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Irish News - LATEST - | Fresh blow for RTÉ as finance chief quits after less than two years and is set for job with country's biggest private landlord

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Ukraine's battered power grid faces unprecedented challenge, says energy minister

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Irish News -- Woman (73) faces losing home as granting of retention permission for log chalet overturned after brothers appeal decision

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Politics -- Is Michael O'Leary right – should senior politicians be paid more than €1m a year?

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United Rugby Championship -- Munster's Brian Gleeson: 'I like to use my size, have no mercy and just go for it'

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Irish News -- White House press secretary slams Irish journalist as 'left-wing hack' after question on ICE

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Life -- Modern Morals: I'm torn between a reliable guy who doesn't excite me and a chaotic, passionate one – who should I chose?

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Irish News -- Tenant renting luxury D4 apartment had deposit withheld by landlord over 'nick' to €5k dining table

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Family Features -- Bill Linnane: My family broke some hard news to me – I'm officially too old to wear a hoodie

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Courts -- LATEST

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Irish News -- Housing construction plummets, with only 16,400 new homes started last year

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Premier League -- 'She's probably doing the team talk' – Why did Roy Keane have a pop at Michael Carrick's wife? Their spat dates back to 2014

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Technology -- Adrian Weckler: Coming to a country near you – fines for dodgy box users

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Irish News -- Irish fashion and giftware retailer Carraig Donn warns customers about scam ads

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Celebrity Features -- 'Impossibly glamorous, completely down-to-earth and totally unbothered' – Maura Higgins, Ballymahon bombshell, takes Hollywood

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Politics -- Housing Minister among 10 still to pay State back months after overpayments flagged

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Courts -- Married man pleads guilty to possession of AI-generated child sex abuse material

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Politics -- OPW faces scrutiny for 'paltry' Phoenix Park rents and ex-chair's €40,000 trip

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Britain -- BREAKING

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Business -- Big-name investors could see millions wiped out after East Coast Bakehouse examinership

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Courts -- Former Wexford footballer jailed for rape and sexual assault fails in his bid to have conviction overturned

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Leinster Rugby -- 'A massive part of the system' – Jamison Gibson-Park says Leinster's scramble defence is in working order

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World News Video -- White House Press Secretary slams Irish journalist as 'left-wing hack'

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Irish News -- Enoch Burke addresses the media as he arrives at Wilson's Hospital School

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Irish News Video -- Our family is forever broken - Mason O'Connell-Conway's mother speaks outside court

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Health & Wellbeing - Ruth Medjber's life stories: 'I'd like people to remember me for being happy, rather than for being the girl who died of cancer'

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Celebrity Features -- Dominic West's 'love quad' – why actor's latest remarks about his relationship regrets are causing a stir

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Celebrity News -- 'The whole no sex on TV is a big staple for my dad,' says Jack Keating of his 'Love Island' stint

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Europe -- I'm an Irish mum who resisted a Eurocamp family holiday for years – but Bella Italia won me over

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Movie Reviews -- The Rip on Netflix: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's bad cop/worse cop act feels like you're watching a male fantasy at its most incompetent

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Doctor and influencer wife's luxury Ailesbury Road home goes sale agreed

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Revenue told Government not to tell public about lucrative tax loophole

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'I'm getting married in 2027. So that's a great come around' – Eoin McGee on the injury that changed his life, finding new love and his latest financial advice book

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Michelle Doherty on the end of her relationship: It is the most terrifying decision. But I just kept thinking, this is not a relationship, this is not how I want my life to be'

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Caitríona Perry: If Donald Trump takes Greenland, Ireland has an enormous decision to make

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Ministers approve bumper salary hikes for top bosses, including one of more than 50pc

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50 ways to wellness: From retreats to greenways and yoga to cacao ceremonies, start your 2026 with feelgood activities happening in every county in Ireland

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Middle East - LATEST - | US tells UN all options on table, Iran warns it will respond to any aggression

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North America -- Greenland minister tearful as she describes 'intense pressure' as Donald Trump threatens to take territory

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North America -- Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in break with US

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North America -- US lawmakers arrive in Copenhagen to counter Trump's Greenland threats

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Donal Fallon: Why was 1,000 years of history at Wood Quay dug up for a building with a lifespan of less than half-a-century?

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Jim Geraghty: Why Donald Trump should love Denmark, an unexpected 'MAGAland'

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Marc Champion: Record numbers of executions in Iran tell the real story of how Khamenei moved to full totalitarian power

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Frank Coughlan: US has always been the school hard chaw – it simply suited Europe to look the other way

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Catherine Prasifka: Internet has evolved from an empathy machine to an echo chamber where weird men use AI to undress women

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The Irish Independent's View: Take better care of taxpayers' money or face consequences

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Legal Advice -- 'I am my aunt's main carer and she said she would provide for me in her will. But now she says she's leaving everything to a nephew. What can I do?'

