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Thursday, 30 October, 2025

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Health

Breast cancer diagnoses increase 26% in women under-50

Health charity urges women to be aware of their body and check themselves monthly

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Middle East

Israel says it is still committed to ceasefire despite strikes killing 104 people

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Americas

Hurricane Melissa kills 25 in Haiti after leaving widespread damage in Jamaica

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Courts

An estranged husband’s attempt to limit provision for wife was ‘disgraceful’, says judge

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Restaurants

The Queens restaurant, Dalkey: One of the most bizarre finales to a meal I’ve had in years

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Ireland

‘A portal to the underworld’: Tramping a bleak bog as part of a spooky Halloween tour

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Newton Emerson: Fine Gael’s own anti-British rhetoric came back to bite Heather Humphreys

Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm

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Sport

Dave Hannigan: Conor McGregor finding God has a profits, not prophets, feel to it

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Courts

Enoch Burke’s family stop entering school grounds following threat to sequester cars

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Soccer

How Shamrock Rovers won a fifth Premier Division title in six years

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Media

Who were RTÉ’s highest earners in 2024? Top-10 list a mix of executives and presenters

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From Crown to Harp - How the Anglo-Irish Treaty was undone, 1921-1949: Deserving of wide readership and debate

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