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Aer Lingus has decided to cut the number of A330 aircraft it uses on long haul flights to reduce costs as passengers numbers are down on transatlantic flights for the third quarter of this year.

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Who’s the leading contender to win the Academy Award in February for Best Actress? According to the influential Los Angeles Times, it’s none other than Irish actress Saoirse Ronan.

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Not only is Liam Neeson one of the busiest A-list actors at work today, but junior high records show that he was one of the top athletes at his school.

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Legendary Cork hurling goalkeeper Donal Og Cusack has revealed that he is gay in his new autobiography.

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In the upcoming film “The Virgin of Las Vegas,” Liam Neeson portrays an Irish showband singer with a dead end career who heads to Las Vegas to turn things around. Now reports say the Irish veteran actor will sing his own songs in the movie.

This week's stories from around the counties: Crosses in the sky; Nurse slaps patient; Canceled operations; Woman chooses prison; Poor Irish broadband

Hillary Clinton will face a full blown crisis in the peace process when she visits Northern Ireland this weekend. Sinn Fein and the DUP are at loggerheads over when policing and justice powers will be devolved to the Northern Irish government from the British parliament.

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With Gallery: Dan "The Da Vinci Code" Brown has just written a book about them, and now a court case in Belfast could unearth some of the most closely-guarded secrets about the one of the most-secret organizations in the world: the Freemasons. The ultimate fraternity, the Freemasons have been around since the end of the 16th century, and rumors abound that some of the most-famous men in the world, from presidents to politicians, count themselves as members.

TAKE OUR POLL! Workers at an Irish plant are on strike – because they can’t watch porn while making pizza.

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Former Irish political prisoner and Maze escapee Pol Brennan was shackled as he was deported on Friday to the Republic of Ireland, where he says he intends to remain “for quite a while” before deciding whether to return to Northern Ireland.

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Victims of Church child abuse wept yesterday as Irish President Mary McAleese apologized for their suffering on behalf of the people of the Republic. “For so long, your suffering seemed to make strangers of you in your own land.”

Race relations in Northern Ireland took a turn for the worse over the past few days when Romanian immigrants were forced to flee their homes on the Lisburn Road in Belfast after repeated attacks by racist hooligans.

Dubin lightweight Stephen Ormond (4-0, 1 KO) beat Sergi Ganjelashvili (4-3-1) by unanimous decision at the Capital One Bank Theater in Westbury, Long Island on Friday night.

A young Riverdance star is among the three Irish women presumed dead in the Air France airbus A330 disaster. The Irish dancing star, a qualified doctor, was returning from vacation with her two Irish friends and another friend from Britain.

Lightweight Oisin Fagan stopped Assen Vassilev in the fifth round of their fight at the Royal Theatre in Castlebar, CO. Mayo last Saturday night.

Liam Neeson spent a couple of days in Toronto recently to tidy up filming commitments in the wake of the shocking death last month of his wife, Natasha Richardson, and now he seems to be solely focused on coping with the enormous emotional wounds that he and his two sons will be dealing with for the rest of their

SHE said a few weeks ago that she'd make a trip to Belfast to support the arts in the newly regenerated city, and double Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep stayed true to her word.

Meryl made journey to the North last Saturday to help raise funds for the city's Old Museum Arts Center (Omac), which is looking to construct a new building at a cost of more than $30 million.

"I'm proud to come to Belfast to celebrate this city's commitment to Omac and its great good work,'' she said.

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