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Sinn Féin TD hits out at state accommodation payment for Ukrainian refugees 'with good jobs'

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Crime -- Gang boss suspected of directing weapons shipments and drug violence from cell in Ireland's high-security prison arrested

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Britain - LATEST - | Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office; King Charles releases statement

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Donegal man jailed for nine years for forcing woman to take abortion tablets

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'Andy Farrell will get Ireland pumped, it will be emotional' – Luther Burrell's view as legends gather to aid Lewis Moody

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Road closed for six weeks in south Dublin after weather related collapse

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Crime - BREAKING - | Man fights for life after being struck by e-scooter in horror attack in Temple Bar area as gardaí hope tattoo can help identify victim

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Six Nations -- Sam Prendergast out of squad as Ireland team named for Six Nations clash with England

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Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: A few missed school days in Marbella is nothing. More serious absences need our attention

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Apple unveils new Dublin office and says 'no barriers' to more investment in Ireland

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The Divorce Diaries: 'You can almost forgive the affair, but not all the gaslighting and horrible lies around it'

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Life -- The murdered Irish priest, the gay Native American and the film correcting 40 years of injustice

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Health & Wellbeing -- Dublin cleanfluencer Brandon Stone: 'My followers have told me that cleaning is a type of therapy when they're not feeling the best'

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Health Features -- Childhood cancer: 'They took us to a side room... I never want to be brought in to a side room in a hospital again'

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Health -- HSE boss issues apology for Camhs failings: 'Our services in Kerry were so far below the acceptable standards as to cause risk of harm'

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Money -- 'It costs our family over €10,000 a year' – money experts reveal how much they spend on insurance each month

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Irish News -- GoFundMe page for ICE detainee Séamus Culleton now 'deactivated'

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Analysis -- Mary Regan: Despite all the talk, the Coalition has ducked a social media ban for under-16s

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Women's Sport -- 'It can be scary at times, sometimes your brain can sabotage you' – racing driver Nicole Drought details the mental strength needed in motorsport

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Irish Business -- Just three firms now pay 46pc of all corporation tax

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League of Ireland -- 'I would love to see the game not being played' – Stephen Bradley says Israel should not be in a position to face Ireland

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News -- Cork family 'overwhelmed' by €180,000 restoration job after their home was devastated by fire

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Dublin News -- Eilish O'Regan: Planning rejection for the Rotunda is no surprise – remember the National Children's Hospital setback?

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Health Features -- Stay Well: I keep getting thrush. Why is this and what can I do to banish it forever

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Irish News -- Significant flooding risk after persistent rain and winds

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Music Reviews - A band revitalised and full of political fire – U2's surprise 'Days of Ash' EP is their best release in decades

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Food Reviews -- Restaurant review: 'Things have changed for the better at this Dublin wine bar'

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Movies -- Tanya Sweeney: The 'Wuthering Heights' backlash is not about the movie – but the woman who made it

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League of Ireland -- Daniel McDonnell: Derry's big spending is necessary if they are to release the Dublin stranglehold on LOI

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TV Reviews -- 'Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist' review: This engrossing, often hard to watch, documentary exposes the dark industry of trophy hunting

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Horse Racing -- 'It gets better every time, it's addictive' – Paul Townend keen to add to his impressive Cheltenham win rate

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Dearbhla Mescal: 'I was at the centre court in Wimbledon one Sunday – it was my first outing as Paul's plus one – and the following Sunday I was in an oncology ward'

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'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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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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'I can't help thinking this is the best first date I've ever had' – searching for love offline

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Exclusive - | Gary Lineker: 'What I remember from that period of my life was a recurring dream I would be carrying a little white coffin'

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Britain -- UK police examining Jeffrey Epstein's use of airports for trafficking women

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North America -- Trump tells Starmer Chagos handover is 'big mistake' day after US backed deal

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Middle East -- UK condemns 10-year sentence for British couple in Iran

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Britain -- Man killed and teenage boy critically injured in Northampton skate park stabbing

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Europe -- Ukraine peace talks with Russia and US fall apart in less than two hours

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Sophie White: It's hard to know what to pack for the labour ward - but you're safe to leave Roman Polanski's biography at home

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Juggling two wars at the same time is a tall order for Donald Trump's two-man negotiating team

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The Irish Independent's View: Social media age bans will only work if the 'Broligarchy' is held to account

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Deirdre Reynolds: If clothes maketh the man, would it kill people to maketh an effort in the office?

