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MCVERRY’S SECRET FEES TO COMPANY OWNED BY EX-AUDITOR
IRELAND’S largest housing charity, the Peter McVerry Trust (PMVT), made undeclared payments over the course of a decade to a firm that was owned by its own external auditor, an Irish Mail on Sunday Investigation can reveal. The charity’s ex-auditor,...
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TRUMP: I NOW RUN VENEZUELA
AMERICA ON THE WARPATH Blindfolded and shackled, brutal dictator Nicolas Maduro, after being dramatically captured by US special forces in a shock-and-awe raid. And as the world reels, a White House declaration...
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HARRIS: WE’LL BAN NAMELESS INTERNET TROLLS
THE Government will use Ireland’s presidency of the EU next year to push for new laws to block anonymous ‘ keyboard warriors’ from spreading hate and disinformation online. In an interview with the Irish Mail on Sunday, Tánaiste Simon Harris said that...
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NEW YEAR BY-ELECTION SHOWDOWN FOR MARTIN
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin faces the prospect of a New Year showdown over the two by-elections that could derail his leadership after two Independent Ireland TDs threatened to try to force early votes for the two empty Dáil seats. The move comes as the...
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MARTIN’S TOP ADVISER TOLD OF GAVIN RENT BEFORE FF VOTE
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin’s most senior adviser and his deputy leader were aware of presidential candidate Jim Gavin’s disagreement with a tenant days before the party’s selection convention, according to a still unpublished review into the election...
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MCVERRY TRUST’S €172K RENT FOR DERELICT HOME
CONTROVERSY-hit housing charity the Peter McVerry Trust wasted €172,000 in funds for the homeless by renting a derelict and uninhabitable property for more than five years, an Irish Mail on Sunday investigation reveals. The country’s largest housing...
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GARDA CYBER CRIME EXPERT SUSPENDED OVER HARRIS HATE TWEETS
A SENIOR member of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau has been suspended after he made sinister online threats against Tánaiste Simon Harris, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Civilian Jonathan O’Neill, an executive officer at the GNCCB, called...
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‘AN INSULT TO GARDA HORKAN’S MEMORY’
THE SUPPLIER of controversial Gar- da gun holsters withdrawn from service due to safety concerns linked to the death of Detective Garda Colm Horkan was subsequently given a separate €28,000 contract to provide elements of Garda uniforms, the Irish Mail...
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MARTIN ‘WAS WARNED JIM GAVIN WAS A MEDIA DUD’
FIANNA Fáil’s leadership was hoping to make Jim Gavin its candidate without a parliamentary party vote and was aware he was a poor media performer before he was selected, the internal review into the party’s abortive presidential campaign has been...
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DJ CAREY USED DAD’S CANCER TO STEAL FROM HIS COUSIN
SHAMED hurling legend DJ Carey duped his cousin out of thousands of euro, using his own father’s death from cancer to secure the money. The sports star – who is spending his first weekend in jail as he awaits sentencing tomorrow – approached his...
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CONNOLLY ‘THE GAME CHANGER’
CATHERINE Connolly was elected Ireland’s tenth President last night following a landslide election victory that sent shockwaves through the establishment parties. The Independent TD and ‘united left’ candidate was declared the winner after she secured...
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CONNOLLY GUN AIDE REFUSES TO SAY SHE IS SORRY
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Catherine Connolly’s former assistant – convicted gun criminal Ursula Ní Shionnáin – has refused to say sorry for taking part in the attempted armed robbery that resulted in her being sentenced to six years in prison. The...
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FIANNA FAIL POLITICIANS PLAN GAVIN VOTE REVOLT
A SIGNIFICANT number of Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party members will still vote for Jim Gavin in the Presidential election – despite the fact the party’s candidate has withdrawn from the race – the Irish Mail on Sunday understands. TDs, Senators and...
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ANTI-TERROR GARDAI WERE WATCHING CONNOLLY AIDE
DISSIDENT republican gunwoman Ursula Ní Shionnáin was under surveillance by Garda anti-terrorist officers following her release from prison and throughout her employment at Leinster House with Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, the Irish Mail...
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BABIES BEING FLOWN IN TO SCAM CHILD ALLOWANCE
UK-BASED families are fraudulently claiming child benefit here by claiming they live at Irish addresses, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. The families fly into Ireland to register their newborn’s birth, falsely alleging they have had a home birth...
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HUMPHREYS’ HUSBAND’S SECRET ORANGE ORDER PAST
FINE GAEL presidential candidate Heather Humphreys was forced to confirm yesterday that her husband was a member of the controversial Orange Order during the Troubles in the North. Answering a question from the Irish Mail on Sunday, she initially said...
