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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer congratulates his party’s winning candidates in the Cumberland Council election in Carlisle. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images
Johnson under renewed pressure after ‘tough night’ for Tories in local elections

Boris Johnson has faced renewed questions about his leadership after the Conservatives lost hundreds of seats in local elections in England, Scotlan(...)

British government wants ‘intensive talks’ to follow the EU’s proposals. Photograph: Rob Pinney/Getty
Brexit talks with Johnson about ‘sausages getting to NI’ not ECJ, says Martin

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said all the discussions he has had with British prime minister Boris Johnson about the Brexit protocol have concerned “s(...)

A European arrest warrant had been issued for the man. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
Man charged with murder of Gareth Hutch

A man (35) has been remanded in custody after he was charged on Thursday with the murder of Gareth Hutch, who was shot dead in Dublin in 2016. The fa(...)

Andrea Mulcahy gazes into her backyard outside her home in Ocala, Florida. Her husband, Tim, who believed that he contracted the coronavirus from a co-worker, died in July at the age of 52. Photograph: Zack Wittman/New York Times
A ripple effect of loss: US comes to terms with 500,000 Covid deaths
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  • February 22, 2021, 11:27

A nation numbed by misery and loss is confronting a number that still has the power to shock: 500,000. Roughly one year since the first known death by(...)

Tessie Carroll for 60 years wheeled her pram full of clothes and bric a brac from her Hill Street home to her pitch at the flea market on Cumberland Street North.
Veteran street trader was a ‘true Dub’, funeral hears

Veteran Dublin street trader Tessie Carroll had “an amazing sense of humour, a big heart and an infectious laugh”, her funeral has heard. The 88-year(...)

The grave of James Matthews at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
Bloody Sunday centenary: ‘For my grandfather...it ended in tragedy’

Until 2016, James Matthews was one of the victims of the Croke Park massacre on Bloody Sunday whose resting place was an unmarked grave in Dublin’s Gl(...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is seen during the special remembrance ceremony at Croke Park to honour the 14 who died after crown forces opened fire on Bloody Sunday, November 21st, 1920. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
One hundred years after Bloody Sunday, Croke Park remembers those who died

The 14 civilians killed or fatally injured at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday were remembered at a ceremony at the stadium on Saturday, 100 years after th(...)

Three men have received sentences totalling 19 years at the Special Criminal Court for taking part in a Kinahan cartel plan to kill Patrick Hutch, pictured. Photograph: Collins Dublin.
Three men involved in Kinahan plan to kill Hutch get jail sentences totalling 19 years

The Kinahan cartel is a cynical criminal organisation that preys upon “desperate and foolish” individuals in the recruitment of “dispensable foot-sold(...)

John McKeon was sentenced to 12 and a half years imprisonment, with the final 18 months suspended.
Man who attacked shopkeeper with claw hammer jailed for 11 years

A robber who attacked a defenceless shopkeeper with a claw hammer leaving him with “life changing” injuries has been jailed for 11 years. John McKeon(...)

Tessie Carroll brings her pram of clothes and bric-a-brac to ‘the Tuggers’ market for the last time on Saturday.
Veteran Dublin street trader Tessie retires from the Hill after 60 years

Almost every Saturday for the last 60 years Tessie Carroll has wheeled a pram full of clothes, bric-a-brac and bedding from her Hill Street home to th(...)

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