BULLETIN: Heavy criticism for President Higgins and Sean Gallagher; No-deal Brexit 'more likely than ever'
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European Council president Donald Tusk has warned the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit is “more likely than ever before” amid growing fears there may be no solution to the Irish border standoff.
President Michael D Higgins and Sean Gallagher have come in for heavy criticism from the four other presidential candidates for not taking part in last night's first televised debate.
A man has been jailed for throwing a glass at another man in a Cork pub and instead injuring a dancing woman, who had nothing to do with the situation.
Motorists on the M50 in Dublin will soon be encouraged to drive slower to move faster with changing speed limits.
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died aged 65.
What price Frances Fitzgerald’s ‘vindication’? The former justice minister had to resign for many reasons — just not because she failed to stop a challenge to Maurice McCabe’s motivation in 2015, writes Michael Clifford.
Hamlet without the Prince. The empty chair, The B-listers. Whatever way you came at it, there was an inevitable sense of anti-climax to the first presidential TV debate since the disastrous Frontline affair in 2011, writes Political Editor, Daniel McConnell.
Credit unions are the top Irish brands for customer experience even as their bank rivals failed to make the top 50, while Ryanair and the social media giants such as Facebook slumped in the rankings, according to a major survey measuring how Irish shoppers were treated by companies.
If Ireland walk the walk tonight like Martin O’Neill talked the talk yesterday then an Aviva Stadium rendered almost mute by the dour spectacle of Saturday’s scoreless draw with Denmark might finally have something to cheer about. It’s a big if, of course, writes Liam Mackey.
Croke Park issued no directive to county boards to raise their county final ticket prices to €20.
Munster coach Johann van Graan has acknowledged the strong South African influence at Gloucester, his side’s next European opponents, not least the presence of former Munster player Gerbrandt Grobler.
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George Morrison, the 96-year-old director of the groundbreaking documentary Mise Éire, is being honoured by his hometown of Tramore, writes Marjorie Brennan.
Meet the A-listers of Zeminar 2018: Two Olympic medal winners are among an impressive list of speakers who will address some 16,000 teenagers at next month’s Zeminar, the wellbeing and education movement for Generation Z, writes Clodagh Finn.
Deputies in California have used Doritos to lure a pig “the size of a mini horse” back home.
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