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Flooding at the N22 at Glenflesk, outside Killarney, after the river Flesk and a number of other rivers burst their banks following Storm Bert. Many parts of Kerry were impassable over the weekend. Photograph: Valerie O'Sullivan As the parties embark on a frantic final four days of campaign, and with the three-way televised leaders’ debate scheduled for tomorrow night, the three largest parties are all within two percentage points of one another.Ireland’s corporate tax boom makes the front page of the Wall Street JournalHousingNew law required to ‘protect transport workers’:
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