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Police in the North have arrested two men in their 20s in connection with a car bomb in Derry last night.
The blast happened on Bishop Street at approximately ten past eight.
The Premier/Setanta Sports Group has pledged one million euro to homeless charity Focus Ireland.
The group will provide this funding through equity investment for stable, long term homes for families currently experiencing homelessness.
The Transport Minister has slammed what he called 'the lunatic fringe' in Leinster House opposed to tougher drink drive laws.
Shane Ross was responding to criticism of early morning driver breathalyser tests by some TDs.
The Sunday Independent have revealed Ireland's wealthiest individuals and families this morning.
The Mistry family from Dublin top the Rich List once again.
They have a combined net worth of €16.1 billion, up €500 million on last year.
66 people have now died after a fuel pipe explosion in Mexico.
A further 76 are injured, according to the governor of the central province of Hidalgo.
Locals had gathered to collect fuel from the leaking pipe when it caught fire and blew up last night.
A woman has died after a house fire in County Galway.
The alarm was raised at around 7 o'clock last night.
Gardaí and Fire Services attended at the scene at Tullyvoheen in Clifden yesterday evening and brought the blaze under control a short time later.
The National Transport Authority says it's "actively considering" a 24-hour Dublin Bus service to the airport and on other major city routes.
But it says no final decision had been made yet.
The Tanaiste's re-iterated the government's commitment to the entire Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, including the backstop.
Simon Coveney says it is needed to ensure an open border, and that the Good Friday Agreement is protected.
2018 was a mixed year for house prices across the country.
That's according to the Irish Independent, which has published its annual list of property prices.
Houses prices in North Kildare now average at €334,000, up 5% from last year.
Drugs worth around a half a million euro have been seized in Dublin.
It follows the search of a house in Drimnagh late last night.
Heroin and cocaine, along with cannabis resin and herb were discovered.
A 37-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were arrested.
Three men who killed five people by blowing up a shop in England have been jailed for life.
They tried to scam an insurance company by setting the store in Leicester alight with several litres of petrol.
Donald Trump is meeting a senior North Korean official in the White House.
The president and Kim Yong Chol and discussing removing nuclear weapons in the country.
Earlier, he met US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Washington.
A friend of the man who died on a street in Belfast city centre overnight says he came to the north from Dublin seeking a better life.
A support worker found the body of a man, believed to be in his 30s, in high street at around 8.30 this morning.
Recent coverage of meat consumption is making farmers feel like "villains".
That's according to Fianna Fail's Environment Spokesperson, following yesterday's Lancet Medical Journal report on the link between meat and dairy and climate change.
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