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An overview of the full extent Morrison's Island flood defences project. Picture: Cork City Council.

NEWS

Legal challenge set to further delay Cork city flood project

The already delayed €6m public realm upgrade of historic quays in Cork’s Morrison’s Island area is facing another legal challenge.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD. Picture: Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie

NEWS

Colour-coded warning system to outline Covid threat in regions

Ireland is moving to a colour-coded system for Covid awareness and spread.

Almost half of parents said they would consider what measures are in place before deciding whether to send their children back to school. File picture.

NEWS

Parents face back-to-school costs of up to €1,500 per child

22% of parents are facing into the new term with reduced income due to the pandemic

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COURT-CRIME

Over 25k bench warrants outstanding for more than a year

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MUNSTER

The forgotten story of Cork's hunger strikers is to be told for the first time

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WORLD

New Zealand scrambles to find source of new virus infections

COURT-CRIME

€100k of drugs seized after flats searched and package intercepted

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COURT-CRIME

Brother of man who took his own life says coroner's verdict is 'absurd'

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SPOTLIGHT

Central Mental Hospital: 'We tolerate a system that no other country would'

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Smartphone accident study

Calls for review after error in Covid-19 test result text messages

There are calls for a review after a technology error caused problems with Covid-19 test results last week. Some patients got text messages saying they had tested negative but the details of when their tests took place were inaccurate.

Resident locked out of care centre 27 times in seven months

Personal details of staff released in Social Protection IT breach

Teen in court over Kimberly O'Connor car-crash death

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'God only knows where I picked it up': Covid-19 compliance officer hit by virus

A Covid-19 compliance officer who contracted the Coronavirus is appealing to people to stick to the public health advice and realise just how easy it is to be hit with the killer bug.

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Update: An Post announces emergency arrangements after fire guts Cork post office

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Worker dies at road works in Kerry

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Michael Healy-Rae admits he will not enforce face masks rule in his shop

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India Deadly Clashes

Three killed in India in clashes over Facebook post about Prophet Mohammed

At least three people have been killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru as police clashed with hundreds of Muslims who attacked a police station and set fire to vehicles during a protest over a Facebook post considered offensive to Islam, ...

New species of dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight

Virus Outbreak Vaccine Competition

Science and politics tied up in global race for a coronavirus vaccine

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Trump ‘surprised’ Biden picked Harris for VP

court & crime

Sean Graham shooting

PSNI in deal on information sharing with Ombudsman

Police have reached agreement on sharing information with the Police Ombudsman after shortcomings in a probe linked to a notorious loyalist mass murder.

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Two brothers face trial, charged with attempted murder of garda

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Jury to continue deliberations tomorrow over Aaron Brady's capital murder charge

Watchdog calls for routine searches after unresponsive prisoner found with 22 heroin wraps

Spotlight

Green Party

Special Report: Can the Greens stay the course when the going gets tough?

The Greens are no strangers to government even though most of their TDs are.

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Special Report: Ireland's young people 'fear the future more than anything' amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis

'He gave us the platform, the pathway': the life of John Hume is applauded by the town he loved so well

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Special Report: Despite it all, the art and artists persist

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