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2025
Build Back Home
Adverts calling for Irish construction workers to return home are popping up in Australia
Ballygawley
Man headbutts female PSNI officer in Co Tyrone and spits in face of her colleague after arrest
Searches in Down
Close to €290,000 in both euro and sterling seized during Newry raid on cross-border crime group
Peadar Tóibín
Aontú scraps no confidence motion but says it ‘succeeded’ in pressuring government on scoliosis
Wildely overdue
British Library reissues Oscar Wilde’s pass 130 years after it was revoked over gay conviction
slow down
Local authorities to implement 30km/h speed limits in urban areas ‘where appropriate’ from 2027
compensation
Average settlement for minor neck injuries 4.9 times higher in Ireland than England and Wales
Kara Owen
‘Bíonn siúlach scéalach’: New British Ambassador to Ireland shows off impressive Irish skills
when it rains it pours
Luke Combs will play two Slane Castle gigs next year, following in the footsteps of U2
Education
Calls for ‘small’ €3m allocation for additional deputy principals to be targeted at DEIS schools
Race for the Áras
Heather Humphreys' journey from 'take no crap' Clones councillor to Áras contender
People who’ve worked with Humphreys at council level say she “had a common sense way of looking at things”.
Energy prices
Retail electricity prices in Ireland three times higher than wholesale cost, report finds
Qualification once again
Independent Ireland wants the North and the Republic to merge into 'one super soccer team'
made of stone
Public warned stone lifting can cause ‘archaeological damage’ as RTÉ airs documentary on tradition
INMO
Nurses in Mayo University Hospital’s ED serve notice of industrial action due to staffing concerns
An bhfuil Gaeilge agat?
Heather Humphreys grilled on why she didn't learn Irish the last time she said she would in 2014
Consumer Price Index
Consumer prices rise by highest annual rate since March 2024, with pound of butter up 68 cents
Drugs Seizure
Over €8m worth of drugs seized during operation aimed at dismantling criminal organisation
In the course of the operation, search warrants were executed at 16 properties across five counties.
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