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The search for “violent, hardened criminal” Derek Brockwell is continuing this afternoon.

A man jailed over the murder of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara has won an appeal case over his solitary confinement.

A 17-year-old has been rearrested by police investigating the death of schoolboy Oisín McGrath in Fermanagh.

A woman’s daily liquorice habit was the likely cause of her “thunderclap headaches” Dublin doctors determined.

The brinkmanship continues in the bid to reach a deal to prevent a catastrophic ‘Grexit

And this just in… Darren Clarke is the 2016 Ryder Cup captain.