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Swimming the big winner as funding for Ireland’s high-performance athletes increases to €27m
Following a record-breaking year in the pool, swimming was the big winner as Sport Ireland announced its 2025 funding allocations for high-performance sport. Swim Ireland received the biggest increase ...
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Haunting prose evokes doomed borderlands lovers who crossed paths with Dominic McGlinchey
One early scene in particular stood out for me in Eoin McNamee’s mesmerising novel of kidnap, murder and fraud in the Irish borderlands. Paramilitary leader Dominic McGlinchey and his wife are hiding ...