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Fifa weighs up asking Donald Trump to stop ICE raids during the World Cup

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Irish News - LIVE - | Government wins confidence vote after Michael Healy-Rae resigns as minister over fuel protest response

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Disputes Resolution Authority last resort for Dublin boss Ger Brennan as latest appeal over 12-week suspension fails

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Food Reviews -- Lucinda O'Sullivan's restaurant review: If you're looking for a lovely lunch in the capital, these two new offerings deliver the goods

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Irish Business -- Government backs sale of PTSB for €1.6bn, shares drop sharply

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Courts -- Man jailed for brutal assault of homeless man over €100 debt in Peter McVerry House

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Golf -- How Holywood helps explain why Rory McIlroy puts friends, family and his hometown club ahead of flags and jingoism

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Health Features -- 'Living with a rare disease like Hurler syndrome hasn't held me back – it's given me the best life'

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Courts -- Michael Flatley sues ex-business manager for negligence in handling of his affairs

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Champions League -- 'What happened in Istanbul changed my life' – Vladimir Smicer looks back on his last game for Liverpool: the 2005 final

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Irish News Video -- The blockades of critical infrastructure including the country's only oil refinery was not 'anticipated,' says the Taoiseach

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Irish News -- Fuel terminal blocked in Galway as protests continue

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Life -- Moya Brennan | 1952-2026

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Irish News Video -- The Government understands 'fully' that people are under 'very significant pressure' on fuel costs, says the Taoiseach

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Golf -- Watch: Masters Daily with Paul Kimmage, Conor McKeon and Brian Keogh – Rory McIlroy masters Augusta again

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Television - Eilis O'Hanlon: Thomas admits to Botox twice a year because 'who doesn't want to look younger?' But just because pressure exists does not mean that one has to give in

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Health Features -- Everyone's talking about: Vibration plates – can they really boost my gym gains and how do they work?

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Europe -- How it feels to be hunted by deadly Russian drones in Ukraine 'kill zone'

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TV Reviews -- 'Big Mood' season 2 review: Nicola Coughlan's meandering comedy would put anyone in a bad mood

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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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Middle East - LIVE - | Trump turns on Italy's Meloni over Iran and Pope criticism; Peace talks could resume in Pakistan

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Middle East -- IDF strike kills three in Gaza as mediators meet with Hamas

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North America -- 'I have no fear of Donald Trump', says Pope Leo as US president refuses to apologise

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Comment -- David Blair: Donald Trump's ruthless blockade will lock the US into a war of attrition with a stubborn Iran

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Europe -- Senior Russian commander killed in March air crash, official says

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Australasia -- Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Australia – but petition over tour policing costs draws more than 45,000 signatures

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Holly Baxter: Trump learns he can't walk on water as Jesus stunt is seen as possibly weirdest moment yet

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Brianna Parkins: Men do see dirt, they're just unbothered because women are shamed into cleaning it

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David W Higgins: A fuel cap costing billions would be like downing a bottle of painkillers rather than seeking a cure

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John Bolton: Trump administration will not stop Iran from making nuclear weapons through diplomacy

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Ksenia Samotiy: Ousting Orban is a big win for people of Hungary and the EU, but the real work to rebuild democracy begins now

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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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International Soccer - Live - | Poland v Ireland – Katie McCabe hits wonder-goal as Girls in Green lead in World Cup qualifier

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News -- Heydon: €100m farm scheme was already planned – protests only 'pushed it on'

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Beef -- Mart numbers ease back – but the protests aren't the reason

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Beef -- Quotes lift out west as beef backlog shows signs of easing

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News -- Fuel protest fallout raises fears of lasting rural anger

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Farm Property -- State urged to step in as 1,500ac Lugnaquilla summit holding has asking price slashed by €5m

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Courts -- Firm that sued State over shelved multimillion-euro asylum centre settles action

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South Kerry -- 'It was a pleasure having them' – From Kerry with care as guide dog puppies begin training

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Wexford & District -- 'We will not be shown to be thugs' – How the fuel protest blockade of Rosslare Europort came to a conclusion