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DIRTY TRICKS CAMPAIGN HITS GAVIN’S FF ARAS BID
THE Fianna Fáil leadership’s Presidential campaign descended into turmoil last night as a ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against prospective candidate Jim Gavin gathered pace. A photo of current Fine Gael Minister of State Emer Higgins posing with Mr Gavin...
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ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN: ‘I BELIEVE IN A UNITED IRELAND’
THE Primate of All Ireland Eamon Martin says he believes in a United Ireland and that a conversation around the steps to reunification needs to begin immediately. The Archbishop of Armagh was speaking to the Irish Mail on Sunday during a wide-ranging...
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MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORT ST JOHN OF GOD TO GARDAI
GARDAÍ are considering a criminal complaint about St John of God bosses who allowed a predatory paedophile to prey on vulnerable children in Africa for decades. The complaint was submitted to the Garda National Protective Services Bureau (GNPSB) by...
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McGREGOR WITNESSES ‘NOT LIVING ACROSS ROAD’
GARDAÍ are investigating if a couple who claimed in court documents that they had seen Nikita Hand’s expartner beat her up on the same night that she was raped by former MMA fighter Conor McGregor were not living at the property in which they said they...
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30 MORE CLAIMS AGAINST ‘OGRE’ BROTHER AIDAN
THE HEAD of the St John of God order is facing mounting pressure to step down as a trustee of seven State-funded special needs schools as 30 more cases of alleged abuse involving serial abuser Brother Aidan Clohessy emerged. This pressure intensified...
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‘WE’LL PUSH TO CUT CORPO TAX IN TARIFF WAR’
THE Government will push to reduce corporation tax rates to combat US president Donald Trump’s crippling 15% tariffs that pose a grave threat to the Irish economy, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. It comes amid huge uncertainty in the...
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BRACE FOR THE FIRST AUSTERITY BUDGET IN A DECADE
THE country is facing its first austerity budget in a decade, top Coalition sources told the Irish Mail on Sunday this weekend. And Fine Gael’s much-trumpeted 9% VAT rate cut for the hospitality sector will not be decided until Budget Day and may not...
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‘NOW CASEY’S VICTIMS HAVE BEEN HEARD’
THE removal of disgraced Bishop Eamonn Casey’s remains from Galway Cathedral’s crypt will give comfort to victims of his abuse, said the makers of an RTÉ/Irish Mail on Sunday documentary that led to the disinterment. Former Mail journalist Anne...
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KILLER RELEASED EARLY BECAUSE OUR JAILS ARE FULL
DOZENS of prisoners in jail for serious offences – including a killer and a criminal convicted of a murder threat – are being temporarily freed to ease the overcrowding crisis in our prisons, new figures reveal. It comes after the Irish Mail on Sunday...
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‘GARDAI MUST INVESTIGATE ST JOHN OF GOD CHIEF’ Finlay and German funders call for probe into abuse cover-up
THE leader of the St John of God order in Ireland should face criminal investigation for the reckless endangerment of children who were abused by a notorious paedophile, internal and external critics believe. Speaking to the Irish Mail on Sunday this...
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‘OGRE’ BROTHER ABUSED STREET KIDS IN AFRICA
A LIFELONG predatory paedophile was left free to prey on children in Africa for decades as his superiors in Ireland covered up his crimes back home, an Irish Mail on Sunday investigation reveals. Brother Aidan Clohessy, 85, was described by a judge...
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EX-CIVIL SERVANTS GET SWEETHEART OPW ‘RENT DEAL’
RETIRED and current civil servants are living effectively rent-free under a sweetheart deal in secret ‘ghost houses’ in the Phoenix Park, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. The revelation comes as new rent reforms introduced by the Government were...
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HOSPITAL RAN ‘CASH FOR SCANS’ SCHEME
PATIENTS at a public hospital were asked to pay cash-for-scans to ‘bump’ them up non-existent waiting lists so consultants could pocket thousands of euros for private work, a whistleblower has claimed in a protected disclosure. They also allege these...
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‘TEEN’S CANCER CARE DELAYED TO ACCESS NTPF’
THE lives of seriously ill patients – including a teenager with cancer – were put at unnecessary risk due to alleged abuses of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), a whistleblower has claimed in a protected disclosure. They also accuse Health...
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SATCHWELL ‘PLANNING WIFE TINA’S MURDER FOR WEEKS’
GARDAÍ believe Richard Satchwell planned the murder of his wife weeks in advance because he thought she was going to leave him, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. Senior sources familiar with the investigation that would ultimately result in...
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‘KIEA’S KILLER NEVER EVEN SAID SORRY’
THE distraught parents of one of the two teenagers killed on their way to a debs ball say the former ‘friend’ responsible for her death has ‘never apologised’ to them. In an interview with the Irish Mail on Sunday, Frankie and Teresa McCann – whose...
