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DANNY COST ME MY JOB
MICHAEL Healy-Rae says he was ‘sacked on air’ in a ‘cock-up’ of an interview by his brother Danny, that ‘cost Kerry’ a ministry. The Independent TD for Kerry resigned his junior ministry after Danny Healy-Rae called for Micheál Martin and Simon Harris...
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VACCINE FOR SKIN CANCER
PATIENTS with deadly skin cancer could soon benefit from a revolutionary vaccine that has been shown to slash the risk of their disease returning by almost half. Melanoma is one of the most aggressive and fatal types of skin cancer, with just under...
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DESPERATE PARENTS GO LEGAL ROUTE TO GET PLACE IN SCHOOLS
FIFTY judicial reviews were taken against the Department of Education relating to school places for children with special education needs last year, internal records have revealed. The move to take judicial reviews shows the ‘desperation’ some parents...
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WOMAN TOOK US TO A VENUE ABOVE A SEX SHOP: HOW THIS COUPLE WERE ‘LUCKY’ TO BE STUNG FOR ONLY €500
A WOMAN who hired Claire Lopez as her wedding planner said she was ‘gutted’ when she realised she was being taken for a ride. Samantha Kelly-Findlay said Ms Lopez had come so highly recommended that she had no issues choosing her for the job. But over...
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WATCHDOG WARNS OF ‘CARTELS’ ON PUBLIC TENDERS
CARTEL behaviour in public procurement has been happening for ‘many decades’, the country’s competition regulator believes. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has only recently received new powers of sanction, despite calling for them...
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GARDAÍ ON PATROL AS 20 SCHOOLS GET SHOOTING THREAT
GARDAÍ will be on patrol at 42 primary schools across Co. Carlow today – after almost half of them received threats of a mass shooting. A mystery emailer contacted 20 schools early yesterday morning claiming that there was going to be ‘blood in the...
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PAY YOUR OWN WAY TO STAY, UKRAINIANS TOLD
TENS of thousands of Ukrainians receiving housing supports from the State will not be eligible to remain here under strict new rules. Yesterday, the Cabinet approved measures to wind down the level of supports given to those who have fled the Russian...
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EMERGENCY HOUSING FOR HOMELESS NOW COSTING US €493.6M
‘RUNAWAY’ spending on homelessness services has soared by 570% in the last ten years, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The cost of emergency accommodation from private and thirdparty providers reached an astonishing €493.6million last year. It comes...
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SINN FEIN IS IN TURMOIL AFTER POOR BY-ELECTION OUTCOMES
MAJOR infighting between left- and rightwing factions has engulfed Sinn Féin in the wake of its disastrous by-election results at the weekend, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. And the party is facing pressure from its left-wing allies in Opposition,...
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RTE CHIEF: MY HANDS ARE TIED ON DEAD RADIO STAR’S PAY
RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has sig- nalled he won’t intervene in the case of Seán Rocks’s partner, who has said their family has been left ‘very disadvantaged financially’ by his misclassification as producer. In an email to staff yesterday,...
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20,300
IRELAND’S tech sector saw the biggest loss of jobs in any part of the economy in the first three months of the year, shocking new figures revealed yesterday show. Some 20,300 jobs in IT evaporated at the start of the year, with the number employed in...
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RTE TOLD: CLEAN UP YOUR ACT ON PAY
RTÉ bosses have been told to reveal the true scale of pay to its stars, with its annual list of its top 10 earners branded a ‘waste of space’. Director general Kevin Bakhurst appeared before the Oireachtas Media Committee yesterday where it emerged...
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As Meghan and Harry release dozens of unseen wedding photos, Jan Moir can’t get enough!
WHAT should the world’s most private celebrity couple do to mark their eighth wedding anniversary? Hide under a rock, silently toast each other with fine champagne while snuggled under a blanket – or under a blanket media blackout, at the very...
