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GAA -- Martin Breheny: The game is up – hurling now needs two referees to cope with modern demands

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Tony Ward: What we witnessed on Thursday truly was Puke Rugby, Irish-style

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World News -- Congressman names six high-profile men from unredacted Epstein files

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Max Boot: How Donald Trump is doubling down on his contempt for world order

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Teresa Costello: Children should be free to pursue absent parents for unpaid child maintenance when they turn 18

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Keire Murphy: Rental reforms offer some hope for tenants like me, but the overriding feeling is confusion

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Crime -- The five men identified by the Kinahan gang's 'intelligence network' as being Regency gunmen and what became of them

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Irish News -- GP who failed to recognise critical condition of girl (10) who died from treatable illness is found guilty of poor performance

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Premier League -- Virgil van Dijk rises to occasion as Reds skipper eases pressure on Arne Slot with hard-earned victory at Sunderland

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Dublin News -- Approval granted for more than 200 build-to-sell apartments along Dublin's Grand Canal

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Dundalk & North -- Dundalk to honour Liam Reilly with memorial bench on Earl Street

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Galway's EYE Cinema confirms official reopening after ceiling collapsed – 'Refreshed, better and stronger'

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Short-term let host in Tralee blasts clampdown – it's like 'plucking a figure from the sky'

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News -- Longford-Westmeath TD launches scathing attack on misuse of AI tool to make sexually explicit images

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Lifestyle -- Three tiny Cork homes that offer great value at under €200k

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Indo Sport podcast: GAA Check-In | Football's contenders, Davy's Antrim woes and Ben O'Connor's impact

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The Indo Daily: Chappell Roan leaves agency over its Epstein links – will Irish acts follow?

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TV Reviews -- Síle Seoige's new series tackles the realities of modern parenting — and the cracks in the system

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Beauty -- Triona McCarthy: Be prepared for some Love Island-style lipsing this Valentine's with these six make-up innovations

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Life -- Apology – Kobe One Catering

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Irish News -- Restricting phones in school makes 'little difference' to pupils' mental health, says study

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Life -- Dónal Lynch: Micheál at the White House is like an invite to the rich, awful relatives who co-signed for your mortgage

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Irish News -- ESB confirms 'significant upgrades' to Co Clare network after woodpeckers cause 11 outages in 14 months

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Health -- Families to get first look at north Kerry CAMHS review as long-awaited report to be published

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Irish News -- Taoiseach names Freddie Scappaticci as former British agent Stakeknife in Dáil

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Health -- David Cullinane asks Jennifer Carroll MacNeill why parents had first to read in the Sunday Independent that the review was completed

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Courts -- Teen sent for trial over alleged rape of unwell girl at Dublin house party

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Irish News -- Girl (11) 'absolutely petrified' after she was 'followed by man in balaclava' in Co Meath town

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Politics -- Opposition makes 'eleventh hour' appeal on new rent rules amid claims renters 'are being thrown to the wolves'

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Irish News -- 'My family are lost out there' – hero Australian boy's emergency call for help after four-hour swim released

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Politics -- Dáil bar sales surge 34pc to €445,000 with tequila and €27 shots of whiskey among tipples ordered

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Irish News -- Over 60 children who suffered spinal surgery complications asked to return for clinical checks

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Cónal Thomas: New housing tsar is not an 'outsider' but Government praying he will be able to deliver

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Kate Andrews: Jeffrey Epstein files spark political earthquake – but not in the US

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Letters: Miriam O'Callaghan failed to ask Ryan Tubridy the important question on RTÉ payments controversy

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John Downing: Keir Starmer has not totally rescued UK-Irish relations, but he's markedly improved things

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The Irish Independent's View: Keir Starmer's grip on top job may be loosening as Mandelson episode not over yet

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Tanya Sweeney: Why can't women like Charli XCX be taken at face value when they say they don't want children?

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Letters: Scrap the three-day wait for abortion and let Irish women make their own medical decisions

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Nick Gutteridge: How Corkman Morgan McSweeney went from master strategist to Keir Starmer's biggest liability

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Business -- Large-cap M&A deals fell by volume and value last year

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Money -- How moving your savings can boost returns amid big shake-up in market

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World Business -- Lufthansa pilots plan to strike on Thursday

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World Business -- US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick downplays Jeffrey Epstein links

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Business -- Tax ruling on €36m of losses 'cannot stand', High Court says

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Business -- Encourage more household investments, Gabriel Makhlouf advises Finance Minister

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Money -- Ask a money coach: 'We want to spend some of our children's inheritance. Should we prepare them?'

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Personal Finance -- New European players shaking up market for Irish savers

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Business -- Tax breaks 'face less scrutiny' than public spending, TDs and senators told

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Business -- John Mulligan: O'Leary and other airline chiefs will welcome scrapping of 'zombie' cap at Dublin Airport, but saga could yet have a few more twists and turns

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Politics -- Tech companies should be treated as publishers to combat AI copyright threats, Oireachtas committee told

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Technology -- We can't leave it to social media companies to keep our children safe

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Technology -- Collisons' Stripe said to be valued at $140bn

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Money -- Savings market sparks into life with second bank this week launching deposit accounts

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Business -- Surging copper prices starting to push up house-building costs

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Six Nations -- Munster second-row Edwin Edogbo in line for Ireland debut as Andy Farrell set to ring changes for Italy clash

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Athletics -- Bori Akinola smashes Irish 60m record as Rhasidat Adeleke gears up for first run of year

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Olympics -- Team Ireland's Cormac Comerford finishes 37th in 'pretty gnarly' Super-G alpine skiing event at Winter Olympics

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Soccer -- Seán O'Connor: Why the Tottenham job could be case of heart over head for Robbie Keane

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Rugby -- Ireland U-20s make three changes for Six Nations clash with Italy

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Rugby -- St Michael's muscle past Roscrea and into Leinster Schools Senior Cup semi-finals

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Britain -- Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe claims Britain has been 'colonised by immigrants'

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Cycling -- Wicklow mountains back on the agenda as Rás Tailteann 2026 route is revealed

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GAA -- GAA director-general Tom Ryan adds support to 'contentious' proposal to move All-Ireland football final into August

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Horse Racing -- Champion trainer Willie Mullins contemplating rare UK Flat raid to take on Constitution Hill

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Rugby -- Terenure live up to favourites tag after starting Leinster Schools Junior Cup campaign with hammering of St Andrew's

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Cricket -- Lorcan Tucker's clarion call as Ireland are mauled by Aussies

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The Left Wing -- The Left Wing: Ireland's lack of intent, stars under pressure & time to wield the axe?

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