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- Last day for election candidates to get on ballot paper
Today marks the final opportunity for prospective general election candidates to get onto their constituency's ballot paper, and for voters to get onto the supplementary register. - Seven arrested in £215m money laundering investigation
Seven people have been arrested in Northern Ireland as part of an investigation into international money laundering of criminal assets worth around £215 million (€252m). - Harris says gardaí have necessary firearms capacity
The Garda Commissioner has insisted that An Garda Síochána has the specialist firearms capacity needed to meet any critical incident that may occur in the State. - Public service workers entitled to pension subsidies
Thousands of public service workers are entitled to a transitional pension to offset potential financial losses from the increase in the state pension qualification age under a deal negotiated in 1995, it has emerged. - Senate kicks off debate in Trump impeachment trial
US President Donald Trump's impeachment trial has begun in earnest in the Senate, with his chief legal defender attacking the case as baseless while a top Democratic politician described overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing. - Fragmentation once again: No front-runner in campaign
Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar might have been out observing the livestock at the mart in Fermoy. But questions abounded about who would be going out to grass in the spring - and they did not relate to the cattle. - Inquest told how garda shot Jastine Valdez's killer
A Civil Defence volunteer at the inquest into the death of Mark Hennessy has described seeing a garda shoot Mark Hennessy as he sat in his car. - Parties outline policies in housing and agriculture
Campaigning in the General Election continued with parties outlining policies in the areas of housing, public spending and agriculture. - IRA intelligence dossier goes on display at exhibition
A rare and previously unknown IRA intelligence dossier from the War of Independence has emerged as part of a new permanent exhibition covering the Wars of Independence and the Civil War. - Traveller diagnosed with SARS-like virus at US airport
A traveller from China has been diagnosed in Seattle with the Wuhan coronavirus, a spokesman from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. - Man told gardaí 'the stuff up the mountains' was him
A man charged with the murder of his partner's mother told gardaí he had done "something terrible" when he walked into a garda station after body parts were found in the Wicklow Mountains. - Captain guilty of sailing erratically in shipping lane
A yacht captain has been found guilty of being drunk while erratically sailing a pleasure boat in a Dublin Port shipping lane. - Clinton says 'nobody likes' potential candidate Sanders
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has launched a scathing attack on presidential hopeful and 2016 Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, telling a documentary that "nobody likes him." - Family of woman kept on life support seeks €3m damages
The family of a pregnant woman, who was brain-dead but kept on life support due to concerns about the Eighth Amendment, are seeking more than €3 million in damages from the HSE over her death. - Trump rejects environmental 'prophets of doom'
US President Donald Trump took aim at the "perennial prophets of doom" on the environment, telling the annual Davos forum that warnings of climate crisis were "foolish". - Jess Phillips pulls out of Labour leadership contest
British Labour backbencher Jess Phillips has abandoned her bid to become the party's next leader as she admitted she would not be able to bring the party together after its "cataclysmic" election defeat. - Greta tells Davos nothing done to fight climate change
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has told the annual elite Davos gathering of business and political leaders that "basically nothing has been done" to fight climate change despite her high-profile campaign. - UK defends plan to make terrorists take lie tests
Britain's Justice Secretary has defended plans to make terrorists take a lie detector test to prove they have reformed and are not planning to carry out another attack. - Murder-accused left baby alone to visit casino - court
A man charged with murdering a baby in Co Armagh left the child alone for hours while he visited a casino, the High Court heard today. - As it happened: Day 7 of 2020 General Election campaign
A look back at how events unfolded on day seven of the 2020 General Election campaign.
