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  • California woman Brittany Maynard’s decision to end her own life has recently been reported on from far and wide and has become the focus of many heated discussions and debates. #brittanymaynard has been trending on Twitter in recent days, with the outpouring of support for young Brittany appearing to be phenomenal. For the 29-year-old terminally ill cancer…

  • Roy Keane’s new book is an intriguing masterpiece that finally reveals the hard-man midfielder’s well-hidden good points. Ghost written by Roddy Doyle The Second Half does little to dispel the notion that Keane could pick a fight in an empty room. At times it seems he is at pains to reassure us he was this…

  • ’71 is a war film about a British soldier in Belfast during the troubles left behind on a routine mission gone awry. He’s stranded and is trying, for the entire film, to get back to his barracks. ’71 adds a fresh perspective on the Troubles, in that it is told from the perspective of a…

  • TheCity.ie took to the streets to find out what people in Dublin knew about their capital city – watch the video to hear the results. 

  • Two months off his 21st birthday, Ciaran Carr collapsed and later died during an indoor training session with the Clondalkin Round Towers football team. The nearest defibrillator was half a kilometre away, too far to save the seemingly healthy young man. Last weekend, a 15-year-old Junior Cert student from Galway died after collapsing during a football…

  • Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin announced that the Government plans to build 10,000 social housing units over the next four years. The €2.2 billion sum will be the first major investment in housing by the Government since 2009. “The Government is determined to meet the scale of investment commensurate with the challenge,”…