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Premier Division Longford Town have unveiled the double signing of Shamrock Rovers pair Dean Williams and Darragh Nugent on loan until the end of the season. Williams and Nugent join De Town who have had a mini-clearout in recent days, with Sam Verdon, Luke Dennison, Aaron Bolger and Joe Gorman all departing. Meanwhile, bit-part player Thomas McLaughlin has also left the club. Williams joins Daire Doyle’s charges having struggled to feature as much as he would have liked to in recent months at Tallaght Stadium. The promising forward was previously on loan at Longford’s First Division riv...

NOW that Labour has lost another English "Red Wall" constituency – Darlington – to the Conservatives, it seems clear that the right wing is firmly embedded at Westminster. After so many Brexit lies to the EU and Northern Ireland, the illegal prorogation of Parliament and associated lies to the Queen, the normalisation and acceptance of sleaze within Westminster is surely by now a "truth universally acknowledged", from Brussels to Washington DC and back again to Buckingham Palace. It is also blatant; there is no shame. Recently, David Edgerton, Professor of History at King's College,...

3 p.m. update Reached mid-afternoon, Macon County Clerk Josh Tanner confirmed that turnout is still “very, very low,” with most polling places having less than 100 voters. “Other than that, everything's running smooth,” Tanner said. “We haven't had any calls about equipment failures or anything like that. All the judges reported for work, so we're staffed up and ready to go, just waiting on the voters.” Tanner said they anticipate more voters will come out in the evening before polls close at 7 p.m. “As people get off work, especially with the weather being ...

BBC News By David Wilson image copyrightImage Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland When the Government of Ireland Act was granted Royal Assent in December 1920, it came at the end of a troubled year in Londonderry. Six months earlier in the city, a single week of violence had claimed 20 lives. It was the "first upsurge of sectarianism", according to Ulster University historian Dr Adrian Grant. That week in June, he said, was "a hugely significant but largely forgotten time". image copyrightThe Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images image captionMuch of the violence occurred in t...