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Friday 21 January 2022
# UK
# Violence Against Women
Boris Johnson continues to encounter claims critics are facing ‘”intimidation” as part of an effort to keep him in office.
Kilmoyley, Banagher, Tooreen and Naas are the unlikely hurling quartet hoping to reach Croke Park.
The British Foreign Secretary will tell the Russian president he faces being drawn into a quagmire like the Soviet-era war in Afghanistan.
Adoption rights campaigner Claire McGettrick responds to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill.
The film’s editor Úna Ní Dhonghaile speaks about its long-awaited release.
The outvoted three liberal justices on the nation’s highest court penned a scathing dissent.
“Let there be no doubt at all, if Putin makes this choice, Russia will pay a heavy price,” the US president said.
Jota scored a goal in either half as Liverpool ran out 2-0 winners.
Gardaí appealed for witnesses to this collision to come forward.
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
NPHET met today to discuss Ireland’s Covid-19 measures.
Leo Varadkar said the government must lead on the issue.
In the letter, the committee chairman says Ivanka Trump was in direct contact with her father during key moments on January 6 2021.
Munster and Ireland wing Andrew Conway’s work-rate off the ball is exemplary.
Here are a few options for weekend watching.
Five crew members were left with significant injuries after the bomb exploded underwater 22 miles off the coast of Cromer in north Norfolk.
The crash took place in the middle of Phibsborough at approximately 2am.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested.
Environmental Protection Agency is seeking an injunction against Harte Peat Ltd to halt peat extraction in Westmeath.
Farmers are being compensated for the loss of the animals.
Click to listen to a GP, a paramedic, an emergency medicine consultant, and the head of an intensive care unit talk about how our hospitals are coping with the Omicron wave.
The recommendations on the transport of live animals were debated today in Strasbourg.
The research, commissioned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, found the project ‘would be impossible to justify’.
They include ending the legal requirement for Covid certification to enter some hospitality venues and the reopening of nightclubs.
Papers were filed by solicitors for McGinley in the High Court yesterday.
The latest figures were confirmed by health officials today.
For the vast bulk of workers within the State, a new public holiday will entitle them to an extra day’s paid leave.
These 5,000 homes will be delivered through ‘Project Tosaigh’ and will be on private land that is yet to be developed.
The report analyses how abuse cases were dealt with in the archdiocese of Munich and Freising between 1945 and 2019.
It reflects the scientists’ view that the world is no safer than it was this time last year.
The Tribeswomen were previously sponsored by Supermac’s.
The judge said there was no justifiable practical purpose for hearing a judicial review.
The Attorney General warned it could not be published in full.
William Wragg has urged MPs to report intimidation to the police.
The director general of the State broadcaster was appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts this morning.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the breach.
CABINET HAS APPROVED the publication of a new law that will give customers clear information on where their tips and service charges go and prohibit the use of tips to ‘make up’ contractual rates of pay.
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, brought forward by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, will provide clarity to workers on the meaning of tips, gratuities and service charges.
The new legislation will also place tips and gratuities, but not service charges, outside the scope of a person’s contractual wages, and will oblige employers to display prominently their policy on the distribution of both cash and card tips.
Employers will also be obliged to distribute fairly, equitably and in a transparent manner how tips that are received in electronic form – such as through debit, credit cards or smart phones.
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Adoption rights campaigner Claire McGettrick responds to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill.
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