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Irish Times - Top Stories

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Retired Garda supt charged with corruption and facilitating criminal organisation

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The three reasons why the Government refuses to meet the fuel protesters

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Business leaders call on Government to 'enforce law and order' and end fuel protest disruption

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Government critical of fuel protesters as demonstrations set to continue into third day

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New critical infrastructure laws will block climate-based legal challenges

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Ireland needs 5,000 additional hospital beds to cope with ageing population, conference told

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Risks at Navan hospital remain because of failure to take obvious decision

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Michael Patrick, pioneering Irish actor, dies from motor neuron disease at 35

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Asking-price inflation for homes drops to lowest rate in more than two years

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Just one in four people has a clear plan for retirement

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Chef Adam Nevin to leave Michelin-starred Morrison Room at Carton House

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Fuel protesters' blockade of Ireland's only oil refinery to stay 'until diesel capped'

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Our streets can be made safer for children to walk, scoot, cycle and play outside

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Deer pressure: I need a licence to cull

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Science teachers offered old telephone box to store chemicals, equipment and students' work

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Plan to rezone land at south Dublin stately home for housing scrapped

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