Irish Daily Mirror
We got Justice For Bruna
THE family and friends of a woman strangled by her obsessed ex-boyfriend cheered as he was jailed for life yesterday. Miller Pacheco was caged for the murder of Bruna Fonseca, 28, in Cork on New Year’s Day in 2023. The 32-year-old could not bear to...
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BOYS IN SEX ATTACK ON GIRL’
GARDAI have arrested five boys over an alleged gang sex attack on a young girl, it has emerged. They also believe at least one of the boys involved filmed the alleged attack on his phone and sent it to the victim. It is understood that six boys were...
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DADDY FOOL
DONALD Trump delivered an unhinged and rambling speech to an audience of aghast world leaders in Davos yesterday. The President insisted the EU loved him before his plot to annex Greenland. He later axed his tariffs plan after meeting Nato’s Mark...
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THIS ENDS NOW
AFTER a barrage of stories attacking his wife that Brooklyn Beckham believed were placed by his parents, he told Nicola Peltz: “This ends now.” On Monday the 26-year-old launched a bombshell tirade against David and Victoria after a story on Sunday...
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MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY
PROTESTERS are showing Donald Trump what they think of his plans to take Greenland with red baseball caps spoofing his iconic “Make America Great Again” hats. The “Make America Go Away” caps have gained popularity on social media and at public...
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BLACKMAIL
donald Trump was accused of using blackmail yesterday as europe united in defiance against his plan to take Greenland from denmark. The US President said on Saturday he would impose 10% trade tariffs on countries which oppose him from next...
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HEY TEACHER, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE
ENOCH Burke returned to Wilson’s Hospital School yesterday morning – less than 24 hours after he was released from Mountjoy Prison. Several protesters showed up with placards and flags at the Co Westmeath site voicing their support for the...
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I JUST WANT TRUTH FOR MY KELLY
THE mum of a 23-year-old found dead in a canal says she feels “vindicated” after a new report said she died by homicide. Kelly Lynch was discovered in the Ulster Canal in Monaghan on St Patrick’s Day 2024, with more than 90 injuries. Gardai had not...
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IRAN’S REVENGE THREAT
Iran has threatened revenge attacks on the us if donald Trump interferes with the latest protests. It is reported that more than 500 people have been killed and 10,000 arrested. Hospitals said so many dying people were being admitted that there was...
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Tragic OISIN ‘failed By TUSLA’
TRAGIC “murder-suicide” victim oisin Reddin was “failed” by Tusla, a family member has claimed. The 12-year-old was found in Clondalkin, west Dublin, after gardai discovered the body of his dad Wayne O’reilly, 48, in Ballyfermot. A distraught relative...
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STEPHEN NEPHEW CHARGED WITH MURDER
A NEPHEW of publican Stephen Mccahill was charged with his murder last night. Michael Maloney, 32, appeared at a special sitting of Letterkenny District Court.
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‘SUSPECT KICKED OUT OF PUB BEFORE KILLING’
a Man suspected of murdering a bar owner was kicked out of the pub before the killing. Stephen Mccahill, 65, owner of the Corner House in Ardara, Co Donegal, was stabbed to death at his home early yesterday. The pub had hosted a trad session which...
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JESY’S TWINS AGONY
singer Jesy nelson has revealed her twin girls have a severe genetic condition. Babies Ocean and Story have spinal muscular atrophy, which means they may never be able to walk. Little Mix star Jesy, 34, said: “I am grieving a life I thought I was...
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Heartbreaking
THESE teens were still missing last night after the New Year fire, with their distraught parents desperate for news. At least 40 people have died in the tragedy, caused by sparklers setting light to the ceiling of a nightclub in a Swiss ski...
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NEW YEAR HORROR INFERNO
AT least 40 people were feared dead last night after a fire ripped through a new year party at a Swiss ski resort. Some 115 people were hurt in the tragedy at Le Constellation basement bar in Crans-montana, which is popular with foreign tourists –...
