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Friday 28 January 2022
The need for affordable childcare has consistently been highlighted as an issue for working parents.
Gardaí will be at Donabate Beach today to try to speak with people who may have seen Bernadette on the day she went missing.
Former Crusaders prop Michael Ala’alatoa talks about playing alongside Johnny Sexton at Leinster, and settling into a new environment.
The Kremlin also sounded a grim note, saying it saw “little ground for optimism” in resolving the crisis.
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.
Liz Truss visited Northern Ireland today.
Critics and environmentalists say the wall will fail to stop migrants, but will harm one of Europe’s last pristine woodlands.
Listen in to hear behavioural scientist Pete Lunn and immunologist Christine Loscher give us the latest info and research on the reopening.
The Good Information Project’s lunchtime webinar looks at a challenges and solutions to issues such as childcare systems, representation of women in politics, and tackling gendered violence.
Ballot papers will be issued on 25 February and the poll will close at 11 am on 30 March.
The decision could be reassessed if the health situation changes, the authorities said.
The figures were announced today.
Labour health spokesperson Duncan Smith said the payment should be extended to include all workers in the disability sector.
Senator Mary Seery-Kearney said she has been in discussions with Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney about the issues.
A National Therapeutics Advisory Group will evaluate the use of this treatment in Ireland.
The biggest fight in the history of women’s boxing between the Irish icon and the Puerto Rican great will finally take place on 30 April in New York.
It will be published later this year.
National Broadband Ireland told an Oireachtas committee that issues have arisen with the rollout that are “beyond our direct control”.
Coveney was accused of undermining the Chief of Staff’s position.
The report found 227 children were exposed to risk of harm due to the doctor’s diagnosis and treatment of them.
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:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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