Heather Humphreys was paired and on ministerial travel and therefore excused from a vote on an inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell in 2018, despite the Dáil voting block being included on her ...

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Passing a baton in an urban relay race, some familiar footwear and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: I was walking up Eighth Avenue near Port Authority ...

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Dear Abby advises a man who discovers his brother has a long-lost daughter. DEAR ABBY: I had my DNA analyzed and subsequently received a message from a young woman (a stranger) on the site. Her DNA ...

DEAR ABBY: I had my DNA analyzed and subsequently received a message from a young woman (a stranger) on the site. Her DNA matches at the level of a niece. Her message said she did not know her father, ...

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At 8:52 a.m. last Friday, an airborne seagull on a food reconnaissance mission about 100 yards off a beach in South Yarmouth suddenly hit its speed brakes, folded its wings and entered a vertical dive ...

DEAR ABBY: My company has a four-days-a-week return-to-office mandate this year. While it’s nice to have the in-person camaraderie, co-workers who are conspicuously ill are now coming in and spreading ...