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CAR CHILD’S KILLERS WERE DRIVING
THIS is the car two men were driving on the night they firebombed a house, killing a boy and his grandaunt. Tadgh Farrell, four, and Mary Holt died in an arson attack on a house in Castleview Park, Edenderry, Co Offaly, on December 6. Tagdh’s...
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AJ IN CRASH HORROR
INJURED Anthony Joshua was yesterday pulled from the wreckage of a horror crash that killed two of his closest friends. The former boxing champ, 36, on holiday in Nigeria, was in the back of an SUV that hit a parked truck. His promoter Eddie Hearn...
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La Belle Bardot
Her breakthrough hit was called …and God created Woman, but brigitte bardot always strived to be the architect of her own life and career. Thrust into the limelight by her own husband, director Roger Vadim, 20-year-old Brigitte inflamed the...
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STABBED TO DEATH AFTER PHONE ROW
LITTLE malika al Kattib was stabbed to death by her father after a row which started over a phone, her devastated mother reveals today. Mohammed Al Shaker Al Tamimi was given a life sentence for the eight-year-old’s murder and 10 years for trying to...
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E-SCOOTER DRIVER KILLED
A MAN was killed yesterday when the e-scooter he was driving was in collision with a car – the year’s 188th road victim. The Christmas Day tragedy happened at the junction of Manor Hill and Hennessy’s Road in Waterford city at around 11am. The man,...
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THEY SHOULD BE CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS
A WOMAN quizzed over the murder of daniel aruebose was freed yesterday – as gardai renewed an appeal over the edenderry arson killings. The suspect, who is in her 20s, was released from Swords Garda station in north Dublin just after 7am yesterday. A...
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WOMAN QUIZZED ON DANIEL MURDER A WOMAN has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of tragic Daniel Aruebose.
She was arrested by detectives investigating the disappearance and murder of the young child whose remains were found buried on land in Donabate, north Dublin, in September. The woman in her 20s is now being detained on suspicion of murder and is...
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‘trump ordered pic to Be gone’
donald Trump has been accused of a cover-up after pictures linking him to Jeffrey epstein were removed from government files. The controversy centres on Image 468, which disappeared from a tranche of documents released by the Justice Department as...
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You Tub
RYAN Tubridy is to host a new show on youtube with a familiar sounding name – The Late Show. He made the announcement yesterday during his final show for Virgin Radio. The former RTE man will remain with the station’s parent company and front a...
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10-year-old told me she was 18... I just kissed her
SHOP workers from three stores looted during the Dublin riots have described feeling fear and panic on the night. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard victim impact statements from a staff member of Foot Locker on O’connell Street and from two staff...
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THIS IS MY MALIKA
A WOMAN whose partner murdered her eight-year-old daughter in front of her has called for law reforms to bring in whole life terms. Aisha Noor Al Katib, whose little girl Malika was stabbed by Mohammed Al Shaker Al Tamimi at their home in Co Wexford...
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IRISH BOAT SKIPPER HAILED BONDI HERO
AN Irish skipper has been hailed a hero after racing to Bondi Beach to save terrified swimmers’ lives during the terrorist attack. Nathan Gallagher, from Co Donegal, was working nearby when the father and son gunmen opened fire on Sunday.
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HORROR AND HEROISM AT BONDI
TWO gunmen opened fire at a Jewish beach festival in Australia killing at least 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl. More than 40 victims are being treated in hospital after the terror attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney. The shooters were a...
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‘A spirit so bright everyone felt it’
THE four-year-old boy killed in an arson attack had “a spirit so bright that everyone felt it” mourners heard yesterday. Tadgh Farrell’s heartbroken mum Shannon paid tribute to her son at his funeral in Edenderry, Co Offaly, as gardai raided homes...
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ARSON KILLERS
THESE CCTV images show the horrific moment arsonist thugs targeted a family home killing a woman and four-year-old boy. Tadhg Farrell and his grandaunt Mary Holt died in the attack on the Castlepark estate in Edenderry, Co Offaly, on Saturday night....
