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When tractors don't go home: How last week's protest fits into six decades of farm anger

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International Soccer -- Carla Ward: I would say now, we're talking the last six games, we've played some exceptional football

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Irish News -- Fianna Fáil TDs looking for a leader to heave against Taoiseach Micheál Martin

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Russian missiles kill 13 including child in Ukrainian cities; Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Tuapse port kills two children, says governor

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Meghan tells Australian students she was 'most trolled person' in the world; Harry says he 'felt lost, betrayed, or completely powerless'

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Appeal against Beyond the Trees Avondale's new feature was made on invalid grounds

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Politics -- Helen McEntee accuses Independent Ireland TDs of misogyny and 'barking down' female colleagues

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Irish News -- RTÉ boss Kevin Bakhurst's proposed pay rise sparks fresh debate in Montrose just as doubts grow over Kielty's contract for 'Late Late'

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Rugby - Exclusive - | 'We care for every single one of them' – Jack Crowley on deep bonds and painful times at Munster

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Middle East - LIVE - | EU working on jet fuel plan as Iran crisis threatens air travel; Trump says Israel and Lebanon talks to happen today

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Irish News -- Income tax breaks in budget would be impossible if cuts on petrol and diesel continue into next year

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Health & Wellbeing -- 'Weight-loss jabs have been hijacked by Hollywood and middle-upper-income people' – Measuring the effects of GLP-1s on Irish society

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Money -- Starting a business? Here's what you need to know about grants and microfinance

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Gaelic Football -- 'I hit the ditch and came back out again' – Derry boss Ciarán Meenagh admits he once nodded off at wheel due to punishing schedule

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Technology -- This Working Life with Gavin Mendel-Gleason: 'We try to make it easier for normal people to file applications for grants'

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Food & Drink -- 22 useful hacks to get the most out of your wine experience in the supermarket or restaurant

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Irish News -- Greenland shark stranding in Sligo gives researchers rare opportunity to study 'living fossil'

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Radio -- Declan Lynch: Why Sarah McInerney's dropped 'points' comment on the Masters infuriated my friend Paddy

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Health Features -- Stay Well: I have diabetes. What should I eat and what should I avoid?

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Irish News -- Notice of strike action by workers at National Ambulance Service comes after years of discontent

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Premier League -- The Isak dilemma: Liverpool boss Arne Slot has painful decision to make after Hugo Ekitike's disastrous injury

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Irish News -- Flu vaccines also reduce dementia and stroke risk, experts tell Oireachtas Health Committee

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Irish News -- Government weakened after day of chaos inside coalition and acrimony in the Dáil

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Videos -- Independent Ireland TDs accused of "misogyny" in Dáil debate _duplicated

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Irish News -- Spending boom on home improvements as people unable to move property

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Videos -- Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan signs off on €20,000 pay rise for RTÉ boss in same week he demanded review of 'unbalanced' protest coverage

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World -- 'Our packs became lighter, and our lives became fuller' – 10 travel tips for retirees on a golden gap year

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Courts -- 'I want to thank him for his hard work for my whiskey business' – Conor McGregor settles multi-million euro dispute with Artem Lobov

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Munster Rugby -- Munster facing bitter fallout over Roger Randle appointment after rape accusations resurface

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Lifestyle -- Fergus Dennehy: I did a parkrun inside Mountjoy Prison – the prisoners could not have been more supportive

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Technology -- Irish firm Spanish Point Technologies helping to save musicians from being ripped off by AI fraudsters

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TV News -- 'There are a few moments that really do bring a tear to my eye' – Graham Norton on his new 'wholesome' reality TV show

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Health Features -- Living with alopecia: 'I've learnt what matters – your health, your children, your laughter'

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Beauty -- Louise McSharry: My favourite B Corp certified Irish beauty brands

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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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Europe -- Pupil (14) kills nine in Turkey's second school shooting in two days

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Africa -- 'In Sudan, there is nothing but death, all you can do is run' – crisis growing in African nation

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Analysis -- Andrew Feinberg: From Obama apes, to Trump as Jesus – is there no rock bottom to US president's unhinged online posts?

