Your Thursday evening news catch-up
TOP STORY
The former President of the European Central Bank has denied he phoned Brian Lenihan in the days before the bank guarantee and told him to save the banks at all costs.
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IRELAND
A judge has ruled that dark tinted windows on Cian Healy's all-terrain Land Rover were unsafe.
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Three Cork students have been named winners of the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup Pitch Video Challenge.
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SPORT
Henry Shefflin is set to join RTE's stable of GAA pundits, it is understood.
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Lokeren defender Gregory Mertens has died three days after collapsing during a reserve match, his club have announced.
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ANALYSIS
TURN on the radio or pick up a newspaper and you might just notice that there is an inquiry tasked with finding out why this State was nearly destroyed by its banks. It is in this context that I ask the question: why are Bank of Ireland (BOI) and Allied Irish Bank (AIB) running banks in our schools?
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EXAMVIRAL
Beloved Irish author Roddy Doyle - he of ’The Snapper’ and ’The Commitments’ fame - has penned an excellent short story about the upcoming referendum on May 22.
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TECHNOW
Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins in first Legend trailer | http://t.co/yxzOMTTPYr (GM) pic.twitter.com/kYeNuCp2h3
— Irish Examiner Lifestyle (@IELifestyle_) April 30, 2015
Tom Hardy is a commanding screen presence so it stands to reason that some studio executive has pondered in the past about the effect of having double the Hardy on screen. And now you can see what that looks like.
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WORLD
A pipe bomb, an assault rifle, ammunition and chemicals that could be used to make explosives have been found in an anti-terror raid near Frankfurt.
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The eight prisoners executed in Indonesia refused blindfolds and sang Amazing Grace and Bless The Lord O My Soul, before their singing was silenced by gunfire.
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BUSINESS
Royal Dutch Shell has reported a 57% slump in first quarter profits after it was hit by the fall in oil and gas prices.
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The European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme (QE), aimed at stimulating the eurozone economy, has adversely affected Bank of Ireland, by driving up the deficit in its defined benefit pension schemes by €700m.
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LIFESTYLE
She’s been in the news with her famous boyfriend, but Cork actress Sarah Greene deserves her profile very much for her own achievements, writes
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SHOWBIZ
The Dublin rockers are currently on tour across the U.S but stopped off to perform on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
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MOST READ RIGHT NOW
A hero garda risked his life to save three children by taking off his bullet-proof jacket and using it to shield them from a man who had shot at himself and his colleagues.
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