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Letters: Ireland is not perfect, but being criticised by the Brexit mob is laughable

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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 -- Liverpool handed major Alexander Isak boost after Arne Slot shares update on rehabilitation

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International Soccer -- Troy Parrott interview: 'I want to have more big moments like that, hopefully starting in March'

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News -- Funding offered to help establish up to four new flour mills in Ireland

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Forestry & Enviro -- How a Meath farmer rebuilt his future through organics and innovation

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Farm Property -- Unique 226ac Whiddy Island portfolio hits the market at €4m

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News -- UAE fertiliser firm targets Europe as EU squeezes Russian supply

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News -- Tipperary farmer fined €1,000 for cutting hedgerow vegetation during nesting season

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Dublin News -- Dublin's Mercantile Hotel signage branded 'totally inappropriate' by council

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Dublin News -- 'Our priority should be getting to all of these potholes' – council at odds over proposal for public toilets

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Business - LATEST - | Minister says 'no intention' of cutting taxi regulations, despite watchdog's call for removal of Uber restrictions

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Dog wounded after being shot by armed Garda during removal of dogs from house in Sligo

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Council hits back at claims East Meath civic building at 'direct risk' from coastal erosion

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News -- 'Absolutely devastating' – Longford tech shop raided for second time in as many months

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Tralee -- 'My daughter is a shell of the child she was' – Kerry mother's 'nightmare' Camhs experience

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Wexford & District -- Outrage as disgraced Wexford choirmaster seen socialising with child rapists at opening of Carlow massage parlour

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South Kerry -- Kerry national park hits back at claims deer population is at 'epidemic' levels

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News -- School place shortage in Dunshaughlin now an 'annual crisis' for Meath families

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News -- Spike in 'Notices to Quit' as Louth landlords jump ship ahead of rental reforms

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South Kerry -- 'A wonderful feeling of being on stage' – Meet the Kerry actress who hasn't missed a show in 40 years

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News -- Galway city gears up for another year of Café Lates as expressions of interest open

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Indo Sport podcast: The Football Show | Arsenal's anxiety | Mourinho's awful interview | At home with Eamon Dunphy

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The Indo Daily Extra: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested by UK police

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Real Health: Stroke: why every second matters

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Just Between Us: Why are so many of us still single? A matchmaker's perspective with Feargal Harrington

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Theatre & Arts -- Chris Wasser: The Crucible is stripped of its urgency and potency in disappointment at the Gaiety

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Celebrity News -- Paul Mescal poses with Gracie Abrams at Paul McCartney documentary screening

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10 perfumes under €50 that rival Chanel, Tom Ford and Jo Malone

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Fashion forecast: Ditch drab greys this spring for a wardrobe drenched in colour, heritage and embellishment

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Louise McSharry: How to master the 'Nina Park lip' trend

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Life -- Chloë finds a hobby: 'I'm in flow state, even though the way I'm painting is an abomination'

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Europe -- In the Palma of my hand – even in off-season, the Mallorca capital has it all wrapped up

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Travel News -- Pól Ó Conghaile: What Center Parcs plans next for Longford Forest – from a 'Forest Glider' to six-bed lodges

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Ireland -- 20 perfect pubs you may not have heard of in Ireland: 'If you get the snug, guard it with your life...'

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Interior designer Suzie McAdam: 'We were filming and I was having a major wobble. Hugh took me aside and gave me a hug'

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'I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel conflicted' - Irish parents on the true costs and savings of taking kids out of school for holidays

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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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Health - LATEST - | No consultant child psychiatrist working full-time in Kerry – says HSE - 10:09

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Courts -- Street preacher found guilty of body slamming immigrant while wearing MAGA hat

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Irish News -- Footfall in Dublin city down 36pc since pre-covid restrictions

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Irish News -- 46pc of the total Corporation Tax take in Ireland now comes from just three firms.

