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October 25, 2020
Trump loyalist Stone gets blame in early over strategy

Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

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October 25, 2020
Mixed messages on LGBT rights emerge from the Vatican

It has been another hot and heavy week in the Vatican. Using some of the clearest language he has ever used about LGBT people, Pope Francis has indicated that they...

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October 25, 2020
Trump needed to pull an ace from his sleeve, but he blew it

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

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October 25, 2020
Mixed messages on LGBT rights emerge from the Vatican

It has been another hot and heavy week in the Vatican. Using some of the clearest language he has ever used about LGBT people, Pope Francis has indicated that they...

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October 25, 2020
Trump needed to pull an ace from his sleeve, but he blew it

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

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October 25, 2020
Mortgage holders have the right to say ‘gimme a break’ to banks

'Gimme a break" is what many people will want to say to their mortgage lender as the country grapples with the first week of a second national lockdown.

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October 25, 2020
Trump needed to pull an ace from his sleeve, but he blew it

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

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October 25, 2020
Mortgage holders have the right to say ‘gimme a break’ to banks

'Gimme a break" is what many people will want to say to their mortgage lender as the country grapples with the first week of a second national lockdown.

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October 25, 2020
Prince is sweating now as case against Maxwell heats up

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

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October 25, 2020
Prince is sweating now as case against Maxwell heats up

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

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October 25, 2020
Prince is sweating now as case against Maxwell heats up

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

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October 25, 2020
Remembering scares past to escape this Covid haunting

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

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October 25, 2020
Remembering scares past to escape this Covid haunting

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

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October 25, 2020
Donald Trump loyalist Roger Stone gets blame in early over strategy

Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

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October 25, 2020
Lower-paid workers face tax headache as bill set to top €1.2bn

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

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October 25, 2020
Remembering scares past to escape this Covid haunting

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

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October 25, 2020
Lower-paid workers face tax headache as bill set to top €1.2bn

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

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October 25, 2020
The next six weeks will test us all, but as Taoiseach I’d have handled the Covid-19 crisis very differently

If other parties had not excluded Sinn Féin from government following this year's general election, I would now be Taoiseach and I would have done things very differently in recent...

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October 25, 2020
Lower-paid workers face tax headache as bill set to top €1.2bn

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

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October 25, 2020
The next six weeks will test us all, but as Taoiseach I’d have handled the Covid-19 crisis very differently

If other parties had not excluded Sinn Féin from government following this year's general election, I would now be Taoiseach and I would have done things very differently in recent...

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October 25, 2020
Trump’s ex-political strategist Roger Stone on the day he saw Trump cry, the President’s explosive temper and why appearance matters

Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

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October 25, 2020
Colombia reaches 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

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October 25, 2020
Colombia reaches 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

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October 25, 2020
Colombia reaches 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

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October 24, 2020
Police officer fired after shooting of Black couple in Illinois

A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a traffic stop earlier...

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October 24, 2020
Police officer fired after shooting of Black couple in Illinois

A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a traffic stop earlier...

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October 24, 2020
Trump: Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen is ‘unfunny creep’

US president Donald Trump has said he thinks Sacha Baron Cohen, the comedian behind the Borat films, is “a creep”.

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October 24, 2020
Hundreds of people clash with police over curfew and possibility of lockdown in Naples

Italy's Campania region, based on the southern city of Naples, said on Friday it would impose a lockdown to tame the coronavirus and urged the whole country to follow suit...

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October 24, 2020
Department of Education reviewing all sanitisation products on the list available to schools

The Department of Education has announced a review of all sanitisation products on the list available to schools.

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October 24, 2020
Polish president tests positive for coronavirus

Poland's president Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus.

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October 24, 2020
Dutch club’s Twitter admin vents frustration during 13-0 Ajax defeat

Representing thousands of football fans on Twitter is always a difficult job in defeat, but when your side concedes 13 goals in one game, it doesn't get much worse.

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October 24, 2020
Coronavirus Ireland: four further deaths and 859 new cases

There have been a further four deaths and 859 new cases associated with the coronavirus in Ireland.

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October 24, 2020
Covid outbreak confirmed on two wards of Kildare hospital

Two wards at a hospital, including a psychiatric unit, in Co Kildare are dealing with an outbreak of Covid-19.

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October 24, 2020
Mr Bojangles songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker dies aged 78

Jerry Jeff Walker, a Texas country singer and songwriter who wrote the pop song Mr Bojangles, has died aged 78.

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October 24, 2020
Billy Kelleher calls out “reprehensible” actions of Polish police following abortion protests

Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher condemned authorities in Poland following recent protests across the country surrounding abortion.

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October 24, 2020
Coronavirus Northern Ireland: six further deaths and 923 new cases

There have been six further Covid-19 linked deaths in the last 24-hour reporting period in Northern Ireland and 923 new cases of the virus, the Department of Health has announced.

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