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ELECTION 2016
Counts, recounts and re-checks are resuming this morning to elect the remaining TDs to the 32nd Dáil. There are just 10 seats still to be filled, with 148 deputies elected over the weekend.
Embattled Taoiseach Enda Kenny will scramble today to secure the support of Independents in a desperate bid to cling onto power.
Joan Burton will not be contemplating her position as leader of the Labour party until after a new government has been formed.
Did Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams cost his party 10 seats?
Five years on from its own political meltdown, Fianna Fáil is today celebrating one of the most unlikely electoral comebacks in Irish history.
Two brothers with over two quotas between them, a new Fianna Fáil TD, a Fine Gael minister losing his seat to his former parliamentary assistant, the elimination of a Labour TD, the scraping home of Sinn Féin TD, and no woman TD once again, are among the key factors in the new Kerry constituency.
As we continue to tick off the names of the 158 TDs that will take seats in the 32nd Dáil, we can see emotional scenes at count centres all over the country. However, it wasn’t until Alan Kelly was deemed elected that we saw the seven stages of emotion a candidate feels as they discover their fate.
IRELAND
President Michael D Higgins has hailed the strength of the country's film industry on a night when home-grown talent was strongly represented at the Oscars.
A member of An Garda Siochana in his 30s remains in a serious condition after he was attacked by a group of men in the early hours of yesterday morning in Dundrum in South County Dublin.
WORLD
Fresh off a runaway win in the South Carolina primary, Democrat Hillary Clinton turned her sights to a possible match-up with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in the November 8 presidential election.
A police officer on her first shift after returning to the force has been shot dead and two of her colleagues wounded after responding to a domestic call about an argument.
SPORT
Fergal O’Donnell has been involved in his fair share of one-sided encounters; Roscommon’s 11-point hammering at the hands of Mayo in the 1999 Connacht championship springs to mind, even fresher are the scars of the 3-18 to 0-7 rout by the same opposition 10 years later. Yesterday was another to add to the list.
Improving Treviso pushed Munster all the way in yesterday’s Guinness Pro12 clash at Stadio Monigo but failed narrowly to secure a third victory in succession.
BUSINESS
A new global financial crisis is certain to occur and, without reform, it is likely to happen sooner rather than later, according to former Bank of England governor Mervyn King.
Beware politicians in the coming weeks who, in the name of the national interest, cite the spectre of financial markets to hurry on some deal or other to form a new Dáil majority.
VIEWPOINTS
Executed in wake of 1916 after he and his brothers fought off police raid on their home. A fatal gun battle ensued, writes
LIFESTYLE
February 29 only comes around once every four years and traditionally it is the one day women can ask for their loved one’s hand. Remarkably, even now, very few women take the leap to propose to their partners. met two of them.
VIRAL
Amid the rolling election results today, came the sad news that Frank Kelly had died. And despite the wall-to-wall election coverage, tributes have been pouring in all day - and this one from cartoonist Rob Stears really hits home.
Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, has a plan for how we can get to Mars.
TECHNOW
: The age of modern day and future shooters could be coming to an end. Battlefield 5, according to a retailer's listing and spotted by PCGamesN, will be taking us back in time.
Take a trip back to the Golden Age of Hollywood with the Coen Brothers this week, while also enjoying over the top action in London and being more than a little freaked out by a future horror classic. Here's what hits your local cinema this week.
The Welsh Rugby Union has released a 360-degree video that puts you pitchside for the Welsh anthem during their 6 Nations clash with Scotland.
SHOWBIZ
The big news of the 88th Academy Awards was Leonardo DiCaprio’s first win, 23 years after he was first nominated. As everyone in the world expected, Leo picked up best actor for The Revenant, but there were some surprises among the other winners, including Mark Rylance beating Sylvester Stallone for best supporting actor. Here is a list of the main winners.
Mark Hamill has been spotted filming scenes for the next Star Wars installment in Co Kerry. The actor stars as self-exiled jedi Luke Skywalker in the franchise and is back on Skellig Michael filming for Episode VIII.
MOST READ RIGHT NOW
It’s finally happened. We all knew it would but that doesn’t make it any less special – Leo’s finally got his Oscar! After five nominations (including one for best supporting actor), Leo is now the proud owner of the best actor Oscar for his role in The Revenant. And Twitter simply can’t cope.
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