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Health -- 'Just because you did it before and didn't die, doesn't mean you won't next time' – frontline doctor's 'chroming' warning as hospitalisations rise

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Crime -- Molly Martens posts her first social media photos since being freed

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Analysis -- Barry O'Halloran: You might think it's about drugs and oil – but Trump's Venezuela intervention is based on age-old policy

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Munster Rugby - Latest - | Munster boss Clayton McMillan plays down links to vacant All Blacks job – 'I haven't even given it any thought'

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Soccer -- Roma wait on Evan Ferguson return from injury as Celtic now linked with Irish striker

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Comment -- John Downing: As politicians learnt from the Nine Frozen Arses in 1966, ignore rural Ireland at your peril – and Mercosur is just another example

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News -- Judge tells farmer €1.5m in debt 'the price of milk won't come into it' during divorce hearing

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Beef -- How this Cavan auctioneer went from selling a football jersey for €400 to €22,000 heifers

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Farm Property -- €20,000/ac guide for 40ac Naas farm in prime location

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Legal Advice -- Family, land and wills: Mary Frances Fahy on what really matters

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Dublin News -- The Complex arts centre shuts down as crunch talks with council and Government fail

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Dublin -- A database for dog poo: local authority considers DNA swabbing to crack down on dog fouling

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Irish News -- Gardaí investigate spate of early morning assaults in north Dublin village

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Politics -- Civil servants paying knock-down rents to live in State-owned properties in the Phoenix Park

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Entertainment -- Irish singer Jazzy nominated for Mobo Awards in meteoric rise to dance music stardom

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Daughter of Kerry woman who emigrated to New York in 1950s named Irish American of the Year

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Mother and child rescued from water at Donegal beach by passer-by

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News -- HIQA inspection report scabies outbreak and 'strong smell of urine' in Kilkenny nursing home

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News -- 'It's a huge vote of confidence in Longford' – US firm gets green light to create 200 new jobs

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South Kerry -- Marine Minister praises 'courageous' rescue efforts in Kerry fishing tragedy in which one man died

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News -- Cork amateur soccer ace's spectacular bicycle-kick goal up for 'People's Puskas' Award

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Arklow -- Three-bed Wicklow home with B3 energy rating on the market for €250,000

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News -- 'I was in handcuffs and pepper-sprayed three times' – Man (30) denies damaging garda station door

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Dundalk & North -- 'It looks like elephants did it' – Call for owners to be named and shamed over dog fouling on streets

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Bray -- Exploring Wicklow's sauna boom: where to find the best saunas in the Garden County

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The Indo Daily: The disturbing last days of Mason O'Connell Conway (4), as Tegan McGhee named as killer

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The Left Wing: All Blacks in crisis, Scott Robertson departs and how Ruaidhri O'Connor got the story

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Indo Sport podcast: The Football Show | Hat-trick Parrott | Head Coach Carrick | The curious case of Xabi Alonso

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Real Health podcast: How much fibre you need with dietitian Lorraine Cooney

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TV Reviews -- Eilis O'Hanlon: Pole to Pole feels like a penance, and Will Smith is so likeable you want him to gain liberation

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Music -- Music promoter Pat Egan on bringing Bob Marley to Ireland: 'We sold about 20,000 tickets in advance'

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TV News -- 10 shows with legendary shock twists that had viewers gripped

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Television -- What to watch on TV and streaming today: Taskmasterclass, Death of a Ladies' Man and The Rip

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Books -- The 10 Agatha Christie novels you haven't read, but should

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Beauty -- Beauty test: They're minimally invasive and require little downtime, but how big a difference can microneedling and bioneeding really make to my skin?

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Fashion News -- Paul Costelloe's son to take over brand following late designer's passing – 'I am honoured to be continuing his legacy'

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Celebrity Features -- What we know about Irish nepo baby Jack Keating, his exes and what he's going to get up to on 'Love Island All Stars'

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Life -- The Weekend Hitlist: what we want to see, do and buy

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Business -- Dublin Airport handled record 36.4 million passengers in 2025, says DAA

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Travel News -- Winter sun flights to US from Canada slashed as tourists shun Trump

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Travel News -- 'The Brooklyn of Dublin' – National Geographic hails inner-city neighbourhood's 'modern revival'

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Travel News -- Pól Ó Conghaile: A cheat sheet of discount codes, deals and tips for the January holiday sales

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Europe -- 'Don't get me started on the face masks!' Meet the Irish 'glowmads' planning holidays around beauty and skincare

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Irish News -- 'I feel my heart has been split in two' – Gazan women in Ireland plead for husbands to be evacuated

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Irish News -- Tenant renting luxury D4 apartment in dispute with landlord over 'nick' to 15-year-old Roche Bobois dining table

