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A 90-year-old woman, left with a €1,500 legal bill after failing to take down a satellite dish from outside her home, has slammed Dublin City Council for the way it has treated her.

Ireland has gone to back to the future as living standards return to pre-crash levels for the first time, a leading think-tank has declared.

The Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork broke ranks with his party last night to vote for a 10% cut in the city’s property tax.

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After several denied appeals the US state of Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate despite appeals by her children and Pope Francis to spare her life.

Jeremy Corbyn used his first conference speech as Labour leader to send a message to voters: “You don’t have to take what you are given.”

The death toll from an air strike on a wedding party in Yemen has jumped to 131, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in Yemen’s war, that drew strong condemnation from the UN secretary-general.

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