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# tradition

Last year
2023
Amount of time spent by goat on raised platform during Puck Fair to be significantly reduced
17 Jul 2023
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Opinion: As Ukrainians, we remember how Christmas looked for us until this year
Polina Bashkina
Updated 25 Dec 2022
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Doherty insists World Championship is not stale and must be test of resolve
11 Apr 2022
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In pictures: All-Ireland champions Dublin visit children's hospitals with Sam Maguire
15 Sep 2019
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10
An Post made not one but three Christmas ads this year. Here's how - and why
25 Dec 2018
16.7k
24
Photos: Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, Imelda May and U2 among the Dublin city buskers last night
25 Dec 2018
34.6k
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From kidnapping to the Black Rod: Here are some weird House of Commons traditions
16 Dec 2018
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26
Wimbledon won't budge on traditional final start time despite World Cup clash
9 Jul 2018
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31
Ramos confirms Madrid won't give guard of honour to champions Barcelona
30 Apr 2018
14.2k
38
The legends behind the Kerry festival that crowns a goat every year
13 Aug 2017
19.5k
51
How 'ready golf' could make the sport better for players and spectators
25 Feb 2017
6.3k
2
Gavin James joined Glen Hansard for the traditional Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street
24 Dec 2016
6.9k
Poll: Did you go to your Christmas party this year?
17 Dec 2016
18.7k
38
'Samhain was an obvious time to commemorate the dead'
30 Oct 2016
22.0k
12
Bullfighting ban in Catalonia is cancelled as it is 'part of Spain's heritage'
20 Oct 2016
10.2k
42
7 reasons Copenhagen should probably be next on your city break hit list
30 Aug 2016
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11 tweets that sum up the glory of the sneaky naggin
16 Aug 2016
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3
'I used a razor blade and often cut ten girls a day'
6 Feb 2016
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Two brothers have been reusing the same birthday card for over 40 years
29 Jun 2015
11.5k
1
Japanese fishermen are going to keep on killing dolphins
28 May 2015
11.6k
47
Dad films 25 years of kids coming downstairs at Christmas
25 Dec 2014
9.4k
2
Love Locks caused a Paris bridge rail to collapse... but why are they there?
9 Jun 2014
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26
Column: 'Traditional' marriage? It hasn't always been between a man and a woman
Peter Ferguson
11 Apr 2014
3.1k
382
Column: Some etiquette for the modern-day First Holy Communion
Avril O'Reilly
19 Mar 2014
63.3k
63
Annual Japanese dolphin hunt documented in 'The Cove' begins amid US criticism
20 Jan 2014
9.3k
59
38 arrested for carrying out genital mutilation on girls as young as three
16 Dec 2013
11.6k
40
Tales of '47 and '97 - Kerry and Cavan's memorable past clashes
2 Aug 2013
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3
Paraic Duffy: 'People who say get rid of provincial championships don’t get it'
24 Jul 2013
2.6k
8
'We will give Man United a guard of honour' - Wenger
26 Apr 2013
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6
Pic of the Day: Ruud van Nistelrooy goes to bizarre lengths to cheer patients
5 Jan 2013
4.4k
1
In pictures: All-Ireland-winning Cats drop into children's hospital
1 Oct 2012
10.1k
21
Spain: Four hurt at Pamplona's running of the bulls
10 Jul 2012
3.0k
25
Open thread: Should a woman propose marriage today?
29 Feb 2012
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22
GAA explains its decision to push back next year's All-Ireland finals
18 Nov 2011
7.5k
8
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
14 Oct 2011
2.2k
15
Poll: Would you recommend tourists visit the Blarney Stone?
8 Apr 2011
5.1k
3