New Fast Tracking Rules Lead to Plans for 4,000 New Apartments in Dublin

New Fast Tracking Rules Lead to Plans for 4,000 New Apartments in Dublin

Property developers are planning over 4,000 apartments in Dublin under new fast-track planning rules. Builders can go straight to An Bord Pleanála to seek planning permission for large-scale projects using the strategic housing development system. The Sunday Times reports the...
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Messi Strike Sees Barcelona Win La Liga

Messi Strike Sees Barcelona Win La Liga

Lionel Messi fittingly scored the goal which ensured Barcelona retained their La Liga title with a 1-0 win over struggling Levante. The Argentina international, rested for the first half as coach Ernesto Valverde had one eye on next week’s Champions...
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Saints Secure Premier League Place with Draw Against Cherries

Saints Secure Premier League Place with Draw Against Cherries

Ralph Hasenhüttl has labelled steering Southampton to Premier League safety as one of his biggest managerial achievements. Saints’ Austrian boss paid tribute to Saints’ coaches and players for trusting his taskmaster methods, to turn a “horrible situati...
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McAleese Does Not Believe McKee’s Death Will Change Politics in The North

McAleese Does Not Believe McKee’s Death Will Change Politics in The North

Mary McAleese has criticized groups in the North for sticking to their “red lines” while asking others to give up theirs. The former Irish president was talking on Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh in the wake of the killing of...
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Seagulls Edge Closer to Safety After Drawing With Magpies

Seagulls Edge Closer to Safety After Drawing With Magpies

Struggling Brighton edged a point closer to Premier League safety after Pascal Gross’ second-half equalizer salvaged a 1-1 draw with Newcastle. Gross nodded in 15 minutes from time to give Chris Hughton’s Seagulls a four-point advantage over 18th-placed Ca...
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Hammers Become First Team to Defeat Spurs at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Hammers Become First Team to Defeat Spurs at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

West Ham became the first opposition team to win at Tottenham’s new stadium after a Michail Antonio goal gave them a 1-0 victory. Spurs had not conceded a goal in their previous four games at their new home, but Antonio’s...
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Protesters Take to The Streets of Belfast to Support Soldier F

Protesters Take to The Streets of Belfast to Support Soldier F

Protesters opposed to the prosecution of a former British serviceman for alleged Troubles offences have gathered outside Belfast City Hall. Soldier F is to be charged with murdering two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry...
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Adi Roche Calls for Nobel Peace Prize for Chernobyl First Responders

Adi Roche Calls for Nobel Peace Prize for Chernobyl First Responders

Ireland’s Chernobyl Children International is at the center of a UN commemoration ceremony in New York tonight. A message from President Michael D Higgins has been read and a minute’s silence held, to remember the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl...
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Liverpool Leapfrog Man City After Demolition Job on Huddersfield

Liverpool Leapfrog Man City After Demolition Job on Huddersfield

Liverpool’s title destiny may still be out of their hands but they refuse to submit, with the 5-0 demolition of Huddersfield a reminder they are ready to pounce should Manchester City slip up. The gap between top – the place...
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New Talks to Restore Power-Sharing to Begin on May 7

New Talks to Restore Power-Sharing to Begin on May 7

Talks on the restoration of the power-sharing institutions in Northern Ireland are to resume on May 7, Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has said. In a joint press conference in Belfast with the Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Ms Bradley announced that...
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