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SILENCE OF THE RANTS
A JUDGE muted jailed transgender row teacher Enoch Burke as he went on an online rant after watching members of his family being physically carted out of court. It happened as High Court Justice Brian Cregan dismissed claims of errors made in an...
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Killed sleeping over to watch the Toy Show
TRAGIC Tadhg Farrell was having a sleepover at the home targeted in a deadly petrol-bomb attack as he had been enjoying the Late Late Toy Show with his relatives the previous night. The four-year-old was killed with his grandaunt Mary Holt, 60, in an...
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ARSON HORROR MURDER PROBE
A Murder probe has been launched after a woman and four-year-old boy were killed in an arson attack on a family home. Mary Holt, 60, and little Tadgh Farrell died at the scene in Edenderry, Co Offaly, on Saturday. One line of inquiry is the “callous...
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SHOTS FIRED AT IRISH Troops
AN IRISH peacekeeping patrol escaped injury when their armoured car came under gun attack in southern Lebanon, it has emerged. The soldiers from 127th Infantry Battalion made it back safely to base UNP 2-45, also known as Camp Shamrock.
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EURNOVISION SONG CONTEST
IRELAND will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in protest after Israel’s inclusion was confirmed. RTE said last night it would not participate in or broadcast the competition “given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza”.
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Inside Epstein’s island lair
DISTURBING images from inside Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion have been released. The home is where ex-royal Andrew Mountbatten-windsor visited his paedophile pal. A source said: “Epstein keeps haunting his old friend.”
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THERE IS A REAL CHANCE FOR PEACE
PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky received a standing ovation in a packed Dail chamber as he addressed both Houses of the Oireachtas yesterday. During his first official State visit, he thanked the Irish people for their “steadfast support” and spoke of...
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‘WE’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER DAD’
THE family of the lorry driver who was one of two men killed in a horrific road crash paid an emotional tribute to him as he was laid to rest. Wesley O’reilly, 48, right, was involved in a collision with a bus and a car in Co Meath, last week. His...
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‘HE SHOULD NOT HAVE GOT BAIL’
THE family of a woman left with life-changing injuries by her thug nephew when he was out on bail for another attack have called for law changes. Nyal Tumelty, 30, assaulted Angela Cunningham in her home Co Monaghan in 2023 – while on bail for...
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SURVIVOR Emma ‘LET down’ By JUSTICE MINISTER
DOMESTIC abuse survivor Emma Hallahan has hit out at the response she received from the Justice Minister when she questioned the use of character references for violent attackers. Emma’s ex-partner Anthony Mackessy was jailed for a year over a brutal...
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BURGLAR WAS TARGET OF FIRE GANG
THIS man is the intended target of a gangland attack which left his girlfriend engulfed in flames and fighting for her life. Francis Maguire, 49, is being treated for burns to his hands as he tried to put out the fire at the woman’s Dublin home on...
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Back by popular remand
ENOCH Burke is back behind bars after being on the run for a week, it has emerged. The Irish Mirror has confirmed that the teacher was arrested by gardai early yesterday and brought to Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison by around 2.30pm. It is Mayo-born Mr...
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TWO KILLED IN PILE-UP HORROR
A BUS driver and trucker are the latest victims of carnage on Ireland’s roads. Paul Conway, in his 50s, who worked for Bus Eireann, and Wesley O’reilly in his 40s, were killed in the three-vehicle collision. Twelve people were injured in the horror...
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‘life of CRIME is easier than politics’
Former Taoiseach Leo varadkar has shot down Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s political ambitions in a by-election next year. Mr Varadkar, who resigned last April, said: “He can run if he wants to. I can’t see him winning though. It’s a lot easier to be a...
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‘TRUMP SPENT HOURS WITH GIUFFRE’
DONALD Trump spent hours with Virginia Giuffre at paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s home, according to an email. Epstein also said the US president “knew about the girls” in messages released yesterday. Ms Giuffre killed herself after accusing the then...
