Thursday morning briefing: Taoiseach confirms Patrick's Day visit to US after phonecall with Donald Trump. Catch up on all the headlines
US ELECTION
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spoken with US President Elect Donald Trump. The Taoiseach held a ten-minute phone call with Mr Trump last night, with both men committing to working for the mutual benefit of the two countries.
Donald Trump offered something different to the disgruntled and disillusioned, beating a centuries old, two-party system. He has also made dangerous pledges and has the same access to the nuclear button as he has to his Twitter account, writes .
West Clare Village celebrates close links to ‘number one and two’ in the White House, writes .
Thousands of protesters flooded city streets across America to condemn Donald Trump’s election in demonstrations that showed the raw divisions exposed by the presidential race.
Since the public consciousness became aware of Hillary Clinton, she has never hidden her ambitions. Despite a wealth of political experience, she has always divided and polarised opinion, writes
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IRELAND
The Government has left the door open to the future privatisation of Irish Water, the Dáil heard last night.
A Cork student pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter last Christmas.
SIPTU says pay needs to be restored to public sector workers faster.
The exact issues being discussed in talks to resolve the secondary school teachers’ dispute remained unclear last night.
WORLD
Two bodies found on the rural property of a South Carolina man linked to five other deaths were a couple who had a history of begging and had been buried there for nearly a year.
A gunman's opened fire in Seattle wounding five people, one critically.
A hand grenade attack on the French embassy in Athens has injured a policeman.
SPORT
Six questions in, all of them a variation on the theme that was his absence from the Ireland squad for last weekend’s historic defeat of the All Blacks in Chicago, and Peter O’Mahony’s calm exterior cracks just a tad.
Austria have the talent to overcome Ireland and their “machine” Jon Walters on Saturday, according to Arnautovic.
Galway hurling PRO Jarlath Cloonan has raised the possibility of the county negotiating a return to the Munster senior hurling championship if the Leinster Council continue to refuse them home games and entry to their underage competitions.
Henrik Stenson can seal a second Race to Dubai title with victory in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City this week as an off-form Danny Willett tries to “find some game” at Sun City.
OPINION
America voted for Trump, they must now live with him, writes
His narcissism seems to know no bounds, he is full of bluff and bluster, but Donald Trump also has a vulnerable side, writes
BUSINESS
The double whammy from Brexit and now a new US president who has pledged to slash US corporate taxes poses the biggest risk to Ireland’s economic business model since it was first devised in the late 1980s, analysts have warned.
Data protection and the development of a Digital Single Market are just two items up for discussion during a two-day visit by EU Commissioner Vera Jourová.
LIFESTYLE
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SHOWBIZ
An investigation into whether Brad Pitt was abusive towards his son on a private flight has been closed with no finding of wrongdoing by the actor.
VIRAL
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Tributes have poured in for Barack Obama a day after Donald Trump won the American election to become the next US president.
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The Government has left the door open to the future privatisation of Irish Water, the Dáil heard last night.
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