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END BLOCKADES AND GET A DEAL
A ‘SIGNIFICANT and enhanced’ support package for sectors under pressure over increasing fuel costs is on the table, but only if nationwide blockades are lifted. Protest organisers were turned away from talks at the door of Government Buildings in...
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COUNTRY RUNNING OUT OF FUEL – AND PATIENCE
PATIENCE and fuel tanks are running dry across the country over the continuing blockades by protesters preventing deliveries to petrol stations and pharmacies. Forecourts along the west coast are ‘totally compromised’ as protests block key fuel depots...
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AI THR,EAT TO 200 000 HIGHLY PAID IRISH JOBS
ALMOST 200,000 highly paid workers are at ‘high risk’ of being replaced by AI in the coming years, a new report has found. Educated, white-collar employees are set to bear the brunt of the transition to artificial intelligence, with up to one in five...
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NIGHT THE WORLD HELD ITS BREATH AND PRAYED
DONALD Trump threatened to wipe out the ‘whole civilisation’ of Iran as peace talks went down to the wire last night. The US bombed Kharg Island and Israel pounded bridges, railways and roads across the country as they appeared to lay the groundwork...
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ANKLE TAGS FOR BAILED PRISONERS AND SEXUAL PREDATORS
SEX offenders and prisoners granted bail will be monitored using ankle tags, in a bid to cut the numbers in our overcrowded prisons. The Irish Daily Mail can reveal the Government was this month forced to re-advertise for the scheme, which has been...
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TRUMP DROPS F-BOMB ON IRAN
DONALD Trump ordered Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in an expletive-laden ultimatum yesterday. Emboldened after the daring rescue of a downed US airman, the US president told the mullahs: ‘Open the f***in’ Strait, you crazy b ***** ds, or...
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NEW SPORTS ARENA IF THE STATE COMES UP WITH €66M
A €225MILLION worldclass sports and concert arena based on the famous Madison Square Garden in New York is on the cards for Dublin – if the Government stumps up €66 million towards it. The new 6,000-8,000 seater indoor stadium will feature two...
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Man who died in jail had been stripped and body seemed to be bruised
AN INMATE who died after being moved to a padded cell had been stripped naked by officers and had apparent bruising to his head and upper body, the Mail has learned. Colm Connolly, 46, was pronounced dead in the cell at the Midlands Prison in...
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NOW TRUMP GOES TO WAR ON NATO
DONALD Trump threatened to ditch Nato last night after European allies turned their backs on his war in the Middle East. The president was expected to use an overnight address to the United States to register his ‘disgust’ for the historic alliance...
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GARDAÍ TO RECORD SUSPECTS’ ETHNICITY
GARDAÍ could soon record the ethnicity of suspects and those convicted of serious crimes such as sexual assault, under new plans being prepared by the Government. An Garda Síochána has told the Irish Daily Mail that it is ‘in favour’ of recording the...
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A KENNEDY LOVE STORY: M&S LAUNCHES 90S CAPSULE
CAROLYN Bessette Kennedy has become a fashion icon to a whole new generation of young women almost three decades after her untimely death, aged 33, thanks to hit drama Love Story. Now, fans can recreate her effortlessly chic and minimalist style from...
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A MONTH MORE OF WAR COULD BRING US BACK TO COVID-ERA RESTRICTIONS
THERE is growing concern the State may have to put Covid-style travel restrictions in place if the Gulf crisis continues for another month. A senior Government source warned: ‘If there is a prolonged crisis there will be restrictions on travel. It a...
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‘BLAME GAME’ ERUPTS ON €100M CRISIS IN EDUCATION
A ‘BLAME game’ has erupted in Government over Department of Education overruns, with Jack Chambers launching a ‘scathing’ attack on Helen McEntee and Norma Foley, former holders of the portfolio. But frustrated Cabinet ministers, who will see their...
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€100M BAILOUT FOR EDUCATION
THE need for a multimillion-euro bailout at the Department of Education, just three months into the year, has been blamed on ‘incompetence’, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Senior Cabinet sources pointed to ‘incompetence’ in the ‘problematic’...
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PRIVATE JETS TO GET FUEL TAX CUT
THE Government quietly cut excise duty on private jet fuel in its energy supports package this week, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. While the Taoiseach said the €250million in support measures would ‘protect our most vulnerable’, the Coalition has...
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FLATLEY HIRED EX-GARDA TO EXAMINE HUGE LOANS AT FIRM FOR HIS SHOWS
MICHAEL Flatley has hired a private detec- tive to investigate spiralling loans worth millions of euro on the books of a company he established to run his Lord Of The Dance tour, a court has heard. Belfast High Court was presented yesterday with sworn...
