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Uninsured driver turned away from checkpoint in Co Sligo
Sligo Champion A 56-year-old man who turned away from a checkpoint and drove into a licensed premises was found to have no insurance and driving without a driver's licence. David Carey, Carron, Bonniconlon, Co Mayo was charged with the offences and also not having an nct on June 11 2024.
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Global urea prices surge as some mideast producers halt output
Global prices of key fertiliser ingredient urea have surged alongside escalating violence in the Middle East, which threatens to choke supplies of the crop nutrient from a significant producing and exporting region.
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40 minutes ago
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Olympic boxer Daina Moorehouse's Wicklow club facing closure
Paris 2024 Olympian is among up to 60 boxers training at the club Bray People A Wicklow boxing club that produced an Olympian for Paris 2024 is facing a fight for its own future – and for the hopes of the boxer who was 'robbed of her dream' last August. It was Enniskerry Boxing Club that brought Bray's Daina Moorehouse to Paris last year. The then 22-year-old suffered what was viewed as a contentious split-decision loss to France's Wassila Lkhadiri in the last 16 of the women's 50kg division in Paris.
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Brave Kerry nurse saves man stranded in dark on Carrauntoohil
Exclusive | The brave and rapid actions of an-off duty Kerry nurse helped save the life of an American man on Carrauntoohil over the weekend. The man who was on a rocky ledge close to the Zigzag has been stranded on Carrauntoohil for more than 12 hours and was frozen, dehydrated, starving and unable to walk when he was discovered in the middle of the night on Saturday, June 21
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Bereaved at Kerry cemetery ‘harassed' by drug users and begging
There are calls for increased security at a Tralee cemetery following reports of youths taking drugs and engaging in anti-social behaviour.
