Event: Winter Olympic Games

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Seamus O’Connor to lead Ireland at coldest Winter Olympic Games in decades

Seamus O’Connor will be Ireland’s flag bearer tomorrow morning as the coldest Winter Olympics in decades gets underway with the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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I have nuclear button on my desk, says North Korea's Kim Jong Un

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Second Volgograd blast 'was suicide bombing'

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Last Greenpeace activist cleared of hooligan charges

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Life in prison for trio behind Russian airport bombing

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Russia ‘to spy on Olympic athletes and visitors’

Gay rights groups to march in Dublin today

Gay rights groups are set to host the annual 'March for Marriage' in the capital later today.

Sun, 18 Aug, 2013

State Papers – Day One: 1980: Timeline

* January 6: Three members of UDR killed by an IRA landmine near Castlewellan, Co Down.

Thu, 30 Dec, 2010

Hard work starts now for Russia

RUSSIA basked in the limelight yesterday as the future first-time host of the World Cup in 2018, but media questioned how the country will pay the bill which they said could reach €37 billion.

Sat, 04 Dec, 2010

Brazilian bid to oust Irish rejected

A Court of Arbitration for Sport panel has dismissed an application from Brazil to replace Ireland’s women’s bobsleigh team at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2010

Flying the flag: Reliving Ireland’s golden days of Olympic glory

THE Winter Olympic Games opened in Vancouver, Canada, early this morning (Irish time). The controversy over the Irish bobsleigh team prompted memories of earlier controversies about Irish participation in the Olympics.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2010

Aussie appeal could derail Irish bobsleigh team’s Olympic dream

THE Irish women’s bobsleigh team could be sensationally stripped of their place at next week’s Winter Olympics following a legal challenge by Australian officials.

Sat, 06 Feb, 2010