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PRICES AT THE PUMP TO BE CUT
THE price of petrol and diesel are to be slashed as part of a package set to be announced today by the Government to deal with the increased cost of oil. With diesel now at over €2.10 at some filling stations around the country, the Government met...
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TOP PROMOTION FOR PARAMEDIC UNDER GARDA INVESTIGATION
A SERVING paramedic under Garda investigation for allegedly drugging and raping a woman has secured a significant promotion despite the allegations against him, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The man, who was accused of giving the woman sedatives...
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PARAMEDICS EXPOSED AS CRIMINALS ARE OUSTED
A DOZEN convicted criminals, including eight sex offenders, have been stripped of their status as paramedics and banned from working in Ireland after the ambulance watchdog refused to renew their registrations, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. A...
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IRAN WAR THREAT TO COST OF HOLIDAY FLIGHTS
HOLIDAYMAKERS are facing soaring air fares and even cancellations this summer as the war in Iran risks jet fuel shortages. Airline bosses said yesterday fuel price hikes could yet be passed on to those looking to get away if the war drags on. The...
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IRAN WAGES ‘FULL SCALE ECONOMIC WAR’ ON THE WEST
IRAN last night threatened to cripple the global energy market in a ‘full-scale economic war’ by ramping up missile attacks on oil and gas plants. In a major escalation of the Middle East crisis, facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries were...
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Trump eyeballed me and said: That was a strange question about the snails. I’ll have to check it out...
AS I SLOWLY walked out of the Oval Office, the most powerful man in the world eyeballed me. ‘That was a strange question you asked,’ the US president said. ‘I’ll have to check that out.’ It was a surreal moment from Donald Trump, who had just spent...
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OSCARS SPECIAL
A ‘SUBDUED’ Timothée Chalamet made the rounds of the post Oscars parties on Sunday night, steering clear of the Governors Ball where all the winners were having their statuettes engraved. Perhaps it would have been too painful to watch everyone else...
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DON’T BRING UP CULLETON CASE AT THE OVAL OFFICE, TAOISEACH
THE public is firmly against the Taoiseach bringing up the case of ICE detainee Séamus Culleton at the White House tomorrow. Just 18% think that Micheál Martin should raise the issue of Mr Culleton with Donald Trump, while 50% do not. The remaining...
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WE’RE NOT READY FOR DRONE ATTACK, MAJORITY BELIEVE
JUST one in 12 people believes Ireland is prepared for a drone or cyberattack on the State when the country takes up the EU presidency later this year. The findings come in a poll carried out by Amárach research on behalf of the Irish Daily...
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TRUMP: IRAN WAR IS ‘PRETTY MUCH’ OVER
DONALD Trump last night claimed the war in the Middle East was ‘pretty much’ over. He said the American-Israeli operation launched ten days ago was ‘very far’ ahead of schedule. The US president even went on to describe the massive onslaught as a...
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CONNOLLY’S SPEECH PUTS TAOISEACH’S WHITE HOUSE VISIT IN PERIL
MINISTERS are concerned Donald Trump could cancel Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s White House visit over controversial comments by Catherine Connolly. President Connolly said the ongoing missile attacks in the Middle East are ‘deliberate assaults on...
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€14K TURNSTILE TDS ‘GOT STUCK IN’ IS REMOVED
A TURNSTILE at Leinster House that cost €14,000 was removed after TDs complained they were ‘getting stuck’ in it, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Documents obtained by the Mail show that the ‘turnstile was put in place while works were being...
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21 ARE OFF TO THE RIVIERA!
AT LEAST 21 State employees including council officials will travel to the French Riviera to court institutional investors next week, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The Mail revealed yesterday that property developers are paying for the Government’s...
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HOUSING OFFICIALS’ EVENT ABROAD PAID FOR BY DEVELOPERS
PROPERTY developers are paying for an event in the French Riviera city of Cannes that will be attended by the Department of Housing to court institutional investors, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The department is refusing to disclose the details...
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AIR DOCTORS WILL CUT ROAD DEATHS
ALMOST 150 lives would have been saved in the past seven years if Ireland had a doctorled helicopter emergency team, the Health Minister has been told. Ireland remains one of the few countries where doctors do not always attend emergency incidents to...
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Thousands of Irish citizens register for help in the Middle East
THOUSANDS of Irish citizens have registered with the Government as being ‘stranded’ in the Middle East in order to be prioritised for future evacuations. Irish people have been stuck in Gulf states since the weekend, which saw an unprecedented...
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Trump: Iran now wants to talk, and I will engage with them
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said Iran is ready to start talks towards a peace deal after the death of its Supreme Leader. As conflict raged across the Middle East, Mr Trump confirmed Iran’s interim leadership had made contact, telling magazine The...
