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A general view from the ploughing championships. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Taoiseach to visit Ploughing Championships for final day

Event runs into Friday after Wednesday cancellation due to Storm Ali

A large tree felled by Storm Ali on Cambridge Road, Ringsend in Dublin 4. Photograph: Collins

Storm unlikely to hit Ireland this weekend, Met Éireann says

Incoming weather system not on track to develop into full storm on Saturday

Emma Ferguson from Trim, Co Meath, with her two-week-old son Paddy after winning the National Brown Bread Baking Competition at the National Ploughing Championships. Photograph: Leon Farrell Photocall Ireland

National Ploughing Championships: A lot more than just ploughing

Music, bread-making, vintage machinery, and sausages keep the crowds happy in Offaly

The most expensive site on the Vacant Sites Register in the city is the former Player Wills cigarette factory, valued at €23.8 million

City vacant: Dublin’s hundreds of multimillion-euro empty sites and properties

Almost 200 sites and properties are lying empty in the capital and county amid a housing crisis

The former Player Wills cigarette factory, on the South Circular Road in Dublin, is valued at €23.8m. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Levies could raise €27m from vacant Dublin sites in 2020

Almost 90 sites in the city worth more than €400m have been identified

The report shows 87,000 tonnes of non-recyclable content is ending up in recycling bins every year. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Plastic recycling must increase 80% by 2030 to meet EU targets

Repak calls on Government to establish a plastics working group to oversee transition

The scene in Claddaghduff, Co Galway where a tourist in her 50s was killed as her caravan was blown into the sea by Storm Ali. Photograph: Paul Mealey

Storm Ali: Two dead and thousands without power

Some 67,000 remain without power after severe winds batter Ireland

The scene near Clifden, Co Galway, where a woman died after her caravan was blown off a cliff during Storm Ali. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

New storm could strike this weekend, says Met Éireann

Storm Ali moves away from Irish coast after leaving almost 200,000 without power

The sea pounds small boats in the harbour at Portstewart, Co Derry, as Storm Ali sweeps through the Causeway coast on Wednesday. Photograph: Margaret McLaughlin

Many trees in storm fell because of earlier dry spell and effect of climate change

More winds coming from the east are the cause of extensive tree loss, says expert

Site at Howth where a proposed housing development, in an area beside the Martello tower, has been given planning permission. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Controversial Howth development gets go ahead

An Bord Pleanála has approved 164 apartments close to Martello Tower

The wind blowing hard at the Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore Co Offaly. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds

After Storm Ali cancellation, exhibitors will plough on for extra day

Storm inflicted serious damage to many structures across the 150-acre site in Creggan

A view of damage to tents at the National Ploughing Championships. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

Storm Ali forces closure of National Ploughing Championships

Second day of event cancelled after public display area suffers damage from strong winds

Gardaí from Clifden Garda station survey the wreckage from the caravan that was washed into the sea at Claddaghduff. Photograph: Conor Mc Keown

Storm Ali: Woman who died in caravan was visiting from Europe

Storm force 11 winds batter Ireland amid orange alert

A wind map models the approach of Storm Ali at 6am on Wednesday. Image: Magicseaweed.com

Storm Ali: Orange alert in place as severe gusts sweep country

Opening of day two of National Ploughing Championships put back as a safety measure

Residents of College Gate apartments on Townsend Street. Photograph: Tom Honan

Dublin apartment owners appeal against metro demolition plans

College Gate apartments on Townsend Street face acquisition under MetroLink proposals

Resident of College Gate Apartments in Townsend Street, Dublin, which is to be demolished to make space for the MetroLink rail station. Photograph: Tom Honan

‘All our life savings went into buying this apartment’

College Gate housing complex threatened by MetroLink development

Motorists have been advised by AA Ireland to avoid driving through flood water when possible. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Motorists urged to take extra care as remnants of storm Helene arrive

Weather warning issued with flooding expected on some western coasts

Ireland must ramp up security measures against the spread of a deadly disease threatening pig farmers across Europe, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has warned.

Tougher security needed to protect against African swine fever, Creed says

Deadly disease threatens pig farmers across Europe after boars found dead in Belgium

Carmel Raymond and her daughter Una at St Anne’s Park, Dublin: says it would be the “beginning of the end” should the development ever proceed.

Development at St Anne’s Park halted: ‘I danced around the kitchen’

Locals react to cancellation of plans to build apartments flanking St Anne’s Park

“Kids who can’t learn arithmetic are regarded as being stupid. But they’re not – they’ve got this rather selective deficit,” says Brian Butterworth, professor of cognitive neuropsychology at University College London.

Dyscalculia: Why maths doesn’t add up for some of us

Many suffer from dyscalculia, a problem as common as dyslexia but seldom diagnosed

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