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'Thank you, Donal, for all you have taught us about life, you're our hero'
Donal Walsh's parents overwhelmed by response
Man's body found in Tallaght
Gardai are investigating the discovery of man's body in Dublin.
Shatter refuses to quit in 'breach of trust' row
JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter, under fire for his use of private garda information.
One in seven on dole has never worked a single day
"Disturbingly shocking" figures reveal dole for life plight.
Taoiseach to lay wreath in tribute to Boston Marathon bombing victims
Nigerians send nearly €500m a year home from Ireland
TDs angry at 'attempts to buy peace with unions'
Finance chief gets key economic data at the local Spar
Irish grads sting UK for college fees
African gangs use 'front' businesses to sell 'meth'
North Korea fires more short-range missiles
Tensions rise as North Korea fired another short-range missile this morning.
Marianne Gunne O'Connor shares her unusual inspiration - Fergie
Agent is inspired by retiring Man Utd boss
Support for suicide abortion down: Poll
Just 53% find abortion acceptable in cases of a threat of suicide.
TDs angry at 'attempts to buy peace with unions'
Anger and concern among Fine Gael backbenchers.
State faces being sued if IBRC fails to pay debts
German-based investment fund may sue the State unless IBRC repays millions
Anger as gay porn incident cleric is made parish priest
CLERIC who accidentally showed gay porn is appointed parish priest.
Ritz-Carlton gets trespass order in feud over suite
Hotel gets order barring businessman from occupying bedroom suite.
€80m Brian Boru film will 'showcase' Ireland
The biggest movie ever made on Irish shores is to begin filming here next year.
Ulster's Dunne battle 'lacks sense'
Ulster Bank move dubbed "vindictive" and "lacking in commercial sense".
King of cafe society will reign again
Giorgio Casari was a king without a kingdom when the Unicorn closed.
Judge causes consternation – by working too hard
Another row – but this one is over a judge working too hard.
Dowling centre-stage for the final time as he's laid to rest
Vincent Dowling remembered during a service in his adopted home in the US
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At 22 days old Lila and weighing 119g, which is the equivalent to just under the weight of half a packet of butter, is receiving round the clock care and being hand reared by the Zoo team. Lila will be introduced to fellow meerkat play mates in order to learn all of the traits of her species and so she develops her own set of natural instincts.
Support for suicide abortion down: Poll
A SLIM majority (53 per cent) finds abortion acceptable in cases of a threat of suicide – down five points in three months, according to the latest Sunday Independent/ Millward Brown opinion poll.
More shops forced to shut doors as town struggles in face of recession
It was a neighbourhood cafe, bakery and cakeshop named after a U2 song, but after three years in business The Sweetest Thing closed its doors for the last time yesterday.
Calls to reopen Croppies Acre memorial park
CAMPAIGNERS have demanded the reopening of a memorial park to Irish patriots which was closed just a year after tens of thousands of euro in public money was poured into upgrading it.
Rory Best to captain 28-man squad on tour of North America
Rory Best will lead Ireland's 28-man squad for their tour to the United States and Canada after being overlooked by the British and Irish Lions.
O'Gara's first step in coaching marks path towards Munster
Not long after Leinster put Stade Francais to bed, Jonny Sexton was being asked about the scarcely credible development that will land himself and Ronan O'Gara in the same club next season.
Familiar agony for Clermont
WITH just over 50 minutes gone at Lansdowne Road last night, the Toulon forwards laboured their way into the Clermont '22' desperate to get a chink of light into a game that had been fading at first and then gone dark.
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'Our aim is to try and come back' – Higgins
Keith Higgins has watched last year's All-Ireland once. He went through the ordeal about a month after the loss to Donegal, but Mayo players don't need a DVD to remind them of what happened. It is ingrained a lot deeper than that.
Rory Best to captain 28-man squad on tour of North America
Rory Best will lead Ireland's 28-man squad for their tour to the United States and Canada after being overlooked by the British and Irish Lions.
