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THE Government has been plunged into its first crisis after Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore yesterday categorically rejected Fine Gael calls to reverse the decision to close the Irish embassy to the Vatican.
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IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.
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THE number of cancer cases in Ireland will rise by a shocking 72 per cent in the next two decades.
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