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Kat and Alfie Moon have turned up in Ireland in the first official snap of the EastEnders’ spin-off Redwater. Viewers will see the pair, played by Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie, head to the tiny, fictional village in Ireland to search for Kat’s long lost son.

Two men have been arrested in connection with a parkland sex attack on a woman, gardai said. The pair – in their late teens and early 20s – were detained in the Ronanstown area of west Dublin.

Two out of three people in the Irish Republic would vote for a united Ireland, a major opinion poll has found. Pollster Red C said its latest national survey – weeks after the Brexit result – shows a sharp rise in support for reunification since a similar opinion poll six years ago.

A man in his 80s has been beaten in a burglary at his home. Gardai said three masked men broke into the pensioner’s home on Kettle’s Lane, Swords, Co Dublin, between 3am and 4am on Friday.

Britain has been warned by the Irish government that any attempt to fortify the border with the Republic to prevent migrants slipping into the UK by the back door “won’t work”. Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan insisted the two countries must keep the “invisible” border that exists at present after Brexit.

The Brexit vote has boosted business in Northern Ireland from shoppers across the UK’s only EU land border, a leading retailer has said. The number from the south visiting Newry in Co Down is up 50% since the June referendum as the pound slid in value against the euro, Buttercrane shopping centre manager Peter Murray… Continue reading Brexit vote sees more shoppers crossing the border

Brexit will inflict a “negative and material” blow to Ireland’s economy, the Central Bank has forecast. Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union will wreak both short-term and long-term harm to Irish fortunes, it said.

A 74-year-old man from Scotland has been charged with withholding information in relation to the murder of IRA spy Denis Donaldson. Patrick Gillespie, from Craigvar Street, Glasgow, appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin more than 10 years on from the killing of the top Sinn Fein official.

Ireland’s first Center Parcs holiday resort has been given final approval by planners. About 1,000 people, mostly aged 18-24 and local, will be employed at the forest village near Ballymahon, Co Longford when it opens in 2019.

A charity worker has become the first swimmer in almost 90 years to cross a 13-mile stretch of sea between two coastal beauty spots off Ireland’s north coast. Mother-of-two Heather Clatworthy, 34, emerged from the Atlantic as only the second person to traverse the waves between the idyllic Stroove beach on Co Donegal’s Inishowen peninsula… Continue reading Woman becomes first person since 1929 to swim between Irish beauty spots