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- Interim examiner appointed in bid to save HSI August 24, 2026Horse Sport Ireland, the all-Ireland national governing body for the equestrian sector, has been given the protection of the High Court, with an interim examiner appointed in a bid by its directors to save it.
- Fórsa members at Oberstown to escalate strike action August 24, 2026Members of the Fórsa trade union employed at the Oberstown Children Detention Campus in Dublin are to escalate their industrial action in a dispute over resourcing and staffing levels.
- Search for person missing from ferry in Irish Sea August 24, 2026A search operation is under way following a report of a person missing from a ferry in the Irish Sea, the Department of Transport has said.
- Nearly eight out of ten children 'never cycle to school' August 24, 2026Nearly eight out of ten children never cycle to school, despite over two-thirds of parents saying it would be their preferred method of transport, according to new research.
- Maradona 'Hand of God' football sells for $3.35m August 24, 2026The football with which Diego Maradona scored his 'Hand of God' goal against England at the 1986 World Cup has sold at auction for $3.35m (€2.9m).
- Right to repair rules 'make sense', engineer says August 24, 2026An engineer who works for a company in Co Donegal which offers repair services for large domestic appliances has said new EU product repair rules make sense.
- Police arrest 12 after linking crash to organised crime August 24, 2026British police investigating a car crash in northeast England over the weekend that killed seven people, including two police officers, said they had arrested 12 people in a probe into organised criminal activity linked to the incident.
- Dott found guilty of sexually abusing children August 24, 2026Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school age children.
- Jeremy O'Brien funeral hears 'families changed forever' August 24, 2026Mourners at the funeral of a teenager who was one of five young people killed in the crash on the M9 have heard that "what the boys did was wrong", but that "tragedy" must not become the whole story.