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CABINET ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH RTE OVER PAY
THE Government fears a proposed salary hike for RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst will prompt a flurry of claims from its star talent, including Patrick Kielty. A new series of pay irregularities at RTÉ that have been disclosed by a ‘scoping...
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ASTONISHING SPAT BETWEEN FF MINISTERS ON OVERSPEND IN EDUCATION
A MAJOR spat is developing between the Higher Education Minis- ter and the Public Expenditure Minister over the plan to levy other departments to pay for an expected €600million overspend in Education. Despite significant private opposition to the...
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MURDERER ON CANVASS WITH THE SF CANDIDATE IN DUBLIN
CONVICTED IRA killer Eamonn Nolan, who murdered a civil servant in front of the victim’s three-year-old son in 1979, has been pictured canvassing for Sinn Féin by-election candidate Janice Boylan. Nolan, who is a senior party official, spent 14 years...
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THOUSANDS ABANDON RTE RADIO OVER NEW SCHEDULE
RTÉ Radio 1 has suffered a punishing drop in listeners across the board – as its new schedule, launched just six months ago, sees thousands tune out. But the national broadcaster declared yesterday: ‘No one is panicking... we will keep going.’ The...
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I WORRYABOUT THE AFRICANS
BERTIE Ahern was denounced yesterday after he was secretly recorded saying he ‘worries about’ the number of Africans coming into the country and the next generation of Muslims. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said Fianna Fáil ‘do not approve’ of the former...
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PREPARE FOR MORE AMBULANCE CHAOS
THE health sector was plunged into chaos yesterday as over 2,000 ambulance staff went on strike – with up to five days of action yet to come this month. As protesters picketed outside ambulance bases across the country, patients’ groups said that...
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FUEL PRICE PROTESTS DROVE UP THE COST OF BUILDING
FUEL protests that brought the country to a halt last month were a ‘key factor’ in driving up construction costs and delaying house-building, a new report shows. Roads, ports and critical infrastructure were blocked in a weeklong protest over the...
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‘I’D HAVE BOUGHT DEADLIER WEAPONS’
TRAGIC Carlow gunman Evan Fitzgerald told gardaí that if he wanted to hurt many people, he’d have bought deadlier weapons. According to confidential documents seen by the Irish Daily Mail, Mr Fitzgerald was interviewed by gardaí on the day of his...
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TEACHERS’ DIVERSITY RETREAT IN CARIBBEAN
EIGHT senior teachers at Dublin secondary schools went on trips costing €28,000 to a tropical island in the Caribbean to attend a weeklong ‘diversity, inclusion and mindfulness’ training retreat. Two of the EU-funded trips – one last November and one...
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PARENTS’ SHOCK AT SCHOOL’S UNISEX TOILETS
PARENTS at a new secondary school have branded the decision to use mixed-sex toilets as ‘disgraceful’ and said that it ‘disregards the privacy of girls’. The 1,000-student Educate Together school in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, moved into a new four-storey...
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ADULT MIGRANTS LIVED WITH CHILDREN IN CARE OF TUSLA FOR MONTHS
UP to 181 adult migrants spent an average of two months living among children in Tusla’s care after falsely presenting as minors to immigration officials. Tusla has told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee that some adults spent 57.6 days, on...
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Off-duty garda who had been drinking with colleagues drove car at 109kph and killed hurling coach in hit-and-run
A FORMER inter-county hurler and coach was thrown 34 metres through the air when he was struck and killed by an off-duty garda who was driving at more than twice the speed limit, a court has heard. The sentencing hearing at Dundalk Circuit Court heard...
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COLLEGE FEES CUT IN DANGER
CUTS to college fees may be scrapped over the ‘decision to levy’ ministers for overspending at the Department of Education, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Minister for Higher Education James Lawless has said levies to cover the cost of bailouts ‘may...
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MINISTER UNDER PRESSURE OVER CANCER FAILURES
HEALTH Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is under pressure from Fine Gael backbenchers following revelations that 80% of the country’s radiotherapy machines must be replaced. Members of her party have previously been told by the Department of Health...
