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FG, FF and Independent TDs say arrangement would need to last for three budgets

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EU takes action over sewage pollution in State’s waterways Former town councillor Peter Dempsey campaigning in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Garry O’Neill

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Two shipwrecks discovered along Connemara coastline Archaeologist Michael Gibbons at the shipwreck remains in Fahy Bay in Connemara. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

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Teachers face Junior Cert training despite union ban Secondary school teachers protesting against the junior cycle reforms last year. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

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Census 2016: Hotels face a big challenge on the night Martin Brett of the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney said co-ordinating the census in the hotel will be a challenge. Photograph: Don MacMonagle

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