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Rain Rain Go Away

Rain warnings for eleven counties tomorrow - with Status Orange alerts for Wicklow and Waterford

Met Éireann has said ‘any amount of any further rain or showers could lead to larger impacts’.

Road Safety

Grace's Law: Total ban on scramblers in public places to be implemented in 'coming weeks'

Australia

Irish grandmother of boy (13) who saved his mother and siblings' lives in Australia 'very proud'

Point Guard President

President Connolly scores backwards basketball shot on trip to Belfast

High Court

Enoch Burke calls disciplinary appeals process a 'shambles' after two members resign from panel

Today's news

The Daily Poll

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Road Safety

Grace's Law: Total ban on scramblers in public places to be implemented in 'coming weeks'

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Rain Rain Go Away

Rain warnings for eleven counties tomorrow - with Status Orange alerts for Wicklow and Waterford

Met Éireann has said ‘any amount of any further rain or showers could lead to larger impacts’.

Updated 1 hr ago

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Libya

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High Court

Enoch Burke calls disciplinary appeals process a 'shambles' after two members resign from panel

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Point Guard President

President Connolly scores backwards basketball shot on trip to Belfast

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Marius Borg Hoiby

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VOICES

Opinion and analysis on the stories that matter

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Peter Flanagan

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Therapist on therapy notes

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Jacky Grainger

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The quiet scandal of Ireland’s modern dereliction

Jude Sherry and Dr Frank O’Connor

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OnlyFans influencers

Porn industry is normalising sex trade for teen girls

Eoghan Cleary

If public transport was free, would you use it more?

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Planning

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The 42

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grok

Tech firms to face questions over non-consensual sexual imagery but X to snub TDs with no-show

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Australia

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Six Nations Magazine

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The Daily Poll

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get with the times

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RIP

Snooker legend and broadcaster John Virgo dies aged 79

The 42

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Censorship

'Pure nonsense': EU dismisses US claims of 'censorship' during Irish elections

5 hrs ago

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Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Public opinion on fox hunting, new rules for e-bikes and e-scooters users and Peter Mandelson to quit the House of Lords…

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justice delayed

Court cases in Ireland are slower to be heard than anywhere else in Europe

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william stevenson

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the Epstein files

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Peter Flanagan

Updated 6 hrs ago

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Epstein files

Peter Mandelson 'lied repeatedly' and ‘betrayed our country’, Starmer tells MPs

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Washington

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7 hrs ago

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Road Safety

Helmets and hi-vis clothing to be made mandatory for e-bikes and e-scooter users

8 hrs ago

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out of the hunt

Majority of rural people want foxhunting ban as poll suggests Dáil vote out-of-step with public

The rejection of a ban on foxhunting with dogs has undermined trust in politics, according to the latest RED C poll .

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Yesterday

3rd February 2026

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Limerick

Car dealer on trial for alleged garda corruption claimed gardaí extorting money from him

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rain rain and more rain

Thursday evening a ‘pinch point’ for further flooding across Dublin and Wicklow

Updated 15 hrs ago

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Investigation

Musk calls Paris prosecutors raid of X office in France a 'political attack'

Updated 16 hrs ago

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Ukraine

Russia launches 'most powerful' attack this year on Ukraine amid glacial weather

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Mark Hehir

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Ballyfermot

Animal charity appeals for witnesses after pregnant horse ‘left for dead’ on busy Dublin road

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News Fix

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Gaza

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Courts

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Recall

Additional batch of SMA infant formula recalled over risk of 'nausea and severe vomiting'

18 hrs ago

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Epstein files

UK police launch criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson amid Jeffrey Epstein scandal

Updated 18 hrs ago

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Justice

Victim counselling notes may no longer be used in most sex offence trials under new proposals

18 hrs ago

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Bánú na Gaeltachta

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19 hrs ago

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thin ice

US-Iran talks 'still scheduled' after drone shot down, says White House

19 hrs ago

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Kilkeel

Boy (11) dies after being struck by car in Co Down

19 hrs ago

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marginalised

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