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'Italian clubs are not set up for an academy system' – Stephen Bradley glad Irish underage exodus to Europe has slowed

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Louth man threw cocaine out car window as Gardaí gave chase

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Athletics -- Andrew Coscoran finishes third at French meet, breaking his own Irish indoor 1,500m record

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Irish News -- Ex‑wife of ICE detainee Séamus Culleton was granted restraining order after marriage broke down

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Four-year ban for dangerous biker who went over green areas and onto footpaths

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Andy Farrell wants Ireland to 'fire shots' at Twickenham

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Microsoft's Bill Gates abruptly pulls out of AI summit in India

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Irish News -- James Mago Gately's legal row continues over how much damage he did to home seized by CAB

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Politics -- 'Flurry of calls' when ministers realised 'PR disaster' on SNA provision was about to break

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Life -- The long road West: 'We came to Ireland because I read that it was the most friendly place for Ukrainians to live'

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Six Nations -- Rúaidhrí O'Connor: Jack Crowley has the keys to No 10 – it's up to him to put debate to bed at Twickenham

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Life -- Modern Morals: My neighbour calls to the door at the worst times – how can I set boundaries without hurting his feelings?

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Money -- Will adding a garden room or home sauna increase the value of your home?

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Family Features -- Bill Linnane: My son visited Pompeii on a school trip – but the only thing he learned about the ancient world was how to use a landline

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Homes -- Airy and bright three-bed home in Harold's Cross is a model of well-judged decor

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Politics -- Cost of asylum accommodation to State reaches record €1.2bn in 2025

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Irish Business -- Any Other Business: Irish Traitors proves a treat for prime-time UK viewers

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GAA -- Mayo GAA top the streaming charts as club gate receipts soar to €19m

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Health -- 'I had open-heart surgery at just 16, I was worried I wouldn't survive': Dublin woman on lifelong health battle

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Irish News -- North Kerry Camhs review limited to 2014, as minister in tears at families' ordeal

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Politics -- Mary Regan: TikTok Tánaiste fails to click with Taoiseach on social media ban messaging

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Money -- Home economics: 'I moved in with my mother and she transferred 50pc of the house to me. What happens if she needs Fair Deal?

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Britain - LATEST - | Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pictured leaving police station after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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Irish News -- Tailgating a judge, a hidden shiv and assault in a stuck lift: logs reveal over 150 courthouse incidents

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Premier League -- Miguel Delaney: Mikel Arteta obsesses over the tiniest details. Is it now harming Arsenal's title chances?

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South Kerry -- Kind-hearted Kerry woman takes in two homeless girls – 'It was heartbreaking, you couldn't leave them there'

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North America -- Tehran must do a deal or face 'bad things' within 10 days, Donald Trump says

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Irish News -- 'It has taken a sense of home from us' – the solar farm, a community divided and plans for protest

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

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

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

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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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Food & Drink -- Meet the home cooks going viral: 'I'm just a teacher, I live in a house in the country and I don't have any fancy notions'

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Crime -- Man fights for life after being hit in face with e-scooter during savage attack in Dublin's Temple Bar

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

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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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Holly Baxter: Arrest of former prince makes Donald Trump's Department of Justice look absolutely spineless

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Baz Luhrmann: 'Bono read me his poem about Elvis... it was the perfect way to end our film'

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'We bought a derelict Victorian shopfront building and restored it as our family home, preserving the original 1860 shop'

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Homes -- On the market: Four renovated homes in Cork, Galway, Dublin and Wexford

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Six Nations -- Ireland U-20s need to tighten their defence to challenge England in difficult Six Nations test

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Mental Health -- Paul Mescal's mum invites us to find 'unexpected, unruly and beautiful' joy in the small pleasures of life

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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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Europe -- Russians giving us historical lectures as a delay tactic, says furious Zelensky

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North America -- ICE wants to buy $70m luxury jet with its own bar to deport migrants and carry cabinet officials

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Britain -- Tony Blair praises US president 'for seeing Gaza's potential'

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World News -- Iran is already a cauldron as US ramps up temperature

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North America -- Universal vaccine developed 'to protect against allergies, cold and flu'

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Martina Devlin: British royal family was always revered, but Mountbatten-Windsor is reviled

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The Irish Independent's View: Potential of Epstein files to shake those in power seems endless after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest

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Catherine Prasifka: Fianna Fáil's 'Culture Card' for 18-year-olds is tone-deaf – young people need venues, not gift cards

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Letters: For the Irish economy to thrive, we must not bite the hand that has fed it

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Ireland's experience in conflict resolution is a priceless asset

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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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Six Nations -- 'I remember just being flabbergasted with the size of this yoke!' – Tadhg Furlong delivers Twickenham warning

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

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

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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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First look inside newly restored Armada House after Clare hotel €2.5m investment

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New accessible audio guides launched at popular Kilkenny heritage site

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News -- Man jailed for assaulting and racially abusing Syrian mother on her way to collect child from school in Westport

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News -- Donegal man caught with over €3,000 worth of cocaine was told there was money to be made from selling drugs

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North & West Kerry -- Kerry TD calls for State apology for CAMHS victims

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

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News -- 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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Indo Sport podcast: The Rugby Show | Crowley's Twickenham opportunity | Ireland's scrum problem

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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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Declan Lynch: It was peculiar that Liveline didn't kick off Monday's or Tuesday's show with an update on the Seamus Culleton story which had changed over the weekend

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'It's not all tics and ear defenders, there's beauty in it as well' – 'Line of Duty' actor Amy De Bhrún on parenting autistic son

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Television -- Is ITV's 'The Lady' the unluckiest drama of the year?

