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# Stuck

Last year
2022
# Transport
Eurotunnel passengers forced to leave train beneath English Channel
Videos on social media showed holidaymakers walking through the alternate tunnel alongside the 50 kilometre rail route between Britain and France.
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Aug 24th 2022, 8:17 AM
# Detained
'I should be on a flight home tonight': Shamrock Rovers fan released from Bulgarian jail
Daniel Fulham was detained after Rovers’ match on Tuesday.
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Jul 21st 2022, 2:30 PM
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# Stuck
Maritime traffic jam grows with more than 200 ships outside Suez Canal
The Suez Canal Authority said it welcomed international offers to help free a stranded cargo ship.
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Mar 26th 2021, 5:43 PM
# Stuck
Spider-Man scooter causes sewer blockage in Cork
The blockage was reported to officials last weekend.
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Feb 3rd 2021, 5:06 PM
# silly doggo
St Bernard rescued from England’s highest mountain
Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to Scafell Pike to rescue Daisy the St Bernard – a breed originally bred to rescue people in the Alps.
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Jul 26th 2020, 2:41 PM
# Stuck
Delayed Defence Force members now due home from Golan Heights on Sunday
They had finished a six-month tour of duty and the soldiers to replace them have already arrived.
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Apr 4th 2019, 6:30 PM
# overnight effort
'You could grow rice in the field': Scramble to clean up Ploughing site after yesterday's flooding
New carparks have been set up for the final day of the Ploughing.
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Sep 21st 2017, 9:00 AM
# Up In The Air
Newly qualified teachers unable to get dipped over new scheme
The INTO spokesperson added that the professional probation should be done away with.
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Apr 30th 2017, 8:15 AM
# Ferry Silly
Ferry cancelled after man tried to drive down pier but became stuck
The man had to spend the night in his car.
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Aug 10th 2016, 3:15 PM
# Stuck
A Chinese woman was found dead after being trapped in a lift for a month
A maintenance crew cut the power.
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Mar 7th 2016, 6:00 AM
# sisterly love
A little brother got stuck in a table, and his loving sister filmed the results
“This is scary”. *helpless laughter*
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Mar 1st 2016, 12:24 PM
# screwball
This ice cream man got himself into a sticky situation on a Donegal beach
Life’s a beach.
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Aug 14th 2015, 9:57 AM
# Philippines
Chris Brown: 'Please, please, let us leave, please!'
He used a back flip to argue his case.
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Jul 24th 2015, 1:23 PM
# robot wars
Five firefighters had to rescue a little girl who got her foot stuck in a toy robot
They had to saw the toy in half to get her out. Devo.
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Jun 19th 2015, 8:29 PM
# i cannay hold on
This Scottish man got stuck on a roof, and he's not at all happy about it
NSFW language ahead. Be warned.
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May 20th 2015, 8:51 AM
# good dryday
Here are the other countries where it's hard to buy alcohol today
While these countries take measures on Good Friday – they’re not quite as restrictive as here.
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Apr 3rd 2015, 6:45 AM
# girls are weird
This young boy is trapped in his own personal hell at a girl's birthday party
No escape. No mercy.
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Mar 2nd 2015, 7:46 AM
# better than twilight
A woman got stuck in a chimney while breaking into the home of a guy she met online
What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
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Oct 21st 2014, 7:56 AM
# stuck in a moment
Panicked woodchuck rescued after getting stuck in its own hole
“LEMME OUT OF HERE!”
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Aug 27th 2014, 10:00 PM
# unfairground
Six rescued after chair-o-plane in Tramore breaks down
No one has been injured in the incident.
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Jul 1st 2014, 9:55 PM
# Mile High Club
Man had to be freed by firefighters after getting finger stuck in plane toilet
The nightmare.
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Jun 18th 2014, 1:50 PM
# won't budge
WATCH: Grounded cargo ship stays put in Louth
The ship and crew are in no danger says the Irish Coastguard.
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May 26th 2014, 8:40 AM
# Stuck
Naked man gets stuck in washing machine, has to be freed with olive oil
He compared the experience to ‘being born’.
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Jan 7th 2014, 11:35 AM
# true or false
Debunked: Does swallowed chewing gum stay in your stomach for seven years?
Or longer? Is that piece that you swallowed when you were six still there?
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Sep 22nd 2013, 10:30 AM
# plinth of shame
Mercedes-Bent: Stranded at the gates of Leinster House
At least Mary Mitchell O’Connor won’t feel so alone now.
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Sep 9th 2013, 10:32 PM
# Rescue
Rescue group save pregnant mare stuck in marsh
The horse, who was in foal, had been stuck in the marsh for three hours before being saved by the Boyne Fisherman’s Rescue and Recovery Service.
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Apr 17th 2013, 9:14 AM
# health minister
Reilly gets stuck in lift at opening of mental health facility
The Health Minister was stuck in the lift with staff, press photographers and Minister Kathleen Lynch for at least 10 minutes earlier today.
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Feb 28th 2013, 7:35 PM
# whales
PICS: Killer whales trapped in sea ice
About a dozen whales are trapped in a vast stretch of ice in Quebec’s Far North, surfacing in a small opening for air.
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Jan 10th 2013, 11:17 AM
# Stuck
Man rescued after being stuck in quicksand for eight hours
Early rescue attempts were unsuccessful, but a search and rescue squad finally pulled the unidentified man to safety at around 2am on Thursday.
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Nov 27th 2011, 4:02 PM
# Bear-ing Up
Bear survives for three weeks with jar stuck on its head
The black bear roamed around the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee without food after getting a plastic container stuck over its face.
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Jul 23rd 2011, 1:26 PM