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Irish News - Latest - | 'There is a pall of gloom' – Limerick community in grief as woman dies in crash, gardaí search for driver that left scene

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Owen Elding and Jack Moylan on target as Donegal man Stephen McLaughlin stars in FA Cup upset

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Ireland survive serious scare as Jack Crowley's introduction helps them over the line against Italy

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Gary Neville's Salford City make life difficult for Man City in a surprisingly tight FA Cup clash

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Ireland ratings: Mixed bag for Andy Farrell and his team after scrappy Six Nations win against Italy

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live - | National Football League: All the GAA action from around the country as it happens - 17:30

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

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Courts -- 'Everything can be fixed' – father's haunting words to troubled son hours before he was killed in luxury hotel

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Analysis -- Ryan Tubridy and RTÉ clash over request to see station's pay-scandal files

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Sex & Relationships -- Asking for a friend: My sex drive has completely vanished and I haven't been intimate with my husband in six months. How can I get past this?

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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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Luke O'Neill: How to reduce your risk of developing the cancer that killed 'Dawson's Creek' star James Van Der Beek

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Soccer - 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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Comment -- Máiría Cahill: The fall from grace of Jeffrey Epstein's friends and associates is entirely deserved

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Weather -- Latest

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Politics -- Unclear if President Catherine Connolly will attend Israel match in Dublin, as RTÉ says it will broadcast games

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Irish Business -- Here's the Bellew brothers' rule: 'We have to work hardest. Because if we don't, then someone else will'

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Sex & Relationships -- Katriona O'Sullivan: 'On Valentine's Day 2003, I decided I would never, ever have sex again without having an orgasm'

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Irish News -- Paralympian sets sixth Guinness World Record pulling 120 tonne ferry in Connemara

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Irish News -- 'This is vital for businesses here' – Killarney people thankful that town is no longer affected by clampdown on self-catering accommodation

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Irish News -- The community ­battling to stop wind turbines 60m taller than the Dublin Spire

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Irish News -- 'Marriage and fertility today are in recession,' economist says at St Valentine's Shrine as he and fiancee prepare to wed

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Irish News -- Tea, DVDs, couches and a ball pit – inside Ireland's Victim Support at court facilities

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Courts -- Sports coach (68) denied his lewd text messages meant anything, but they were crucial in finally bringing his abuse of girl (14) to light

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Irish News -- 'It's a real void, not going, but the madness has to stop' – Marty Whelan on RTÉ's Eurovision boycott

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Fewer than 150 long-term rentals available in towns that will be exempt from new short-term letting rules

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Questions for UEFA as Ireland set to play Israel

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'We were mad for each other,' couple gets their engagement ring blessed at St Valentine's relics

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Rex Ryan: I never asked the Monk about the Regency, I didn't want to know

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New York lawyer back in court to chase Cork restaurateur over $16 million house sale

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News - Is this five-year-old the youngest person to climb Ireland's highest mountain?

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Irish News -- 'He was going to sit up all night with him' — a desperate red-eye flight, a €1,000-a-night room, and a father's vigil that ended in tragedy

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Money -- Home economics: I'm due a lump sum and I want to future proof my home. What's the easiest way to use the SEAI grants?

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Recipes -- Kevin Dundon: Save yourself hours in the kitchen and whip up these crowd-pleasing chicken wings and apple chocolate cookies

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Life -- Climate Changemakers: How small-scale community windfarms can play a big part at the heart of Ireland's energy transition

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Sex & Relationships -- Modern romance: The 21 best love songs of the 21st century for Valentine's Day

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My sexual awakening: 'I called him 'My Elevenses', because every Tuesday at 11am, he would come around. It was the best thing'

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Restaurant review: The food at one of Ireland's newest Michelin stars is skilful and well-judged – but is the talented chef playing it safe?

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Louise McSharry: My top five make-up friendly moisturisers

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'We couldn't hear the bombs going off, but we could feel them' – the deaf 'Romeo and Juliet' who fell in love during the Troubles

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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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Nathan Carter: 'My weight is probably my biggest insecurity and I stress about that quite a bit. I lose weight quite often'

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World News - Latest - | Marco Rubio says US and Europe 'belong together' but warns of 'dangerous delusion'

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North America -- 'I witnessed Jeffrey Epstein's post-mortem and I believe he was strangled. His death must be reinvestigated,' says doctor

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North America -- FBI raises reward for information in Nancy Guthrie case to $100,000 as 84 year old remains missing

