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Updated: 24 May 2021, 10:40
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THE Foreign Affairs Minister has slammed a forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Belarus yesterday as state-sponsored aviation piracy .
Minister Simon Coveney this morning called for the EU to give a very clear response to the incident ahead of a European Council meeting later today.
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Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O LearyCredit: Reuters
A journalist and exiled opposition activist was arrested after Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko ordered a MiG-29 fighter to escort the Ryanair holiday jet to Minsk midway through a flight from Greece to Lithuania.
Crew on board the flight were falsely told that a bomb was on board before being forced to divert to the Belarus capital where Roman Protasevich, 26, was arrested.
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Brave sisters spoke out in 2019
Evil Sean McDarby raped and beat their mum who was the beast’s stepdaughter for two decades after making her pregnant at 16 while her alcoholic mother did not intervene.
Abused Mary Manning went on to have six forced pregnancies with McDarby who was 30 years her senior after he took her away from her mother in Ardee, Co Louth as a young teenager.
The monster then moved her into several homes around Dublin.
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The Manning sisters, aged in their 30s, have records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing their mum told social workers of the abuse.
Updated: 23 May 2021, 18:05
IRELAND is set to sizzle as temperatures could hit 21C on Thursday - making it one of the hottest days of the year so far.
The country will finally feel the heat after torrential rain and strong winds barrelled in in recent weeks.
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The good weather could continue into JuneCredit: meteociel
Met Eireann also revealed the mercury could climb even higher than average towards next weekend after a miserable April and May.
The national forecaster was forced to issue yellow rain and winding warnings last week following unseasonably wet and windy downpours.
Met Eireann meteorologist Siobhan Ryan told the Irish Sun: “Obviously it’s been a very cool April and May and in some parts a very wet one.