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A man has been shot a number of times in an incident in north county Dublin, gardai said. Officers were called to the scene at the Dun Emer housing development in Lusk at around 9.50am.

Details of heartbreaking notes left for Jim Carrey by his ex-girlfriend before she took her own life have emerged, as a coroner ruled her death was suicide. The body of Irish make-up artist Cathriona White, 30, was discovered at her home in Los Angeles in September.

A passenger has been rescued after a 30ft cruiser ran aground at Lough Derg. It happened at about 10.25am south of Portumna.

A man who was shot in central Dublin has died , Gardai said. The victim, in his mid 50s, was shot a number of times by a lone gunman as he walked along Bridgefoot Street in the Liberties area of Dublin just after 4pm on Friday.

City chiefs trumpeting the benefits of trees have overseen a massive plunge in the numbers planted in Dublin over the past five years. Dublin City Council’s recently published “vision” for trees in the capital credits them with everything from cutting cancer rates to boosting house prices.

Poet and novelist Robert Nye has died at the age of 77, his agent has announced. Nye died in the early hours of Saturday at a hospice near Cork, Ireland, his literary agent, Vivienne Schuster of Curtis Brown, said.

A ticket holder in Ireland has won the jackpot in Friday’s EuroMillions game. Camelot said the winner would be paid in euros, meaning they are set to get 23,845,060 euros.

Ireland’s Archbishop Eamon Martin has said prayers on the spot where Irish troops died at the Somme as he urged Catholics to remember the First World War. The Irish primate commemorated the shared sacrifice with Protestants during a short memorial ceremony in the village of Guillemont at a stone Celtic cross commemorating the 16th Irish… Continue reading Archbishop commemorates sacrifice of Irish troops during Battle of the Somme

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is considering the development of an all-island forum to map out a way forward in the wake of Brexit. While the plans have been welcomed by the SDLP and Sinn Fein, the Democratic Unionists said the Irish Government cannot speak for the region in any forthcoming negotiations.

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing leaders are split over a proposed all-island forum to deal with the fall-out from Brexit. First Minister Arlene Foster dismissed calls for a cross-border forum backed by Taoiseach Enda Kenny over the weekend.