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Ex-Deliveroo driver pulled down trousers of girl (8) and asked 'could he do something', court hears as bail denied

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Catriona Carey and her brother have upcoming trial for alleged company law breaches postponed for a year

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Irish News - latest - | Three-year-old boy dies after collision in car park of Dublin shopping centre

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Brilliant Bodo/Glimt's Champions League dream continues with thrashing of Sporting Lisbon in last-16 first leg

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Middle East - LIVE - | Trump on Iran: 'We won, but don't want to leave early'; energy watchdog to release emergency oil reserves to cool surging prices

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Athletics - BREAKING - | Irish athletics legend and Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delany dies, aged 91

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Television -- Louis Theroux peeks into the rage-filled manosphere of men with abandonment issues and their coterie of OnlyFans girls

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Irish News -- 'Every household is affected' – Irish people react to soaring home-heating oil prices

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Irish News - breaking - | Man arrested in relation to the 2005 murder of Eoin McCarthy (27)

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Horse Racing -- Irish jockey Declan Queally makes allegation of racial abuse against Nico de Boinville after row before Cheltenham race

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News -- Daniel O'Donnell pays visit to Ireland's oldest person Eileen Hynes (109): 'Such a pleasure to meet her'

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Irish News -- MEP Barry Andrews goes against party and says attack on Iran a breach of international law

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Courts -- Gerry Adams 'one of Ireland's most prolific serial killers', court told

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Comment -- Sinéad Ryan: Why I keep an envelope of emergency cash at home – and so should you

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International Soccer -- Why Troy Parrott's fitness is so important as Heimir Hallgrimsson prepares for left-field solution to striking problem

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Wexford & District -- Council says 'blurred lines' made it impossible to determine whether Aontú councillor acted inappropriately towards woman

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Irish News -- K-Pop's growing fandom: Its meaning, culture, music and why it's more than just a trend

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Irish News -- Tánaiste Simon Harris has said big differences at fuel pumps across the country 'can't be blamed on Iran'

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World News -- Israeli air defences intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv

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Irish News -- An Nead coffee shop in Monaghan town

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Irish News -- UCC Students Union Food Pantry helps provide sustainable student meals

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Money - Ask a money coach: 'How do I talk to my ageing parents about the cost of their later-life care?'

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Television -- Pat Stacey: Paudie has the dancing skills of a kitchen chair – if he wins, it makes a mockery of RTÉ's 'Dancing With the Stars'

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Irish News -- 'Everybody uses their cúpla focal' – how Monaghan cafe is thriving thanks to its ciorcal comhrá

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Dublin News -- Actor Bryan Murray now in 'full time care' as Alzheimer's progresses, partner Úna Crawford O'Brien says

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Comment -- Catherine Prasifka: When it comes to regulating of Big Tech, Ireland is nowhere to be seen – we're not even at the table

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'Vincent Browne told me to take a gap year abroad': Ray D'Arcy on his 'public humiliation' over losing his job at RTÉ

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Paul Kimmage: A convicted doper playing in the AIL and a curious testing regime raise some serious questions

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Ivor Fitzpatrick, media-shy solicitor to Ireland's elite, leaves €45m estate – but no will

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Burkes behind bars: What Enoch's mother and sister can expect from overcrowded prison

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'I didn't mean to cause upset,' farmer in 'Bikegate' case told gardaí

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World News -- Why did the US and Israel attack a girls' school in southern Iran, with 175 killed?

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Europe -- Six killed in Swiss bus blaze after person reportedly sets themselves on fire

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Australasia -- UK couple dead after being pulled from water at Australian beach

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Europe -- Vladimir Putin suffers coughing fit in video posted by the Kremlin – then quickly deleted

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John Downing: Michael Lowry managed to show some restraint while hitting back at his accusers, begrudgers and naysayers

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Tabitha Monahan: Independents 4 Change, the party of Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, goes out with a whimper

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Natasha Leake: 'Where the hell is JD Vance?' Donald Trump's right-hand man appears to be missing in action

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Peter Flanagan: Someone shouts 'potatoes' at me during a comedy gig – it's something the Irish living in Britain have become used to

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Jeanne Shaheen: Putin's actions in Iran demand a US response – so why is president Trump doing nothing?

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Frederick W Kagan: Ukraine is more than holding its own, so why rescue Putin?