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BODY PARTS FOUND AFTER FIELD SPRAYED WITH SLURRY
TRACES of Michael Gaine’s suspected remains were discovered on his farm the morning after slurry was spread, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. The slurry was spread on Friday night and, what gardaí confirmed were human remains, were found...
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SLAIN GARDA’S GUN HOLSTER WAS NEVER TESTED BY FORENSICS
SENIOR gardaí withheld murdered Detective Garda Colm Horkan’s defective gun holster from the control of forensic officers charged with investigating the crime, a whistleblower has claimed in a series of damning protected disclosures to the Irish Mail...
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50,000 HOMES A WEEK HIT BY POWER CUTS
MORE than 50,000 households and businesses are being hit with power outages every week, an Irish Mail on Sunday investigation reveals. And last year alone more than 30,000 blackouts affected almost three million customers – which includes people...
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Final journey to his eternal rest
FOR two unforgettable hours yesterday, as sun poured down on the Vatican, a bitterly divided world came together. Bonded by their respect for a man who dedicated his life to healing political and social divisions, and valued all human beings equally,...
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‘WE WON’T GET WITHIN ASS’S ROAR OF TARGETS’
LATEST housing data has sent shock waves through the highest levels of Government as a senior Coalition source last night admitted there is now no ‘chance of getting within an ass’s roar’ of this year’s new-build targets. It comes as new figures show...
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GARDAI FEAR FOUR LOST FIREARMS ‘IN CRIMINAL HANDS’
GARDAÍ fear that four missing guns, originally seized in 2009 alongside a twice-seized Winchester pump action shotgun, are now in criminal hands. It is the latest revelation to come from a series of protected disclosures from two Garda whistleblowers...
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‘ARMS DUMP AT GARDA HQ’
AUTOMATIC firearms, ammunition and explosives were kept in a shipping container at Garda Headquarters without proper documentation or tracing and with negligible security, according to a series of protected disclosures that have been seen by the Irish...
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20 HSE STAFF SINCE 2020 GOT €400K GOLDEN HANDSHAKES
TWENTY senior Health Service Executive employees retired with golden handshake deals worth more than €400,000 over the past five years. The revelation sparked a political backlash last night amid criticism of the scale of the payouts, which dwarf the...
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‘WE WILL STOP MCGREGOR’S BID FOR ARAS’
FORMER EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has emerged as the Fine Gael frontrunner in the race for the Áras as the Coalition parties move to block Conor McGregor’s attempt to gain a nomination for the Presidential elections. With Fianna Fáil MEP Barry...
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‘LET TRUMP ADDRESS THE HOUSES OF OIREACHTAS’
DONALD Trump should pay a State visit to Ireland and become the fifth US president to address the Oireachtas, Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris has told the Irish Mail on Sunday. In an interview with the MoS in Philadelphia yesterday,...
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SECRET TAPE REVEALS HOW AMBULANCE SERVICE LIED TO HEALTH
BOSSES at the National Ambulance Service (NAS) lied to the Government for years about the existence of ‘zombie jobs’, a secretly recorded meeting reveals. The revelation comes amid continuing concerns about governance standards at the...
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UKRAINE AID DOUBLED TO €100M AFTER TRUMP ROW
THE Government doubled its military aid package to Ukraine to €100million in the wake of US president Donald Trump’s humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. As EU leaders rallied around the Ukrainian...
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HARRIS: I’LL END ‘TRIPLE LOCK’ON TROOPS IN WEEKS
PROPOSALS to amend Ireland’s ‘triple lock’ on neutrality, that will remove the UN veto on deploying Defence Forces peacekeepers on overseas missions, will be brought to Cabinet within weeks, Tánaiste Simon Harris last night told the Irish Mail on...
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GARDAI PROBE AI-GENERATED PORN IMAGE OF FF’S SEOIGE
GARDAÍ are investigating the circulation of a fake AI-generated pornographic image of former TV presenter Gráinne Seoige during her failed general election campaign, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Sources this weekend said gardaí are...
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OPW SPENT €50M ON CONTRACTS THAT BROKE STATE RULES
THE controversy-plagued OPW oversaw hundreds of building contracts totalling more than €50m that failed to comply with State procurement rules, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. The huge scale of the non-compliance was described this weekend as ‘a...
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FIANNA FAIL ASKS MATTIE McGRATH TO COME BACK
MOVES are afoot to facilitate the return of Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath to Fianna Fáil nearly 15 years after losing the party whip, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Ministers told the MoS this weekend that they had approached Mr McGrath in...
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DAIL CHAOS: ‘HANDSHAKE AGREEMENT’ SHOT DOWN BY SF/LABOUR
A ‘GENTLEMAN’S agreement’ brokered by the Clerk of the Dáil aimed at resolving this week’s unprecedented impasse – and sealed with a round of handshakes amongst party whips – broke down when it was put to opposition party leaders, the Irish Mail...
