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- Taskforce to meet again over response to flooding07:54Half of all households in Cork city are without tap water after pumping station damaged
- Shots fired at PSNI near Border08:24Police fired a number of shots after coming under fire near town of Garrison in Co Fermanagh
- US health bill passes first hurdle08:12US Senate narrowly votes to hold debate on bill designed to overhaul healthcare system
- Water supplies cut in parts of Kildare09:35Technical fault at Old Kilcullen reservoir means a number of towns are without water
- Irish fans march to French embassy08:40Around 200 people take part in protest and call for World Cup qualifying match to be replayed
- Passenger ferry sinks off Sumatra08:28Ship was carrying more than 200 people when it sank in stormy conditions this morning
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Shane Hegarty
We wanted to be furious, fuming, raging. It was furious and it was thrilling

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Breda O'Brien
The sad thing is the protest against Henry's cheating hand has united the country

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Noel Whelan
No consensus is emerging on what alternative electoral system could replace one we have

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Eloise McInerney
This recession may be the catalyst for mobilising the young of Ireland

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Brian O'Connor
Turning Thierry Henry into a bogeyman is as pathetic as it is ludicrous

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The Match
"Was it worth it Thierry..?...Your reputation in tatters....."

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On the Record
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Are we entering the territory of gunboat diplomacy?

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Henry’s hand has condemned us to four more years of gloomy depression

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We live on a hill so we can watch the plain below getting flooded

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France has been hostile to the idea of religious dress in public

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McCann joins the ranks of previous winners such as Franzen, Sontag, Roth and Updike

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Three admirable folk now have their belated Oscar

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Filling the top jobs in EUTHERE WAS a most undignified, horsetrading quality to what we were allowed to see of the choice of the first European Council president and EU “foreign minister” on Thursday. It did the EU no credit. As usual at summits such decisions had to satisfy a host of constituencies: the big political families, the Christian Democrats/EPP and the socialists; the large-state, small-state divide; the gender balance; and then the “anyone-but-Tony-Blair” camp, and, apparently, the eastern “that former communist D’Alema is not acceptable” camp.
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Republic of Ireland soccer supporters who marched to the French Embassy in Dublin to call for a replay of the Irish and French World cup game.game, November 21st. Photo:Cyril Byrne /THE IRISH TIMES
Dev Kapil from India at the yoga championships in Dublin, November 21st. Photo: Sasko Lazarov /Photocall Ireland
A boy skimboards on the shore on the resort island of Boracay in Malay in the province of Aklan, central Philippines, November 21st. Photo:Romeo Ranoco /REUTERS
Wang Mingjuan of China celebrates after lifting 118 kg in the women's 48kg Group A weightlifting clean & jerk competition at the World Weightlifting Championship in Goyang, north of Seoul, November 21st. Photo:/Jo Yong-Hak /REUTERS
Farmers shouts slogans during a protest against higher costs and lower sales prices of their products in Madrid November 21st/ Photo:Nacho Doce /REUTERS
A man casts a fishing net in the Makoko fishing community in Lagos, Nigeria, November 21st. Photo:Goran Tomasevic /REUTERS
Newar girls start to arrive for their first marriage ceremony as part of Ihi rituals in Kathmandu November 21st. Photo:Shruti Shrestha /REUTERS
Rory McIlroy from Northern Ireland crosses a stream after hitting his ball into the water on the 18th hole during the third round of the Dubai World Championship European PGA golf tournament in Dubai November 21st. Photo{Steve Crisp /REUTERS
Belgium's Marianne Thyssen, President of the Flemish Christian Democrat party (CD&V), attends an interview after a meeting with former Prime Minister Wilfried Martens in Brussels November 21st. Photo:Sebastien Pirlet /REUTERS
An Afghan boy watches a U.S. Army soldier of 3/509 infantry B-company of Task Force Geronimo on patrol in Paktika province November 21st. Photo:Bruno Domingos /REUTERS
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Bargains after the bells?The recession means plenty of good-value holidays are on offer if you’re planning a honeymoon. But an uncertain future means we’re less keen to commit to luxury getaways before we have to.ALANNA GALLAGHERgets some tips from travel agents andFIONA McCANNtakes a ‘minimoon’ closer to home
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Fiji routed as Sexton enjoys dream debutIreland 41 Fiji 6:Ireland remained unbeaten after the second match of their autumn series when they beat Fiji in the first international to be staged in Leinster’s ground in the RDS. On a squalling night in Dublin, Ireland ran in five tries in a one-sided contest.
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The charge of the euro brigadeNEXT SATURDAY MORNING, a week from today, the former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to launch his autobiography in the Waterstone’s bookshop in the Quays Shopping Centre, Newry. Fortunately for Ahern, Irene from Darndale did her shopping in the Quays last Wednesday. “It’s a shame he’s not here today,” she says. “I’d knock the head off him.” writesANN MARIE HOURIHANE
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Age of entitlementPROSPECTS:Opportunities are no longer knocking for our best and brightest. So how are they coping with current economic woes in addition to the completely normal uncertainties of being twentysomething?
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A very pleasant vampireINTERVIEW:IF YOU’RE GOING to be stuck with the same face for 350 years then it might as well be the one attached to Peter Facinelli. The American actor, now an unblemished 35, has worked hard over the past decade and a half. He was in the action seriesFastlane. He had decent roles in the movieScorpion Kingand the much-lovedSix Feet Under. But, right now, he is indelibly, irrevocably associated with the jaw-droppingly successfulTwilightfranchise. A year ago, the first film adaption of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga emerged and, to the surprise of perplexed adults unaware of the books’ enormous cult following, chewed the world’s box-offices into bloody pulp.
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