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IT’S been a rare Irish summer of glorious sunshine and so the Gate Theatre’s new production of A Streetcar Named Desire couldn’t arrive at a more apt time.

A small Cork-based boat-building company is enjoying major international success having recently won contracts to supply pilot and rescue vessels to a number of countries worldwide.

A CORONER yesterday called for improved safety signage at a spectacular spot in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, where several people have drowned.

A CORONER yesterday called for improved safety signage at a spectacular spot in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, where several people have drowned.

FOUR Polish men who were routinely racially abused and harassed while working for a recruitment agency have been awarded more than €22,000.

A 29-year-old man towed a trailer full of explosives into a suburban Dallas police station’s parking lot, then set fire to his pick-up truck and began shooting at the building, authorities said today.

Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the hypochondriac giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett Smith) are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York’s Central Park Zoo.

An identity thief in the US stole the wrong name when he unknowingly assumed the moniker of a convicted sex offender, authorities said.

Primal Scream are to release their first ever compilation album, to be called Dirty Hits on November 3.