Your Tuesday lunchtime news catch-up

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Marriage is a legal institution with a purpose: Children. For that reason it is the union of a man and a woman and anything else is something else, argues
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IRELAND

A Fianna Fáil councillor has called for the removal of the LGBT community’s rainbow flag from above Cork’s City Hall ahead of next week’s referendum.
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More than half of the country’s net household wealth rests in the hands of just 10% of the population, while people in less well-off sectors of society owe more than they own.
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One of the world’s longest cruise liners docked in Cork today — all 333m of her.
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SPORT

Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard has been voted the 2015 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association.
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We were so busy admiring LeBron James’ fantastic buzzer-beater winner on Sunday night that this equally impressive effort from the Second Year Schools League last week nearly went unnoticed.
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WORLD

At least four people are thought to have been killed in Nepal after another major earthquake there.
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Breast milk, dirt and the thought of being reunited with her family helped a New Zealand woman survive being lost in rugged wilderness.
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ANALYSIS

The Irish pub has a central role to play in the recovering tourism industry and in the wider economy, argues VFI president
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EXAMVIRAL

His thoughts on the upcoming marriage equality referendum were laid out in a documentary excerpt uploaded to YouTube last night - in which he says this month's vote is deeply personal for the LGBT community.
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Last night’s episode of Vincent Browne was one of the more chaotic in recent memory - probably since they were broadcasting from a pub - the Headfort Arms Hotel in Kells.
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TECHNOW
Nintendo makes amazing consoles and games but one of the major isues users have had is that consoles and games are generally region locked - so for example you couldn't buy a game in Japan and play it in your Irish Wii U.
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BUSINESS

Irish whiskey is now one of Ireland's fastest growing sectors with exports set to double by 2020 and double again by 2030.
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A major jump in the number of people getting married here last year resulted in ‘wedding bliss’ for the firm operated by the country’s best known wedding planner, Franc.
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LIFESTYLE

After packing his mankini for his trip to the famed film festival,
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SHOWBIZ
We're still a little surprised that The X-Files is coming back, what with the long wait since the last episode of the TV series in mid 2002 and the pretty terrible I Want to Believe feature film in 2008.
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Marriage is a legal institution with a purpose: Children. For that reason it is the union of a man and a woman and anything else is something else, argues
.READ MORE