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Tuesday 7 May 2024 Dublin: 16°C
The Daily Poll
Poll: Do election leaflets count as junk mail?
Asylum seekers have pitched tents by Grand Canal in Dublin city.

Tuesday 7 May

Today's Top Stories

sleeping rough

Asylum seeker encampment along Dublin city's Grand Canal has doubled in size since the weekend

(L-R) Chelsea Cawley, Lisa Cash and Christy Cawley
Courts

Andy Cash given three life sentences for murders of his two sisters and brother in their Tallaght home

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza yesterday.
Ceasefire negotiations

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