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    • Cork win with plenty to spare
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    • Leinster’s direct style earns Pro12 success
    • FG and FF now tied on 26 points, poll shows
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    • Cork win with plenty to spare
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    • Dylan Hartley red card overshadows Leicester’s title triumph
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    • Bayern Munich’s Arjen Robben scores the winning goal past Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller during the Champions League Final  at Wembley Stadium. Photograph:   Phil Noble/Reuters Robben picks Dortmund pockets late on as Bayern Munich claim thrilling win
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    • Shatter’s mistake in the Wallace saga was purely political
    • Dr Eamonn Moloney, consultant psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital; Prof Veronica O’Keane, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital and TCD; and Dr Yolande Ferguson, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital, attending Monday’s hearing of the Oireachtas health committee.   Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Time limit a key issue arising from health committee hearings on abortion
    • ‘Raymond Carver’s poems’ popularity must be in part due to their unrelenting cheerfulness – a contrast with many of his stories.’ A Carver carved
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Whispering sweet nothings
  • May 25, 2013, 01:08
Scoring penalty points
  • May 25, 2013, 01:07
Communion and hypocrisy
  • May 25, 2013, 01:06
Praying for good weather
  • May 25, 2013, 01:05
Plan for new children’s hospital
  • May 25, 2013, 01:04
Killing on the streets of Woolwich
  • May 25, 2013, 01:03
Successor to Croke Park deal
  • May 25, 2013, 01:02
Apple in Ireland
  • May 25, 2013, 01:01
What to do with the Seanad?
  • May 24, 2013, 16:15
What to do with the Seanad?
  • May 24, 2013, 01:15
Future of third-level education
  • May 24, 2013, 01:14
A case for the North Atlantic Isles
  • May 24, 2013, 01:13
Killing in Woolwich
  • May 24, 2013, 01:12
Successor to Croke Park?
  • May 24, 2013, 01:11
Helping out in the fodder crisis
  • May 24, 2013, 01:10
Local government – which local government?
  • May 24, 2013, 01:09
Surge in bank charges
  • May 24, 2013, 01:08
Leading the way on immigration
  • May 24, 2013, 01:07
The abortion debate
  • May 24, 2013, 01:06
Visitors in flight
  • May 24, 2013, 01:05
Scoring penalty points
  • May 24, 2013, 01:04
Praying for good weather
  • May 24, 2013, 01:03
Paying the property tax
  • May 24, 2013, 01:02
Apple in Ireland
  • May 24, 2013, 01:01
Scoring penalty points
  • May 23, 2013, 01:09
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