Month: May 2024
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Mandatory national service if Tories win election
Eighteen year olds in the UK would be forced to carry out a form of national service if the Tories…
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US pressure to change Israel’s Gaza campaign off the boil
A week that began with the United States exerting massive pressure on Israel’s government, pressure that led to visible cracks…
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Dublin teens on studying Leaving Cert Applied
For many teens, the Leaving Cert culminates in end of year exams following months of study but for Leaving Cert…
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Cases of undiscovered bodies tend to be sad and complex
There was understandable sadness at the news earlier this week of the discovery of the body of Joyce O’Mahony at…
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‘There was no stopping Charlie Bird chasing this story’
Colm Quinn, the director of the new documentary Ransom ’79, has paid tribute to the late Charlie Bird for his…
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Four children among 27 dead in India amusement park fire
Four young children were among 27 people killed when a fire in India ripped through a crowded amusement park, police…
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Three bodies retrieved from Papua New Guinea landslide
Emergency teams pulled three bodies from the rubble of Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide, the UN said, warning the death…
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Toll from Russian strike on Ukraine’s Kharkiv rises to 11
The death toll from a Russian strike on a hardware superstore in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to…
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Mortgaged until 80 – is there likely to be much demand?
There has been some welcome movement in the mortgage market of late. In anticipation of interest rate cuts from the…
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Pre-trial detention ordered for suspects in Chile fire
A Chilean court ordered the pre-trial detention of two men accused of starting a massive fire earlier this year that…
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