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Heavy snow at a bridge outside Killanure and around the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stradbally, both in Co Laois. A man walks a road in Slievethoul, Co Dublin and an An Post truck and a bus get stuck at the top of a hill on the main Ennis to Kilrush road in Co Clare on Thursday. Photographs: Laura Hutton, Niall Carson and Press 22
Heavy snow at a bridge outside Killanure and around the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stradbally, both in Co Laois. A man walks a road in Slievethoul, Co Dublin and an An Post truck and a bus get stuck at the top of a hill on the main Ennis to Kilrush road in Co Clare on Thursday. Photographs: Laura Hutton, Niall Carson and Press 22
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Shauna Bowers

Shauna Bowers

Shauna Bowers is Health Correspondent of The Irish Times
Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien is an Irish Times journalist