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CATH MÍLE FÁILTE
EX-INDEPENDENT TD Catherine Connolly has been sworn in as the 10th president of Ireland. President Connolly took the oath of office at Dublin Castle yesterday and will hit the ground running today with a visit to a Gaelscoil on her agenda.
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D LAST HURRAH
MICHAEL D Higgins was cheered from Aras an Uachtarain last night as he waved farewell after 14 years. The 84-year-old and wife Sabina headed to Galway to begin their retirement. A guard of honour from a running charity supported by Michael D cheered...
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Caroline ‘shouldn’t have been charged’
Tv star Caroline Flack should not have been prosecuted for assault, a former prosecution chief claims. The Love Island host took her own life aged 40 in 2020, while facing a court trial, charged with assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton. In a new...
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‘BOMB IPAS CENTRES & MOSQUE’
TWO men appeared in court yesterday charged over threats to carry out bomb attacks on a mosque and migrants in a far-right terror plot. Garrett Pollock, 35, of Kilhorne Green, Annalong, Co Down, and Karolis Peckauskas, 38, of An Tobar, Newfoundwell...
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EVIL PUSKA BROTHERS JAIL SWITCH
THE brothers of Ashling Murphy’s murderer Jozef Puska have switched prisons amid safety concerns. Marek and Lubomir Puska moved to Wheatfield almost two weeks after Marek was assaulted by inmates in Mountjoy. The pair were recently jailed for...
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COPS WAITING TO INTERVIEW ‘SEX ASSAULT’ GIRL
GARDAI still cannot talk to the alleged 10-year-old victim of a sexual assault on medical advice, a court has heard. A man, 26, is charged with assaulting the girl in west Dublin on October 20. Violent disorder broke out in the following days in which...
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CAMPAIGNER VICKY’S PAL WAS CAREY VICTIM
HEARTLESS conman DJ Carey took ¤10,000 from a close friend of the late Vicky Phelan. The victim said: “Poor Vicky fought cancer to her last breath yet here was a guy running around the country pretending he was dying from the disease when there was...
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CANCER CONMAN CAREY IS CAGED
FORMER hurling star DJ Carey has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after a “reprehensible” act of defrauding people by falsely claiming to have cancer. The ex-kilkenny hurler, 54, pleaded guilty in July to 10 counts of inducing family,...
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CHILDREN COULD HAVE DIED IN ARSON
A WOMAN whose terrified kids were caught up in the Halloween arson attack on an asylum seeker centre says they were lucky to survive. As gardai continued to probe Friday night’s blaze in Drogheda, Co Louth, she said: “The children could have...
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ANDREW SHOULD BE BEHIND BARS
THE British royal family’s former head of protection last night called for Andrew to be quizzed by police, as his alleged victim Virginia Giuffre’s family demanded “more justice”. Dai Davies believes the former prince and Duke of York has questions to...
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HE NEVER EVEN SAID HE WAS SORRY
IRISH firefighter Terence Crosbie has been sentenced to at least seven years in prison after he was found guilty of raping a woman during a St Patrick’s Day trip to the US. The 39-year-old Dubliner was convicted of the attack at a Boston hotel last...
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RAPIST’S VILE POSTS
FIREFIGHTER Terence Crosbie’s sick tweets are revealed today as he faces sentencing for rape in the US. In a message posted on his Twitter account in 2017, he stated that Stockholm in Sweden was “worth a trip” because it’s the “most unreported rape...
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HELL AT 295KPH
AT least seven people have been killed after Hurricane Melissa pummelled Jamaica yesterday with winds of 295kph. The most powerful storm in the island’s history flattened homes, sparked flooding, closed airports and left entire communities cut...
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‘This won’t stop me... they were cowards’
A BEATEN and bloodied drag queen has vowed the homophobic attack won’t stop her from being who she is. Krystal Queer, 25, was kicked and had a phone smacked in her face in a shocking incident in Cork city in the early hours of Sunday. Part of the...
