‘Keep slaying the dragon inside’: Simon Armitage pens poem for World Cancer Day Poet laureate tackles ‘daunting’ commission from Yorkshire Cancer Research to mark charity’s centenary year

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Stephen won them the final, but Rachel won them the game. Masterclass, really deserved victory #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #traitors

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Today’s show provided a platform for military personnel & their families to respond to Donald Trump’s shameful
comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.)
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Poor from you pair of lads today - opening 10min about how well we played in the first half and how our played games to date we haven’t got the results we deserve. That’s rubbish and yee might tune into RAW a bit more to get the real assessment and stop turning into another TAW

50 inspiring travel ideas for 2026, chosen by readers: beaches, city breaks, family holidays and more Our popular readers’ tips column has been running for 20 years. We’ve selected some highlights from the past 12 months to help you plan your 2026 adventures

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For boring football Slot is giving Hodgson a run more his money.
Clueless, dreary, boring football. Not an ounce of creativity or skill.

Time to go Slot, and take the coaches with you.
#LFC

Brilliant well said

If that were true Slot should have been sacked after Forest game. No other top team in world football would tolerate this manager’s record in last 30 games.

#lfc if Salah is seen as the villain here then I’ve lost the plot. He’s a club legend and should have won Ballon Dor a few months ago. Slot has engineered an absolute Frankenstein team that has been playing horrendous football. The club should have sacked him after Forest game.

Elliot is rubbish not at the level needed can’t get a game at Villa and you want him back !!

We are playing absolute shite and our team is in serious decline - there’s no avoiding or sugar coating it - we need change and quickly

Best Movies of 2025

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Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

Ken Early: Arne Slot is mild, understated – just like Liverpool’s response to every defeat In an era that demands showmanship from managers, he is struggling to inhabit the role of leader

Ken Early: Arne Slot is mild, understated – just like Liverpool’s response to every defeat

Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.

Inside one kitchen’s mission to rewrite the ending for previously incarcerated youth Drive Change, a Brooklyn nonprofit, provides culinary training to teens and young adults looking for a way out of the criminal legal system.

Drive Change, a Brooklyn nonprofit, provides culinary training to teens and young adults looking for a way out of the criminal legal system.

Public consultation launched on the standards of CAMHS A public consultation to help inform the development of national standards for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services has been launched by the Mental Health Commission.

A public consultation to help inform the development of national standards for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services has been launched by the Mental Health Commission

It doesn’t get more on the nose that the landlord paying you back 16 years late for the rent he stole with no penalty or interest or even a few bob to compensate you for the trouble and stress. Jim Gavin is a Fianna Fáil man to his core, I can see why Micheál Martin picked him.

5 reasons why 'Traitors Ireland' was a hit Last night, in a shock twist, the last three women faithfuls, Vanessa, Oyin and Kelley grasped victory over the treacherous Nick and Ben, in the finale of the RTÉ One hit show 'Traitors Ireland'.

The series has been an audience ratings hit since the first episode clocked up an impressive 46% share and since then, that viewership figure has risen and risen
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Jimmy Kimmel says he never intended to make light of Charlie Kirk’s death Donald Trump hits out at host’s return to airwaves and suggests legal action

Jimmy Kimmel says he never intended to make light of Charlie Kirk’s death

In an ideal world now - Nick blackmails Oyin. She gets him voted out - and then she gets Vanessa as a traitor and the two of them ride it out til the end! #TraitorsIRL

#lfc Starting to fear the worst with excuses coming about how this transfer window is fizzling out. Liverpool need to be aggressive, balls out, back the players that want to come and stop bloody sitting back waiting for resolution.

Because there was nobody on the half way line

‘James’ Won the Pulitzer, but Not Without Complications

The road to a Pulitzer Prize was a surprisingly bumpy one for Percival Everett’s acclaimed novel “James.”

If you watch ANYTHING today, watch this 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Annihilation of people & culture ongoing while we’re being distracted to believe it’s about KNEECAP.

#GAZA #Palestine #spéirghorm #speirgorm #IrishPol #BDS

Fintan O’Toole: Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral? We are at a very strange moment in our cultural evolution – one that threatens the very possibility of spiritual experience

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