Council removes Maureen O’Hara statue at sculptor’s request following criticism
Installation taken down in Glengarriff, west Cork within 48 hours
Clock stops on EU plan to scrap daylight savings time
Contentious move to abolish mandatory seasonal clock changes ‘not top priority now’
Baarack the overgrown Australian sheep shorn of his 35kg fleece
Rescuers relieve wandering animal of enough wool to make 61.3 jumpers
Man was charged more than €60,000 for one beer
Australian journalist claims to have drunk most expensive beer ever in Manchester
USB found in frozen seal poo in New Zealand reunited with owner
In strange twist, owner helped collect faeces sample from rare seal a year earlier
Man on digger smashes new hotel on day of completion
Travelodge hotel attacked in Liverpool as seen in viral video footage
Photo of an egg becomes most popular Instagram post ever
More than 23 million people liked the post, beating record held by Kylie Jenner
Bluefin tuna sells for €2.7m at Japanese market
Kiyomura Corp, a company that runs a sushi chain, paid for the 278kg fish
John Bruton back in a cabinet? No, ‘it was a small room’
Ex-taoiseach’s choice of location for Brexit interview prompted flurry of reaction online
Leaning Tower of Pisa leaning less than before, experts say
The tower has leaned to one side ever since it began to take shape in 1173
#dogsatpollingstations trends on Twitter as pooches visit the polls
Voters share pictures of their pets as they arrive to take part in election and referendum
Lioness kills father of her cubs at Indianapolis zoo
Keepers had never noticed any aggression between lions held together for eight years
Teenager baked grandfather’s ashes into biscuits
US student distributed the sugar biscuits with several classmates, police said
Koalas arrive in UK in bid to protect species from extinction
Five southern koalas travel from wildlife park in Adelaide to English safari park
Croke Park’s hawk eyes keep stadium scavenger free
Harris’s hawks are flown to keep birds from carrying food packaging outside of grounds
Random acts of decency at the Kindness Café earn diners a free lunch
Customers pledge acts of kindness at Swords pop-up in return for complimentary food
Stinging Lion’s mane jellyfish in Irish waters is larger this year
Several swimmers in the west have received hospital treatment for Lion’s mane stings
Driver fined after caught watching TV show on UK motorway
The man was watching his favourite show on his mobile phone while travelling on teh M6
Sonia O’Sullivan: How to make the best of long-haul flights
Light stretching, window seats and bringing your own food make for a better experience
Long and winding musical road drives locals demented
Strategically laid ‘rumble strips’ sing out regional anthem if hit at correct 60km/h speed
‘Waste is Delicious’: Producing food with stuff other folks throw away
Crooked carrots, anyone? Beer from stale bread and soap from orange peel sell fast in Netherlands
Good Friday pub opening divides opinion in the west
One Connemara publican says: ‘This change alone is not going to save the rural pub’
Plans to dim Fastnet Lighthouse cause upset in west Cork
Battery-powered LED beam due to replace three diesel generators
Facial recognition for cows in focus as Irish start-up Cainthus gets backing
Cargill takes minority stake in Dublin-based machine vision company focused on agtech
Grumpy Cat wins €571k over company’s copyright breach
Coffee owners countersued and said Grumpy Cat had not held up deal to promote ‘Grumppucinos’
‘I made my shed the top-rated restaurant on Trip Advisor’
Prankster fools ratings site with fake web page, fake food and fake reviews
Plane forced to land after wife discovers husband’s affair midflight
Woman ‘blew her top’ on Qatar Airways flight after unlocking phone with sleeping husband’s thumb
30 years of gifs: dancing babies, DJ cats, popcorn-eating stars
Gifs are gifts that keep giving. Here we chart their rise and rise in this their 30th year
British man given restraining order after row over ‘foreign’ cockerel
‘Multi-millionaire’ acquitted of harassing neighbours over bird ‘crowing all day’
Did it give you a giggle? A pound coin gag wins funniest joke award
Top 15 jokes voted the funniest at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017
A call from a ‘quack’ and a lethal dose of whiskey and mustard
In 1904 a ‘tramp’ named Thomas Coyne learned Mary Carrol was ill and insisted he could cure her
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