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Mapped out

These four plots of land will be used to build thousands of social and affordable homes

27 Apr 2017

38.7k

Mugwump

Boris Johnson calls Jeremy Corbyn a 'mutton-headed old mugwump'

27 Apr 2017

13.7k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 National Maternity Hospital board fractured, cyclists’ complaints about Luas roadworks, and BAI complaints.

27 Apr 2017

9.3k

Free Speech

Fear of protester violence stopped US hard-right pundit Ann Coulter speaking at Berkeley

27 Apr 2017

14.7k

145

Nuclear Power

At just 128 miles from Dublin, Ireland needs assurances about Sellafield - TD

27 Apr 2017

8.2k

Trump Card

US trying to pressure North Korea into dismantling nuclear weapons

26 Apr 2017

13.5k

St Vincent's

Holles Street board re-endorses deal to move maternity hospital

26 Apr 2017

29.8k

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basketball coach

Inquiry may be launched into case of child abuser Bill Kenneally

26 Apr 2017

11.7k

ban the bead

Ireland can't wait for EU ban on microbeads and is pressing on with its own

26 Apr 2017

25.2k

Green Light

New children's hospital will be the length of Grafton Street and as big as Dundrum Shopping Centre

26 Apr 2017

20.3k

jobstown

Paul Murphy 'plainly involved' in restricting Joan Burton's liberty, trial told

26 Apr 2017

16.4k

Terence Flanagan

An ex-FG TD who left the party over abortion may be on his way back into the fold

26 Apr 2017

17.1k

what do you think

Poll: Do you think it's acceptable that Ivanka Trump was booed at?

26 Apr 2017

49.6k

140

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Gardaí warn they’re not ready for a terrorist attack, AIB fined €2 million and new Dublin motorway? Here are Wednesday’s news.

26 Apr 2017

12.1k

mayo to montreal

Enda Kenny is travelling to Canada to meet Justin Trudeau and discuss 'middle-class jobs'

26 Apr 2017

12.6k

great and beautiful wall

Donald Trump backs down on funding demand for Mexico border wall

26 Apr 2017

20.4k

Sisters of Charity

Factfind: Could compulsory purchase be used for the maternity hospital and what would it cost?

26 Apr 2017

19.8k

Border patrol

'A farmer would have to travel 11 miles to get to the other side of his land' - Border communities fear Brexit

26 Apr 2017

11.8k

Awkward

Ivanka Trump defends father at women's summit, gets laughed at

25 Apr 2017

59.1k

Gridlock

Get stressed out sitting in traffic jams? One TD says it's impacting on people’s quality of life

25 Apr 2017

14.6k

MONTHS MIND

New York's Irish community turns out in droves to honour Martin McGuinness

25 Apr 2017

17.5k

100

lessons from history

Immigrants being vilified in same way as Irish in US after Famine - Obama

25 Apr 2017

23.6k

100

Power of Scotland

Support for an independent Scotland is plummeting

25 Apr 2017

27.2k

heightened tensions

In unusual move, Trump summons entire Senate to White House for North Korea meeting

25 Apr 2017

19.4k

vox pop

Poll backs Citizens' Assembly on abortion but rejects minister's maternity hospital promises

25 Apr 2017

15.5k

column

Drugs: 'How is arresting someone for something that they are addicted to helping?'

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

25 Apr 2017

2.0k

Explainer

Could a row over Trump's wall cause a government shutdown? How likely is it?

25 Apr 2017

9.2k

National Front

Marine Le Pen steps down as leader of her party

24 Apr 2017

48.9k

116

Khan Sheikhun

US blacklists Syrian chemists over deadly sarin gas attack

24 Apr 2017

10.5k

jobstown

Jury selected for trial of men accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton

24 Apr 2017

11.9k

Citizens Assembly

Frances Fitzgerald: Abortion referendum should be held next year

24 Apr 2017

23.8k

243

feel the bern

Bernie Sanders is coming to Dublin

24 Apr 2017

26.1k

Le Explainer

France had a presidential election yesterday...now what happens?

24 Apr 2017

23.0k

OSCE

American security monitor killed by landmine in rebel-held east Ukraine

24 Apr 2017

8.8k

Macron Economics

Euro surges despite Le Pen making second round of French elections

24 Apr 2017

16.6k

Overdue

Maternity benefit payments in Ireland are backlogged by 'a number of months'

24 Apr 2017

36.1k

fate of the union

"It is time to liberate the French people" - Le Pen is through to the final round in the presidential election

23 Apr 2017

47.9k

128

Social change

Citizens' Assembly recommends abortion to be allowed without restrictions up to 12 weeks

23 Apr 2017

83.1k

571

Sisters of Charity

Bishop says new maternity hospital should obey rules of Catholic Church

23 Apr 2017

40.9k

164

What Next?

After huge vote to push for change to Ireland's abortion laws, the Assembly is deciding what they should look like

23 Apr 2017

14.6k

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