The Briefing - Your Wednesday morning news catch up
When these swimmers and kayakers went for a swim this morning the last thing they expected was to be joined by a giant shark.
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AN "unintended consequence" was the phrase used repeatedly yesterday to explain why thousands of terminally ill patients or children with profound disabilities have been losing their discretionary medical cards at an accelerating pace over the past few years.
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Ireland is set to bask in the high 20s today as the country enjoys a mini heatwave.
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A suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi triggered an explosion at a World Cup viewing centre in north-east Nigeria, killing several people, witnesses said.
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Britain’s top counter-terrorism official says the country’s espionage rules allow its electronic spy agency to routinely intercept online communications between Britons who use US-based platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
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EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley last night came out strongly in favour of the current status of the Irish Open Championship even though it is still without a title sponsor and its prize fund at Fota Island this week is €2 million, well below what the European Tour and quite a number of leading players would like it to be.
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Well, it wouldn’t be a World Cup if Eamon Dunphy wasn’t doing something controversial, now would it?
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US multinationals incorporated in Ireland should have their entire global operations taxed here, a leading academic has claimed.
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VIEWPOINTS
I SPENT a good deal of last weekend at the Special Olympic Games in Limerick. And a glorious weekend it was. A wonderful, intimate, family-focused opening ceremony on Thursday night was followed by three days of intense competition in the variety of sports in which Special Olympic athletes compete.
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SHOWBIZ
Prosecutors are dropping a disorderly conduct case against singer Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, related to a fight at the couple’s home.
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THE Sound of Things Falling by Colombian author, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from Spanish by Canadian Anne McLean, is the winner of the 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award and €100,000 — but how do awards affect the winners — and the losers? Do they really matter?
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A motorist drove behind two cyclists, beeped at them, shouted that "fucking cyclists were taking over the road", threatened that he would roll over them next time, and drove off with a single-finger gesture out the window — not realising that the cyclists were two off-duty gardaí.
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