MORNING BULLETIN: Nationwide Red Weather Alert as 'destructive' Ophelia set to hit Ireland
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A Red Weather Alert has been issued for the whole country as "violent and destructive" winds are expected in every county.
The whole country is this morning being warned to be braced for potentially life-threatening conditions, with a myriad of dangers including flying debris, surging seas, flooding, fallen trees, and downed but live electricity wires.
The Government should develop and publicly share contingency plans around a hard Brexit, Micheál Martin has said.
Drinking water supplies at one of the country’s most popular bathing spots had potentially dangerous levels of a carcinogenic substance at the height of the summer, according to the environmental regulator.
The centre-right party headed by foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has won Austria's national election, putting the 31-year old on track to become Europe's youngest leader, the country's interior ministry said.
Rassie Erasmus has talked up his successor as Munster coach as a ‘master of many trades’ and reiterated that he will delay his own return to South Africa until Johann van Graan is ready to take over.
To be honest that fortnight ‘off’ (originally one of modern football’s most irritating foibles) is now welcomed more and more depending on who you support.
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They are such idyllic places that it is hard to fathom the violence once meted out on Irish islands, writes Dan MacCarthy.
Louis Theroux has been lauded by viewers for delivering a “compelling” if “uncomfortable” look at sex trafficking in his latest documentary.
A new TG4 documentary tells of Tom Molineaux, who boxed his way to freedom from slavery, before he died destitute in Ireland, writes Richard Fitzpatrick
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