US and Russia clash over Ukraine’s sovereignty Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko meets US vice president Joe Biden (right) in Munich on Saturday. Photograph: Reuters
Tony McCoy, seen here with the Champion Jump Jockey trophy at Sandown Racecourse, has announced he is to retire from racing at the end of the season. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA WireBRIAN O'CONNORTony McCoy: Retirement of benchmark racer hard to grasp
Four people treated in hospital after Lucan crime spreeTwo youths have been detained in connection with a series of crimes in Lucan in Dublin on Friday night. Four people, including a garda responding to the matter, were injured during the incidents in the Castle Riada Drive area. Image: Google Streetview.
Ireland labour to opening Six Nations win over Italy Tommy O’Donnell of Ireland scores the second try against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Photograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images
Gay Byrne: same-sex marriage is ‘long overdue’Róisín Ingle with Gay Byrne in The Irish Times studio
Gauguin painting sets all-time record with €265m sale‘Nafea Faa Ipoipo’ (When Will You Marry?) is said to have been sold to a museum in Qatar for €265 million. Photograph: EPA
Greeks ‘inspired’ by Irish anti-water charge campaignAnti-water charge protestors during a demonstration in Dublin. A member of Greece’s Syriza party has said the Irish campaign was an inspiration. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times.
TransAsia Airways pilots undergo testing following crashThe recovered wreckage of TransAsia Airways plane Flight GE235, which crashed into the Keelung River, in New Taipei City, Taiwan on February 5th, 2015. Photograph: REUTERS/Stringer
Calorie counts on menus plan ‘nonsense’, Nick Munier saysRestaurateur Nick Munier has called the Government’s plans to carry calorie information on menus ‘pointless’. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Visiting restricted at two hospitals due to flu outbreak Visiting has been restricted at two Irish hospitals due to concerns over an outbreak of flu. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.
Gardaí in Meath investigate suspicious approaches to childrenGardaí in Trim, Co Meath say they are treating ‘very seriously’ reports of a man making suspicious approaches to children in the town on Thursday.
Mary McAleese criticises pope over smacking comment“What faith are we to have now in the Holy See’s commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child?” former president of Ireland Mary McAleese has asked in a letter to The Irish Times. File photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times
Carl O’Brien: A Cork man in the capitalProud Corkman Carl O’Brien on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Ireland’s ‘cancer boom’: what’s gone wrong?The danger within: the survival rate for lung-cancer patients has increased from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. Illustration: Sciepro/SPL/Getty

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