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A solicitor tried to defraud the Revenue Commissioners by underpaying €147,000 in stamp duty... because his client asked him to. The High Court heard that Raymond St John O'Neill, 61, admitted he had previously allowed underpayments for clients but believed he was entitled to do so on the basis he

A politician has called for the organised culling of seagulls after a woman's phone was snatched by one of the birds in Dublin. Vanessa Keegan, from Clonsilla in Dublin, lost her HTC smartphone after an audacious seagull snatched the device and dropped it into a pond at the National Botanic Gardens.