New deal for Ferdinand as Moyes gets to work
Rio Ferdinand will sign a one-year contract at Manchester United this week after incoming manager David Moyes sanctioned a new deal for the 34-year-old.
Dracula horror as North lures $70m movie from Ardmore
THE Paul McGuinness-backed Ardmore Studios is examining whether the loss of UIP's $70m (€55m) budget blockbuster Dracula to Northern Ireland may have been as a result of unfair state aid.
Brandon links up with former partners to make fresh play in biotech sector
Three Irish biomedical companies are investing €3m in a new joint venture to make the chemicals required to make biodegradable human implants. The joint venture reunites Alltracel founder Gerry Brandon, who runs chemicals maker Cellulac, with his former colleague there Tony Richardson, who is now chief executive of AIM-listed clinical research organisation Venn Life Sciences.
98FM chief is third Communicorp executive to quit radio in six months
The chief executive of 98FM, Chris Doyle, has announced his departure, taking to three the number of radio bosses who have tuned out of Communicorp in six months.
Baby on board: Kim Kardashian to take baby on Kanye tour
Kim Kardashian is apparently planning to take her baby on tour with Kanye West.
Frenemies: Madonna wanted Paltrow to ‘suffer’ at Met Gala
Madonna reportedly “didn’t even glance” in Gwyneth Paltrow’s direction at the Met Gala.
Taylor Swift fan arrested after swimming up to her beach front home
The man swam over two miles to her property with the intention to meet her
Tensions rise as North Korea fires more short-range missiles
NORTH KOREA fired a short-range missile from its east coast this morning.
Al-Qaeda plunders Syria's oilfields
AL-QAEDA'S Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Tony Blair to advise next government of Albania
TONY BLAIR has agreed to advise the next government of Albania, opening the way for a deal which could be worth millions of pounds.
Brendan O'Connor: He took what life he had and made it matter
When I heard Donal Walsh had died, I couldn't help thinking of Spike Milligan's line: I told you I was sick. For those of us who didn't know Donal, who didn't live with his illness and see its progress, there was a strange sense of surprise that he had really died, that his young life was actually snuffed out in the end. Obviously everyone knew Donal was dying. His imminent death was central to the life-affirming message he brought to the nation. But somehow, when the inevitable came, it was a shock. I suppose this young man, whom none of us really knew but we all felt we knew, didn't seem like the type to die.
Colm McCarthy: Retirement age must rise by eight or 10 years
Since 2008, economic policy in Ireland has been understandably focused upon the deflation of the bank credit bubble and its budgetary consequences. But Ireland faces serious economic policy problems which pre-date the financial crisis. Two reports released in recent weeks highlight one of the most serious – the unsustainable current system of retirement income provision. State pension schemes are unfunded (the social insurance 'fund' is just a book entry in the State accounts) and reliant entirely on the health of future tax revenues. If these fail to grow strongly, the State will struggle to meet pension commitments to its own employees and to the wider public who are covered by the contributory and non-contributory old-age pension schemes.
Paul Moran: Labour still between rock and a hard place
Our latest opinion poll, conducted earlier this month, shows little change in terms of party support, with most of them tipping along at more or less the same position as last month. Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have slipped back (an insignificant) one point, with Sinn Fein the apparent beneficiary. It is as you were for both Labour and the independents. There has been some stabilisation of the Labour vote over the past couple of months, stalling the steady decline that we witnessed earlier in the year.
Simon Harris: It's the young who will fix this country
David Quinn: A new political party is needed to serve the battered under-45s
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Montenegro: A Balkan beauty with blue skies, beauty... and now golf
I had never before seen such an amazing shade of blue as that of the Adriatic
Prague: Czech date
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WOMEN undergoing IVF are three times more likely to have a baby through a new technique that scientists are claiming as the biggest fertility breakthrough for 35 years.
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Going solo: The lot of the only child
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