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November 2024

Trump

US Special Counsel dismisses case against Donald Trump over efforts to overturn 2020 election

25 Nov

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retention

Survey finds 73% of uniformed services who joined after 2013 considering 'seeking a new job'

25 Nov

12.1k

GE2024 Put to the test

Environmentalists rank parties on climate (and cycling) - here’s the results

Updated 25 Nov

21.2k

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GE2024 day 18

At a glance: Crunch time for candidates as campaign enters final week

Updated 25 Nov

7.7k

GE2024 Analysis

FG conceding FF likely to take more seats leaving Martin in position to become next Taoiseach

25 Nov

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GE2024 care workers

Simon Harris on Kanturk video: 'There's no one more annoyed with me than me'

25 Nov

31.2k

GE2024 General Election

Fine Gael now less popular than Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, according to new poll

25 Nov

28.0k

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social media ban

Social media sites call for Australia to delay its ban on child use

25 Nov

12.1k

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Gaza

G7 foreign ministers to discuss ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leader

25 Nov

6.0k

Busan

Plastic pollution treaty talks begin in South Korea

25 Nov

3.5k

manifesto finances

Fianna Fáil insist manifesto finances are sound amidst scrutiny

24 Nov

8.9k

Labour government

Over one million sign petition for a general election to be called in the UK

24 Nov

60.8k

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Poll

McDonald optimistic with new poll putting three big parties neck-and-neck days from election

Updated 24 Nov

43.1k

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too little too late

'Bit late for apology': Opposition criticise Harris's tense encounter with carer

24 Nov

18.3k

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climate justice

Ryan says COP29 deal is 'starting point', while some nations call $300b sum 'abysmally poor'

Updated 24 Nov

14.9k

Irish Unity

Simon Harris says it's ‘entirely possible’ there will be Irish unity in his lifetime

24 Nov

11.8k

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GE2024 conscious uncoupling

Kate O'Connell looks to eat FG's lunch in Dublin Bay South but party exit coming up on the doors

Independents could be the kingmakers after the next election and O’Connell says she will back a FG/FF led government.

Christina Finn

24 Nov

24.6k

United Arab Emirates

Israel condemns murder of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in UAE as anti-Semitic 'terrorism' act

24 Nov

10.8k

Department of Justice

'It's farcical': Review into sex work law won't be published until 2025, four years after deadline

Órla Ryan

24 Nov

11.1k

GE2024 Oops

Huge €5 billion 'black hole' uncovered in Fine Gael's manifesto spending plan

The discovery is an uncomfortable one for the government party.

23 Nov

64.0k

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GE2024 core vote

Here's how Ireland's political parties have said they'd spend the Apple Tax billions

23 Nov

10.5k

Controversy

Taoiseach says the voter who confronted him in viral video was 'absolutely owed an apology'

The woman, Charlotte Fallon, said that Harris rang her this morning to apologise for walking away from her.

Updated 23 Nov

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the labour party

Ivana Bacik dubs Sinn Féin a populist party and ‘has difficulty’ describing it as left-wing

23 Nov

14.0k

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High Court

Harris thanks Nikita Hand for her 'incredible bravery' after win in McGregor case

23 Nov

23.6k

COP29

'No deal is better than a bad deal': Poorer countries walk out of climate negotiations

23 Nov

10.9k

trump administration

Trump names hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury chief

23 Nov

13.2k

GE2024 air war

Two weeks in on the campaign trail: As temperatures plummet, it's all about the 'air war'

23 Nov

6.9k

good evening

Here's What Happened Today: Friday

22 Nov

4.8k

garda discipline

Garda Commissioner issues order to gardaí not to comment publicly during election campaign

Updated 22 Nov

23.5k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Does Fine Gael’s manifesto pledge an additional half a billion Euro to landlords?

22 Nov

12.4k

Fine Gael

Donohoe says he's not 'friends' with Michael O'Leary and paid for his own dinner with Ryanair boss

22 Nov

18.3k

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windfall cash

Is expanding Help to Buy the worst possible use of Ireland’s Apple tax windfall?

Paul O'Donoghue

22 Nov

12.2k

United States

Donald Trump's sentencing for criminal hush money case has been postponed indefinitely, judge rules

It’s a major legal win for the president-elect as he prepares to return to the White House.

22 Nov

19.8k

Kyiv

Ukraine parliament cancels session over threat of Russian attack

22 Nov

5.3k

International Criminal Court

Taoiseach and Tánaiste say Ireland would 'absolutely' execute arrest warrant against Netanyahu

Updated 22 Nov

17.3k

GE2024 Mary-Lou McDonald

McDonald defends Sinn Féin's RTÉ review proposal, says Gaza coverage should be 'gold standard'

22 Nov

9.6k

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GE2024 promise me this

Independent Ireland pledges a Luas for every county and subsidised rent for front-line workers

22 Nov

19.4k

Podcast The Candidate

This election was supposed to be a disaster for Sinn Féin

34:00

Alliance

Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in return for troops, says South Korean official

1 hr ago

5.7k

Trump 2.0

Trump chooses Pam Bondi for attorney general pick hours after Matt Gaetz withdraws

2 hrs ago

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