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Courts -- 'Vulnerable' pastor caught with €1,100 in crime earnings had set up account using fake ID

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Courts -- DAA expected to file affidavit today in boardroom rift with Kenny Jacobs

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Politics -- Gardaí and regulators to meet to assess legal action over Grok AI as Minister Niamh Smyth to meet X officials

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Irish News -- Uncontrolled high blood pressure putting almost 450,000 Irish lives at risk, warns new research

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Irish News -- 'That's their only ride home' – Irish scientist on mission to safely return ISS crew to Earth

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Courts -- Kitchen fitter struck man across face after pair had 'words' in Dublin park

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Irish News -- Housing construction plummets, with only 16,400 new homes started last year

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Chris Matthews: Democrats betting on a turnaround for 'chaotic' Trump, with mid-term elections set to tip the balance in their favour

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Sophie White: It's kill or be killed when it comes to e-scooters - so, fellow pedestrians, use my defence tactics to match their aggression

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Letters: Downward trend in cards being sent at Christmas is worrying for the most isolated and lonely

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Deirdre Reynolds: Dress code at glittering awards seems to be turning into an 'undress' code for women

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Suzanne Crowe: When it comes to healthcare, half of the population pays twice – surely it's time for a rethink?

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Lorraine Courtney: More politicians should follow Simon Harris to Substack and ditch performative bear pit of X

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Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: Criticising 'Room to Improve' because of the housing crisis is like complaining about 'MasterChef' due to world hunger

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Max Boot: Donald Trump needs to know colonial ambitions led to two world wars

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Saoirse Hanley: Who are we to shame the Love Island All Stars cast when looking for love in any form is inherently cringey?

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The Irish Independent's View: Overdue migration rule changes must address capacity limits while maintaining compassion

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Barry Cowen: Political posturing over Mercosur will do nothing to help Ireland's farmers

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Letters: Justice Minister's proposed family reunification rules are just completely unfair

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From all-out war with US to the return of an exiled prince: What happens next in Iran?

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Letters: An Post stamp price hike is only likely to leave more elderly people feeling isolated

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The Irish Independent's View: A ruinous path lies ahead if Donald Trump uses force on Greenland

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Business -- 'Ireland is open for business' – Government will seek to attract property investment at event in Cannes

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World Business -- Paramount fails in legal bid over Warner Bros Discovery takeover

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Money -- Price of a pint of stout tops €6 nationally as third-level costs jump – CSO

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Business -- Glenveagh reports higher housing completions in 2025

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Money -- Seven easy ways to pay less tax in 2026 – and how to earn €29,000 this year, tax-free

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World News -- Google criticised for emailing children about parental controls

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World Business -- US department store Saks files for bankruptcy protection but shops stay open for now

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Irish Business -- IMF says Ireland is 'best placed' as regards AI skills needed for coming work revolution

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In The Workplace -- This Working Life with Annika Bizon: 'Technology has to earn its place. Great tech should make life better in everyday moments'

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Technology -- Investors pour billions into US start-up which lets gamblers bet on the likelihood of war

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Irish News -- Sinn Féin criticises Government as just one-third of eligible renters claim tax credit

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Business -- RTÉ hands back €60,000 painting to Dublin gallery after ownership claimed

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Irish Business -- Losses rise to almost €1m at maker of commemorative coins

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Boxing -- Anthony Joshua makes return to the gym following fatal car crash

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Golf -- Hot putter in Hawaii gives Seamus Power solid start with opening 67 at Sony Open

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Hurling -- 'You were nearly getting sick into the Christmas dinner' – Pauric Mahony keen for Ballygunner to make up for lost time

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Gaelic Football -- 'I'd be completely lying to you if there wasn't the sense of many, many sleepless nights since then' – Ruaidhrí Fallon still haunted by his Croke Park nightmare

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Rugby -- 'I got told I might not run again' – Erin King conquers greatest injury fears and is now ready to captain Ireland

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League of Ireland -- Seán O'Connor: Time will tell if Odhrán Casey's record move is sign of things to come in League of Ireland

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Other Sports -- Luke Littler opens bid to regain Bahrain Masters by making short work of veteran Paul Lim

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Gaelic Football -- Colm Keys: Tom O'Sullivan, the most modern of defenders with an old-school touch

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Soccer -- Cathal Heffernan ends his time with Newcastle to join fourth tier Harrogate Town

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Cycling -- Tour de France to have big British run in 2027 after routes are revealed

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Golf -- Tiger Woods, the Trumps and his secret 50th birthday party

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Gaelic Football -- Saval withdraw Allianz motion as Down GAA pledges to push for further Gaza donations from GAA

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Golf -- Rory McIlroy: LIV will pay DeChambeau hundreds of millions and have still gone backwards

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