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ISRAELI TRADE BAN WILL BE DROPPED TO APPEASE TRUMP
THE Grand Coalition, set to formally take office this Wednesday, will move to appease the incoming Trump administration by shelving the Occupied Territories Bill. The Bill is now unlikely ever to make the statute books, the Irish Mail on Sunday...
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TROLLEY CRISIS ‘CAUSED 2,500 DEATHS IN 2024’ Same level of death as the worst phases of Covid pandemic
JUST under 2,500 people died last year due to lengthy A&E waiting times – despite HSE promises to tackle overcrowding in hospitals, an analysis by a leading data scientist and A&E expert reveals. A ‘very conservative’ calculation by Stephen Black, who...
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BANK KEPT LENDING TO LYNN AFTER WARNINGS
BANK of Ireland kept lending to convicted thief Michael Lynn years after senior staff at the lender warned he should be reported to the Law Society. The bank later recovered the millions it lost to Lynn via an insurance claim. Details of the internal...
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SEX ATTACKERS BEING MOVED FROM ONE CARE HOME TO ANOTHER
CONVICTED sex offenders in nursing homes are being moved from one facility to another after sexually assaulting residents without any alerts being raised about the attacks, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. This is just one of several alarming...
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VERONA’S ‘BULLY ROW’ HAD A €50K GAG ORDER
NEWLY elected Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy agreed a secret €50,000 gagging deal preventing details of her alleged bullying in the workplace becoming public, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. The news comes after the Wexford TD became the first...
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INDEPENDENT DEAL IS ‘DONE’
A COALITION between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Regional Independents is all but a done deal – and will be sealed by a seat at the Cabinet table for an Independent, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Sources in the outgoing Cabinet and among the...
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RUGBY STAR BRENDAN MULLIN IN OPEN PRISON
DISGRACED rugby hero Brendan Mullin has been sent to the open prison Shelton Abbey despite being sentenced to three years in prison for stealing €570,000 from a bank, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. The decision to send the convict to the ‘low...
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FF AND FG EYE DAIL MAJORITY
FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael are on track to form a new coalition without the support of a third party, it emerged last night. Despite an exit poll putting Micheál Martin’s party in third place behind Sinn Féin and Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil will be the...
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‘I KNEW THAT I WOULD WIN. I SIMPLY TOLD THE TRUTH’
SEXUAL assault victim Nikita Hand yesterday said she expected to win her civil action against MMA fighter Conor McGregor because she was telling the ‘truth from day one’. In an exclusive interview with the Irish Mail on Sunday, Ms Hand said the result...
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FF’S O’DEA: ‘MCENTEE IS WORST EVER MINISTER FOR JUSTICE’
ATTEMPTS to broker a ‘peace summit’ between warring Coalition partners unravelled yesterday after Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea called Helen McEntee the ‘worst minister for justice in the history of the State’. The veteran Limerick TD’s intervention...
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FG MANIFESTO PLEDGE TO MEANS TEST IMMIGRANTS
FINE Gael will insist that Coalition partners agree to charge asylum seekers €238 a week for accommodation and immediately start running a dedicated charter jet to deport illegal immigrants, according to a series of draconian immigration measures...
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‘WHY DID OUR BABY BOY DIE FROM MENINGITIS?’
THE heartbroken parents of a tragic seven-month-old baby have called for an independent inquiry into how their only child died from suspected septic shock after contracting meningitis. Little Mihai Marandici died at Dublin’s Temple Street hospital two...
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‘THE PUBLIC NO LONGER FEEL SAFE IN OUR CITIES’
TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin has revealed that he wants Fianna Fáil to take over the Department of Justice and to set up a new dedicated transport police force if successfully returned after a general election. In a hard-hitting interview with the Irish...
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‘SF’S REACTION TO THIS CRISIS IS REPUGNANT’
TAOISEACH Simon Harris has launched a stinging attack on what he calls Sinn Féin’s ‘repugnant’ response to a series of scandals that have rocked the main opposition party in recent weeks. Amid intense speculation about a November 29 general election,...
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‘REMOVE MY UNCLE’S BODY FROM CRYPT’
A NIECE of shamed Bishop Eamonn Casey who claims her uncle sexually abused her as a child has called on the Catholic Church to remove his remains from the crypt in Galway Cathedral. Patricia Donovan also criticised the Church over its continuing...
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GARDAI RAISE THREAT LEVEL FOR MINISTERS
THE security threat level to Taoiseach Simon Harris and Cabinet members has escalated from ‘moderate’ to ‘substantial’ in advance of the general election campaign, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Mr Harris – whose young family were recently...
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