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March 2025
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'Keep making cinema': Anora director's makes history by winning four Oscars for the same movie
Updated 3 Mar
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gold statuettes
Anora's Mikey Madison wins best actress Oscar as best actor goes to Adrien Brody
3 Mar
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in memoriam
'Our community lost a giant': Morgan Freeman honours 'dear friend' Gene Hackman at the Oscars
The 95-year-old veteran actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead, along with one of their dogs, at their home in New Mexico on 26 February.
3 Mar
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Academy Awards
Oscars monologue: Conan O'Brien takes aim at AI, Netflix and long acceptance speeches
3 Mar
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Gúnas and tuxes: The looks from the 97th Academy Awards
Glitz, glamour and eye-catching outfits are always a feature of the biggest night in Hollywood.
2 Mar
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Academy Awards
The Oscars are just hours away - here's everything you need to know
The 97th Academy Awards will be broadcast live on RTÉ for the first time.
Updated 2 Mar
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Rome
Pope Francis ‘did not need mechanical ventilation' today and remains stable, Vatican says
Updated 2 Mar
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leaders summit
King Charles meets Zelenskyy following defence summit on Ukraine in London
The UK has signed a £1.6 billion deal to supply more than 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine using export finance.
Updated 2 Mar
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ceasefire deal
Tánaiste 'very concerned' at reports of Israel suspending deliveries of aid supplies into Gaza
Updated 2 Mar
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The Daily Poll
Will you watch The Oscars?
2 Mar
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leaders summit
UK and France working on deal for 'lasting peace' in Ukraine - Starmer
Updated 2 Mar
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Brit Awards
Fontaines D.C. win International Group Brit award while Charli XCX's Brat secures five trophies
2 Mar
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United Kingdom
Starmer insists Ukraine has ‘full backing of UK’ as he meets Zelenskyy at No 10
13 hrs ago
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Rome
Pope Francis in 'stable' condition following breathing 'crisis' yesterday, Vatican says
Updated 14 hrs ago
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lengthy statement
Zelenskyy: Ukraine 'ready' to sign minerals-sharing deal, but needs 'clear' security guarantees
Updated 14 hrs ago
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BBC
Counter-terror police assess complaints about BBC Gaza documentary
18 hrs ago
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War in Ukraine
Russia claim two Ukrainian villages as strikes kill one person and wound several others
20 hrs ago
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Serious fatal crash in Donegal, Pope ‘resting’ in Rome and Zelenskyy-Trump relationship ‘can be salvaged’.
23 hrs ago
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New Mexico
Actor Gene Hackman's pacemaker recorded 'last event' on 17 February, tests show
24 hrs ago
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Ukraine War
Zelenskyy tells Fox News relationship with Trump can still be salvaged
Updated 24 hrs ago
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defence minister
Any role for Irish troops in Ukraine would be about 'peacekeeping, not peace enforcement'
Updated 1 Mar
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February
February 2025
Oval Office
Zelenskyy leaves White House summit after Trump claims he's 'not ready for peace'
It means a peace deal on the Ukraine-Russia war is hanging in the balance.
Updated 28 Feb
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Micheál Martin
White House scenes 'extraordinary and very unsettling', Taoiseach tells Late Late
28 Feb
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taking sides
Zelenskyy thanks European leaders one by one for their support after messy Trump meeting
Updated 28 Feb
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Rome
Pope Francis put on mechanical ventilation, as prognosis remains 'guarded'
Updated 28 Feb
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video calls
So long 2005, Microsoft is officially hanging up on Skype
28 Feb
11.4k
Fighter Planes
Simon Harris is 'convinced' that Ireland needs its own squadron of fighter jets
Ireland does not have its own capability to police its airspace and does not have any fighter jets to respond to airborne threats.
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Reports from The Curragh Camp
28 Feb
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The Donald's English
Donald Trump to order that English be the official language of US for first time in its history
28 Feb
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Keir Stormer
UK media praise Starmer for pulling out ‘Trump card’ at yesterday’s White House meeting
28 Feb
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New Mexico
Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa suffered ‘no external trauma’, police say
The Oscar-winning film actor and his wife were found dead along with one of their dogs at their home in Santa Fe on Wednesday.
Updated 28 Feb
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27 Feb
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28 Feb
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Florida
Tate brothers' arrival in US met with 'shock, horror and trauma' by women alleging rape
28 Feb
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The 9 at 9 Zelenskyy to meet Trump, deportation flight lands in Georgia and Taoiseach’s St. Patrick’s Day plans confirmed
Updated 28 Feb
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California
Menendez brothers' family criticises district attorney’s opposition to new trial
28 Feb
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sex trafficking
No new bombshells in US Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files release
28 Feb
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washington bound
Taoiseach accepts invitation to visit White House for annual St Patrick's Day meeting
28 Feb
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White House
Zelenskyy and Trump to sign minerals deal at White House today
28 Feb
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New Mexico
Police 'keeping everything on the table' in deaths of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa
Police reportedly believe the circumstances are ‘suspicious’ and warrant a ‘thorough search and investigation’.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff confirmed the news just after midnight local time (7am Irish time).
Local media has reported that the couple's dog was also found deceased.
A prolific star of some of Hollywood's best-known films, Hackman won two Oscars in his career before retiring in 2004.
Updated 27 Feb
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Washington
Starmer says Ukraine deal 'can't be a peace that rewards the aggressor' during Trump visit
Updated 27 Feb
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