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TAOISEACH UNDER PRESSURE REBEL ROUSERS
taoiseach Micheal Martin is facing a rebellion amid the disastrous fallout from the presidential election. Two Fianna Fail backbench TDS have called on the party to discuss its leadership “within days”. Carlow-kilkenny TD John Mcguinness called the...
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‘KICK THEM OUT..’
THE family members who covered for evil Jozef Puska after he murdered Ashling Murphy face deportation. The killer’s wife, brothers and sisters-in-law were jailed this week for trying to help him following the horrific crime. They could be free in two...
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CATH ME IF YOU CAN
ireland votes for its next president today with Catherine Connolly leading rival heather humphreys by 19 points in the latest poll. Experts fear the turnout will be affected by bad weather and could be lower than the 44% who voted at the last election...
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‘WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR IRELAND?’
THE father of murdered Ashling Murphy challenged her killer’s family as they were jailed for withholding information and burning his clothes: “What have you done for Ireland?” Jozef Puska’s wife Lucia Istokova, brothers Marek and Lubomir and...
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BURNING RAGE
A MOB torched a Garda van outside an asylum centre last night after a man appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Taoiseach Micheal Martin told TDS the State “failed” in its duty to the child who was in the care of Tusla...
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CHILD ‘RAPED AT ASYLUM HOTEL’
GARDAI are investigating the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl by an asylum seeker at a hotel. It has been claimed the youngster, who is Irish and not staying at the hotel, was attacked by a male foreign national at the Citywest in Dublin. Tusla...
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‘Jen should still Be alive’
the Government is set to bring in Jennie’s Law – to name and shame domestic abusers. But the family of Jennifer Poole – the murder victim the new register is to be named after – last night said she would be alive today if it was operating when she met...
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‘Help Us bring Vadym Home’
this the first picture of the teenager who died in a violent stabbing as an appeal is launched to bring his body back to ukraine. Vadym Davydenko, 17, died after the attack in Donaghmede, north Dublin, on Wednesday. A family friend posted: “He flew...
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‘SAVAGE’ KILLERS GET 43YRS
A JUDGE has jailed three men for 43 years between them for what he called the “savage” killing of pensioner Tom Niland. The 75-year-old died 20 months after he was brutally assaulted at his Co Sligo home in January 2022. Passing sentence yesterday,...
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MURDER AT CHILD CARE HOME
GARDAI were last night investigating after a teenage asylum seeker was stabbed to death in a “frenzied” attack. Ukrainian Vadym Davydenko, 17, suffered wounds to his head, eyes, chest and hands at a Tuslasupervised apartment in Dublin. The suspect...
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DEATH AMONG THE RUBBLE
FIVE Palestinians were killed by an Israeli missile just hours after the peace deal was struck. Hamas also murdered dozens of people in Gaza it claims colluded with the IDF during the war. Israel plans to cut aid because of a delay in returning dead...
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DAY WE THOUGHT WE’D NEVER SEE
MAKING a sign of the heart, freed Israeli hostage Avinatan Or has a message of love for the world. Avinatan, 32, was among 20 hostages freed by Hamas after two years of war in Gaza. In return, almost 2,000 Palestinian captives were released from...
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Hope amid the chaos
Israel and Gaza were last night on the cusp of a precarious peace. Starving Gazans rushed to meet aid trucks as they arrived in the enclave. Israelis awaited the release of the last 20 hostages in a tense handover between Hamas and IDF troops. Gal...
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LOW BLOW JOE
GAA pundit Joe Brolly has apologised for a sleazy clip depicting a would-be presidential candidate performing a lewd sex act. The video was filmed to promote the 56-year-old’s Free State podcast. He denied it was targeted at Fine Gael Aras contender...
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A MOMENT OF SHARED HOPE
ISRAELIS and Gazans were united yesterday in their hopes of an end to two years of bloodshed. A total ceasefire, and the return of the remaining October 7 hostages, could happen within 72 hours thanks to a Us-brokered deal. In Tel Aviv’s Hostages...
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