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Europe -- Europe will still face an aggressive Russia if war in Ukraine ends – Macron

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North America -- Canada shooting suspect targeted school 'to finish off family', survivor claims

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North America -- Barack Obama hits back as Donald Trump cuts landmark climate change regulation

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John Downing: Lifting of Dublin Airport passenger cap another example of Government listening to outside powers, rather than to the public

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The Irish Independent's view: Old rules-based world order is gone – what emerges is anyone's guess

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Western cohesion is the only thing that will test Putin's strategy of endurance and relentless grind

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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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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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Colm Keys: Numbers show how smaller counties are struggling to keep up with the pace of team spending

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Beef -- Irish suckler farming leading the way in Europe – Doreen Corridan

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Comment -- The IFA-Bord Bia stand-off is damaging everyone – here is how a truce can be choreographed

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News -- Irish flags, foreign food: TDs say busy shoppers can't trust what's on the shelf

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News -- Potential redundancies at Waterford abattoir as over 200 jobs hang in the balance

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Irish News -- Pensioner Frank Daly who died in Dublin bus crash was a 'gentle, loving and caring' man, funeral hears

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Courts -- Family who were locked in Dublin Airport toilet for 50 minutes get compensation

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Irish News -- 'In the morning, it's one plane after another' – residents near Dublin Airport react to lifting of passenger cap

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Weather - LATEST - | Met Éireann issues new rain and snow warnings for 10 counties as temperatures to plummet; capital hit by severe flooding overnight

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Crime -- 'I didn't want to know' – 'The Monk' actor Rex Ryan never asked Gerry Hutch about Regency Hotel attack

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Dublin News -- Highly toxic plant found washed up in second location as public warned to avoid touching

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How a Wicklow woman's love for Irish language has led to new 'Gaelteacht in the Galltacht'

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Man in his 20s arrested in Wexford for stealing bank cards from cars

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Courts -- Ex auctioneer who stole €200,000 from clients is now being chased over €26,000 debts

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North & West Kerry -- Residents of Limerick town feel 'a lot of anger' after planning permission denied for Lidl store

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News -- Speed limit sign moved after child nearly hit on 'deathtrap' Tipperary road

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South Kerry -- Revealed: What Kerry's solicitors and barristers received in Criminal Legal aid payments

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Courts -- Scaffolding firm admits safety failings over death of Sligo man at Wicklow site

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Lifestyle -- Wexford woodturner takes his place among Ireland's best with major national prize

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News -- 'I thought I was dreaming' – Tipperary activist chosen as New York St Patrick's Day Grand Marshal

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Indo Sport podcast: Bits & Bobs | Ireland's Israel dilemma, BBC's Olympic cheerleading & Jim Ratcliffe's interview

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Indo Politics: Monk's political return, a rent gamble and we finally have our housing tsar

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The Indo Daily: Inside Rex Ryan's 'The Monk': An ordinary decent criminal rebrand?

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The Left Wing: Ireland team reaction | Andy Farrell wields the axe after Paris humbling

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Theatre & Arts -- Arthur Miller's witch-hunt classic The Crucible has too much talk and not enough passion

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Music Reviews -- Debut album from hyped Cardinals shows the Cork quintet are the real deal

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Books -- Comrades at war: Rory O'Connor, the best man who was sent to the firing squad by his close friend

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Books -- 'Sniper alley' and –20C: The perils of putting on a panto in a post-war Sarajevo

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Mental Health -- Galway community marks anniversary of Adam Loughnane's death as family continue fight for mental health reform

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Reviews -- Hotel review: 'We're a golf hotel', I'm told – but don't let that put you off this new coastal bolthole

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Travel News -- Aer Lingus announces new flights from Dublin Airport to Barbados – for two months only

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Ireland -- 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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Courts -- 'Dog lover' avoids jail for punching man who bumped into his pet

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Courts -- Man who stole electronics from Dublin Airport shops spared conviction

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Irish News -- Residents left 'in tears' as north Dublin apartment complex flooded after sudden rain

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Courts -- Banned driver caught without insurance for 16th time is jailed

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Irish News -- IFA accuses minister of 'failing to deal with key issue' after meeting in wake of furore over Bord Bia chair

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Courts -- Parents of Dublin man accused of murder of American nurse in Budapest buy apartment in bail bid

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Health -- Rotunda Hospital says thumbs-down for new €100m wing 'devastating', with premature babies impacted most

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Politics -- Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon apologises to ex-minister Alan Shatter for social media post falsely linking him to Jeffrey Epstein

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Courts -- Former UL president seeks High Court injunction stopping reinvestigation

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John Downing: I was there for the fall of the Wall, but why didn't I take a piece of it as a souvenir?

