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IN THE course of the children’s rights referendum campaign — on October 31st, 2012, to be exact — I took part in a debate with John Waters and Kathy Sinnott.

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Tomás Waters: “I heard the snap straightaway. I tried to get up and go after the ball, but I wasn’t able to get up. I was in too much pain.”

Waters’ knee injury was bad enough but the sorry tale of how his body has angrily rejected the screws placed in his knee to keep it together is the epitome of frustration.

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Roger Waters of Pink Floyd will perform The Wall tonight in Dublin in what he promises will be his last tour of the classic 1979 concept album.

THE first move of a totalitarian regime is to lock up the writers and intellectuals. They came for John Waters in the dead of night. Well, they didn’t, but they might as well have.

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Brilliant opportunist goals in each half by evergreen striker Jason Byrne helped Bray secure a vital victory over UCD at the Carlisle Grounds.

Bray Wanderers made it three leagues win in-a-row as penalties in either half from Jason Byrne proved enough to sink his former club at Oriel Park last night.

A VICTIM of serial child sex abuser Thomas Waters described him as a monster, and said he took away his innocence and replaced it with fear.

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THE family of a 24-year-old woman whose death police have linked to the party drug mephedrone yesterday paid tribute to a “really lovely girl”.

CORK CITY won their third FAI Umbro Youth Cup in dramatic circumstances at Turner’s Cross yesterday, Robert Waters’ 94th minute penalty breaking the hearts of a very unlucky Salthill Devon.

John Travolta fans finally have their two big wishes: His return to movie musicals after almost 30 years and his first role as a plump housewife.

A total of 125 new jobs are to be created in Wexford with the expansion of a plant which produces scientific instruments, it emerged today.

A 21-year-old man was remanded in custody today charged with the murder of a former soldier.

GARDAÍ have launched a murder hunt based on the results of the post-mortem examination on the body of a man found in suspicious circumstances in Sligo town yesterday.

The daughter of blues artist Muddy Waters was arrested for murder by detectives investigating the shooting of a man during a drug deal in 1996.

A father-of-two was sentenced to seven years in jail today for killing his father in a rage over sex abuse allegations.

NEWSPAPER columnist John Waters was yesterday re-instated by The Irish Times after four hours of union-brokered talks and less than 48 hours after he was axed by the paper because the editor believed he challenged her journalistic ethics.

IRISH TIMES columnist John Waters has accused the board of directors of the newspaper of living in a fantasy land of high living while presiding over swingeing cutbacks and massive staff redundancies.

A man accused of murder told Gardaí he "just lost the head" when his father admitted sexually abusing his older sisters, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.