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Irish star Cillian Murphy has expressed sympathy for the younger generation and said it must be hard to grow up in this era of social media. The Peaky Blinders actor was speaking at the launch of a new empathy education programme for secondary schools.

A team of American researchers are hoping to use robots to search the remains of the Titanic and recover any hidden treasures. Any treasures they find will be put on display at a Las Vegas casino, before being taken around the world.

Prince William and Kate Middleton will head to Dublin and Cork later in the year as reports suggest they are planning a Spring trip across the Irish Sea. It will be the first time the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited the Republic of Ireland, although they did visit Northern Ireland in 2016.

A breed of Irish cow has been granted the special ‘Native Rare Irish Breed’ status by the United Nations’ Farm and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO). The Droimeann cow is critically endangered with recent records indicating that only 243 breeding females and 23 males remain in the country.

A surgeon has hailed a five-year-old Irish girl as a hero after her quick thinking saved her mother’s life. Priya Gavin’s mammy Mary Constant suffered a stroke two days before Christmas last year and the youngster was horrified to see her collapse to the floor.

A woman who had two children while resident in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described the nuns who ran the institute as “antichrists”. Rose McKinney lived at Tuam in the 1950s during her teenage years and had two children while she was there.

Irish comedy star Chris O’Dowd has taken part in a scheme to drive people in remote areas home from the pub. The Moone Boy star has teamed up with Guinness and the Vintners Federation of Ireland to promote their pilot programme known as ‘Social Spin’.

A shocking investigation into the greyhound industry in Ireland has revealed that almost 6,000 dogs are killed each year for failing to run at racing speed. ‘Greyhounds, Running for Their Lives’ is a documentary from RTÉ that also found that 1000% more dogs are being bred than are needed to sustain the industry.

A shocking video has emerged of joyriders in Belfast speeding around a housing estate in stolen cars. The joyriders were caught on camera performing dangerous stunts on Ross Road of Falls Road, West Belfast.