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Thursday, 06 August, 2026

Evening Update
Today's top stories

Ireland

Fire service battles large blaze in Dublin as residents advised to close doors and windows

Dublin Fire Brigade says it will be dealing with incident at car dismantlers near Lusk for ‘foreseeable future’

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Business

Tax receipts continue to roll in as Government tries to keep a lid on spending

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Middle East

Iran warns Gulf states: tell Trump to desist or we hit you hard

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Politics

Former Labour TD and lord mayor of Dublin Michael Conaghan dies aged 81

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Film

‘These are her people’: Friends and neighbours remember ‘Queen of the Liberties’ Brenda Fricker

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Crime & Law

Family of Irish woman found dead on yacht in New York file wrongful death proceedings in US

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Middle East

Israel-Lebanon truce a rare bright spot in the Middle East, but now it’s under threat

Deadly clashes raise fears of escalation as negotiators seek agreement on Israeli withdrawal

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Soccer

Uefa maintains that World Cup boycott still stands despite Gianni Infantino’s apology

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UK

Star scholar Jason Arday resigns from Cambridge as questions mount over his life and career

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Social Affairs

‘Tradwife’ and ‘manosphere’ content’s influence growing in Ireland, says National Women’s Council

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Ireland

‘We rented houses at first but then said: Let’s just buy a caravan’

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Your Money

There have been 46 tax interventions in Irish housing market since 2013. They haven’t fixed it

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Keeping their house in order: How PSRA regulation has raised the bar for Ireland’s property services sector

MOST READ

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Guinness found on 162-year-old shipwreck inspires divers with ‘Project Jurassic Beer’

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Family of Irish woman found dead on yacht in New York file wrongful death proceedings in US

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Paul Galvin: ‘It’s a bad loss for us, I think we have to be cold about it’

4.

Maurice MacGowan, father of Shane MacGowan, dies following short illness

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Woman denied access to apartment complex gym wins discrimination case

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