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Eir bounces back in second quarter after cost of finance hit profits early in 2026

By Ciara O'Brien

Turnover gains come from data services revenues as voice traffic revenue is in decline

Tottenham agree loan for Man City's Marmoush

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Tottenham agree a loan deal to sign Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush, with an obligation to make the deal permanent for £60m next summer.

Football transfer rumours: Jean-Philippe Mateta to Aston Villa?

By Sarah Rendell

Today’s fluff is splashing out regardless Liam Delap may not have broken any records during his time with Chelsea but he is setting one on his way out the door. The England youth international is thought to be breaking Nottingham Forest’s transfer fee record with Oliver Glasner bringing him in for an expected £50m. The fee comes despite a disappointing 2025-26 season with the 23-year-old striker scoring only one Prem

Conservationists celebrate ‘bounty of barn owl chicks’ in Northern Ireland

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Two pairs of barn owls have five chicks each in Co Fermanagh

CUH must improve managing budget, health minister says

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Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said Cork University Hospital must improve in managing its budget and deploying its resources.

Adam Riches: The Captain review – the extraordinary glory of a ‘half man, half fish’ Victorian hero

By Brian Logan

Summerhall, Edinburgh An endurance test for a standup already starring in a fringe hit, this show resurrects the man who drilled the first ever cross-Channel swimmer ‘Who are these people that do what [the rest of us] cannot?” Adam Riches ’ solo play The Captain teases at the daredevil spirit, incarnate here in Capt Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the Channel unaided. Riches plays Fred Beckwith, a swimming coach

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Man who ‘destroyed’ doorway to primary school banned from parts of Ennis town centre

By Gordon Deegan

Civil exclusion order is one of a number obtained against four men due to antisocial behaviour

Newcastle agree £52m deal for Man City's Gonzalez

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Newcastle United agree a deal worth up to £52m for Manchester City midfielder Nico Gonzalez.

Irish woman and her husband found dead at Spanish resort

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Police in Spain are investigating the deaths of an Irish woman and her husband at a coastal resort south of Valencia.

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HIV charity has 'sensitive' health data stolen

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People using the George House Trust are told personal health information may have been compromised.

Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and more pay tribute to Dolly Parton: ‘her legacy will be everlasting’

By Owen Myers and Benjamin Lee

Lily Tomlin, Beyoncé, Céline Dion and Oprah Winfrey are among those remembering the queen of country after she died aged 80 Alexis Petridis on Dolly Parton’s peerless career that turned country music cliches inside out Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Dolly Parton celebrated by kd lang, Peggy Seeger, Annie Lennox and more Tributes have poured in for Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter and actor, after her d

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Sterling charged with dangerous driving after crash

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Raheem Sterling will appear in court next month to face charges of dangerous driving after crashing his car into motorway barriers in May.

New figures show thousands of people not getting timely access to cancer care, TD says

By Vivienne Clarke

Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane says figures released to him indicate areas ‘going in the wrong direction’

At least 14 newborn babies die in fire at Pakistan hospital’s maternity ward

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Health minister suggests deadly blaze was caused by an air conditioner

Martin O’Neill puts Champions League collapse among most painful Celtic nights

By PA Media and Guardian sport

Celtic lose against Lask in qualifier from 4-0 up on aggregate ‘That’s my team and that’s my responsibility,’ O’Neill says Martin O’Neill has admitted that Celtic’s Champions League qualifying collapse from 4-0 up ranks as one of his most painful nights as the club’s manager. Celtic held a four-goal aggregate lead against Lask on Tuesday when Callum McGregor scored in the 21st minute in Austria, building on a 3-0 fir

Shop linked to people smuggler has licence revoked

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Councillors say cancelling Candy Corner 1's licence was the "responsible course of action"

At least 14 newborn babies die in fire at Pakistan hospital’s maternity ward

By Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Authorities at biggest state hospital in Islamabad say 15 babies were in the ward when fire broke out At least 14 newborn babies have died in a fire that broke out in the maternity ward at one of Pakistan’s most prominent state hospitals. The blaze began in the early hours of Wednesday and engulfed the ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, the biggest state hospital in Islamabad. Continue reading...

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The Last Sunrise review – Amazon’s soapy YA romance is thankless and bland

By Rafaela Bassili

Another familiar concoction fails to make use of its sunny location and chooses cheap melodrama over romantic charm A titular sunrise, a summer fling fantasy, exorbitant wealth, impossibly sculpted bodies: such are the profitable story ingredients that make up The Last Sunrise, the latest offering in Amazon’s endless catalogue of “romance content”. I wouldn’t ordinarily use that term to describe a film, but it fits T

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Brydon Carse incident points to a darker truth about life as a professional cricketer | The Secret Cricket Coach

By The Secret Cricket Coach

Cricket is a brutal game – you are basically being judged all the time. It’s no wonder players seek out ways of coping I once played with a young cricketer who would physically harm himself when he didn’t score enough runs. I won’t go into the detail of how because that isn’t really the point. The point is that a young professional cricketer had reached a place where getting out in a game of cricket meant he deserved

With no friends left to burn, Trump is running out of diplomatic ammunition | Rafael Behr

By Rafael Behr

Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure. The current president, contemptuous of law and indulged in lawlessness by a supine Congress, enjoys even greater power than the constitution allows. With

Heatwaves show UK must do more to promote cycling and walking, campaigners say

By Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

Civil society groups argue climate crisis means transport sector needs to urgently reduce its carbon emissions Dozens of civil society groups have demanded the UK government do more to promote cycling and walking, after this summer’s extreme heat exposed the desperate need to decarbonise transport. This summer’s heatwaves and wildfires were “immediate, real-world manifestations of the climate emergency”, the groups s

After Dom Ballard’s backheel, what is the earliest goal of the season? | The Knowledge

By Guardian sport

Plus: player-managers earning international caps, out-of-position goalkeepers sent off and footballers called up to jury service Mail us with your all of your questions and answers “After watching Dom Ballard’s backheel volley for Bristol City against Birmingham in game week two of the Championship, it begs the question: what’s the earliest in a season a goal has gone on to win goal of the season?” asks Ricardio Sent

‘It destroyed me’ – your top true-crime TV shows of all time

By Alfie Packham and Guardian readers

From influencers gone (really, really) bad and the outrageous Joe Exotic to the greatest reveal in television history – here are Guardian readers’ favourite real-life documentaries and whodunnits I watched the BBC’s Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared when it came out and Damien Nettles, its subject, still pops up in my mind sometimes. It’s a comprehensive, empathetic and gripping investigation into a case I had never

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ECB set for September rate hike with no appetite for more

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European Central Bank policymakers are ready to raise interest rates at their next meeting in September to contain the side-effects of the Iran war but they have little appetite to signal further tightening after that, three sources told Reuters.

Dolly Parton’s last act was to briefly silence America’s toxic political discourse

By Keith Duggan

If Bob Dylan stands as the explicit chronicler of American political and civil change and discord, Parton occupied a more mischievous space