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IRELAND
Former chairman of the Road Safety Authority, Gay Byrne, has said the law around drink-driving needs to be completely re-written from top to bottom. These comments come as Gillian Treacy described the death of her son, Ciarán, 4, in a crash caused by a drunken driver
One hundred years after it was penned, a handwritten love letter was discovered under the floorboards in a pharmacy in Co Cork.
One punter defied odds of 33,000/1 to cash in €16,500.50 winnings from a €5 bet.
He’s a warrior, an Irish sporting icon, and he’s soon to be Dr Paul O’Connell. Is there nothing the mighty Munster man can’t do?
WORLD
Mass graves have been discovered in South Sudan including forced cannibalism, according to the African Union.
The stepbrother of Becky Watts sobbed uncontrollably as he recounted how he killed the teenager after trying to force her into a suitcase during a kidnap attempt.
SPORT
The Minister of State for Sport says he wants ’media silence’ after today, regarding former Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh.
Are you ready to be underwhelmed? FIFA has announced the seven candidates for its presidency.
RUGBY WORLD CUP CENTRE
You get a good insight into the New Zealand psyche just listening to their supporters. They’re not exactly a shy or bashful lot when it comes to talking rugby.
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BUSINESS
Scandal-hit Volkswagen has posted a third-quarter loss of €3.5bn.
Accumulated profits at Co Roscommon funnyman, Chris O’Dowd’s UK production firm last year increased four fold to almost €500,000.
ANALYSIS
finds extreme danger in a ‘fifth column’ of Western supporters who slavishly endorse every move by the Russian president.
LIFESTYLE
Bats undeservedly get a bad rap as our only flying mammal is a harmless creature who doesn’t deserve its scary reputation and association with madness says .
VIDEO
A video showing students singing, shouting and kicking bags of rubbish late at night on Magazine Road near UCC in Cork caused controversy last week.
Students from UCC have since given their thoughts and reactions to the video and of the house party.
VIRAL
After a year and a day of building, a major construction in Cork is almost complete - and you can see the whole process now in one short timelapse.
This quiz will calculate your estimated brain age based on a number of easy questions.
TECHNOW
Boba Fett has some flashbacks to his last time near a Sarlacc in the launch trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront, but he responds in the best possible way.
Adam Sandler isn’t going anywhere, in fact he recently signed a major deal with streaming folks Netflix to develop four original movies which would debut on the service. And here’s the trailer for the first one, Ridiculous 6.
Twitter has unleashed their first ever TV ad. And it goes like this.
SHOWBIZ
So there’s an Assassin’s Creed movie on the way, with a decent budget and some star power in the form of , Michael Fassbender. And here’s the first official image from the set...
This scenario is no different for celebrity chef and father-of-two Jamie Oliver.
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A video showing students singing, shouting and kicking bags of rubbish late at night on Magazine Road near UCC in Cork caused controversy last week.
Students from UCC have since given their thoughts and reactions to the video and of the house party.
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