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Lions end Ulster’s unbeaten run in Johannesburg

Robert Baloucoune takes a hat-trick of tries to help Ulster come away with a point

How the ‘spoilyourvote’ campaign was mobilised online

The battle to claim the narrative of what this diverse group of unhappy voters wanted is already underway

Catherine Connolly deserves her landslide victory, but it’s a hollow crown

She has a tough task ahead: speak for the established State, represent a radical opposition to it and give hope to those who are increasingly disenchanted

Baby threatened with broken glass during Belfast carjacking

Two men approached car on foot, before one got into the driver’s seat and drove the vehicle away

Father and son lose appeal over €2,000 penalties for air travel during Covid

Nicolae and Florin Mazarache were stopped by a garda at Dublin Airport in April 2021

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least four people and wound 16

Two killed in Kyiv and two in Dnipropetrovsk region

Man arrested over alleged assault on Catherine Connolly canvassers

Video appears to show man approaching team and shouting threats to ‘deck’ them

What went wrong in the Heather Humphreys campaign?

The Fine Gael campaign focused more on getting out the party’s vote than on appealing to other voters

Complication for Keir Starmer as Lucy Powell wins Labour’s deputy leadership race

Manchester Central MP was sacked from UK cabinet in September

Appeal for information following alleged assault in Dublin

Alleged assault took place at location adjacent to Grace Park Road on Thursday

A tale of two trials: how a Boston jury came to find a Dublin firefighter guilty of rape

Terence Crosbie faces a sentence up to 20 years in prison at a hearing on October 30th after his conviction on Friday

David Gillick: ‘I was angry and bitter but I also had fear - if I’m not running, what the hell do I do?’

The national men’s 400m record holder on the ‘cutthroat’ world of athletics, life after the track and his medal-worthy interviews with a new generation of Irish stars

Why would anyone run for president when the path to the Áras is paved with such bile?

We claim to want a non-political figure, then recoil when that person turns out to have had a normal, flawed life

Poem of the Week: Shadow

A new work by Catherine Ann Cullen

Catherine Connolly will be president of Blueshirt barristers, Fianna Fáil farmers, lefties and pro-lifers

She proved to be an exceptional candidate – poised, disciplined and possessed of an unflappable temperament

Malala Yousafzai: ‘They made me into a mythical heroine. Growing up, I was a troublemaker’

The Taliban’s attempt to kill Malala Yousafzai as a schoolgirl came to define the Nobel laureate; now she is reintroducing herself as an adult

Leinster’s fringe players urged to take advantage of opportunity against Zebre

Quintet of players are in line to make their debuts against Italian side

JP McManus, Dermot Desmond and John Magnier to share most of £4bn nursing homes deal

Tycoons set to get lion’s share from sale of UK’s Barchester Healthcare business

Ulster out to secure South African clean sweep against the Lions

Richie Murphy’s side go to Johannesburg after defeating the Sharks in Durban last time out

Aidan O’Brien pursues valuable Group One juvenile prizes in Doncaster and Paris

Irish trainer saddles three of the five runners in search for 12th Futurity victory

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