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“I was literally saying the Lord’s prayer with this woman on the ground of the World Trade Centre when my sister’s plane hit, on my daughter’s eleventh birthday," the late Cork-born 9/11 survivor Ron Clifford said in 2021. "It's hard to go there."

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Their departure would cause serious damage to the economy, but is it worth it in the long term?

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A retired Garda Superintendent accused of facilitating a criminal organisation has been further charged with conspiring with a detective to deceive people out of money.

Meanwhile, a former co-defendant, a Garda Detective Inspector, walked free from court.

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BREAKING: U-turn as UK MPs vote against Bill to legalise Assisted Suicide in England and Wales:

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COOLOCK Crown Paints site clearance: The owners have promised to “keep the local community and elected representatives informed as work develops” - while locals assured of no plans for IPAS centre.

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NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: We can't keep handing out Irish citizenships like smarties - no language or culture tests, and at a rate 4 times that of Denmark, for example. Good journalism made this a live issue - now the government must ignore the NGOs and act.

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Organisers say another wave of widespread demonstrations is very likely, warning that the state is failing ordinary citizens while actively reaping record tax revenues from fuel sales.

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Planned January transit fare hikes opposed by Dublin councillors:

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Dublin city councillors have publicly pushed back against the incoming 15% increase in public transport fares.

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A judge has expressed surprise that Dublin City Council will not allow a Romanian burglar to reside at his partner's council house as part of bail conditions.

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Adult criminals in Sweden recruited minors for shootings and drug crime, exploiting lighter sentences for juvenile offenders.

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More fuel protests "very likely" this year, organiser warns:

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A fuel protest organiser has warned that further protests are "very likely" if certain conditions are not met by the upcoming Budget, claiming that the current situation is "a disgrace".

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DEAN CÉITINN: "The current unsustainable levels of inward migration is a multi-generational catastrophe unfolding in plain sight."

So what might a common sense immigration policy look like?

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Families pay "full whack" while data centres get cut-price energy, a Councillor has said, claiming that the cost of living means middle income renters in particular are "screwed":

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One TD claimed Ireland does have an integration problem, saying: "All of us canvass houses where we meet people behind doors who have to get their children to come to the door to be able to communicate with us":

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Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner known as the “godfather of AI” said a 10% chance "that AI could kill all humans potentially within a decade" seemed "not an unreasonable estimate". He listed biological viruses, computer viruses, and "devastating cyber attacks".

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Two Jordanian asylum seekers accused of raping an 18-year-old woman outside Ceannt Station have been denied High Court bail. The court heard that the woman had lost her way while looking for her lodgings.

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