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IRELAND
New figures show the number of people signing on the Live Register fell by 3,300 in December, compared to the previous month.
A cross party delegation of Irish politicians will travel to Egypt on Monday to visit jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa.
A Junior Minister is set to take an internal party complaint against a fellow Fine Gael TD, after she claimed she was being snubbed in the Dáil corridors.
Under Sinn Féin's plan for an investigation into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scandal an independent panel led by a judicial figure from outside Northern Ireland would be established.
WORLD
Donald Trump has repeated the claim made during his election campaign that Mexico will foot the bill for a wall along the US-Mexican border.
Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010, has died.
The parents of a teenager whose beating was broadcast live on Facebook received text messages while he was missing from someone claiming to be holding him captive, police have said.
Turkish police have detained 18 people in connection with an attack near a courthouse in the western city of Izmir which killed a policeman and a court employee.
SPORT
A Swiss court has rejected a claim by three trade unions from Bangladesh and Holland that FIFA acted wrongfully in giving Qatar the 2022 World Cup without demanding reforms to the Middle East state's controversial labour laws.
Jose Mourinho has thrown his support behind FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from 2026.season.
Connacht have made three changes for tomorrow's trip to the high-flying Ospreys.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will rest the majority of his senior players for the FA Cup third round visit of Sky Bet League Two club Plymouth.
OPINION
The fact that that 15,000 borrowers were deprived of access to tracker mortgages could be much more serious than just poor ethics, writes James McNulty
Joe Leogue shines a light on the important work of the Garda Traffic Corps whose busy and varied roles help to keep a flowing going on the roads and ensure public safety
BUSINESS
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has said the time has come to compel companies to publicly detail the gender pay gap within their organisations.
Jamie Oliver is to close six Jamie’s Italian restaurants as the celebrity chef is hit by a combination of rising Brexit cost pressures and tough trading.
LIFESTYLE
Gary Barlow heads up BBC One’s new talent show which promises five young men a jobrather than just five minutes of fame, writes Ella Walker
SHOWBIZ
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People who saw George Michael in the days before he died are being spoken to by detectives investigating the circumstances of the star’s death.
EXAMVIRAL
Donald Trump has taunted Arnold Schwarzenegger for bringing in low ratings in a spin-off from the president-elect’s old reality television show Celebrity Apprentice.
This driver was stopped by gardaí for failing to display a valid NCT cert, but a subsequent search of the car turned up two lunchboxes packed with cannabis.
VIDEO - OUR CHOICE
Noel Baker speaks to Vera Twomey, who caught the imagination of the nation when she set out to walk from Cork to the Dáil to win the right to use cannabis oil, which has had a dramatic effect on her daughter’s health
TECHNOW
: Overwatch has been appearing on plenty of end of year lists, mostly because it's an ever-fresh slice of multiplayer mayhem.
: McDonalds is pretty much the leading name in fast food today, but we're pretty sure you don't know how it all came about. It started with one man, Ray Kroc, and this is his story.
: OnePlus has been doing some great work bringing high performance specs to the masses, and it's gone one further with its latest handsets.
MOST READ RIGHT NOW
An iceberg that’s a quarter the size of Wales is poised to break off from an ice shelf in Antarctica after a rift that’s been there for decades experienced a sudden growth spurt towards the end of 2016.
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