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HALF OF THE ROOMS AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL UNFINISHED
MORE than 2,500 rooms at the €2.2billion National Children’s Hospital have not been completed yet, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said only around half of the more than 5,700 rooms developer BAM is...
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‘Would-be Trump assassin’ mocked security measures at packed event
IT SOUNDED like the muffled popping of champagne corks in rapid succession, but no one opens bottles that fast. They reverberated from the hotel foyer and through the open main door into the Washington Hilton ballroom, where I was sitting at one of...
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NO DOCTORS FOR AIR AMBULANCES
AIR ambulances in Ireland will not be staffed by doctors until after 2029 at the earliest, despite evidence that they would save lives and result in millions in savings for the health service, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. An internal briefing...
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MARTIN ‘IN DENIAL’ OVER FF SUPPORT
FIANNA Fáil is struggling to find people willing to canvass for the upcoming by-election in Galway with the party’s leadership ‘in denial’ over the ill-feeling among its grassroots. The Irish Daily Mail can reveal that John Connolly, the party’s...
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OVER TO YOU NOW MINISTER
THE Government is under mounting pressure to tackle the spiralling cost of living after the EU Commission announced plans for a major relaxation of state aid rules. The EU move will enable countries to use public funds to tackle the short and...
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YOU ALL HAVE TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF BAILOUTS IN EDUCATION
A ROW has erupted at Cabinet after ministers were told they would have to cover the overspending in the Department of Education. The Irish Daily Mail reported last month that the Department of Education required bailouts totalling more than €4billion...
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WOMAN WHO TASERED AND PUNCHED MEN REPOSSESSING HER HOUSE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER COURT HEARING
A WOMAN who tasered one security official and punched another as they repossessed her home has been taken into custody after she refused to enter a good behaviour bond. Lisa Temple, 56, was yesterday given a one-year suspended sentence in Dublin...
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MARTIN VOWS TO LEAD FF INTO THE NEXT ELECTION
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin has insisted he will lead his party into the next election and that the sense he gets from Fianna Fáil members is ‘very supportive and warm’. His statement comes following a week in which his Government survived a confidence...
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KINAHAN CAPTURED IN COVERT DUBAI OP
GANG leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates and faces extradition back to Ireland. The crime boss-turned-boxing promoter, who has been hunted by the authorities for years, was arrested on Wednesday on foot of a warrant...
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FAT JABS AT YOUR DOOR IN 48 HOURS
A PHARMACY chain is offering to deliver weight-loss drugs to your door within 48 hours after an online medical consultation. Lloyds Pharmacy’s new service requires patients to fill out a five-minute questionnaire and prove their weight in a video...
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FF YOUNG GUNS’ WARNING SHOT
PRESSURE is mounting on Micheál Martin’s leadership as Fianna Fáil’s attitude to its voters was called into question by the party’s youngest TDs. James O’Connor, Albert Dolan and Ryan O’Meara warned that the social contract has been ‘strained to...
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I believe I’m a gauge of the people of rural Ireland... this Taoiseach has let them down
MICHEÁL Martin’s leadership has been damaged after Michael Healy-Rae put the blame on him for his shock resignation from Government following the fuel protests. The Irish Daily Mail has learned Government leaders were blindsided by Mr Healy Rae’s...
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TRUMP GOES TO WAR ON THE POPE
DONALD Trump sparked outrage yesterday by posting an image of himself as Jesus, while launching a broadside at the Pope. Trump branded Pope Leo XIV ‘weak on crime’ and ‘terrible for foreign policy’ after he spoke out against the war with Iran. The US...
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FEARS THAT PRICES OF MEDICINES ARE IN FOR MAJOR HIKE
DRUG manufacturers have been hit with higher charges to help fund our medicines watchdog – and the cost is expected to be passed on to consumers, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Experts say the controversial move will drive up the price of generic...
