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Achill Island beach that reappeared in 2017 disappears again
Storm deposited Dooagh sand back after 30 years but beach now washed away again
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Mary Poppins Returns: Emily Blunt floats down on a kite
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Virtual reality: Even better than the real thing?
Virtual reality is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival with a two-day conference on ‘immersive entertainment’
Angela Lansbury: women’s efforts to make themselves attractive ‘backfired’
‘Murder She Wrote’ star says women ‘must sometimes take blame. I really do think that’
What’s better than one long-lost Achill beach returning? A second one
Achill Tourism hopes the restored Ashleam beach will offer similar windfall to Dooagh beach
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Sands of time return Achill beach 30 years after it washed away
Ocean deposits thousands of tons of sand at Dooagh, recreating the strand
My mother, Molly Keane: caustic chronicler of the lost Anglo-Irish world
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Cork’s Imperial Hotel celebrates 200 years of business
Daniel O’Connell, Charles Dickens,Michael Collins, Maureen O’Hara among past guests
Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90
The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life
Colm Tóibín: enjoying life on the Brooklyn road
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