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Dublin city centre building forms part of the 1916 battlefield site

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Delegates to energy conference are told that red meat will not be served

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Migrants found on Rosslare-bound ferry ‘thought they were going to UK’ The scene at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford, after 16 people were found alive in the back of a truck on a ferry sailing from France. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Gardaí investigating how 16 men came to be in back of lorry on sailing from Cherbourg

Essex migrant deaths: Man suspected of delivering trailer used Irish passport Police officers drive away a lorry in which 39 dead bodies were discovered in Grays, Essex. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty

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