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Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (66+ words) Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show'The Irish Times Edge-of-the-seat excitement it is not. But in tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people set aside their differences…...
Bodycam footage shows Tiger Woods’s shock after crash: ‘I’m being arrested?’
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (331+ words) Bodycam footage of Tiger Woods's arrest for DUI shows the golfer looking surprised when he was handcuffed by police officers at the scene of a vehicle crash last week. "I do believe your normal faculties are impaired, and you're under…...
Tadhg Beirne returns for Munster’s Challenge Cup knockout meeting with Exeter
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (297+ words) Munster captain Tadhg Beirne will return to action for the province's Challenge Cup Round of 16 game away to Exeter on Saturday (kick-off 12.30pm). The Ireland secondrow was rested for the two-match URC trip to South Africa following the Six Nations but…...
TD calls for car-pooling parking bays at motorway junctions to help commuters cut costs
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (421+ words) A Fianna F'il TD has urged the Government to establish new, designated parking bays at motorway junctions to support car-pooling in an effort to curtail rising costs for commuters. There is "clear" demand for a system similar to the Luas…...
Croke Park to host Manchester United v Leeds pre-season friendly
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (119+ words) Manchester United will face Leeds in a pre-season friendly at Croke Park on August 12th. It will be the first soccer fixture staged at GAA HQ since the Republic of Ireland's faced France in 2009. "Playing an important fixture against one of…...
The Ballad of Johnny & June review: Jukebox musical with excellent cast is a storytelling disappointment
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (477+ words) The last big musical number in The Ballad of Johnny & June, a jukebox musical about two of American country music's biggest stars, is an emotional duet of the love song Always on my Mind. Most famously recorded by Johnny Cash's…...
MetroLink director to step down from long-delayed rail link project
8+ hour ago (516+ words) MetroLink boss Sean Sweeney is resigning from the project to develop Dublin's long-awaited underground rail line less than two years after being appointed to the "550,000-a-year-role. The 67-year-old from New Zealand said he was stepping down as programme director for…...
Could already booked flights see a surcharge or could they be cancelled due to fuel shortage?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1074+ words) Disruption to jet fuel supply is expected from "early May" if the US-Israel war on Iran continues beyond April, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Wednesday, giving rise to fears the air fares could be about to skyrocket ahead…...
Patrick Freyne: Experts say chatbots can now pass the Turing test; this is because lots of humans now fail it
19+ hour ago (1145+ words) Inside (Netflix) is a show fronted by the Sidemen, an amorphous mass of indistinguishable young men who live in the Internet. So you will currently find them wobbling about like Weebles or Fisher-Price characters outside of their natural habitat " your…...
Migrant chef paid €1.61 an hour for 90-hour weeks in case branded ‘economic slavery’
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (562+ words) A migrant worker brought to Ireland to work as a chef has won nearly "80,000 for multiple employment rights breaches after he wound up earning just "1.61 an hour for doing 90-hour weeks for his employer. The Workplace Relations Commission made the…...