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Company says there will be more start-up airlines in 2021 than had failed in 2020
Gareth Ainsworth: The ‘rock god’ performing miracles at Wycombe Wanderers
Manager brought club up to the Championship without paying up front for a single player
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The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny Depp
Discrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew them
Bishop issues statement correcting claims he made about news report
Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan said a Sunday World report he dismissed as ‘wholly incorrect’ was in fact ‘wholly factually correct’
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Male rock stars of the 1970s and 80s were often notorious for sleeping with young fans
‘If my name wasn’t Valentine, I might enjoy the day’
Is it a blessing or a curse to share a name with the patron saint of love? We asked some Vals
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Return to Paris: reasons to love the City of Lights
The French captial remains the perfect city to stir the senses and whet the appetite
The best theatre shows to catch this week
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
The superstar you’ve never heard of – at least, not from us
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City plunge for another skinny-legged Brazilian teenager
Manchester will test prolific striker Gabriel Jesus’s ability to deliver on big stage
Dane Coles: All Blacks all-rounder on worryingly good run
The loss to Ireland in Chicago a mere blip on New Zealand ace hooker’s winning streak
Obscene gestures: can a theatre show ever go too far?
Offence is in the eye of the beholder, but Irish theatre has a robust reputation for pushing boundaries, and many theatres and companies have suffered for their artistic freedom
The tortured artist myth: how creativity really works
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Five fishermen rescued by an Irish trawler in Celtic Sea
Scottish fishing boat sank quickly in heavy seas some 90 miles south of Mizen Head
Morto for me: excruciating encounters with my teenage self in an old diary
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