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Five people have died following swimming-related incidents at lakes in Ireland this week. Teenager Jay Moffett, who died after entering a lake in the Canal Court area of Scarva in …
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Twice world champion Sanita Puspure dominated the first race in her Olympic quest to win the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics single sculls. The 39-year-old, who is also a …
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French president Emmanuel Macron has changed his mobile phone and phone number in light of the Pegasus spyware case, a presidency official said on Thursday, in one of the first …
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European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has rejected Boris Johnson’s plea to renegotiate the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland after a phone call with the prime minister. The European …
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The original plan was to test the endurance over 26.2 miles of hard slog through the streets of Tokyo and get some idea of what it’s like to run a …
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Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study …
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Donegal man Stephen McKinney has been jailed for life for murdering his wife as their children slept on the first night of a family boating holiday on Fermanagh’s Lower Lough …
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On Monday, England marked its so-called “freedom day” and ended more than a year of lockdown restrictions, despite an ongoing surge in case numbers across the UK and warnings from …
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A 53 year-old Irishman is being held on remand in Frankfurt on suspicion of planning a violent attack using a crossbow, swords and firearms. Frankfurt police say they arrested the …
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The number of people entering treatment for crack cocaine use has increased by 400 per cent in the past six years, according to the latest figures from the Health Research …
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