Nearly 5,500 asylum seekers to be housed in new direct provision centres Mosney direct provision centre in Co Meath. File photograph: Frank Miller

It would appear that the inspiration for Exeter’s strip came from the regurgitations of overeating beetroot and blueberries. Photograph: Getty Images Matt Williams Champions Cup awash with sheep, wolves and crass jerseys
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

My 40-year school reunion: We hadn’t changed a bit? Of course we had ‘Those who had married young – often very young by today’s standards – lived in those hopeful, tender, fledgling unions through a bruising, prolonged recession in the 1980s.’ Photograph: iStock

We had survived, thrived even, finding our paths through a patriarchal network

Femicide Watch: 230 women have died violently in State since 1996 Skaidrite Valdgeima (34), mother of three from Latvia, one of five women who died violently in State in 2019

Women’s Aid charity has monitored killing of women and girls by men for 23 years

Stephen Collins: Our system favours chancers and crooks The system’s acceptance of insurance fraud is encouraging increased incidents of exaggerated claims and providing ‘an income supplement to the morally challenged’. Photograph: iStock

Utterly disproportionate awards for often trivial injuries have become the norm

Kevin Lunney attack: chief suspect among four interrogated One of the chief suspects for the abduction and torture of Kevin Lunney, above, was among four men being questioned by gardaí on Thursday night. Photograph: BBC

Three others suspected of sourcing vehicles for the attack or carrying out surveillance

Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still There are new challenges for the Queen. The World is Changing, something which is ever surprising to people in period dramas.

British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events

Former Trump adviser warns over Ukraine conspiracy theory Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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Impeachment inquiry hears Russia ‘systematically attacked’ US democracy

Cannabis grow house discovered on Moore Street Rising site Cannabis plants worth an estimated €12,000 were found last week during searches at 22 and 23 Moore Street. Photograph: Darren England/EPA

Dublin city centre building forms part of the 1916 battlefield site

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Farmers accuse sustainable energy body of ‘demonising’ red meat Farmers protesting outside the Dáil. The IFA has accused the Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland of “straying outside its remit”. Photograph: Alan Betson

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

Three men arrested and weapons seized over threats on social media Gardaí in Athlone are investigating a number of threats to kill or do serious harm to people which have been made on social media in recent days. File photograph: Getty Images/Flickr RF

Gardaí are investigating whether threats are related to machete attack in Co Fermanagh

Man convicted of murdering British backpacker in New Zealand Grace Millane went missing from a hostel in Auckland on December 1st, 2018 and a body was later found in the Waitakere Ranges. Photograph: Lucie Blackman Trust/PA
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Grace Millane (22) went missing in Auckland last year while travelling after finishing university

Greens in government would ‘cancel’ N11/M11 road upgrade Gilly Crawford and Paul Woods examine the route proposals at a Public meeting about the planned N11/M11 roadworks. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Proposed upgrade includes 2.5km through environmentally sensitive Glen of the Downs

Haulbowline Island transformation project takes top engineering award The East Tip Haulbowline Island remediation project by Cork County Council, RPS, PJ Hegarty & Sons and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has won the Engineering Project of the Year
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1 Nearly 5,500 asylum seekers to be housed in new direct provision centres across Ireland
2 My 40-year school reunion: We hadn’t changed a bit? Of course we had
3 Femicide Watch: 230 women have died violently in State since 1996
4 Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still
5 Matt Williams: Champions Cup awash with sheep, wolves and crass jerseys
6 Dalkey resident ‘lied’ and tried to hide oil leak evidence, court told
7 Migrants found on Rosslare-bound ferry ‘thought they were going to UK’
8 ‘In Toronto I paid a man to speak Irish with me for an hour every week’
9 Stephen Collins: Our system favours chancers and crooks
10 Man convicted of murdering British backpacker in New Zealand
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