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END BLOCKADES AND GET A DEAL
A ‘SIGNIFICANT and enhanced’ support package for sectors under pressure over increasing fuel costs is on the table, but only if nationwide blockades are lifted. Protest organisers were turned away from talks at the door of Government Buildings in...
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COUNTRY RUNNING OUT OF FUEL – AND PATIENCE
PATIENCE and fuel tanks are running dry across the country over the continuing blockades by protesters preventing deliveries to petrol stations and pharmacies. Forecourts along the west coast are ‘totally compromised’ as protests block key fuel depots...
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AI THR,EAT TO 200 000 HIGHLY PAID IRISH JOBS
ALMOST 200,000 highly paid workers are at ‘high risk’ of being replaced by AI in the coming years, a new report has found. Educated, white-collar employees are set to bear the brunt of the transition to artificial intelligence, with up to one in five...
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NIGHT THE WORLD HELD ITS BREATH AND PRAYED
DONALD Trump threatened to wipe out the ‘whole civilisation’ of Iran as peace talks went down to the wire last night. The US bombed Kharg Island and Israel pounded bridges, railways and roads across the country as they appeared to lay the groundwork...
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ANKLE TAGS FOR BAILED PRISONERS AND SEXUAL PREDATORS
SEX offenders and prisoners granted bail will be monitored using ankle tags, in a bid to cut the numbers in our overcrowded prisons. The Irish Daily Mail can reveal the Government was this month forced to re-advertise for the scheme, which has been...
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TRUMP DROPS F-BOMB ON IRAN
DONALD Trump ordered Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in an expletive-laden ultimatum yesterday. Emboldened after the daring rescue of a downed US airman, the US president told the mullahs: ‘Open the f***in’ Strait, you crazy b ***** ds, or...
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NEW SPORTS ARENA IF THE STATE COMES UP WITH €66M
A €225MILLION worldclass sports and concert arena based on the famous Madison Square Garden in New York is on the cards for Dublin – if the Government stumps up €66 million towards it. The new 6,000-8,000 seater indoor stadium will feature two...
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Man who died in jail had been stripped and body seemed to be bruised
AN INMATE who died after being moved to a padded cell had been stripped naked by officers and had apparent bruising to his head and upper body, the Mail has learned. Colm Connolly, 46, was pronounced dead in the cell at the Midlands Prison in...
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NOW TRUMP GOES TO WAR ON NATO
DONALD Trump threatened to ditch Nato last night after European allies turned their backs on his war in the Middle East. The president was expected to use an overnight address to the United States to register his ‘disgust’ for the historic alliance...
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GARDAÍ TO RECORD SUSPECTS’ ETHNICITY
GARDAÍ could soon record the ethnicity of suspects and those convicted of serious crimes such as sexual assault, under new plans being prepared by the Government. An Garda Síochána has told the Irish Daily Mail that it is ‘in favour’ of recording the...
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A KENNEDY LOVE STORY: M&S LAUNCHES 90S CAPSULE
CAROLYN Bessette Kennedy has become a fashion icon to a whole new generation of young women almost three decades after her untimely death, aged 33, thanks to hit drama Love Story. Now, fans can recreate her effortlessly chic and minimalist style from...
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A MONTH MORE OF WAR COULD BRING US BACK TO COVID-ERA RESTRICTIONS
THERE is growing concern the State may have to put Covid-style travel restrictions in place if the Gulf crisis continues for another month. A senior Government source warned: ‘If there is a prolonged crisis there will be restrictions on travel. It a...
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‘BLAME GAME’ ERUPTS ON €100M CRISIS IN EDUCATION
A ‘BLAME game’ has erupted in Government over Department of Education overruns, with Jack Chambers launching a ‘scathing’ attack on Helen McEntee and Norma Foley, former holders of the portfolio. But frustrated Cabinet ministers, who will see their...
