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The Donald Trump Presidency is underway so we have created this listicle in the hope of proving Aldous Huxley right when he suggested “after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” 

Many will mourn, but few will cheer the passing of 2016, writes John Whelan.

A US tech company will open a new power electronics research lab in Cork today as part of a major expansion of its Irish operation.

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HILARY CLINTON, the putative Democratic candidate in November’s ’s White House race will be relieved that the FBI has recommended that no criminal charges be brought against her over her use of a private email server while she served as US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

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J.K. Rowling spoke at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Gala in New York earlier this week, and her message regarding Donal Trump has been resonating around the world since.

NOW that the first round of accusatory grandstanding is coming to a close — the blood-letting comes later — a dispassionate assessment of what the election means for our body politic and how it shapes our lives rather than political parties’ ambitions might just be possible. It would certainly be desireable. 

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Donal Trump has set the bar so low that even remarks like ‘legitimate rape’ seem less outrageous now, writes Alison O’Connor

Oysterhaven property should have no problem attracting the interest of the super rich, Tommy Barker reports