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Double Paralympic champion Jason Smyth gets massive boost ahead of tomorrow's World Championships
"We are sorry and we will fix this, at our expense" - the head of Volkswagen Ireland has been getting a grilling
Pilot confirmed dead in US fighter jet crash in England
The Vatican says the Pope does NOT have a brain tumour
It's Back to the Future Day ... so what did the movie get RIGHT about 2015?
Landlady "killed in row over the number of baths lodger had"
Assad made his first foreign visit in four years. Guess where he went?
A doctor is on trial for murder after infecting hundreds of patients with HIV
It's Man -V- Sat Nav as London cabbies pitch street battle against Uber
Irish Sports Council threaten to review IABA funding after Walsh controversy
Provisional IRA members leafleting and electioneering for Sinn Féin - report
Basketball coach accused of paying for stripteases and sex acts for players
Settlement reached in most costly divorce of all time
We'll leave it there so: The Open returns to Portrush, and all the rest of Tuesday's sport
Two Irish officials on the line as Joubert dropped from World Cup semi-final ref roster
Man who slaughtered family with meat cleaver jailed for 125 years
Woman gives birth on board migrant boat in the Mediterranean
These figures show Irish people lost more than anyone in the financial crisis
Pizza delivery man given a tip of €1,600 by a church
This stuff is proving to be a bit like brown gold
'World's fattest woman' loses 32 stone, buys her first bikini
Mother seen pushing her 11-year-old son in front of Hamburg train
Some people want to boycott the new Star Wars - because the lead actor is black
Window cleaners survive terrifying 12-storey fall from Sydney building
Remember the kid arrested over a clock? He just paid a visit to the White House
Canada has elected a former snowboard instructor, bouncer and barman as its Prime Minister
President Higgins will plant a tree in honour of Berkeley victims during US trip
Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison a day early
Married before she was 1, Meghwal met her husband as he was hurling abuse at her school gates
Man arrested after racially abusing Muslim pensioner and throwing his walking frame off bus
Paulie's is not the only era ending for Ireland
This sunken 400-year-old church has emerged from a reservoir
We'll Leave It There So: Walsh resigns, Ireland return home and all today's sport
IABA insist they did their 'utmost' to retain Billy Walsh's services
'Mobster' who inspired Goodfellas scene accused of strangling informant with dog chain
Mystery surrounds sudden death of former BBC journalist
Three children and their parents die after car crashes into lake
This Playboy issue is the reason Google's founders almost never do interviews
'I looked up at the clock and couldn't believe there was only 12 minutes gone'
Have more than 11 moles on your arm? Get them checked