# Fingers

Last year

2022

Robber threatened to cut Ashley Cole’s fingers off with pliers during break-in

Kurtis Dilks is accused of being part of a four-strong gang that smashed their way into the retired footballer’s home in January 2020.

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Apr 11th 2022, 6:10 PM

All time

# World First

Paralysed man can now use his hand thanks to pioneering software

Ian Burkhart was left with a broken neck after a swimming accident.

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Apr 13th 2016, 6:46 PM

# Against the odds

This man has lost nine fingers to frostbite ... and he's trying to climb Mount Everest

Nobukazu Kuriki lost nine fingers to frostbite in 2012 on Everest. He is the only climber trying to summit the world’s highest mountain this year.

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Sep 28th 2015, 10:20 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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Jun 17th 2014, 4:50 PM

# Fingers

Lidl in Sligo has a very uncomfortable special offer

Ouch.

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Jan 1st 2014, 12:07 PM

# nailed it

You can now wear Facebook on your nails

Of course you can.

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Aug 30th 2013, 9:23 AM

Voices

Extract: 'The Financial Regulator investigating what went wrong at Irish Nationwide is a unique piece of Irish irony'

Michael Fingleton’s autonomous powers in Irish Nationwide should have been picked up on by the Financial Regulator – why weren’t they? asks Tom Lyons and Richard Curran.

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Mar 3rd 2013, 7:30 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Two arrests over Meath drugs haul, fears for hundreds of jobs at Aviva, how hurling is now a ‘foreign game’, and proof that death and taxes really are certainties in life…

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Sep 21st 2011, 8:34 AM

# Brace Yourself

Here's the Cuban man with two extra fingers and two extra toes

Known as polydactyly, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido’s condition is relatively common, but it’s rare for the extra digits to be so perfect.

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Aug 27th 2011, 1:36 PM

# digits

Boy born with 34 fingers and toes

The young Indian boy holds the world record for the person born with most fingers and toes.

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Jul 26th 2011, 3:23 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: The news from the Department of Finance is even worse than we thought; an artist’s fingers cut off during a savage attack and everything you need to know to bluff your way through the day’s cricket chat.

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Mar 3rd 2011, 8:44 AM

# Homo promiscuous

Neanderthals were promiscuous because they had longer fingers

Scientists conducting fossil research on neanderthals reveal that promiscuity and aggressiveness went hand in hand for the ancient human relatives.

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Nov 3rd 2010, 11:08 AM