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ELECTION 2016
Labour's Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has lost his Dáil seat in Dublin Bay North. The final seats went to Independent candidates Tommy Broughan and Finian McGrath along with Sinn Féin's Denise Mitchell.
Lucinda Creighton has said Renua will not disband despite the party's failure to secure any seats in the General Election.
Plans for a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, the USC, water charges, and the whip approach in the Dáil could all falter in talks to form a government, writes
Support for establishment parties is falling, but slowly, and gains for some candidates on the left could not be described as a transformation in political ideology, writes
Donegal Independent candidate Tim Jackson failed to get elected to the Dáil but he may have got a No 1 vote in an election of a different kind. The 25-year-old from Ballybofey went on a date with a young woman after she was so taken with his election posters that she asked what it would take to get his phone number.
IRELAND
Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a bricklayer accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb. A victims' campaigner has said he 'regrettably' accepts decision.
Ireland's former Attorney General has called Angela Merkel a "hero" for her response to the refugee crisis.
WORLD
About two dozen migrants protesting against the demolition of the sprawling Jungle camp in Calais have climbed on to shanty rooftops, and are surrounded by police.
Iraqi forces have launched a campaign to retake a key area north of the capital Baghdad and dislodge Islamic State militants.
SPORT
Arsene Wenger has hit back at his latest critics - labelling the condemnation of his Arsenal team as "excessive".
A jury has been sent out to consider its verdicts in the trial of England footballer Adam Johnson.
BUSINESS
Barclays has reported a fall in annual profits as it announced a group-wide shake-up and took a further hit for payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling.
Home prices in the best areas of central London fell by the most since June 2009 in the six months through February as turmoil in financial markets and higher taxes deterred buyers.
VIEWPOINTS
Here’s your chance to insist that politics needs to change and that a published programme for government is a must, writes
LIFESTYLE
Ooh, but the Oscars gúnas left us distinctly underwhelmed. If it wasn’t for our Saoirse we may never have chosen a favourite dress of the night. The hardest task was cutting back the worst dressed list writes
VIRAL
As we all know by now, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar, much to the joy and dismay of the internet. In anticipation of Leo’s win, an event took off on Facebook calling for people to show up at the Spire in Dublin if he did, in fact, get his coveted Oscar.
A new Oscars-based puzzle is proving very difficult indeed.
To prove that old dogs can learn new tricks, an animal charity in Sao Paulo trained four former street dogs to act as ’ball dogs’ for an exhibition tennis match this week at the Brazil Open.
TECHNOW
: Uncharted 4 is set to have a major multiplayer component and you can sample it this coming weekend with a free open beta
The Revenant features a pretty memorable scene where Leonardo DiCaprio has to get warm, and your kids can play too.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge was recently unvieled at Mobile World Congress and is set to be one of the biggest phones of 2016, so naturally there was also an ad at the Oscars with some huge star names.
SHOWBIZ
A capella group Pentatonix have just announced European tour dates and they are starting right here in Ireland with a gig in Dublin's Olympia Theatre on May 23.
MOST READ RIGHT NOW
John Oliver has taken on some of the biggest issues in America with his show Last Week Tonight, and this week he took on Donald Trump and won!
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