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Today's top 5: Young boy fights for life after pool accident; and appeal for help in tracing missing woman

Boy (4) fighting for his life after accident at hotel swimming pool in Co Cork A four-year-old bo...
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23.05 13 Jul 2015


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Today's top 5: Young boy fights for life after pool accident; and appeal for help in tracing missing woman

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23.05 13 Jul 2015


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Boy (4) fighting for his life after accident at hotel swimming pool in Co Cork

A four-year-old boy has been transferred to Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin following a swimming incident in Cork.

The youngster is said to be in a critical condition.

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Daughter of missing Breda Delaney pleads for mother's return

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a missing 72-year-old woman.

Breda Delaney has been missing from her home at Avondale Court in Blackrock since the early hours of Saturday morning.

New postcode system comes under fire on its first day of operation

The new postcode system - Eircode - has come under fire on its first day of operation.

Communications Minister Alex White has insisted that Eircode is ‘accurate’ and ‘efficient’.

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Man who raped girlfriend while she slept avoids prison

A man who regularly raped and sexually assaulted his girlfriend in her sleep has received a suspended sentence of seven years imprisonment.

The full extent of the offending only emerged after Magnus Meyer Hustveit (25) wrote to his former partner and told her he had been using her “body for my gratification” for nearly a year.

The Norwegian man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of rape and one count of sexual assault of a 28 year old Irish woman between 2011 and 2012.


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