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Media Minister welcomes publication of RTE’s plans for registers of interest and external activities
Media Minister Catherine Martin has welcomed the publication of RTE’s plans for registers of interest and external activities. Ms Martin was speaking at a media event at Airfield Estate in Dublin. The Irish national broadcaster plans to...
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Politicians ‘eagerly await’ results of constituency boundary review
Politicians are “eagerly awaiting” the results of a constituency boundary review which could decide the electoral fates of many parliamentarians and ministers. The much-anticipated new constituency boundaries will see the number of seats...
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Finance minister remains coy on Budget as Fianna Fail looks to put stamp on it
Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has said that “a strong economy” enables the government to invest in public services, as his Fianna Fail party looks to put its stamp on the upcoming budget. While remaining coy on budgetary options,...
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Books of condolences open for Clonmel crash victims
Books of condolences have opened in Clonmel for the four victims of a road crash in the Co Tipperary town. Twenty-four-year-old Luke McSweeney, his 18-year-old sister Grace McSweeney and Zoey Coffey and Nicole Murphy, both also aged 18,...
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Mayor of Clonmel signs book of condolences after four people killed
Mayor of Clonmel Ritchie Molloy opens books of condolences at County Hall Clonmel for the four young people killed in a traffic accident on Friday night. Speaker: Ritchie Molloy
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Appeal from Superintendent Kieran Ruane of Clonmel Garda Station
Superintendent Kieran Ruane of Clonmel Garda Station appeals for witnesses to the collision in which four people were killed in Co Tipperary on Friday night. Speaking to reporters in Clonmel.
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Police name four young people killed in Co Tipperary crash
Superintendent Kieran Ruane (right) of Clonmel Garda Station gives an update along with senior Gardai, on the fatal crash in Clonmel, Co Tipperary in which four young people died.
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Four young people killed in road crash in Co Tipperary
Four young people have died in a road crash in Co Tipperary. The driver of the vehicle involved, a man aged his early 20s, and three female teenagers were fatally injured in the incident in Clonmel on Friday evening, gardai have confirmed.
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Tanaiste Micheal Martin comments on number of homeless hitting another new record high
Tanaiste Micheal Martin comments on the latest record homeless figures in Ireland. The number of homeless people in Ireland has risen to another new record high. The latest figures from the Department of Housing reveal that 12,847 people...
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Simon Harris ‘wont ask voters to spend more money on RTE without reform plan’
Simon Harris has said he will not be asking his constituents to pay more money to RTE without a “clear reform plan” presented by the broadcaster. The Minister for Further and Higher Education was speaking as new figures indicate there...
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Donohoe says politicians awaiting constituency changes with ‘red-hot interest’
Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe has said there is “red-hot interest” across the political system for the upcoming completion of the electoral constituency review. The publication of the population figures as per the latest...
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Paschal Donohoe discusses cost-of-living measures in the upcoming budget
Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has said Budget 2024 will be “big” but further warned of the Government’s precautionary approach to contributing towards inflation. Mr Donohoe said he and Finance Minister Michael McGrath...
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Varadkar unsure if housing referendum can be held within current government term
The Taoiseach has said he is unsure whether a referendum on the right to housing can be held within the lifespan of the current government. Leo Varadkar said the constitution should be amended to enshrine a right to housing, but he said...
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Varadkar defends council decision to cut night-time flights at Dublin Airport
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended Fingal County Council’s decision to issue an enforcement order on Dublin Airport requiring it to reduce the number of night-time flights. Mr Varadkar also said he did not think there would ultimately...
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The Government is interested in buying Conor Pass says Varadkar
The Government would be interested in buying Conor Pass in Co Kerry, but not for 10 million euro, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
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Ireland team return to roaring welcome from fans in Dublin
Ireland’s national football team were welcomed home by cheering fans after their first qualification for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup. Thousands of fans transformed Dublin's main thoroughfare, O’Connell Street, into a sea of green and...
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Community gathers as the coffin of Dlava Mohamed arrives at the family home in Clones, Co. Monaghan
The body of Dlava Mohamed arrives at the family home in Clones, Co. Monaghan. Dlava, 16, and Kiea McCann, 17, both students at Largy College in Clones, were killed, and three others were injured on the N54 Clones to Smithborough road at...
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Domhnall Gleeson praises hospice care of grandparents in fundraising call
Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson has praised the “amazing” hospice care his grandparents received as he urged the public to get behind a nationwide fundraising campaign. The 40-year-old Star Wars, About Time, and The Patient star remembered...
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Car recovered from fatal crash scene in Co Monaghan
A car has been recovered from a collision scene in Co Monaghan, after two girls were killed and three people injured.
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Debs celebration ‘turned into worst nightmare’ after two girls killed in crash
Social protection minister Heather Humphreys said a secondary school “Debs” celebration in Co Monaghan turned into the “worst possible nightmare” after two teenage girls were killed in a crash. Three other people were taken to hospital,...
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Workers clear the scene in Co Monaghan where two girls died in a collision
Scene of an accident that occurred last night on the N54. Two teenage girls 16-year-old Dalava Mohammed and 17-year-old Kiea McCann were killed and three people are in hospital following a road crash in Co Monaghan.
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Families of Monaghan crash victims ‘hugely devastated and suffering from shock’
The families of the victims of a Co Monaghan road crash are “hugely devastated” and suffering from shock, while their school community has been overcome with “profound sadness and grief”. Two teenage girls died and three others were...
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attends the rededication of the National Army Monumentin Dublin
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar inspects a Guard of Honour during the rededication of the National Army Monument at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
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Watchdog says CAMHS needs 'major improvement'
The HSE’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) “should be immediately regulated” by the Mental Health Commission (MHC), according to a major report from the independent watchdog. CAMHS is a specialist mental health...