The UK hopes to have its cutting-edge 'DragonFire' laser mounted on Royal Navy destroyers within five years.
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“We offer the same opportunities, but then we go a step further”: Ireland’s Social Democrats party has called for a state that aims for “equality of outcome” rather than merely offering equal opportunities.

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This week’s cases include a man who sexually assaulted a teen girl on a RyanAir flight, a man who sexually assaulted a baby, and a man who threatened to kill his  girlfriend before falsely imprisoning her.

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A man has been arrested in Santry, Co. Dublin, as Gardaí seized tens of thousands of euros worth of cannabis jellies and herb while searching a property.

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A Green Party Councillor has denied she wanted to see a newly-replaced statue of Jesus in Hardwicke Street flats removed after controversy arose online regarding queries she raised on funding the statue at a Dublin City Council meeting

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The number of Ukrainian pupils attending Irish schools continues to rise, reaching 18,268.

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MATT TREACY: A review of the voting records showed Chris McManus, the Sinn Féin MEP, abstained on specific proposals in the EU Migration Pact - but voted against the composite measure.

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The personal data of thousands of taxi app users' across Ireland and the UK was found to be in a non-password-protected database.
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If you saw the Irish Refugee Council’s explanation around how asylum seekers are fingerprinted you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re being vetted for criminal history with the EURODAC database: They’re not.

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The Government has been slammed for scheduling a Motion for next Tuesday without debate to refer to Committee the proposal to opt into measures of the EU Asylum and Migration Pact.

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'You lost your seat!' - Sarah Ryan has no time for former FG TD Kate O'Connell's pretensions to victimhood at the hands of Leo Varadkar.

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Has Mary Lou McDonald lost her political nose? Was Kevin Myers wrong about JK Rowling? Is the Kate O'Connell comeback viable? All these, and more questions, in the weekly roundup for subscribers:

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John and Sarah discuss Simon Harris's cowardly reshuffle, the desired return of Kate O'Connell to frontline politics, the Cass Review, and the state of abortion politics, stateside.

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JOHN MCGUIRK: The Israelis have some legitimate reasons to be upset with the Irish Government - but their attack on Simon Harris for not mentioning hostages in the Dáil comes across as petty nitpicking, and risks alienating Irish people further.

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As the Cass Report warns puberty blockers must not be given to u-18s, a LOOKBACK at the Gript investigation which caused the ICGP to remove advise, which repeatedly referenced TENI, and said that said puberty blockers were “reversible interventions”.

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Chair of the EU Parliament’s Budgetary Control committee Monika Hohlmeier has accused the EU’s Green Party group of hypocrisy by failing to combat instances of historical & ongoing harassment of its own membership within the parliament

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The European Parliament on Thursday voted to make abortion a fundamental right, just weeks after French MPs voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the country's constitution.

12 out of 13 Irish MEPs voted for the non-binding proposal.

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The government may postpone the upcoming patent referendum which was originally set for June 7th, the same day as the European and local elections.

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The climate will surely thank TikTok for identifying Mary Robinson as the woman likely to capture young hearts and minds on its behalf, writes Jason Osborne
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