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US ENVOY ON MISSION TO BRING POPE TO IRELAND
POPE LEO may travel to Ireland to watch his former college play basketball under plans being developed at the highest level in government and with US Ambassador to Ireland Ed Walsh. Both the Pope and Ambassador Walsh are graduates of Villanova...
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IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN ON LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE schools will be forced to report students who do not attend classes to immigration officials as part of a crackdown on ‘back-door’ entries into the workforce. International students are permitted to work up to 20 hours a week while...
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WOMEN FACE €225 BARRIER TO ‘FREE’ MENOPAUSE TREATMENT
WOMEN are being charged up to €225 to attend specialised men- opause appointments before they get access to free hormone replacement therapy, it was claimed last night. In June last year, the Government formally introduced free access to HRT for all...
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€500 , 000 ‘WASTED’ ON IT PROJECT FOR GARDA WATCHDOG
MORE than €500,000 was wasted on an IT system for the Garda ombudsman – despite early warnings that the project would fail. The system has been temporarily abandoned since the end of 2024 and could end up costing millions more than planned. Members...
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STATE IS SPENDING BEYOND ITS MEANS
THE Government’s ‘sustainable’ spending plan includes an additional €12billion beyond the limit recommended by public expenditure officials, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC), the Government’s...
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BRAVERY MEDALS FOR GARDAI EVEN IF THEY’RE FACING ALLEGATIONS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE
EVIDENCE of corruption and allegations of domestic abuse are not considered when deciding if a garda is awarded a bravery medal, according to the force. Last year it was revealed that in 2021, former Garda detective Noel McMahon received a Scott Medal...
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WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSES HOTEL DOUBLING PRICES FOR BON JOVI GIG IN CROKE PARK
A DUBLIN hotel cancelled dozens of reservations for the night of a Bon Jovi concert in Croke Park this summer, and the rooms were then placed back on the market for up to €800, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The Dublin One Hotel in Drumcondra, a...
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ANDREW’S SHAME
THE splendour of Grade II-listed Royal Lodge would have felt a world away for Andrew MountbattenWindsor yesterday when the heavy cell door clunked shut behind him in his far less ostentatious new digs – no bigger than a box room in a three-bed...
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POLICE CALLED TO CULLETON’S U.S. HOME OVER ‘INCIDENTS’ WITH EX-WIFE
BOSTON police responded to two ‘domestic incidents’ involving ICE detainee Séamus Culleton and his ex-wife over the course of a four-year marriage that ended in divorce, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. The marriage between Mr Culleton and the woman,...
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BEWARE OF SOLICITORS USING AI, SAY JUDGES
JUDGES have warned the public over solicitors using artificial intelli- gence to compose court documents following three cases having to be thrown out over errorstrewn submissions. One judge claimed it was ‘disheartening’ that people have ‘fallen into...
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IRISH ICE DETAINEE IS ON HIS WAY HOME
ICE detainee Séamus Culleton is expected back in Ireland today after failing in his attempt to stay in the US, the Irish Daily Mail has learned. Mr Culleton, who made worldwide headlines after he claimed he was being held in ‘concentration camp’...
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CABINET FEARS ON NEW ROADS AFTER COURT’S DECISION
MAJOR projects, such as the proposed LNG terminal and new motorways, are at risk after a Supreme Court ruling about climate change laws, Cabinet ministers fear. Last week, the court ruled that climate obligations were ‘real, effective and, if...
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YOU ALL AGREED TO CUTS AT RTE
RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has issued a robust defence of his tenure as head of the State broadcaster to his staff as they began balloting on his future this week. Trade union Siptu is balloting its members in RTÉ on whether they have...
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HEADACHE FOR FAI AND GARDAÍ
IRELAND’S draw against Israel in the UEFA Nations League was described last night as an ‘absolute nightmare’ from both a security and political perspective. The draw for the European soccer competition, made in Brussels yesterday evening, will see the...
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HUTCH: I‘M RUNNING IN THE BY-ELECTION
GANGLAND figure Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch last night declared that he will run in the upcoming Dublin Central by-election. At a chaotic press event to promote an upcoming play by Rex Ryan based on The Monk’s life, Hutch, 62, stated that he was ‘never in...
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‘HUGE RISK’ TO ECONOMY IF AIRPORT CAP IS NOT ABOLISHED
MINISTERS have been warned legislation to lift the Dublin Airport passenger cap is ‘likely’ to be challenged in the courts, which could further scupper efforts to resolve the row. And members of the Cabinet have told the Irish Daily Mail that there is...
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FIVE IRISH ON U.S. ‘WORST OF WORST’ LIST OF CRIMINALS
THE US Department of Homeland Security has named five Irish people among ‘the worst of the worst criminal aliens’ as part of efforts to justify its violent immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It comes in the wake of the White House defending the...
