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Day 4: Ireland's Aidan Walsh reaches men's welterweight quarter-finals
 

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Ireland’s Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove compete in the men’s 49er event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Photo: David Brannigan/Inpho Tokyo 2020 Day 4: Dickson and Waddilove lead 49er class, McSharry takes eighth
Ireland’s Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh and Emily Hegarty will row in the women’s four final on Wednesday. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Tokyo 2020 Day 5: Irish in action and best of the rest
Young people hooked by a healthy new hobby that can last a lifetime Hollie McCabe at Darndale Park: : “I love helping little kids learn how to fish because I got taught when I was younger by the [Inland] Fisheries. That’s why I volunteer to help.” Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Angling initiative reveals the benefits available to families at the end of a fishing line

Fintan O’Toole: Shocking news, Irish people may be sanest in Europe The EU country with the highest level of acceptance of the need to be vaccinated is Ireland. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

The low level of anti-vaccine sentiment is a very good sign for our democracy

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Murder accused admitted giving Nadine Lott ‘six or seven hard digs’, court hears Nadine Lott: beaten to death in her home in Arklow. Co Wicklow. Photograph via Facebook.

Daniel Murtagh admits manslaughter but denies murder of former girlfriend

Two more swimming-related deaths as number in past week rises to nine Hollywood lake in Co Monaghan. Photograph: Google Street View

Monaghan boy (14) dies after difficulty in lake and man dies at harbour in Co Antrim

EU pauses legal action against UK over Northern Ireland protocol Last week the UK’s Brexit minister, David Frost, told the House of Commons there should be a ‘significant change’. Photograph: PRU/AFP via Getty

Move follows British government’s call last week for a ‘standstill period’

Coronavirus: 1,120 further cases reported in State, with 27 in ICU People aged 16 and 17 set to be vaccinated in Ireland. File photograph: Getty

Three more deaths linked to virus reported in the North and 1,473 additional infections

Turmoil in Chinese markets bleeds into Europe and London Ryanair finished the day up 2% after it reported a 196 per cent rise in revenue for the first quarter on Monday. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty

Euronext Dublin outperforms international counterparts on the back of its bigger hitters

Changes to cooking and shopping routines offer food for thought The results of the Teagasc research were published in the Irish Journal of Agriculture and Food Research in May 2021.
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Philomena Lee case to be one of lead actions over Mother and Baby homes report Philomena Lee, who was sent to the Sean Ross Abbey Mother and Baby Home in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, when she became pregnant aged 18. When her son was aged three, he was sent for adoption by a US couple. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

High Court agrees to hear two of eight challenges in late October or November

Protocol ‘here to stay’, former senator says as he joins UUP Ian Marshall: warns tensions within unionism about checks and inspections on goods coming over the Irish Sea need to be addressed. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/Bloomberg

Ian Marshall urges Oireachtas to sit in Belfast and notes ‘ignorance’ of Cummings

Tokyo 2020: No dress rehearsal for the moment an Olympic dream is crushed Emmet Brennan: the 30-year-old light-heavyweight from inner-city Dublin shows the pain of defeat after his defeat to Uzbeck fighter Dilshodbek Ruzmetov. Photographer: James Crombie/Inpho

Only a few days in, we've seen a gamut of raw emotion as Irish athletes make their exit

One dead, four missing after huge explosion at German chemicals plant Smoke billowing from the chemical industry area of Chempark in Leverkusen, Germany. Photograph: Oliver Berg/DPA via AP

31 injured in blast at plant in Leverkusen after tank containing solvents caught fire

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