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Adam Kirwan was a student and a former Laois minor and under-20 hurler

Man jailed for dangerous driving causing death of friend

Garda Kevin Flatley's coffin, drapped in an O'Dwyers GAA club flag, is brought from St Peter and Paul's Church following his funeral mass

'Always there to help' - Gda Kevin Flatley's funeral told

The remains were discovered in Annyalla Cemetery, Co Monaghan

Fragments of remains found in Joe Lynskey search

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Tom McKibbin in action during the second round at Quail Hollow

Live US PGA Championship - Day 2 updates

The meeting was chaired by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Istanbul, Turkey

Russia, Ukraine agree large-scale prisoner swap in talks

Eurovision Song Contest

There was disappointment for Ireland's Eurovision hopeful EMMY in Basel on Thursday night

Eurovision - what's next for Ireland?

Eurovision Song Contest

Limerick's Kyle Hayes gets away from Cork forward Declan Dalton during last year's All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park

Hurling championship weekend: All you need to know

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Whatever you're into, make it your mission to explore at least one island around the Emerald Isle before the summer is up. Photo: Éadaoin Fitzmaurice

Ireland's Islands: 15 stunning locations to discover

Munster and Benetton drew when the sides last met in October 2023

Updated URC Round 18: All You Need To Know

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Aid agencies have warned of critical shortages of everything from food and clean water to fuel and medicines in Gaza

Israeli strikes kill 88 people in Gaza, rescuers say

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It's beach weather: Magheramore Beach in Co Wicklow. Photo: Samantha Libreri/RTÉ

How an 'Omega block' has given Ireland a dry, warm and sunny May

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that gardaí believe Noonan had a supervisory role in relation to his co-accused

Man sentenced to 13 and a half years for importing heroin

The man was found not guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court

Father found not guilty of cruelty to five month old baby

Young pianist Gabrielė Sutkutė at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Pics: Mark Stedman)

RTÉ to livestream Dublin International Piano Competition finals

Dublin International Piano Competition

President Trump posted the comments on the Truth Social platform as he returned on Air Force One from the Middle East

Trump insults Springsteen, Swift from Air Force One

Plans for an IPAS centre to be built at a site in Coolock have now been scrapped

Criticism of Government's handling of Coolock IPAS centre

Seamus Coleman looks set to remain at Everton

Moyes reveals Everton will offer Coleman new contract

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Completed DuoLingo? 5 ways to use your Gaeilge socially

Completed DuoLingo? 5 ways to use your Gaeilge socially

Sinead O'Shea's documentary Blue Road explores the life and work of Edna O'Brien

Culture 5 special - your cultural highlights for the year to date

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'Sad and sombre day': Garda Flatley funeral to take place

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'Sad and sombre day': Garda Flatley funeral to take place

'Sad and sombre day': Garda Flatley funeral to take place

Off-grid micro-distillery opens on Lambay Island

Off-grid micro-distillery opens on Lambay Island

Family of crash victim say their lives are shattered

Family of crash victim say their lives are shattered

Climate change Leaving Cert subject to be introduced

Climate change Leaving Cert subject to be introduced

Irish fans react to Emmy missing out on Eurovision final

Irish fans react to Emmy missing out on Eurovision final

Eurovision: EMMY performs Laika Party in the second Eurovision semi-final

Eurovision: EMMY performs Laika Party in the second Eurovision semi-final

Trump says nothing will happen on Ukraine talks until ‘Putin and I get together’

Trump says nothing will happen on Ukraine talks until ‘Putin and I get together’

'A great honour' - passing out parade for Naval Service recruits

'A great honour' - passing out parade for Naval Service recruits

Peter O'Mahony to move into coaching?

Peter O'Mahony to move into coaching?

Marty Whelan on the joy of Eurovision

Marty Whelan on the joy of Eurovision

Children given cameras to identify school commute risks

Children given cameras to identify school commute risks

Daughter of crypto CEO escapes attempted kidnapping in Paris

Daughter of crypto CEO escapes attempted kidnapping in Paris

TY students excited over new drama Leaving Cert course

TY students excited over new drama Leaving Cert course

Irish teens are succeeding in school but struggling in life - UNICEF

Irish teens are succeeding in school but struggling in life - UNICEF

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Seán O'Sullivan won the 2024 winner of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

2024 Young Scientist winner honoured at US event

Watch what happens next on Friday on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player at 7:30pm

Friday's Fair City: 'I put the pieces together...'

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Paul Mescal oozes sleek sophistication at Gucci event in Florence

Bronze famine shoe sculptures which are a symbolic gesture to mark the launch of the Global Irish Famine Way and will be placed at key memorial sites in Canada.