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Two men accused of dangerous driving at Louth fuel protest on M1

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Mixed views in Galway as public reacts to nationwide fuel protests

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Woman in her 50s dies two weeks after she was found seriously injured in Carlow

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Clare bakery brings hot scones to fuel protest on M18 – 'I have nothing but respect for farmers'

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'We just want to feel safe' — Calls for action as injuries mount on Navan estate footpaths

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Meath bus company urging coach operators to 'strike' this Wednesday as fuel prices remain high

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Takeaway worker jailed for six years for sexual assault of teen in Sligo alleyway

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Green light for 98 homes in Ferrybank bordering Waterford and Kilkenny

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The Big Tech Show: From tech to social media influencer – how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50

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The Left Wing: Hybrid Dan Sheehan, Bordeaux brilliance and Leinster's lessons

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The Indo Daily: Oil Crisis - Trump v the Pope, a new blockade and the fallout of Irish protests

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Indo Sport podcast: McIlroy the Master again | Rory's legend elevated in unconventional Augusta win

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Television -- What to watch on TV and streaming today: Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service, Home of the Year and Untold: Jail Blazers

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TV Reviews -- 'Euphoria' review: No one looks like they are having much fun in long-awaited return of hit show

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Radio -- Kirsty Blake Knox: The new RTÉ Radio 1 jingles are underwhelming – no wonder Oliver Callan sounds unimpressed

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Politics -- Pat Stacey: Riveting look at free speech wars on US campuses is rich in idiocy

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Sex & Relationships -- Dear Mary: I feel bad because my man friend had a stroke which has left me feeling drained and now I want out. What should I do?

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Celebrity News -- Jorginho labels Chappell Roan hotel security incident a 'misunderstanding'

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Beauty -- Triona McCarthy: 'Nora Ephron flagged the dilemma in her book I Feel Bad About My Neck, and I'll be honest — my own neck drives me nuts. It's really letting me down'

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Celebrity News -- Sabrina Carpenter wears Jonathan Anderson-helmed Dior designs at Coachella

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Fashion News -- CMAT dons Irish dancing shoes-inspired outfit as she calls out ICE at Coachella

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Sex & Relationships -- Asking for a friend: I can't keep an erection during sex and sometimes can't get hard at all. I'm not depressed or on medication, but I do watch a lot of porn

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'We're driving from Ireland to Cape Town in a 20-year-old Pajero'

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Can one hotel keep everyone happy? Dinosaurs and 'the difficult art of the multi-age family staycation' in Kilkenny

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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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Europe -- More to Bristol than Banksy: Inside the south-western food and art haven that's less than an hour from Dublin

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World -- My sea voyage to Shackleton's grave – what it's really like to go on an Antarctic cruise to South Georgia

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Travel News -- 'Seven wonders of Ireland for 2026' named by Condé Nast Traveller – here's what made the cut

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Irish News -- 'We couldn't be more proud' – joy in Rory McIlroy's home town of Holywood after Masters triumph

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Courts -- Man (20) caught with €1,000 of cannabis claimed it was for personal consumption

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Irish News -- Pregnant women who took RSV vaccine cut infant hospitalisations by over 80pc, study finds

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Irish News -- 'I came back because I really care' – HSE's new boss Anne O'Connor on why she returned to health service

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Courts -- Case adjourned for woman over boiling water attack in hostel

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Courts -- 'Aggressive' student spat at gardaí in Dublin city centre

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Irish News -- Ministerial blame game over 'send in the Army' threat

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Irish News -- Thousands more expected to end up in arrears on energy bills

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Crime -- Counter-terror unit probing threat to bomb a garda station if officers 'get heavy handed' with protesters

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Courts -- €600m 'Fingluas' extension can go ahead after legal actions by local businesses settled

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Politics -- AI allowing foreign countries greater automation in conducting cyber attacks, Oireachtas committee to be told

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Courts -- Judge criticises TD who gave character reference for influencer and former government advisor guilty of sexually exploiting boy at Christian camp