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Kathy Donaghy: Never mind the hype, roses and hearts – here's why I stand by St Valentine's Day

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Mary Regan: Sinn Féin's attitude to Europe is coming under the spotlight following Ukraine vote

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Simon Briggs: The IOC itself brought politics into sport – too late now to do a moral U-turn

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Mary Regan: It's hard to see how Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch could pull off a shock win in Dublin Central by-election

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Catherine Prasifka: If we really want to punch above our weight this St Patrick's Day, we should cancel White House visit

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Letters: Recent hospital stay showed we don't know how lucky we are to have such incredible staff

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Meet Kim Ju Ae, probably the most dangerous 13-year-old in the world

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Martina Devlin: Why Ireland should set up a sassy social media squad to combat Russian disinformation

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The Irish Independent's View: Report makes clear we must face reality on immigration

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Sam Kiley: Can Europe seize its chance to pull away from US on Ukraine?

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Mary Kenny: Kudos to female firefighters, but it's often in the public interest to discriminate based on age and physical ability

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Memphis Barker: 'Epstein had two networks – one of young girls and one of world's most powerful men'

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The Irish Independent's View: Refusal to name worst offenders of Troubles does disservice to victims

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Mary Regan: Government plays the long game on rent, pushing short-term pain in order to eventually gain

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Money -- Government called on to abolish 'stealth tax' on consumer investments

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Money -- Home economics: We want to stay out of Fair Deal. Can I use my tax relief and my father's savings to pay for his nursing home?

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World Business -- Next ECB rate move could be up or down, says Central Bank chief Gabriel Makhlouf

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Business -- Cork restaurateur's former boyfriend asks US court to let case linked to $16m Miami mansion sale go ahead

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Health -- More than €33m in money belonging to dead or missing patients has yet to be claimed from HSE, accounts show

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Business -- Low investment by SMEs is not due to lack of credit, Central Bank deputy says

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World Business -- French vaccine maker Sanofi ousts CEO Paul Hudson with Merck boss to take over

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Money -- Most people underestimate the value of a stay-at-home parent, new survey reveals

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World Business -- US House of Representatives votes down Donald Trump's Canada tariffs

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Business -- New multi-million euro cross-border scheme aims to help up to 100 SMEs

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Money -- 'Dealing directly with hotels can be more cost-effective than third-party booking sites' – money experts reveal how they pay less for their holidays

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Irish Business -- FedEx Irish arm pays €50m dividend as revenues top €65m

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World Business -- UK orders review of 'Daily Mail' owner's proposed acquisition of Telegraph Media

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Irish Business -- 'Pure fear' – Growing concern among Irish business executives they will be frozen out of US as visa rejections increase

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Irish News -- New Wegovy weight-loss pill to be made in Ireland for markets outside US

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Premier League -- Tottenham announce ex-Juventus boss Igor Tudor as interim head coach for remainder of season

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Premier League -- Miguel Delaney: Jim Ratcliffe should learn about his own club's history before spouting his nonsense on immigrants

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Soccer -- 'He's an amazing man-manager' – Celtic captain Callum McGregor hails 'brilliant' Martin O'Neill

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Rugby -- 'I don't know if we deserved it' – Andrew Browne admits Irish U-20s were fortunate to see off Italy

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Cricket -- Lorcan Tucker stars as win over Oman sees Ireland get off mark at T20 World Cup

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League of Ireland -- LOI takeaways: Derry and Dundalk's brothers in arms, Doherty does the business and second tier struggles

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Premier League -- Former Wolves boss Vitor Pereira agrees deal to become Nottingham Forest's fourth manager this season

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League of Ireland -- 'I'm not saying we're Barcelona, but we're more than a long ball team' – Drogheda boss hits out at 'lazy' perceptions

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Golf -- 'I feel I've been a little bit wasteful' – Rory McIlroy looks to avoid mistakes on moving day at Pebble Beach

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Gaelic Football -- Meath keep foot to the floor as Shane Supple and Robbie Brennan look to build momentum against modern rivals Louth

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Soccer -- 'If you're not mentally strong enough for the business, you're no good' – Stephen McLaughlin on surviving the lower leagues

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Six Nations -- Ireland v Italy preview: New-look team must play to their strengths to overcome sticky opponents

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Six Nations -- 'There are those who drink the wine and those who make the wine, and I'm in the wine-making business'

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