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€100M BAILOUT FOR EDUCATION
THE need for a multimillion-euro bailout at the Department of Education, just three months into the year, has been blamed on ‘incompetence’, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Senior Cabinet sources pointed to ‘incompetence’ in the ‘problematic’...
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PRIVATE JETS TO GET FUEL TAX CUT
THE Government quietly cut excise duty on private jet fuel in its energy supports package this week, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. While the Taoiseach said the €250million in support measures would ‘protect our most vulnerable’, the Coalition has...
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FLATLEY HIRED EX-GARDA TO EXAMINE HUGE LOANS AT FIRM FOR HIS SHOWS
MICHAEL Flatley has hired a private detec- tive to investigate spiralling loans worth millions of euro on the books of a company he established to run his Lord Of The Dance tour, a court has heard. Belfast High Court was presented yesterday with sworn...
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PRICES AT THE PUMP TO BE CUT
THE price of petrol and diesel are to be slashed as part of a package set to be announced today by the Government to deal with the increased cost of oil. With diesel now at over €2.10 at some filling stations around the country, the Government met...
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TOP PROMOTION FOR PARAMEDIC UNDER GARDA INVESTIGATION
A SERVING paramedic under Garda investigation for allegedly drugging and raping a woman has secured a significant promotion despite the allegations against him, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The man, who was accused of giving the woman sedatives...
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PARAMEDICS EXPOSED AS CRIMINALS ARE OUSTED
A DOZEN convicted criminals, including eight sex offenders, have been stripped of their status as paramedics and banned from working in Ireland after the ambulance watchdog refused to renew their registrations, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. A...
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IRAN WAR THREAT TO COST OF HOLIDAY FLIGHTS
HOLIDAYMAKERS are facing soaring air fares and even cancellations this summer as the war in Iran risks jet fuel shortages. Airline bosses said yesterday fuel price hikes could yet be passed on to those looking to get away if the war drags on. The...
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IRAN WAGES ‘FULL SCALE ECONOMIC WAR’ ON THE WEST
IRAN last night threatened to cripple the global energy market in a ‘full-scale economic war’ by ramping up missile attacks on oil and gas plants. In a major escalation of the Middle East crisis, facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries were...
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Trump eyeballed me and said: That was a strange question about the snails. I’ll have to check it out...
AS I SLOWLY walked out of the Oval Office, the most powerful man in the world eyeballed me. ‘That was a strange question you asked,’ the US president said. ‘I’ll have to check that out.’ It was a surreal moment from Donald Trump, who had just spent...
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OSCARS SPECIAL
A ‘SUBDUED’ Timothée Chalamet made the rounds of the post Oscars parties on Sunday night, steering clear of the Governors Ball where all the winners were having their statuettes engraved. Perhaps it would have been too painful to watch everyone else...
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DON’T BRING UP CULLETON CASE AT THE OVAL OFFICE, TAOISEACH
THE public is firmly against the Taoiseach bringing up the case of ICE detainee Séamus Culleton at the White House tomorrow. Just 18% think that Micheál Martin should raise the issue of Mr Culleton with Donald Trump, while 50% do not. The remaining...
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WE’RE NOT READY FOR DRONE ATTACK, MAJORITY BELIEVE
JUST one in 12 people believes Ireland is prepared for a drone or cyberattack on the State when the country takes up the EU presidency later this year. The findings come in a poll carried out by Amárach research on behalf of the Irish Daily...
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TRUMP: IRAN WAR IS ‘PRETTY MUCH’ OVER
DONALD Trump last night claimed the war in the Middle East was ‘pretty much’ over. He said the American-Israeli operation launched ten days ago was ‘very far’ ahead of schedule. The US president even went on to describe the massive onslaught as a...
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CONNOLLY’S SPEECH PUTS TAOISEACH’S WHITE HOUSE VISIT IN PERIL
MINISTERS are concerned Donald Trump could cancel Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s White House visit over controversial comments by Catherine Connolly. President Connolly said the ongoing missile attacks in the Middle East are ‘deliberate assaults on...
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