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Friday 28 January 2022
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The alleged assault occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Putin and Macron spoke by phone amid deep fears that a Russian troop build-up on the Ukrainian border.
The Lisa Smith trial continues today.
Despite the drop in figures, homelessness organisations have raised concerns that they may begin to rise again.
The father-of-four had been prevented from leaving China since February 2019.
The Covid-19 case numbers, released daily throughout the pandemic, will only be announced on Monday to Friday from now on.
The planned drills off the Irish coast have caused considerable upset and controversy.
Let’s see how much you remember from the past week.
Micheal Martin said the issues will be dealt with in an ‘efficient, effective and empathetic’ manner.
Masks, mandates, and war crimes are not mentioned in the Nuremburg Code.
A military judge will now consider a restorative justice process that took place between the soldier and the recruit earlier this month.
A woman in her 40s was pronounced dead at the scene of the two-car collision.
Linda Doyle said closing the gallery “affords us time to address the problems and build a new, exciting and sustainable way forward”.
Gardaí are at Donabate Beach today to try to speak with people who may have seen Bernadette on the day she went missing.
Get stuck into this lot over the weekend.
Labour Senator Marie Sherlock says the plans announced this week are not worth the paper they’re written on.
Listen in to hear behavioural scientist Pete Lunn and immunologist Christine Loscher give us the latest info and research on the reopening.
The Metropolitan Police have said doing so could prejudice their investigation.
The need for affordable childcare has consistently been highlighted as an issue for working parents.
Former Crusaders prop Michael Ala’alatoa talks about playing alongside Johnny Sexton at Leinster, and settling into a new environment.
Belarusian authorities arrested journalist Roman Protasevitch after the flight was forced to land in Minsk on 23 May 2021.
Lilly is to submit a planning application to Limerick City and County Council in the coming weeks.
The storm made landfall on Monday in Madagascar before ploughing into Mozambique and Malawi.
Search teams had earlier recovered five bodies from around 40 people who were on the boat before the operation was called off.
One man waiting nearly two months for his PPSN said the wait had left him financial difficulty.
French Ambassador Vincent Guérend spoke to The Journal about his country’s perspective on the Russian exercise.
“There is some rough, objectionable language in this book,” said a school board director.
The man was given a six-month prison sentence for assaulting his partner in a separate incident.
The announcement of a Scotland Yard investigation into some of the alleged parties has complicated the process.
The US President said a nomination like this is “long overdue”.
“It’s the jewel in the crown of the Defence Forces and it shouldn’t be touched in any way or form,” TD Cathal Berry said.
Imogen Cotter was out riding her bike in Spain when she was struck by a car that was overtaking another cyclist on the other side of the road.
Relatives of several of those shot half a century ago have expressed doubts that they will ever be able to secure convictions.
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
Here are a few options for weekend watching.
Kylie Murphy talks the development of the women’s game in Ireland, and where it has come from.
The woman claims that if transferred, she would be subject to inhuman and degrading treatment.
ALL THIS MONTH The Good Information Project has been focusing on gender equality, examining both the barriers facing women in Irish society and potential solutions.
In recent polling by The Good Information Project/Ireland Thinks, more than half of respondents said universal State-funded childcare should be a priority to achieve in terms of gender equality.
The topic was also discussed in our Open Newsroom event this week. MEP Frances Fitzgerald acknowledged how difficult it is for parents to combine work and family life.
“Ireland has made great strides in this area, but actually the only solution is to put far more money into it and to make it a universal service, accessible to all,” she said.
Hannah Deasy, Communications Director at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), suggested an expansion of the community childcare model could improve the situation for parents.
Our panelists have put forward a number of potential solutions – but should the State go even further than that?
We want to know what you think: Should there be a network of State-run childcare centres?
Poll Results:
This work is co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work is the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here.
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