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While Cork started the League on a bum note and ended on a high, Tipp started on a high and ended on a bum note.

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Glitz and glamour to rival the Oscars was the vibe at the Kanturk Person of the Year Awards which was hosted at Kilbrin Community Centre last Friday night.

In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.

In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.

Immigration activist groups and Democratic doves in the Senate are slamming the new border deal put together by Senate negotiators and released on Sunday.

The deadline for submissions is next Monday evening, January 8th at 5pm.

In an uncompromising signal aimed at Pyongyang, the government of South Korea is vowing to prosecute those who violate human rights in North Korea if and when the two countries are reunited.

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, famed for his role in smash-hit movie "Parasite," but recently hit by drug allegations, died Wednesday in an apparent suicide.

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