TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has directly called on the HSE not to sanction additional holidays for doctors and nurses over Christmas. Despite criticism from medical unions,…
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Europe’s centre-right parties are gathering in Helsinki to select their candidate in the race to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission in…
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Your car is spying on you, and owners should be informed how much of their personal data is being collected, a legal expert warned. Sean…
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‘Single-use’ has been named Collins’ Word of the Year, popularised by the increasing call to ban materials that damage the environment and pollute the food…
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Rob Heard has spent 12 hours a day for five years making small shrouded figures, which each represent a British serviceman killed at the Battle…
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IT was an icy Friday night in January and the rattle of a chainsaw kicking into life at the back of a terraced Dublin house…
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BERLIN (AFP) – A former SS guard aged 94 broke down in tears Tuesday (Nov 6) on the first day of his trial in Germany…
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BERLIN — A 94-year-old man who served as a guard in Hitler’s SS clutched his cane as a bailiff wheeled him into a courtroom on…
View More Ex-Guard, 94, Is Tried in Juvenile Court for Crimes at Nazi Camp'Aggressive engagement' needed with US members of Congress to boost ties with Ireland, government told
The government has been told that visits by US politicians to Ireland should be ramped up as part of a strategy to boost relations between…
View More 'Aggressive engagement' needed with US members of Congress to boost ties with Ireland, government told'Trucks were coming, bikes were swerving' – Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick rescues swan on busy Dublin street
It was a case of right place, right time for one Dublin swan today when Channel 4’s The Supervet Professor Noel Fitzpatrick happened across the…
View More 'Trucks were coming, bikes were swerving' – Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick rescues swan on busy Dublin streetThe Irish widow with a secret €30m fortune
To those who knew her Elizabeth O’Kelly was a kind and generous friend who was known for her acts of kindness. But the sheer scale…
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“The priest who tortured me is still giving Mass in the village down the road,” says Emiliano Álvarez, a 52-year-old from Borrenes, north-western Spain. Like…
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Gardaí are investigating a number of burglaries early on Tuesday in the Stepaside/Sandyford area of Dublin. At approximately 6:20am a retail premises in the Stepaside…
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France is known the world over for its cuisine, fashion, culture and language. It is the most visited tourist destination in the world. A key…
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