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A 63-year-old man has been jailed for four and a half years after he pleaded guilty to manufacturing homemade explosives that were so dangerous they could not be handled or weighed by bomb disposal experts....
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The Taoiseach has spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump with the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine among the items discussed....
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For 25 years the disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard was treated as a murder investigation in everything but name â that changed four years ago when the Co Kilkenny woman was finally officially declared a murder victim, writes Barry Cummins....
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Teachers became a General Election talking point in recent days, thanks to comments made by Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary, but it is other issues in education that stand to influence how voters cast their ballots on 29 November, writes Emma O Kelly....
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Two women who challenged their prosecution over their alleged refusal to quarantine in a hotel after they returned from Dubai during the Covid-19 pandemic, have lost their Supreme Court appeal on the issue....
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On the fourth day into campaigning of the General Election, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have taken themselves by surprise in just how hard they have gone for each other, writes Mary Regan....
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A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince has been struck by gunfire, forcing it to be diverted to the neighbouring Dominican Republic....
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Gary Lineker is set to leave his role presenting Match of the Day at the end of the season, according to BBC News....
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A law professor who denies murdering an unarmed trespasser in a fatal shooting at his farm told gardai it would be "completely perverse" to suggest he was the aggressor and "nonsense" to describe his firing of the revolver as "an aimed shot"....
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A 41-year-old man who repeatedly raped and subjected his wife to beatings, causing her to suffer a miscarriage, has been jailed for 13 years....