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Middle East -- Bel Trew: What historic talks by Israel and Lebanon in US actually achieved

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Mary Regan: Fissures that emerged in Fianna Fáil during presidential election have widened after fuel protests

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Senan Molony: Fuel-price fiasco shows how Harris failed first test as Finance Minister

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Fionnán Sheahan: Jim Gavin's 'sense of honour' doesn't extend to the truth, accountability or saying sorry

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James Crisp: How Donald Trump's political love affair with Giorgia Meloni turned sour

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Sophie White: I was scrolling for four hours a day until my phone provided the key to its own demise

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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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Six Nations -- 'My own performance left a lot to be desired' – Béibhinn Parsons fired up for her first Ireland game in Galway

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Solar farms on best land 'threaten food security', warns country's biggest broccoli grower

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I blamed the pigs for our broadband failure, until the real disaster hit

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The dairy bucket is leaking: Why 2026 margins are about to get dangerous

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Irish News -- Inside the six hour chaotic council meeting to find more land for housing

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In The Workplace -- Dubliner Emma Delaney tapped for €4m top job at Austrian oil firm OMV

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Irish News -- Majority of Fine Gael councillors vote against recommendation to rezone land for 698-bed student accommodation beside UCD

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Dublin -- Motion to be rewritten after councillors clash over call 'to supervise' homeless accommodation

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Wexford & District - BREAKING - | Body removed from Wexford town house may have lain undiscovered for some time

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Drogheda & South - 'We're so lucky to still be getting married' – Devastating hotel fire forces Louth couple into last-minute wedding venue change

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Gardaí at scene as car overturns on busy main street in Cork

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Gardaí in violent tussle with suspect in daring escape attempt outside midlands shopping centre

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New dawn ushered in at Cork athletic club – Olympic hero opens new state-of-the-art facilities

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News -- 'Lads, you'll have to take it outside' - Clare councillors clash during heated fuel protest debate

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North & West Kerry - Latest - | Search stood down in west Kerry after body recovered

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Dundalk & North -- Appeal against 502 Louth homes upheld over sewage capacity concerns

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News -- Retired Monaghan couple given jail terms for 'horrendous and unspeakable' cruelty to neighbour's cat

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Bray -- 'DIY SOS' to help Hannah Leonard's family finally bring her home after devastating accident abroad

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The Big Tech Show: Trump, Pope Leo and Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist

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Just Between Us: 'Let's talk about squirting' – Jenny Keane on the sex ed we never got at school

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Real Health: Colour, frequency and shape – how your poo should look

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The Indo Daily: Johnny Ronan - The tricky return of a Celtic Tiger poster boy

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Comment -- Tim Robey: Why have modern-day films lost art of suspense that once had us hooked?

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Book Reviews -- Lena Dunham's Famesick: 'People on the internet were cruel to me, but nobody was crueler to me than I was to myself'

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Television -- What to watch on TV and streaming today: Big Mood, The Apprentice and Balls Up

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Theatre & Arts -- 'Barnum: the Circus Musical' review: Olde world homage to human ingenuity has a timeless charm

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Fashion -- Orla Dempsey: As Kendall Jenner goes low-key, can we still take style inspiration from Coachella?

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Celebrity News -- Pop star Katy Perry investigated by police over claim she sexually assaulted actor Ruby Rose

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Celebrity -- Ciarán Hinds: 'We made it very clear to my daughter that we don't do nepotism. It's held her in good stead'

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Travel News -- Pól Ó Conghaile: The only thing certain for Irish holidaymakers is uncertainty

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

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Ireland -- 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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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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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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Education -- Wexford pupil Alfie (11) takes on Education Minister over system that 'reinforces 1950s gender stereotypes'

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Irish News -- 'Exceptionally rare' discovery sees long-living Greenland Shark wash up on Ireland's shores for the first time

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Courts -- Nephew of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch jailed after throwing lit bottle at apartment on day of brother's murder inquest

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Irish News -- Over 600 RTÉ workers to vote in ballot over fears jobs could be outsourced

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Politics - latest - | Fianna Fáil TDs seek urgent meeting as concerns grow over party direction amid fuel‑protest fallout - 20:52

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Politics -- Explainer: Who are the young Fianna Fáil TDs pushing back against their party?

