'More than 30 people a day' call national rape helpline

More than 30 people a day contact Ireland’s national rape helpline, latest figures show. Almost 12,000 callers sought help from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s helpline last year, it has revealed in its annual report.

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Offshore investment company DMS to create 50 new jobs

An offshore investment company is to double its workforce in Ireland with the creation of 50 jobs, it has announced. DMS already employs 50 people at its European operations centre in Dublin.

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Two arrested over shooting of IRA spy

Two men have been arrested in connection with the dissident republican murder of IRA spy Denis Donaldson. The 55-year-old senior Sinn Fein official and close colleague of party president Gerry Adams was shot dead at an isolated cottage near Glenties in Co Donegal in April 2006.

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No return to hard border, insists Taoiseach Enda Kenny

London and Dublin are agreed there will be no return to a “hard border” between Northern Ireland and the Republic, Taoiseach Enda Kenny insisted after Downing Street talks. Mr Kenny said that he and British prime minister Theresa May are both against creating a post-Brexit string of customs posts on the island of Ireland.

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Former European Parliament president calls for rethink on hard border fears

The former president of the European Parliament has called for a rethink of “speculative” fears of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Dublin-born politician Pat Cox was a member of the legislature for 15 years and said the EU had already recognised existing travel arrangements between the UK and Ireland.

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Four men killed in three separate crashes

A teenager is among four men killed in a spate of crashes within hours of each other. Two men, one in his late teens and one in his 20s, died when the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a van in Co Donegal, gardai said.

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Donald Trump tipped to be the prize dummy after straw poll

Donald Trump dummies are scaring voters at one of the more unusual summer festivals. No less than three entries in the annual All-Ireland Scarecrow Championships are effigies of the controversial US presidential hopeful.

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