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Thursday 2 May 2024 Dublin: 9°C
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Micheál Martin and Chris Heaton-Harris during the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference last November.

Thursday 2 May

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Immigration

UK says Tánaiste 'confirmed' no police will be sent to border for migration checks

Workers removing tents on Mount Street this morning
Dublin

Mount Street: Several asylum seekers without beds after makeshift encampment is dismantled

Members of the community looking at floral tributes in Hainault, north east London.
Daniel Anjorin

Man to appear in court charged with murder of 14-year-old boy in London sword attack

An aerial photo shows rescuers work at the site of a collapsed road section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China’s Guangdong Province
Guangdong province

Death toll rises to 48 following motorway collapse in southern China

Vincent Kearney is the current Northern Editor at RTÉ.
Vincent Kearney

BBC to contact tribunal over claims journalist was spied on by police

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