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Brexit secretary Dominic Raab is among seven resignations as turmoil continues over the UK-EU agreement

Anti-Brexit campaigners unfurl a banner on Westminster bridge on November 15th, 2018 in front of the Houses of Parliament in London. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/ AFP/Getty May: I believe with every fibre of my being that I have set out the right course

Brexit secretary Dominic Raab resigns along with seven others after release of draft deal

Theresa May, like Michael Collins, was given an impossible negotiating task. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA Wire Theresa May’s task has echoes of challenge faced by Michael Collins

UK prime minister must also sell her deal to a divided cabinet and parliament

Ireland v New Zealand: Leavy still a concern despite being named in team Iain Henderson and Dan Leavy pictured in an Irish team huddle at Carton House. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Joe Schmidt makes four changes to the Ireland team that beat Argentina last weekend

Seven awards for Irish Times journalists at Newsbrands Ireland ceremony Rosita Boland with her trophy at the 2018 Newsbrand Ireland journalism awards Photograph: Simon Carswell

Rosita Boland wins overall journalist and scoop of the year for Ann Lovett boyfriend interview

‘Where the F**K IS MY LUGGAGE!?’: Stormy Daniels lets fly at Aer Lingus The adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Photograph: AFP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

‘Warning! Never fly @AerLingus ... ALL of my bags were lost,’ adult film star complains

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Hospital apologises to family of woman who died of heart attack after admission Some of the family of the late Bridget Tallis outside the Four Courts on Thursday. Ms Tallis died of a heart attack at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny in 2015. Photograph: Collins Courts

Bridget Tallis, a mother of eight, died at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny

Rolling Stones spent ‘ages’ admiring National Gallery’s Caravaggio, says President President Michael D Higgins with Fr Noel Barber SJ, at the National Gallery of Ireland, to mark the 25th anniversary of unveiling of Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’. Photograph: Maxwell

Michael D Higgins helps celebrate 25 years since unveiling of ‘The Taking of Christ’

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Ban on tattoos and intimate body piercings for under 18s proposed in new Bill There is no published data in Ireland on the prevalence of tattoos but a review in the medical journal The Lancet showed that up to 36 per cent of people under 40 had at least one tattoo.

Ban on piercings proposed amid fears they make youngsters vulnerable to abuse

Peadar Tóibín plans new anti-abortion group after quitting Sinn Féin Peadar Tóibín TD speaking at the Sinn Féin ard fheis 2015. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

TD says he will seek support from like-minded people in Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil

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Fintan O’Toole: Historians will not believe sheer ignorance of Brexit supporters Northern Secretary Karen Bradley, who said: “I didn’t understand things like when elections are fought, for example, in Northern Ireland – people who are nationalists don’t vote for unionist parties and vice versa.” Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Future chroniclers will in fact have to distinguish between three kinds of ignorance

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