold, owner says 'it's only sinking in'

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Irish Business -- 'We were all just, like, screaming. This is crazy.' No one was more surprised than Dubliner Aine Kennedy to see her hairbrush linked to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show

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Seachtain -- Seachtain na Gaeilge 2026: An Ghaeilge ag dul ó neart go neart ar #irishtiktok

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Television -- Pat Stacey: Claudia Winkleman's new chat show is coming soon – can she succeed where other well-known faces have failed?

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Family Features -- Bill Linnane: It's my son's confirmation, and what better way to mark this holy day than buying him his first mobile phone?

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The Harold's Cross home that evolved and grew alongside a family

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Take the plunge into this Newcastle home with a garden sauna and barrel pool

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This renovated home brings some Croydon cool to Dublin's Marino

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Fix it up: A Victorian villa with a big annexe in Dublin 4

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A vase to display your child's artwork and other must haves for your home

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Decor choices that sustain tradition, local crafts and the planet

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Middle East -- LATEST

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World News -- Sweden intercepts Russian drone heading for French aircraft carrier

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Britain -- LATEST

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North America -- latest

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World News -- US talks on rebuilding Ukraine held after latest air onslaught

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Europe -- Danish PM Mette Frederiksen calls snap election in wake of Greenland stand-off

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Mark Keenan: Ireland's property bubble really burst 20 years ago in 2006 – while those 'in the know' played a double game

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Joe Barnes: They started as 'toys', but now drones are killing hundreds every day in the Ukraine war

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Martina Devlin: Ireland in 'How to Get to Heaven From Belfast' is unified geographically and culturally – one place, not two

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Adrian Blomfield: Tehran's hand may be weaker, but it has called Donald Trump's bluff

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The Irish Independent's View: Mixed signals from Government serve only to create confusion

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Family -- '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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Life -- 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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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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Premier League - Breaking - | Manchester City to face Real Madrid in last 16 of Champions League

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News -- EU forges ahead with Mercosur trade deal in 'provisional' step

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News -- Chaos in Galway council chamber as countermotion in support of Bord Bia chief branded 'an abuse of process'

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Farm Property -- 44-acre Wicklow property fetches €120,000 above guide price at auction

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Forestry & Enviro -- Kilkenny County Council urge planning watchdog to reject 'mega' wind farm – 'It's David vs Goliath'

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Beef -- 10 key tasks to tackle this March to set up a strong spring

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Business -- Transdev loses Dublin Luas contract after more than 20 years

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Irish News -- 'What are we going to do as parents?' – Mothers on struggle to secure special school places for their children

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Health -- 'I am barely holding on myself' – mum of daughter with anorexia nervosa says family have been 'failed'

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Dublin News -- 'It's the right time' – popular Dublin restaurant Soup Dragon to close doors after 25 years

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North & West Kerry -- Kerry business owner refused permission to build homes for him and his sons

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South Kerry -- Kerry widower's stand to save late wife's daffodil field from rezoning laws

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News -- Backlash in Galway over plans for new GAA pitches – 'It threatens everything we have worked for'

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News -- 'We don't need more vape shops' – County councils have no power to limit number of e-cigarette stores

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Wexford & District -- Wexford gardaí renew warning to parents as 11-year-old among three minors stopped on e-scooters in 24 hours

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Wicklow & District -- Wicklow village to get new doctor's surgery as plans approved for cafe redevelopment

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Bray -- Sections of Bray to Greystones Cliff Walk in 'imminent danger' of collapse

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The Indo Daily: How the Collison brothers became the richest people in Irish history

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Indo Sport podcast: Dublin's decline | Mayo's 'Kobe-mania' | Who will replace Jarlath Burns?

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The Left Wing: Saracens offer Farrell millions | Ireland coaching candidates | More Munster upheaval

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Indo Sport podcast: Tiger's Masters Dream | Rory's Form | Gary Player vs Augusta

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Books -- It hosted the global elite, became a Nazi HQ, and a refuge for those returning from concentration camps – the history of Paris' most famous hotel

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Music Reviews -- 'The Mountain' is Gorillaz' best album in over a decade as themes of mortality are explored with a sense of celebration

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Books -- Madeleine Keane on books: World Book Day spreads joy, Sheila O'Flanagan hits the promo trail and Listowel Writers' Week line up is revealed

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Theatre & Arts -- Charming solo show pays tribute to brothers who were Abbey Theatre stalwarts with colourful lives

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Radio -- Declan Lynch: The Greatest Irish Song of All Time is Dearg Doom by Horslips. And the Liveline Séamus Culleton silence continues

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Fashion -- Pearls, power suits and lots of lace – Five big trends from London Fashion Week 2026

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Celebrity News -- 'Nobody notices the 20-year age gap with my wife' - singer Russell Watson on defying age as he approaches 60

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Podcasts -- Just Between Us: 'Love is love' – Jennifer Rock and Jill Deering on coming out, co-parenting and building a modern family

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Makeup -- Louise McSharry: How to get Margot Robbie's natural Wuthering Heights look

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Food & Drink -- Award-winning Waterford producers to lead this year's Festival of Food

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Why Ireland's passport officers welcome you home - the true story of a greeting that's 'not part of the training'

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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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Travel News -- The 22 countries on Ireland's 'Do Not Travel' list – ignoring the advice will void your insurance

