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Jeremy O'Brien

Funeral of Jeremy O'Brien (18) who died in wrong-way M9 crash takes place in Carlow

A small crowd attended the understated service in Askea, before a burial at St Mary’s Cemetery in Carlow town.

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Irish Prison Service

Electronic tagging for some offenders will begin by end of the year

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VOICES

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Biker boys

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My life with alopecia

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Ireland's female athletes

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Raising them right

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Water Use

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waste not want not

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Daft rental report

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Must ReadData Centres

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Data centres used over 514 million litres of water between May and July this year, increasing during the hosepipe ban.

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