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Roddy Collins: ‘I went off missing, to England, with Vinnie Jones, having a few pints, for a day or two...’

Footballer, manager, and broadcaster, Roddy Collins is a big man, with big emotions, and a big life. He seems to attract controversy – and cause it – effortlessly. Right now, it’s a row about Sky Sports apologising for the behaviour of Celtic football fans around the time of the Queen’s funeral. Next week, it’ll probably be something else.

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‘You might think he has a brass neck, but you have to admire his staying power’ – Golfgate organiser Donie Cassidy campaigns to be Fianna Fáil vice president

Golfgate organiser Donie Cassidy has raised eyebrows with a campaign to become Fianna Fáil vice president this weekend.

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British energy cap spells big trouble for Border businesses

The UK’s energy price cap is another knock for Irish publicans in the Border regions – who say they are already struggling to compete with their counterparts in Northern Ireland.

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Learning Pool’s Paul McElvaney to keep on diving into the world of deals

The Victorian-era City Factory building was once at the heart of Derry’s famous shirt manufacturing industry. These days Learning Pool founder Paul McElvaney is stitching together a very different type of business at the large red brick building.

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Introducing: Actor Niamh McPhillips – ‘My mother would bring us to London to see Shakespeare. I was hooked’

Age: 23.

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‘Please help us find our loved ones’ – Families of the ‘Disappeared’ fear time is running out in their search for closure

To passers-by they may seem like any other part of rural Ireland, but remote fields in counties Meath, Monaghan and Louth are believed to hold the key to closing one of the most horrific chapters of the Troubles.

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Obituary: Peter Byrne, sports journalist known as The Doyen who covered six World Cups and eight Olympics

Leading sports journalist and prolific author Peter Byrne died last Wednesday at the age of 86 years.

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Revealed: The counties where drivers face longest wait times for NCT

Motorists in some parts of the country face waiting until next year to book an appointment online for a National Car Test (NCT) as demand soars.

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Empty buildings signal the slow death of an Irish town

Every day, on her way to and from work, Annemarie Ryan Shiner passes some of the 84 empty and unused buildings in Tipperary town. Many have been empty for years.

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Global supply crisis sees Combilift lose out on €50m sales

MONAGHAN-BASED Combilift will lose out on sales of up to €50m this year because of the global supply chain crisis and a lack of electronic components, according to its co-founder and chief executive, Martin McVicar.

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‘Zero tolerance’: Domestic violence sentences will double under new laws

Ireland will double criminal penalties to 10 years for domestic abusers and double the number of refuge spaces under a €360m plan to try to end domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

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Balaclava-wearing crime gang ram prison van in failed bid to free suspected killer

AN ORGANISED crime gang from south Armagh are the chief suspects in the ramming a prison van in a failed attempt to free one of their members.

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€25 million battery facility switched on in Monaghan will store energy from renewable sources

A €25 million battery storage project that aims to enhance the role of renewables in Ireland has been launched in Co Monaghan.

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Revealed: The counties that have welcomed the most Ukrainian refugees into schools

Almost 6,000 Ukrainian pupils are now enrolled in Irish schools, with the biggest concentration of the refugee students in counties Clare and Kerry.

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‘She shone so brightly throughout her short life’ – heartbroken parents of Aoibhe Byrne (14) pay tribute at funeral mass

The parents of Aoibhe Byrne (14), who died in a tragic accident during the week, said at her funeral mass today she was a happy and friendly girl who “smiled from the minute she was born”.

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Murderer of mother-of-two Sylvia Roche Kelly ‘is now pushing for release’

Convicted murderer Jerry McGrath is “actively engaging” with the Probation Service and is “on a path” towards his eventual release, the Sunday Independent understands.

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Pat McCabe: ‘Anything I do is always going to divide people’

My first intimation of Pat McCabe comes several hours before our interview, when Zoom tells me he is in the “meeting room”. I wonder does he have the time wrong, but no. It turns out he is simply checking everything is in order.

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Man (60s) charged after €580,000 cannabis grow house raid in Co Monaghan

Gardaí have seized €580,000 worth of suspected cannabis herb and arrested a man in his 60s following a search operation in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan.

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‘To Ukraine with love’ – Irish hotels raise flags and funds to support a people in crisis

Walking through Belfast's Cathedral Quarter the other day, I stopped outside the Merchant Hotel.

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Cliste: Maybe they’re just smarter than the average hospitality group

At the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa on the outskirts of Limerick City on Monday – almost two years to the day when Covid was first detected in Ireland – Paul Fitzgerald was getting accustomed to not wearing a facemask for a two-day gathering of general managers and senior teams from Cliste Hospitality’s hotels.

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Jack O’Connor and ‘Banty’ McEnaney: Two veterans still battling to stay ahead of the curve

It tells you how far back Jack O’Connor and Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney first crossed competitive paths that the subsequent disciplinary case arising from the game was conducted by the now long defunct Central Disciplinary Committee (CDC).

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Chain reaction: house prices up €30k as buyers, sellers struggle

House prices increased by almost €30,000 on average last year, according to new figures underlining the worsening effects of supply constraints on the property market.

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Gardaí wanted return of Uzis in months before Adrian Donohoe’s murder

Plans to disrupt dissident republicans with armed garda patrols along the border were restricted after machine guns were withdrawn from detectives, according to an internal Garda submission.

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50 hotspots for 2022: plan your holiday now

So, where will we holiday this year?’ was the question on many lips before Micheál Martin had even finished his landmark ‘Today is a good day’ speech.

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The New Gaeilgeoirs: Forecasts of the Irish language’s demise are greatly exaggerated

The Irish language is booming. It’s also dying. So what exactly is going on? In the 2016 Census more than 1.7 million people claimed to speak Irish. There are more than 400 gaelscoils and all-Irish colleges on the island and that number is growing year on year.

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Monaghan man’s firm hits $100m revenues, up from $0 in just 18 months

Monaghan timber-frame construction entrepreneur Gerry McCaughey’s Monaghan-US firm Entekra had revenues of $100m (€88m) last year, according to majority owner Louisiana Pacific Corporation (LPC).

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Avian flu outbreak leaves Border farmers ‘terrified’

The State’s chief veterinary officer Dr Martin Blake fears avian influenza will continue to kill birds in Ireland for months to come, “with outbreaks every couple of days”.

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Rising costs stall work on cross-Border cycle path

The brakes have been applied to the latest phase of a major cross-Border cycle path due to rising construction costs.

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Children aged under four in intensive care among 33 hospitalised with Covid-19 in two weeks

A number of children seriously ill with Covid-19 were admitted to intensive care in the last fortnight amid ongoing uncertainty about the impact of the virus on schools in the coming months.

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Coronavirus is found in sewage treatment plants across country

The virus that causes Covid-19 has been detected for the first time in wastewater across the whole country.