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  • Gardai appeal for information on death of young man in Dublin Gardai appeal for information on death of young man in Dublin

    Gardai have issued an appeal to the public for any information concerning a young man whose body was found on Friday night in Dublin. The man, in his twenties, is yet to be identified. Gardai have not given any indication as to possible causes of death. The State Pathologist has yet to perform a postmortem. Gardai have begun an investigation into the man's death for the Coroner. The ...

  • McDowell defends slip about McIlroys leaving Nike deal agency

    Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world. For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 ...

  • G8 summit in Fermanagh will put Northern Ireland under security lockdown

    An extensive array of security measures is being put in place for the two-day event - including a giant new security fence which stretches for miles - with authorities warning of major disruption at the summit venue in rural County Fermanagh and in other parts of the country.The battery of precautions will affect many facets of life, including the international airport, roads and schools. ...

  • England boss Roy Hodgsons plea to fans no provocative chants during Wembley game with Republic of Ireland

    Roy Hodgson will make a personal plea to supporters attending next week's international against the Republic of Ireland not to sing inflammatory songs about the ...

  • Taoiseach defends Shatter ‘100’ over disclosing confidential Garda information

    Minister for Justice Alan Shatter may face Dáil motion of no confidence and ethics probe over his remarks that Wexford TD Mick Wallace escaped getting penalty points last ...

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Into the Wild [DVD]

Into the Wild [DVD]

Early in his career Sean Penn developed a reputation as an intense actor, one who relished and excelled at playing anguished, internally divided characters, a tendency that has also informed his work as a director. His first three films behind the camera, 1991s The Indian Runner ... ...

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  • Connemara estate implicated in Famine deaths to erect commemorative plaque

    The north Connemara country house and sporting lodge which once turned away Famine victims is to erect a permanent memorial to those who died of hunger in the ...

  • Time to legislate on stem cells

    The news of another breakthrough in Oregon in stem-cell technology - the cloning of embryos using human tissues and then the ability to harvest stem cells from them - opens up new possibilities in the personalisation of therapeutic cloning. But, closer to home, it serves to draw attention once again to the lacunae in Irish law that have left most of a field of fast-developing research and the ...

  • Police applaud positive talks as an antidote to community tensions in Northern Ireland

    BY MICHAEL McHUGH - 20 May 2013 A PSNI chief said he hopes there will be greater public confidence in the police on the back of talks aimed at quelling community ...

  • ‘One dead’ in blaze at Belfast apartment

    The emergency services responded after reports around 7.30pm of a blaze in University Street, which was sealed off for several hours. A white forensic tent was erected outside the building. Sources suggested one person died. Both the Ambulance and Fire Services confirmed they attended but would give no further details. A PSNI spokesman was unavailable for ...

  • Alternative voting systems favour largest parties

    A study of how alternative electoral systems would work in Ireland has found they most markedly favour the largest political party in Ireland and also result in substantially reduced representation for smallest parties and ...

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