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Television -- What to watch on TV and streaming today: Death in Paradise, Garage and The Last Thing He Told Me

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Fashion -- I tried 2026's hottest womenswear trend — and I've never had more compliments

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Fashion News -- Paul Costelloe's son William takes the helm at first London Fashion Week since Irish designer's death

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

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

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

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

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Health & Wellbeing -- Ruth Medjber's life stories: 'When I had my own children, I couldn't comprehend that it would be feasible or possible in any circumstances to hand your child away'

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Homes -- On the market: Four homes with saunas in Galway, Cork, Leitrim and Wexford

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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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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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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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Irish News -- French owner of Irish lottery operator to seek 'synergies'

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Courts -- Father of five fined €200 after knife threat during hotel noise row

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Irish News -- Pre-tax profits decline at engineering firm that worked on the National Children's Hospital

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Politics -- Government should tackle algorithms and ask Big Tech for more data in bid to tackle online harms, experts say

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Courts -- Car salesman sacked over 'around the corner' deal for second-hand car wins €10k at WRC

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Courts -- Sex offender (63) jailed for five years for further sex assault on autistic young man

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Politics -- Ireland's dependence on multinational tax 'not sustainable', Taoiseach says as Apple plans new building in Cork

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Irish News -- Second digger brought in as search continues for missing Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob

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Courts -- Solicitors come off record for firm whose CEO allegedly spent company money on homes and jobs for girlfriends

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Courts -- Anti-immigration campaigner Philip Dwyer avoids jail over altercation with political rival on election trail

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Courts -- Billionaire John Magnier drops planned appeal of Barne Estate ruling

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Irish News -- Bus Éireann investigating footage of driver breaking red light at pedestrian crossing metres from where boy (8) was killed

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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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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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Donal Fallon: From Selma to Derry and Seán McDermott Street, how Jesse Jackson touched Ireland with his energy

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Max Boot: Even far-right leaders are fed up of Donald Trump butting into elections

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Lorraine Courtney: If Ireland v Israel goes ahead, it will be the young men in green who will bear the moral fallout – that is deeply unfair

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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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Business -- Transport minister rules out changes to taxi system to benefit Uber

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Irish Business -- More than 363 million trips were made on public transport last year

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

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Business -- 'Valuable lessons' learned in building power plants, says Bord Gáis Energy owner

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Business -- Bank of Ireland UK is fined £3.78m for failing to implement anti-fraud measures in time

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Money -- Milk, meat, cheese and butter all up in price as inflation continues to hit hard

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Business -- Ireland 'back on radar' for international housing investors, says Ires Reit boss

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Technology -- Review: Telephoto zoom camera and AI detection tools make Honor Magic 8 Pro stand out from its rivals

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World Business -- London Stock Exchange owner urged to review sprawl of assets

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Business -- AirNav to free up €310m for dividends as 'summer of chaos' looms

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Business -- €30bn worth of contactless payments made in 2025 as cash usage continues to decline

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Commercial Property -- Indices differ on capital values for offices

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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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Soccer -- Crysytal Palace rue missed chances after Zrinjski Mostar come from behind to draw Conference League clash in Bosnia

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Soccer -- Vitor Pereira enjoys dream start to reign as Forest thump Fenerbahce in first leg of Europa League play-off

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Six Nations -- Michael Sadlier: It's no shock to see major changes for Ireland's England clash but axing Cormac Izuchukwu is a harsh call

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Gaelic Football -- 'There was a rivalry, but a great respect at the same time' – How a rebranding of the old Cork-Meath feud is taking shape

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League of Ireland - Latest - | League of Ireland transfers: Ireland youth international Aidan Gabbidon makes move home from Malmo to rejoin Sligo - 20:00

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League of Ireland -- League of Ireland previews, team news and verdicts for Friday night

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Soccer -- Celtic to be offered 7,500 tickets in complete Broomloan Stand for Scottish Cup quarter-final at Ibrox

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Six Nations -- England captain Maro Itoje advises athletes to be wary of 'corrosive' social media in wake of Edwin Edogbo racial abuse

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GAA -- Leitrim's man of the moment Barry McNulty keen to maintain form – Five storylines for this weekend's GAA

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Six Nations -- '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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Horse Racing -- Constitution Hill hype hitting fever pitch ahead of Flat run under Friday night lights

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Motor Sport -- Offaly racer Alex Dunne signs deal to join Alpine's F1 academy

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Premier League -- 'People need to be held a lot more accountable' – Liam Rosenior says no place in football for anyone found guilty of racism

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