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Ruth Medjber: I went for an ADHD diagnosis and discovered I was autistic – now, my tofu and Rich Tea fads make total sense

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The Irish Independent's View: Proportionate response by gardaí to blockades was correct approach

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Adrian Blomfield: Strategic deadlock after failed US-Iran talks leaves just a few paths open – all carry risks

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Letters: Government showed lack of responsibility, but this is a crisis caused by the US

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An atmosphere of suspicion in locked room in Pakistan – how US-Iran talks fell apart

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Fionnán Sheahan: Oil fires going nowhere amid McEntee-O'Callaghan bust-up while cabinet critics circle garda chief

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Simeon Tegel: 'We always end up electing people who betray us' – Peruvians go to polls to elect ninth president in 10 years

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Tanya Sweeney: Journalism might have slipped down the CAO most-wanted list, but it is still a worthwhile career

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Colum McCann: Never in my 40 years in the US have I felt an atmosphere as poisonous as this

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Shane Ross: Micheál Martin's mudslinging hasn't worked – it's time to try talking things out

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Brendan O'Connor: Stuff the Gulf oil crisis. We're making one of our own

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Declan Lynch: Today Viktor Orban faces his destiny – and it was Troy Parrott who got the ball rolling

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Sam McBride: Fifty years on, the truth about what really happened after eight SAS men were arrested in Co Louth can be revealed

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Luke O'Neill: Saunas and cold plunging are all the rage, but do they bring health benefits?

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Eilis O'Hanlon: Iran hardly needs to pay for propaganda when its Irish admirers will do it for free

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World Business -- Court will hear challenge over Clane hospital expansion plans

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Money -- Irish energy prices highest in EU and consumers face more rises in years ahead - ESRI warns

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Business -- Ireland finally wins 'Euro contest' as Anthony Whelan lands top job with European Commission

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Irish Business -- Irish drug company sued for allegedly terminating agreement with Dutch firm to commercialise treatment for hypertension

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Money -- Diesel price up 24c a litre since last month – with warning of more hikes on the way

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Technology -- Siro broadband calls for Ireland to switch off copper telephone network

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Business -- Spending at service stations increased by 9pc in the 12 months to March – AIB

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Commercial Property -- Former restaurant in heart of Wexford coastal village is on market for €495,000

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In The Workplace -- Irish barrister to take senior EU job as 'director general for competition'

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Business -- Cost of crude oil races higher as Donald Trump pledges to block Iranian ports

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World Business -- Tesco results expected to guide on inflation hit

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Business -- The week ahead in business: economic summit, housing data and pension coverage

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Money -- My Money: 'Getting on to the Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme did wonders for my music'

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Money -- Michael Houghton: 'Most people who build wealth do it through hundreds of small decisions, made consistently over time'

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Soccer -- 'Simply embarrassing' – Union Berlin hit out at sexist abuse towards new head coach Marie-Louise Eta

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League of Ireland -- 'I'd just like to know where the Cork boys are. There was always that in the team – 'We're Cork, like' – do you know? But now, I just don't see it'

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Champions League -- Declan Rice misses training as Arsenal host Sporting Lisbon for decisive Champions League quarter-final

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Hurling -- Experienced Wexford duo O'Connor and Ryan available for Leinster hurling championship opener away to Lilywhites

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Britain -- Cheltenham Festival-winning horse trainer who assaulted dog walker, fracturing his arm, jailed for three years

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Premier League -- The 10 players Chelsea must sell – why Alejandro Garnacho's time is up, while Ireland target Liam Delap should move on

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Premier League -- 'It's a shocking decision, an absolutely shocking decision' – Michael Carrick fuming over Martinez dismissal

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Premier League -- Gary Neville group buys Mark Goldbridge's YouTube channels

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Champions League -- Liverpool v Paris Saint-Germain: TV details and all you need to know ahead of Champions League showdown

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Golf -- Fairway to heaven – How 47-ball range session saved Rory McIlroy's Masters

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International Soccer -- 'I'm not like a zombie every day' – Liverpool switch can extend Denise O'Sullivan's career as she eyes another World Cup

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