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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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World -- Visiting our adult children in Australia: 'We joke about setting up a Daughters Down Under support group'

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Courts -- Mum brought hatchet to dispute 'to protect her son', court hears

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Irish News -- How safe is a gel manicure? Women urged to wear sunscreen in nail salons

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Irish News -- Gardaí to examine possible disruption to major events over ongoing pay dispute

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Courts -- Driver got cheaper car insurance with false no-claims bonus certificate

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Irish News -- 'Where there were bamboo huts, there are now concrete school buildings'

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Courts -- Man (76) avoids jail for €6,000 fake ID scheme to bring woman (20) into the country

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Irish News -- Indo Politics - The fallout continues over the government's handling of the SNA controversy

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Irish News -- Solicitors in dispute with Jim O'Callaghan over criminal legal aid fee cuts

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Irish News -- Indo Politics - Is Sinn Féin's by-election candidate bad news for Mary Lou McDonald?

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Irish News -- Women urged to wear sunscreen in nail salons for UV protection

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Tanya Sweeney: Balcony or 'shelf' cleavage is back in fashion – but I'm opting out this time

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Cónal Thomas: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch gets his election show on the road early – but will his campaign keep the pace?

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Letters: Public might be OK with data centres' cheaper bills if the reasoning was explained

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Sophie White: Here's how to spot the signs of Millennial Woman Cry for Help – my current two-tone head of My Little Pony-esque hair included

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The Irish Independent's View: Survivors should not have had to fight for State's apology

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Deirdre Reynolds: Traitors' Paudie can't really dance, but he'll probably win 'Dancing With the Stars', despite his critics

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Mark A Fowler: There's a smart way for the US to promote regime change in Iran

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Donal Fallon: Gerry Hutch has a mountain to climb to win seat in Dublin Central battleground where local work matters

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Memphis Barker: How costly kill ratio that means Russia is losing 35,000 troops a month can sink Vladimir Putin's war

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Mary Regan: Government passes the blame on SNA policy, but some damage cannot be reversed

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Max Boot: US sleepwalking into a war with Iran without a clear rationale

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Dónal Lynch: Spare me the outrage. We all watched and judged along with Tyra Banks and the reality TV 'villains'

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David W Higgins: Here are the clues that Donald Trump is steering the US towards a major conflict with itself or the outside world

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The Irish Independent's View: Ireland and EU have no choice but to build resilience and defence

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Letters: War in Ukraine shows Europe must get serious about its own defence

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Technology -- Adrian Weckler: Loud phone alerts? Using AI in email? Here are the biggest tech no-nos to avoid

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Technology -- AI and other tech advances are fuelling scams and fraud, Central Bank warns

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Business -- Congress may review crypto bank charter application from family of Trump

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Business -- Earnings jump to $739m at Ardagh Metal Packaging

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In The Workplace -- Half of firms have cut DEI budgets and 43pc have scrapped dedicated diversity roles

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Business -- US ambassador tells business leaders he's 'annoyed' by talk about 'uncertainty'

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Personal Finance -- More than 300,000 homes now in arrears on electricity bills, latest figures show

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Personal Finance - LATEST - | 'Biggest rip-off of renters in a generation' – State's largest landlord says new rent rules could boost income by 25pc - 14:40

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Media -- Mediahuis says 60pc of subscriptions now digital, as group eyes further expansion

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Comment -- Insurance Ireland CEO: We have a chance to transform how Irish people save – but only if we design investment products around real lives

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In The Workplace -- Q&A: What do you know about the new EU pay transparency rules and how they'll affect you?

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Business -- An Post confirms up to 300 new postal delivery positions

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Irish News -- Money lessons in childhood linked to better financial stability in adulthood, says Bank of Ireland

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Technology -- Vodafone plans satellite-to-phone services in Ireland – for coverage 'not spots' and storms

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Commercial Property -- Former Sandymount nursing home could attract broad range of bidders

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Gaelic Football -- Pat Spillane: It's seems unlikely Ger Brennan's Dublin team will even win Leinster – but I've been wrong before

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Premier League -- Revealed: How much it cost Manchester United to sack Ruben Amorim

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League of Ireland -- Watch: League of Ireland gameweek four preview with Seán O'Connor and Aidan Fitzmaurice

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Premier League -- Premier League to launch its own streaming service – but how will it work and what are the dangers it faces?

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Other Sports -- Stephen Bunting triumphs but Josh Rock nine-darter steals show in Belfast after Luke Littler suffers another setback

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Gaelic Football -- 'I don't think any county does a new manager bounce like us' – why Roscommon are the Manchester United of Division 1

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Six Nations -- Simon Easterby believes resurgent Ireland have enough options to cope with James Lowe blow

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Gaelic Football -- Tom Parsons fears overuse injuries among inter-county players are on the rise again

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International Soccer -- 'Everyone's really looking forward to it' – Ireland aim to take on world by clubbing together ahead of Nations League test

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Basketball -- Ireland feel 'urgency' as they bid to bounce back in Euros campaign

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Camogie -- 'Every day is different' – Ciara Maher milking all she can from the farm to Offaly camogie's engine room

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Rugby -- Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Andy Farrell is in a strong position as rugby's game of musical chairs begins in earnest

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