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Courts -- Son of multi-millionaire hotelier Noel O'Callaghan's son regrets 'I would shoot him' comment after business dispute

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Politics -- Junior Minister will meet Waterford hill sheep farmers in rent dispute with Duke of Devonshire

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Courts -- 'Love/Hate' actor Leroy Harris is jailed for four years for robbing shop while armed with broken pint glass

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Irish News -- Woman dead and another woman in hospital after crash in Co Louth

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Irish News -- President Connolly 'could have damaged' Irish relationship with America, says US ambassador to EU

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Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: Carroll MacNeill should cartwheel into hospital HR offices and ask about staff retention

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Catherine Prasifka: Far-right presence at fuel-price protests served only to stoke flames of intolerance

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Arlene Harris: Growing up above a bar in east Clare, Moya Brennan's voice was the soundtrack to my childhood

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Fionnán Sheahan: Healy-Rae brothers were no chip off the old block for sticking with government

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The Irish Independent's View: Global fuel storm demands a strategy, not drama in the Dáil

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Letters: Recent protests lacked a mandate and appeared to be exploited by 'grifters'

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Roland Oliphant: Why Putin will find it hard to replace Viktor Orban, his best friend inside the EU

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Sinéad Ryan: My quest to holiday in every EU capital brought me to my home town of Dublin, and I was delighted with what I found

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Saoirse Hanley: The romantic hopefuls on Love on the Spectrum could teach the rest of us a thing or two about honest dating

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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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The Irish Independent's View: Coalition must take action to prevent any repeat of blockades

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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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Senan Molony: Who are the biggest winners and losers after a tumultuous week of fuel protests?

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Letters: Bord Bia sidestep might provide a blueprint for avoiding any future blockades

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Money -- Slowdown in property-price inflation expected as new data reveals typical figure being paid for a home

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Irish Business -- Tara Mines slashes losses to €9.1m as it continues to prospect for new zinc reserves

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Commercial Property -- Properties on landmark corner near Croke Park guide €1.6m

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World Business -- White House flags delays to tariff refunds worth $166bn

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Irish Business -- Irish beauty brand Hildun to start selling make-up products on Aer Lingus flights

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Business -- Unit to finish Nama work will have eight staff until end of 2027

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Business -- Exports to America fell by almost 70pc in February

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Business -- Wexford energy company ramps up solar expansion with ambitious three year plan

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Money -- Rate of property-price inflation eases with cost of typical home now €390,000

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Irish Business -- Kerrygold-owner Ornua will continue to invest in US, but it 'needs certainty' says CEO

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Small Business -- Smash burger craze comes to Wicklow as refugee cousins open new pizza place

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Technology -- Review: iPhone 17e is the student-friendly, senior-compatible option in a cost-of-living crisis

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Hurling -- Mark Fitzgerald: Past round-robin failures won't affect Waterford in Munster this year

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Munster Rugby -- Munster defend decision to hire new coach Roger Randle amid backlash over 1997 rape allegation

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Champions League -- Unconvincing Arsenal ride luck to edge into Champions League semi-finals with goalless draw against Sporting Lisbon

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- Monaghan leave it late to push for home and see off gutsy Cavan challenge in Ulster U-20 Football Championship

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- Late goal from Paddy Mollahan sees Longford U-20s progress to last four in Leinster at Offaly's expense

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- Conor O'Neill pounces for Tyrone to break Derry hearts in dramatic finale to Ulster U-20FC clash

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- John Curran sends Rossies on the road to Connacht U-20 semi-final

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U-20 Hurling -- James O'Brien points the way to victory for Cork as Waterford make Munster U-20HC exit

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- Kobe McDonald on fire as Mayo brush Galway aside to book spot in Connacht U-20 Championship final

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League of Ireland -- Damien Duff to join Virgin Media's punditry team for Friday's Dublin derby

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Premier League -- 'His disappointment is immense' – France boss Didier Deschamps confirms Liverpool's Hugo Ekitike will miss World Cup

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U-20 Gaelic Football -- Leinster U-20 quarter-final between Westmeath and Kildare abandoned at half-time

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League of Ireland -- Cross-party Oireachtas group on improving domestic football to be set up as Joanna Byrne hits out at Patrick O'Donovan in Dáil debate

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