How changes in height show the effects of the Great Irish Famine

The Great Famine

Eurovision Song Contest

This year is the 69th edition of Eurovision

The Eurovision in numbers ahead of Saturday's final

Eurovision organisers are tight-lipped as to whether Céline Dion might spring a star turn in Basel, despite a video message from her screened at Tuesday's first semi-final (above)

Eurovision door still open for Céline Dion comeback

26 coutries will battle it out in Basel on Saturday to be crowned the winners of this year's Eurovision Song Contest

Here's the running order for the Eurovision final 2025

EMMY performing during the Eurovision semi-final in Basel

Ireland fails to qualify for the Eurovision final

Eurovision fans said the atmosphere was electric in St. Jakobshalle Arena on Thursday night

'It's a shame' - Irish fans react to Eurovision exit

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Adam Kirwan was a student and a former Laois minor and under-20 hurler

Man jailed for dangerous driving causing death of friend

Victim impact statements from Adam Kirwan's sister and mother, Marie and Lourda Kirwan were heard in court today

Family of crash victim says lives have been 'destroyed'

Garda Kevin Flatley's coffin, drapped in an O'Dwyers GAA club flag, is brought from St Peter and Paul's Church following his funeral mass

'Always there to help' - Gda Kevin Flatley's funeral told

The remains were discovered in Annyalla Cemetery, Co Monaghan

Fragments of remains found in Joe Lynskey search

The meeting was chaired by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Istanbul, Turkey

Russia, Ukraine agree large-scale prisoner swap in talks

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Tom McKibbin in action during the second round at Quail Hollow

Live US PGA Championship - Day 2 updates

Seamus Coleman looks set to remain at Everton

Moyes reveals Everton will offer Coleman new contract

Limerick's Kyle Hayes gets away from Cork forward Declan Dalton during last year's All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park

Hurling championship weekend: All you need to know

Munster and Benetton drew when the sides last met in October 2023

Updated URC Round 18: All You Need To Know

United Rugby Championship

Galway and Dublin collide in Salthill

Paul Flynn's Saturday football championship predictions

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Opera singing at Il Forno Restaurant, Drogheda as part of Culture Night 2024

Drogheda businesses taking part in trial late-night hours

The PSNI said the motorway is closed in both directions (file pic)

Operation to free 40 cows from overturned lorry concludes

Lambay Island is just three miles off the coast of Dublin but is completely off-grid

Watch: Off-grid micro-distillery opens on Lambay Island

Joe Grogan's large landholding had hosted the National Ploughing Championships between 2016 and 2018

Validity of farmer's marriage questioned at inquest

A special 'Pedal Parade' will take place as part of the festival to coincide with Bike Week 2025

Annual Cavan Arts Festival taking place this weekend

Callum Phelan is currently paying €800 a month in rent in Galway, and can only stay from Monday to Friday

'Can't stay weekends' - Galway rents leading to struggles

The blaze broke out at the outhouse of a residential property at around 2am

Investigation under way into fire at Co Monaghan outhouse

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The Championship: Race for Sam begins to heat up

The Championship: Race for Sam begins to heat up

This week on the Championship, Damian Lawlor chats to former Mayo footballer Keith Higgins and Sligo's Niall Murphy about the weekend's All-Ireland SFC round-robin games, while ex-Kilkenny star Eoin Larkin previews a mouthwatering menu of provincial hurling action.

Galway and Dublin collide in Salthill

Paul Flynn's Saturday football championship predictions

'Often in Munster Limerick have been the storyline, injuries, suspensions, would they be caught this time? And always they freed themselves'

Hurling Nation: A hunger for success in weekend feast

Cork's Shane Barrett in action against Limerick in last year's All-Ireland semi-final

GAA teams: Barrett back in for Cork, Limerick unchanged

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Movie Reviews

Does Ethan Hunt survive? As Tom Cruise, ever the bottom-line showman, laughed to Empire, "You gotta see the movie"

Tom Cruise hunts the Mission pieces in Final Reckoning

Picking up where 2023's Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One left off, the on-the-pulse plot sees agent-errant Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team trying to stop "parasitic AI" The Entity as it seeks to end the world as we know it.

With The Surfer, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan has delivered one of the best Nicolas Cage films of recent years

Ego Under the Sun. Nicolas Cage is swell as The Surfer

Chloë Sevigny in Magic Farm

Chloë Sevigny's Magic Farm is vivid but underbaked

The Wedding Banquet remake is more than a mere vow renewal

The Wedding Banquet: Old, borrowed, yet still new

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Uncharted with Ray Goggins

Uncharted with Ray Goggins

Bad Nanny

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Prime Time

Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week

Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week

Mark Moriarty: Cook Like a Chef

Mark Moriarty: Cook Like a Chef

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How to Cook Well in Morocco

How to Cook Well in Morocco

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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The Magna Carta is seen as a precursor of democracy and the basis of legal systems across the world, as well as human rights conventions (Pic: Harvard Law School/Lorin Granger)

Harvard Magna Carta 'copy' is actually rare original

The granite-and-bronze memorial of the British explorer in Melbourne has been a target of vandals previously, with red paint also thrown over it in 2022 (file image)

Australia removes repeatedly vandalised James Cook statue

The study concluded that smartphone users had a 46% increased risk for haemorrhoids than non-users (stock pic)

Study: Phone use on toilet increases risk of haemorrhoids

Police noticed the repeat offender when they went through images from the speed camera (Credit: Gemeinde Köniz)

Duck flying at 52km/h detected by Swiss speed camera

The tracks were found by amateur archaeologists on a 30cm-wide sandstone slab in a mountainous area of the southeast Australia (stock image)

Claw tracks suggest amniotes existed earlier than thought

The note, on an old piece of wallpaper, is dated July 1969.

Hotel seeks to solve mystery of names on a note in a wall

The company has banned customers from using the name of ex-president Yoon, who has been stripped of office, as well as current candidates in the running for office

S Korea Starbucks bans presidential candidate name use

Mike MacDonald and his passenger spent several hours floating in the water before they were rescued.

Canadian pilot survives emergency landing at sea

Tortilla is a Mexican staple, consumed by millions every day

Tortilla developed for people with no fridge in Mexico