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Cillian Murphy nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award

Cillian Murphy is among the nominees for this year’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in the US for his performance in Oppenheimer. Golden Globe winner Murphy is nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role category for his work on the Christopher Nolan-directed film. The …

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An Xbox, 3 budgies and a gym: Breivik’s prison digs

Prison authorities have provided Anders Behring Breivik with three private rooms, including a living room, a study and a small personal gym. He has three budgies to keep him company, and access to a kitchen, a lounge with a large flat screen TV and an Xbox which he can play …

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Ukraine ‘sorely lacking’ modern air-defence systems

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country, facing renewed aerial attacks from Russia, badly needed air-defence systems. “In recent days, Russia hit Ukraine with a total of 500 devices: we destroyed 70 percent of them,” Mr Zelensky said, during a visit to the Baltic state. “Air-defence systems are (the) …

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Fume inhalation a significant factor in Stardust deaths

The inquests into the deaths of those who were killed in the 1981 Stardust fire have heard the inhalation of fumes was a significant factor in almost all those who died. 48 people lost their lives a fire that swept through the Artane nightclub on 14 February, 43 years ago. …

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Former TD contradicts Kenneally commission evidence

Former Fianna Fáil TD and senator Dr Donie Ormonde has contradicted evidence given to the commission of inquiry examining child abuse by sports coach Bill Kenneally by the former RTÉ journalist Damien Tiernan. Dr Ormonde said it was not true that Monsignor John Shine, who was Kenneally’s uncle, had asked …

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South Africa has ‘irrefutable’ points on Gaza

Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has said there are “irrefutable” points in South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa says the scale of the deaths and crisis from the Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza meets the threshold of genocide …

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UK govt due to clear names of post office managers

Plans to clear the names of hundreds of UK Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal will be announced “imminently”, the British government has said. Rishi Sunak will face MPs later and is under pressure to set out how the government will exonerate hundreds of sub-postmasters …

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Hundreds of thousands without power as storms hit US

Severe weather has battered the United States, spinning off tornadoes and reportedly killing three people in the south as high winds and blizzards buffeted the north and hundreds of thousands lost power. Heavy rain leading to flash flooding, wind gusts likely more than 80kph and thunderstorms struck the eastern seaboard …

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Bus driver sacked for mobile phone use in WRC claim

A Dublin Bus driver sacked after his bosses decided he had broken its “zero-tolerance” policy on using a mobile phone behind the wheel twice in under a year is now back on the road working as a taxi driver, the Workplace Relations Commission has heard. Yong Yue Wang was before …

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