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Constance Marten was well-connected and wealthy, but meeting Mark Gordon saw her life unravel.

Raised in luxury, jailed for her baby’s death: The fall of socialite Constance Marten

Marten was born into British high society, but her life began to seriously unravel after she met Mark Gordon.

  • Martin Evans and Susie Coen

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The bottle with the note flung into the sea 13 years ago from Canada’s Bell Island.

A love note in a bottle is found years later, an ocean away

Anita and Brad’s message floated all the way from Canada’s Bell Island to Ireland’s west coast – leaving online detectives wondering: Were they still together?

  • Victoria Craw
Trump threatened to cancel O’Donnell’s citizenship.

‘Tangerine spray tan’: Comedian mocks Trump after citizenship threat

Emmy winner Rosie O’Donnell hit back after the US president said she was a “threat to humanity” and that she should stay in Ireland, to where she fled after Trump was elected.

  • David Crowe
Rabbi Dovid Gurnick speaks to Dvir Abramovich outside the East Melbourne synagogue on Saturday.

Thugs who perform violence over distant atrocities have no place here

Violence carried out in the name of protest but fuelled by hatred of Jewish citizens of Australia is as imbecilic as it is inexcusable.

  • Tony Wright
Australian beef cattle are judged at the Royal Melbourne show last year.

Don’t sacrifice us for deal with Australia, Irish farmers warn

Australia and Europe have resumed talks on a free trade deal amid US President Donald Trump’s global tariff war.

  • Rob Harris
Kerry Condon: “I’ve always felt like a woman of the world.”

‘Brad Pitt’s a proper movie star. They don’t make them like him any more’: Kerry Condon

Growing up in a small town in Ireland, Condon thought it “borderline impossible” that she’d star in a Hollywood blockbuster.

  • Juliet Rieden
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Kathleen Spangler at home in Dayton, Ohio, with a photo of the house she won in an online raffle.

‘By chance, did you win a cottage in Ireland?’

For one American, who spent $US12.67 on three raffle tickets in December and then forgot about them, the answer turned out to be yes.

  • Lana Bortolot
Lough Erne.

No tropical beaches, but this island is still a paradise

Escape to one of the loveliest places in Ireland not for sun, but for soul.

  • Brian Johnston
Imelda Collins outside her house in Ireland’s County Leitrim, which she is raffling off for five British pounds per ticket. She hopes to sell 150,000 tickets.

Want to buy her house in Ireland? All you’ll need are $7 and some luck

Imelda Collins is raffling her house, rather than selling it on the conventional market. And anyone in the world can enter.

  • Lana Bortolot
Marian Keyes

Good food, good craic as bestselling author Marian Keyes gets real

Lunch with Marian Keyes is a revelation; sex, alcoholism, life and death. Nothing is off the table.

  • Margot Saville

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