2 h. ago Latest Áras poll puts Catherine Connolly out in front as support for Jim Gavin drops

The Independent Galway TD is on 32%, with Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys on 23% and Fianna Fáil’s Gavin on 15%.

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2 h. ago Trump authorises deployment of 300 national guard troops to Chicago over ‘violent riots’

Move comes as US government says border patrol agents there shot and injured woman while firing at someone

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3 h. ago Trump authorises deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago after border agent shoots woman

A judge blocked the US President’s attempt to send the military into Portland, another Democratic-run city.

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4 h. ago Vincent Durac: Tony Blair’s record makes him an extraordinary choice to govern postwar Gaza

One of the most controversial elements of Trump’s plan for Gaza concerns the role of the former British prime minister

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5 h. ago Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’

The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin

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12 h. ago Netanyahu hopes to announce release of all hostages from Gaza ‘in coming days’

In a brief statement on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has sent a delegation to Egypt ‘to finalise technical details’.

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14 h. ago Israeli delegation heads to Egypt to discuss plan to end war in Gaza

Binyamin Netanyahu says he hopes to announce release of all hostages in ‘coming days’

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15 h. ago Trump says Hamas must accept proposed peace deal quickly 'or all bets will be off'

The army said it was instructed by Israel’s leaders to ‘advance readiness’ for the implementation of the plan.

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17 h. ago Hamas must move quickly on plan for ending war in Gaza, says Trump

Militants say they will cede power and free hostages, and US president tells Israel to stop bombing enclave

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17 h. ago White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Top deputy to Stephen Miller behind latest intelligence leak by Trump administration

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23 h. ago Israel’s army says it will advance preparations for first phase of Trump’s plan

The army said it was instructed by Israel’s leaders to ‘advance readiness’ for the implementation of the plan.

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24 h. ago Irish Government must lead unification preparations, says Varadkar

Former taoiseach says Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dropped unity objective from manifestos

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25 h. ago Israeli strikes reported in Gaza after Hamas agrees to meet parts of Trump’s peace plan

Militants say they will cede power and free hostages, and US president tells Israel to stop bombing enclave

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25 h. ago Maria Steen’s brave failure proves Catholicism in Ireland isn't finished yet

Maria Steen’s brave failure proves Catholicism in Ireland isn't finished yet  The Catholic Herald

Events

25 h. ago Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas signals willingness to accept parts of Trump’s peace plan

Militants say they will cede power and free hostages, and US president tells Israel to stop bombing enclave

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27 h. ago Trump orders Israel to stop bombing Gaza as Hamas partially accepts peace plan

Senior Hamas officials suggested there were still major disagreements that required further negotiations.

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28 h. ago Irish Rail ordered to repay wages deducted from inspector who owed firm €84,000

Employee had engaged in case against company which failed

Economics

28 h. ago Russell Vought: The quiet man providing the spine and steel of the Trump administration

Most anti-performative figure in US president Donald Trump’s administration is coming into his own

Politics

29 h. ago Donald Trump says the US film industry has been ‘stolen’. Was it one heist after another?

If the US president catches Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, he’ll surely be delighted by a film shot on home soil. Right?

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34 h. ago Hamas signals it is willing to accept some parts of Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Militants say they will cede power and free hostages, and US president tells Israel to stop bombing enclave

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