The general election will be called later today, bringing down the curtain on the 33rd Dáil. Simon Harris is traveling home from Budapest to make the announcement.
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Three people have been charged in connection with the death of the singer Liam Payne. The former one direction star fell from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on the 16th of October.
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Concern has been expressed about the rise in shoplifting Figures from the CSO in September show thefts have increased to the highest level in five years
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Paul Mescal has attended the Gladiator 2 Irish premiere in Dublin. It comes after Jack Wall-O'Reilly was crowned the winner of the Paul Mescal look-alike competition in Smithfield in Dublin beforehand.
