Ireland News API

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            "title": "Peter Dowdall: Why so many of us love primroses",
            "description": "'I can't tell you how many people I have spoken to recently who have told me their favourite flower at this time of year is the simple yet beautiful, common wild primrose, Primula vulgaris'",
            "content": "Right now, primroses are at their best. The soft, pale yellow flowers with the deeper yellow eye at the centre are unmistakable, and they are everywhere if you start looking, along the bottom of hedges, on shaded banks, at the edge of woodland, in ol... [4131 chars]",
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            "description": "Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The species is named Lucy’s hunter, because it overlapped with the famed Lucy and her hominin kin and would have hunted them.",
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            "url": "https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2026/03/iowa-led-research-team-names-describes-lucys-hunter-crocodile-our-ancestors-world",
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            "description": "When first approached to do a fundraising skydive, Bridget Cunningham, a founding member of Nobber Cancer Support Group, said her first instinct was to say no.",
            "content": "When first approached to do a fundraising skydive, Bridget Cunningham, a founding member of Nobber Cancer Support Group, said her first instinct was to say no.\nShe openly admits she is terrified of heights but then she thought of her late brother Ken... [5220 chars]",
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