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Gardaí seeking dash-cam footage after killing linked to Kinahan-Hutch feud Clive Staunton’s body is removed from the Glen Easton housing estate in Leixlip, Co Kildare, where he was shot on Thursday night. Photograph: Colin Keegan/ Collins

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Miriam Lord: ‘Frozen semen issue’ delays discussion of Shane Ross Bill Minister for Transport Shane Ross complained that “Law Library insiders” were trying to derail the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Filibustering senators debate dogs and drugs instead of judicial appointments

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Priced out of her Dublin home, singer Una Keane is taking baby and dog on a road trip

Troubled Slovakia struggles to escape darkness cast by journalist's murder Photographs of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, in the office of the Aktuality.sk news outlet in Bratislava where he worked. They were shot dead in February.

Questions remain over who ordered Jan Kuciak's killing and government response to crisis

Two-tier funding system to reward high quality preschools Dr Katherine Zappone, Minister for Children, is planning to provide extra funding for high quality preschools under a new plan to boost standards in the sector. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Plans feature in early-years strategy to be published by Minister Zappone next week

Fine Gael hoping the ‘Varadkar factor’ won’t fade by election time Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking at Government Buildings, Dublin this week. Photograph: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

‘The Irish Times’ visited four key constituencies to gauge party's ahead of its Ardfheis

European army would be no way to honour Armistice Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron in a replica of the wagon where the Armistice was signed in 1918, in the Clairiere of Rethondes forest, during a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/EPA

Conflict-resolution networks required rather than European fighting force

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Several Northern Ireland titles held by company unable to solve debt problems

Brexit deal: Varadkar signals very little wriggle room Leo Varadkar: “If you start trying to amend it or unpick it you might find that the whole thing starts to unravel.” Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
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‘Very difficult’ to avoid hard border if no withdrawal agreement in place, says Taoiseach

Remembering Derry’s momentous civil rights march 50 years later 1968: Front row - Willie Breslin, Dermie McClenaghan, Johnny White, Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh, Michael Canavan, Billy Kelsall, Ivan Cooper, John Hume, James Doherty, John Patton, Claude Wilton, Brendan Hinds. Aidan McKinney is in the third row, directly behind Dermie McClenaghan; Terry Doherty’s hair is visible but his face is obscured behind Michael Canavan. Photograph: Larry Doherty

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Fatal shooting of man in Kildare linked to Kinahan-Hutch feud Gardaí at the scene of the fatal shooting in Leixlip of Clive Staunton (inset). Photographs: PA and Facebook

Dead man was in his 50s and had returned to his Leixlip home from Ireland football match

Homeless figures show families ‘not gaming system’, says charity ‘Family homelessness continued to grow at the same appalling rate after ‘homeless priority’ was removed as it did before,’ Mike Allen, director of advocacy at Focus Ireland has said.

Family homelessness continues to rise in Dublin, new data shows

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