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
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