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'United in grief': Ballyhaunis mourns loss of boy (12) killed in collision between car and train

The 12-year-old boy, who was a passenger in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Never too old

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Murder Trial

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BEST OF THE BOX

Review: Is the documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife worth watching?

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SPOTLIGHT

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Think-In

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ballyhaunis

'United in grief': Ballyhaunis mourns loss of boy (12) killed in collision between car and train

The 12-year-old boy, who was a passenger in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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VOICES

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The great return to school

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Never too old

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Good Morning

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Rescue Effort

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Housing Crisis

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Social Media

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Seaweed Harvesting

Maritime regulator investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting in protected areas

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New Drugs

'An arms race': the evolving new synthetic drugs that need fresh methods to detect them

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Illegal Wildfires

Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites

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Water Use

Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more

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Nitrous Oxide

Thousands of nitrous oxide canisters are ending up at waste facilities amid warnings of explosions

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SeriesNobody Needs This

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Must Reade-scooters

'Like hot lava': Family suffers devastating house fire 'caused by e-scooter battery pack'

The family believe that an exploding e-scooter battery pack that was unplugged on their kitchen table was the cause of the fire.

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From The 42Gaelic Football

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Irish Rail

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