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New Orleans: At least 10 people killed after vehicle driven into crowd in French Quarter
New Orleans Mayor calls the incident a ‘terrorist attack’ as FBI examine explosive device found at scene
Gardaí believe Mirjana Pap (58) was murdered before body dumped in remote field
Deceased woman was originally from Croatia but had been in Ireland since her 30s, living in Athlone
The first babies of 2025: Bradley, Rowan and Naoíse
Maternity hospitals - and at least one home - were busy overnight with deliveries of new babies
In pictures: New Year’s Eve in Dublin
Images from celebrations at Dublin Castle, Howth and Dún Laoghaire
Russian gas stops flowing through Ukraine
Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe
The Late Late NYE Show review: Patrick Kielty rises above some mystifying moments with a good line in take-no-prisoner jokes
Television: Despite blink-and-it’s-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Year’s Eve special is much better than 2023’s
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is Ireland’s bestselling book of 2024
Colm Tóibín, Johnny Sexton, Sally Rooney and Graham Norton also feature in the top five
‘Everything is gone’: How Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp
Close observers are struggling to understand the intensity of Israel’s focus on Jabaliya, an area that has become an unrecognisable wasteland of rubble
Romania and Bulgaria join Schengen area, opening passport-free travel by land in EU
Lifting of controls at land borders will remove bottlenecks that often kept trucks loaded with goods stuck at border
Second suspect arrested after death of man (60s) in Wexford on New Year’s Eve
Investigation at early stage though detectives believe deceased was assaulted before he died
South Korea plane crash black box to be sent to US for analysis
Jeju air crash investigation ramps up as funeral procedures begin
A neuropsychologist’s view on how to thrive in an angry, unpredictable world
All emotions serve an evolutionary purpose — the key is not to hide from anger, but to harness it productively
Ireland in the 1980s was backward, poor and stagnant. Some politicians want to bring us back there
Those who challenged the existing consensus were routinely condemned as Thatcherite by commentators and union leaders who were comfortable with the failed status quo
New Year’s in Australia: When you leave home to live abroad, you take any traditions you can feasibly translate
I don’t really know what a new year in Australia might hold. It has a vast unfamiliarity to me that country itself still does
‘Everyone expects us to get married and it feels like an unstoppable train’
Tell Me About It: I moved to a far-flung place to be with the woman I fell in love with online, but now I’m wondering, ‘What have I done?’
A crisis years in the making: Second-level pupils in classes without qualified teachers
Roots of the teacher-shortage problem and ‘out of field’ teaching go back decades
On the waterways of Ireland: A quiet success of peace on the island
Some 800,000 people made cross-Border journeys by cruiser, bicycle or foot - a story that Waterways Ireland’s chief John McDonagh says must be told more
Sporting obituaries 2024: From Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh to Franz Beckenbauer and Tony O’Reilly
2024 Sporting Obituaries: Eugene ‘Pooch’ Davis (70) was one of the great characters of the League of Ireland, noted for his predatory poaching instincts
The year of hope: ‘Exciting’ advances achieved in search to reverse Alzheimer’s disease
Merits of simple lifestyle changes to curb risk of dementia have never been so compelling
Predictions? It’s difficult to do anything but peer fearfully around the corner into this new year
Of immediate concern is the ease with which Elon Musk’s limitless money has allowed him to buy his way to the pinnacle of political power
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