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Steven Gerrard set to leave Liverpool at end of seasonLiverpool captain Steven Gerrard is set to announce he is to leave his boyhood club at the end of the season, it is understood. Photograph: PA
Jack’s the lad and Sophie is top girl in ‘Irish Times’ names chartJack rose to the top of The Irish Times’ birth announcements column last year, while Sophie was the most popular girls’ name in 2014. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Eamon Gilmore ousting ‘wasn’t all for nothing’, says Alex WhiteMinister for Communications Alex White: said it is unrealistic for Labour to expect to repeat its 2011 general election success. Photograph: Alan Betson
Women judges claim half expenses of male counterparts Four Courts Dublin: male judges’ average expenses exceeded those of female judges in every one of the six years for which figures were supplied by the Courts Service, as well as in every court. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/Irish Times
Roadside drug test devices to be introduced this yearMinister for Transport Paschal Donohoe: “Research from the coroner in Co Kildare showed that over a 10-year period 50 per cent of those who lost their lives in crashes tested positive for the presence of drugs.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Pat Kenny is front of house as UTV Ireland hits our screens Pat Kenny on the road with Ulster rugby player Tommy Bowe. Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye
Lucinda Creighton expected to launch party in February Lucinda Creighton, one of seven Fine Gael TDs and Senators who voted against the Government in 2013 on abortion legislation. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
David Norris: How to stop decline of Georgian DublinThe decline of so many historic buildings on streets such as North Frederick Street (above) or Gardiner Place could in part be attributed to the fact that they were split into flats and their owners often did not care about the living conditions of their tenants, said Senator David Norris. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
JMW Turner’s annual winter outing at the National GalleryDetail from Turner’s ‘A light in the Darkness’. Photograph: Alan Betson,
Irish retail sector poised to buy into recoveryThe latest supermarket ad tracker data shows Tesco has upped its advertising massively in the Irish market – by more than 100 per cent – so it won’t lose top billing without a fight. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Search for AirAsia jet’s black box could ‘take a week’ Indonesian officers wheel in a temporary coffin carrying a victim of the AirAsia plane crash. Photograph: Wahyudin/EPA.

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