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Family -- '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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Life -- 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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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 -- Dan Sheehan and Joe McCarthy among big guns set to be recalled for Ireland's crunch Six Nations showdown with Scotland

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Champions League -- Man City have no answer as superb Federico Valverde first-half hat-trick puts Real Madrid in control

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Golf -- 'The drugs are working wonders' – Rory McIlroy optimistic on recovery but will make late call on Players participation

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Sheep -- 'Everyone's raving about Love Island, but I'd sooner be lambing sheep'

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News -- 'Only 50pc of cows producing a viable calf in some herds hit with bluetongue'

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Farm Property -- 220ac Limerick farm 'one of the finest and largest to come to the market in the mid-west' for €3.5m

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Beef -- Angry bulls, tricky calvings, trapped calves – sometimes sedative is your saviour

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Farm Property -- 51-acre residential farm in Kildare set to go under the hammer

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Dublin News -- Dublin City Council signs off on half-billion euro office move from Wood Quay to Camden Yard

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Dublin -- New parking charges in Howth to prevent congestion in the summer months

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Dublin News -- BoCo pizzeria to open second permanent location in Clontarf

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Man (50s) 'lost temper' and left neighbour with black eye in violent attack in midlands housing estate

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'Forever a hero' – Organs of Kerry man killed in hit-and-run donated to help others, funeral hears

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Courts -- Man who grabbed €600 from SuperValu till in Wicklow given suspended sentence

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News -- Tusla reverses decision to cut ties with Tipperary child support centre following meeting with foster carers

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South Kerry -- St Patrick's day road safety campaign launched in Kerry – 'It must be a day of celebration not tragedy'

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Wexford & District -- Gardaí chase down 'aggressive' and 'intoxicated' man who had damaged vehicles in Wexford car park

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News -- Taoiseach expected to visit Galway as wastewater project stalls over funding row

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News -- New Meath coffee truck Caife Anseo is embracing local support and cúpla focal

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Courts -- Case of Cork man facing triggering of suspended sentence adjourned after he insists he lodged appeal

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Politics -- New hospital site in Limerick 'not enough for the region', says TD

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Indo Sport podcast: Movie Club | Marty Supreme

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The Big Tech Show: Hands on with Apple's new MacBook Neo, a competitor-destroying bargain at €699

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'I used my Facebook savings to bootstrap my digital detox business' - Samsú founder Rosanna Irwin

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The Indo Daily: Queues, cuts and €2 fuel: Irish oil crisis fears mount as Iran war drags on

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Books -- Niamh Mac Cabe: 'I like it when I know the monster is coming in advance'

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Celebrity Features -- 'I clearly wasn't sober when I married this clown.' Liza Minnelli on David Gest in her popping flashbulb of a memoir

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Theatre & Arts -- Musician Caitlín Nic Gabhann: 'Working towards my new album is exciting, but mayhem'

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Book Reviews -- Secrets and lies among friends and families – a roundup of novels from Irish writers

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Fashion -- If You Only hotlist: Fashion rising from the flames, bougie bottled cocktails and celebrating Irish main streets

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Fashion News -- From Paris to the pub: Designer JW Anderson pays ode to the traditional Irish pub in second collection with Guinness

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Style -- Coleen Rooney: 'I'm in the public eye since I was 16 – I don't care what anyone thinks"

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Sex & Relationships -- Dear Mary: I want to retire to Spain to escape the relentless rain and cold winters but my wife is refusing to leave our family behind

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Parenting -- Meet the Wicklow woman whose own adoption set her on the path to fostering two little sisters

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Travel News -- Irish travellers advised to 'sit tight' on Middle East holiday and transit plans as airfares rise

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Health Features -- Ask The Doctor: My leg goes numb when I stand up and then I get pins and needles – should I be worried?

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Ireland -- 'It's a very 'country' kind of town, but it has everything' – how did Gorey get such a glow?

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Movies -- 75 years since The Quiet Man – my pilgrimage to the places portrayed in the classic movie

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Travel News -- Fáilte Ireland's €10m marketing move: 'Taking one big holiday is not the anchor it once was'

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World -- Visiting our adult children in Australia: 'We joke about setting up a Daughters Down Under support group'

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Irish News -- Taoiseach asked to meet healthcare workers with Long Covid over sick pay scheme

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Courts -- Ex-partner of Natalie McNally tells court he did not kill her

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Courts -- Murder accused was 'raving' and 'intoxicated' outside burning apartment of mother of two Daena Walsh, court hears

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Irish News -- 'We've kept our emotions in check for so long, but they can't help coming to the surface' – Jessie Buckley's parents fly out for Oscars

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Courts -- Gerry Adams 'bears prize and burden' of provisional IRA leadership, court told

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Courts -- Young man allegedly 'kicked and stomped' on concert-goer's head in 'premeditated attack' outside 3 Arena

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Courts -- Man released after 240 days in prison back in repossessed home, Judge told