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Politics -- Gerry Adams and Bertie Ahern to address Oireachtas committee on peace process

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Politics -- Almost 600 breaches of rules on sunbed use recorded in last two years as HSE takes 21 cases to court

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Courts -- No road ban for motorist who did 120kmh in 60kmh zone and drove on wrong side after speeding from traffic stop

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Crime -- 'I can still hear my own screams', says Cork woman whose husband assaulted her with a hammer and boiling water

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Irish News -- 'I think this is the start of a love story' – Trinity College students marry in 'fake' wedding ceremony in aid of homeless and domestic violence charities

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Politics -- Jim O'Callaghan says Ireland wants to strike deal with UK on asylum-seekers

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Irish News -- Workers in high demand are being offered pay hikes of 8pc, report reveals

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Courts -- Crufts winner's pitbull to be destroyed after park attack and €12,000 of kennel fees racked up for its care

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Irish News -- CCPC recommends further deregulation of taxi market and to allow Uber-style ride-hailing services

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Irish News -- Receivers to be appointed to firm linked to San Leon case

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Dónal Lynch: The boy influencers who want to win the gender battle – for dibs on the mirror

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Letters: Technological progress did not start with AI – it is merely the latest update

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The Irish Independent's View: Government needs to take urgent action to set in train viable climate change plans

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Peter Flanagan: British right-wing caricatures of the Irish as 'Paddystinians' ignores our successes – and our genuine failures

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Saoirse Hanley: The love cheat Olympian trying to win his girlfriend back in public got it all wrong - grand gestures don't work in real life

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Paul Williams: 'The Monk' play would have been so much better without one thing – Gerry Hutch himself

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Sinead Ryan: We don't need another inflationary state savings scheme – just overhaul the punitive tax measures on investments

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David W Higgins: Morgan McSweeney's legacy is starting an open and honest conversation about immigration

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Letters: As the world gets more dangerous, Ireland must seek closer ties with EU

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Ksenia Samotiy: Why the IOC was wrong to ban Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from Olympics

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Matthew Brookner: MAGA's bid to 'save' Europe will backfire until the US gets its own house in order on basic freedoms

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The Irish Independent's View: Backing of Hungary's Viktor Orban by Marco Rubio has rattled many in Brussels

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Emma Nolan: The Hoxton has misjudged Dubliners' anger over the proliferation of hotels and the loss of nightlife

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Suzanne Crowe: Placing architectural objections ahead of the interests of patients is obnoxious

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Tanya Sweeney: 'We're living in the Peak A**hole Era and there's nothing anyone can do about it'

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Commercial Property -- Indices differ on capital values for offices

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Commercial Property -- Two new Kildare land holdings offer choice of development prospects

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Irish Business -- Footfall on key Dublin shopping streets 50pc below pre-Covid levels

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Commercial Property -- IPUT earmarks €175m of fresh equity for prime Dublin office developments

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World Business -- Early Lagarde exit could tarnish independence of ECB, analyst warns

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Irish News -- Price of typical home up by more than €100,000 in last four years, with median price now at €387,000

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Irish Business -- Incoming Kerry chair bets on its battered stock, buying up over €56,000 in shares

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Business -- 'I think there's a cost-of-living explanation, and post-Covid, a social contract break': Boots managing director on surging retail crime

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Politics -- Mortgage campaigner David Hall says he was refused banking services for years after scrutiny of the system

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Technology -- 'There is no special grid for data centres': Microsoft says Dublin campus is not competing with homes for energy

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Money -- Shortage of second-hand properties pushing overall prices of homes up

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Business -- Lagarde planning to leave ECB early so Macron can steer succession, says FT

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Six Nations -- 'He's playing confidently' – Andy Farrell backs Jack Crowley and explains big selection calls

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Six Nations -- 'It's disgusting' – Andy Farrell condemns racist abuse of Ireland lock Edwin Edogbo

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Premier League -- Sam Dean: Arsenal are wobbling and they only have themselves to blame

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Boxing -- Eddie Hearn fires back at f***ed and flustered Dana White: 'I work for my dad? You have a new daddy'

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Golf -- Leona Maguire makes fast start to new season in Thailand with a five-under 67

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Other Sports -- The bizarre broccoli juice trend sweeping Winter Olympics: 'It's better than Jagermeister'

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Premier League -- American billionaire Leon Cooperman increases his stake in Manchester United

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Premier League -- Mikel Arteta admits Arsenal only have themselves to blame as Wolves draw opens up Premier League title race

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League of Ireland -- Watch: League of Ireland matchday three preview

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Champions League -- Eddie Howe hopes rout of Qarabag shows Newcastle can be 'outstanding team'

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Motor Sport -- Watch: The inside track on the realities of being a woman in motorsport | Working at Mondello Park | Nicole Drought

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Rugby -- 'We need to be protecting people in their 20s' – Jacqui Hurley warns against 'toxic' number 10 debate ahead of England clash

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Six Nations -- Why rugby needs more personalities like combative, larger-than-life TikTok star Henry Pollock

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