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Louis Belton, who has died at the age of 79, was a quintessential backbencher, happy to have been elected as a TD and senator, but without any apparent desire or ambition to serve in government.
It was a bitter winter day in 1986 and as he left the church in the village of Aughnacliffe in north Co Longford after a funeral, I approached Albert Reynolds, the local TD, and asked if he knew why the man and woman had been murdered.
Experts have questioned the sustainability of flying expensive aircraft in contested environments.
Noel Carty, a legendary figure in Irish showbusiness, began his career in the showband era of the 1960s and up to his death at the age of 82 was still working with his most successful act, Brendan Shine.
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A homeless man threatened to do “something radical to get arrested” in order to have a roof over his head for the night. Andrew Kataina’Marii, 46, had a...