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Irish News -- Fears Irish-arm of Stryker cyber attack linked to pro-Iranian group

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Irish News -- 'It will never be over for any of us' – influencer Chloe Koyce says she is 'filled with rage' over comments made by father of her stalker

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The Irish Independent's View: Dicing with disaster in the Gulf has to end

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David W Higgins: Why the Government should not cave to pressure for subsidies on cost of fuel despite spiralling prices

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Kirsty Blake Knox: A third of Gen Z men think women should 'obey' their husbands – new survey makes for depressing reading

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John Scally: Them and us – Ireland v Britain at Cheltenham is a story that runs deep with historical emotion

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Mary Regan: Connolly's comments, an awkward St Patrick's Day and a clamour for cost-of-living supports – how Iran war is shaking up Coalition

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Max Boot: Why Russia and China are the countries winning the US-Iran war

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The Irish Independent's View: Iran delivers Donald Trump a slap in the face in what could turn into forever war

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Petrol, pensions, mortgages and food: All the ways the Middle East conflict will hit you in the pocket

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Ksenia Samotiy: We need to talk about the expectations placed on women by other women when it comes to parenting

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Letters: Care of hedgerows is vital, but destroying them will bring about our downfall

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Douglas J Feith: The fog of Iran war is extra dense, because Donald Trump doesn't have a 'day after' plan

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Analysis: Ayatollah's hardline son takes over in Iran, tightening regime's iron grip on country

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Fionnán Sheahan: Let's see how the Ballymagash Coalition copes when an energy crisis hits country

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The Irish Independent's View: Economic spiral from disruption to oil supplies is clear

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Ian Anderson and Wendy Wood: You probably aren't addicted to social media – here's why

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Business -- Markets rise as investors hope Iran crisis has peaked

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World Business -- Boeing says wiring issue will delay some 737 Max deliveries

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Business -- Used electric vehicles now thousands of euro cheaper than diesel, report finds

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World Business -- Ontario Teachers' private equity portfolio takes €6bn hit

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Money -- Rise in home-heating oil prices in Ireland dwarfs other parts of Europe

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In The Workplace -- This Working Life: 'We should have direct access to patients – we have a backlog for the dentist, and the patient is losing out'

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World Business -- French nuclear start-ups raise close to €200m

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Commercial Property -- Staycity to take lease on a Ronan Group aparthotel in Dublin docklands

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Business -- Direct air link from Ireland to Brazil moves step closer

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Business -- Energy firm Certa secures deals worth €1.4m to deliver solar panels to businesses

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Business -- Crypto trader and e-scooter importer among Revenue's latest tax defaulters

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Money -- Numbers with health insurance up despite price rise cycle

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Business -- Cork timber-frame company is bought by Grafton

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Business -- Oil and gas prices drop as Trump moves to calm markets

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The Big Tech Show -- The Big Tech Show: Who is Sam Altman? Inside his life and his ChatGPT empire

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Six Nations -- France flanker Oscar Jegou to miss deciding weekend of Six Nations after being hit with four-week ban for eye-gouging

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Horse Racing -- Wayne Bailey: Teahupoo looks poised to regain Stayers' Hurdle crown at the expense of Bob Olinger

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Champions League -- Barcelona fan misses Champions League tie after travelling to Exeter's St James Park – 366 miles away from Newcastle

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Horse Racing -- Cheltenham Day Two report: Il Etait Temps claims feature after taking Queen Mother Champion Chase in dazzling style

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Boxing -- 'We are investing in Irish fighters and Irish boxing in a big way' – Frank Warren wants 3Arena show to be first of many

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Rugby -- Sligo Grammar break 18-year Connacht Schools Junior Cup hoodoo as win over The Bish secures first leg of double

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Premier League -- 'Would I go back? Of course I would' – Harry Redknapp open to Spurs return but doubts he'll be asked

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International Soccer -- 'We certainly cannot have such a presence' – Iran's sports minister says country will boycott 2026 World Cup in US

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Athletics -- Meet the Clare champion runner signed by adidas – 'I would love to see more growth in keeping young women in sport'

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Six Nations -- Íocfaidh Éire go daor má tá deacrachtaí ag Jack Crowley lena chuid ciceála in aghaidh na hAlban

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Premier League -- Richard Jolly: Useless and luckless Igor Tudor is the figurehead of failure at Spurs – it's time to go

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Horse Racing -- Cheltenham Day Two as it happened: Il Etait Temps wins the Champion Chase for Paul Townend and Willie Mullins

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Ladies Football -- 'Sport has a place for everyone, no matter what that sport may be' – Dublin's Rowe-naldo teaching lessons for life

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