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IRISH ARE FLEEING TRUMP’S AMERICA
IRISH ‘illegals’ are quitting Donald Trump’s America voluntarily to avoid being caught up in swoops by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. It emerged yesterday that more than 100 Irish citizens were deported from the US last year. And the...
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MAY DATE FOR BY-ELECTIONS
THE Government is planning to hold two pivotal by-elections in May, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Senior Government sources confirmed to the Mail last night that the by-elections in Galway West and Dublin Central will take place at the very end of...
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FLATLEY: THE SHOW GOES ON
MICHAEL Flatley raced back to court yesterday where he won an order to prevent the cancellation of the Lord Of The Dance tour – which is due to begin in Dublin tomorrow. After a day of drama which saw the show initially pulled, the dancer got an...
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FLOODS WARNING AS THIRD DELUGE STRIKES
IRELAND is braced for a third round of flooding in a week with Met Éireann warning that three times the average rainfall could hit the east coast. Counties that saw the worst of the flooding last week – Wexford, Carlow, Wicklow and Dublin – are...
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PEOPLE AGREE WITH JUDGE... CYCLISTS ARE A NIGHTMARE ON THE ROADS
OVER half of people agree with a Circuit Court judge that cyclists on our roads are a ‘nightmare’, an exclusive Irish Daily Mail poll has found. Research by Amárach found 49% agreed with Judge James O’Donohoe, while some 30% disagreed, and the...
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BAN OUR UNDER-16S FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
NEARLY three in four people would support the introduction of an Australian-style social media ban on under-16s in Ireland, a poll for the Irish Daily Mail has found. The poll results follow major controversy earlier this month after the social media...
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€500K DEPOSIT HELPED FLATLEY WIN BACK SHOW
MICHAEL Flatley has pledged to stage ‘the greatest show ever’ in Dublin next week after overturning a court order that had barred him from interfering with the upcoming Lord Of The Dance tour. An 11th-hour deposit of €500,000 from a financial backer...
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COUNTDOWN TO CONFLAGRATION
DONALD Trump issued a chilling threat to Iran last night: Make a nuclear deal or face an overwhelming military onslaught. As the US president’s ‘beautiful armada’ of warships moved into position, the Tehran regime said any attack would be ‘an act of...
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Day Nicole (nearly) made Anna smile
WITH a newly inked Chanel contract under her belt, a thriving film career and a net worth conservatively estimated at $375million (€311million), Nicole Kidman isn’t really in need of a revenge dress. Yet the striking black feather-embellished shift she...
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What HAS Anya got up her Dior sleeves?
THE Oscars might be several weeks away, but at Paris Couture Week guests always look red carpet ready. For some, this means wearing an improbably glamorous evening gown. For others, it means incredibly glamorous jewels. And for the Oscar-nominated,...
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HOW SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS STILL HIT BY HANGOVER FROM COVID
ALMOST a third of primary schools have seen a sharp rise in the number of pupils absent for four weeks or more in the wake of the pandemic. Patterns around primary and secondary schoolchildren taking days off have grown worse over two recent academic...
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STUDENTS ‘QUIZZED’ BY REVENUE AT CHARITY FUNDRAISER
REVENUE officials ‘interrogated’ transi- tion year students taking part in a charity fundraiser as part of a ‘nationwide operation’ targeting Christmas markets last month, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. An event in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, in...
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FLATLEY: I’LL PROVE THAT I OWN LORD OF THE DANCE
MICHAEL Flatley has claimed he is the ‘true owner’ of a company seeking to bar him from any involvement in a Lord Of The Dance tour. The dancer’s legal team told the High Court in Belfast that he can take complete control of Switzer Consulting Ltd –...
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TRUMP: I’ve struck a deal for my big, beautiful piece of ice
DONALD Trump last night dropped his threat to invade Greenland following a furious row with Nato allies. Speaking after talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte, the US president said he had agreed ‘the framework of a future deal’ regarding the control of the...
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The REAL inside story of what went on at wedding that tore Beckhams apart
KATIE HIND
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CIVIL SERVANTS PAY JUST €345 TO RENT IN PHOENIX PARK
CURRENT and former civil servants are paying monthly rents of between €56 to €345 for publicly owned properties, some of which are in the Phoenix Park. The Office of Public Works has finally confirmed to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee that annual...
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It’s a new love for smiling killer Molly
CONVICTED killer Molly Martens smiles into the eyes of her new lover as she enjoys her freedom while dog-walking in the US. Martens, 41, and boyfriend Josh Parrott, 36, kissed and cuddled as they strolled about in Knoxville, Tennessee. The blonde...
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Shot dead, Robina, 23, a victim of the mullahs’ death squads
A STUDENT protester was shot in the back of the head during the Iran regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. Robina Aminian, 23, was killed at close range as she left college to join one of the dozens of demonstrations sweeping the country. As human...
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