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BREXIT: The Brexit withdrawal agreement is dividing opinions in the UK after Theresa May's cabinet signed off on it yesterday.

IRELAND: The Government’s fundamental position in relation to the Brexit backstop is reflected and protected in the draft Brexit deal agreed in Brussels, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

IRELAND: Children in one of the country’s four special care residential centres...
source: Irish Examiner

2018-11-15 10:04

  • Oil rises after OPEC+ says to keep output cuts, Iran tension rises

    Oil prices rose to multi-week highs today after OPEC indicated it would probably maintain production cuts that have helped support prices this year, while tension continued to escalate in the Middle East. 

    Brent crude was up by 90 cents, or 1.3%, at $73.11 a barrel this morning,

    RTE 2019-05-20 10:40

  • Update: Leader of the House of Commons resigns 'with great regret and a heavy heart'

    Update: The leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has resigned, saying in a letter to Theresa May “I no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result”.

    It is with great regret and a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from the Government.

    BreakingNews.ie yesterday 19:55

  • Update: Leader of the House of Commons resigns 'with great regret and a heavy heart'

    Update: The leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has resigned, saying in a letter to Theresa May “I no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result”.

    It is with great regret and a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from the Government.

    Irish Examiner yesterday 19:58

  • TV Wrap: BBC struggle to liven up another boring Manchester City triumph

    THE BBC’S COVERAGE of the FA Cup has been easy prey for the bottom-feeding sports-on-television columns of Ireland for decades. 

    It has been a kind of selection box of Brexitesque British delusion, what with its romantacising of a long-lost past and the wrongheaded belief it can be

    The42 2019-05-20 16:31

  • Irish mother of two dies in tragic accident in California

    Geraldine Barry, an Irish mother of two, passed away in a tragic accident in California on May 15.

    Read More: Tributes paid to Irish teacher who died in tragic Mother’s Day accident

    An online obituary for Barry, a native of Cashel in Co Tipperary, read: “Geraldine was an

    Irish Central 2019-05-21 18:34
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