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Thursday 5 August 2021
The Brazil president has long criticised electronic voting, introduced in Brazil in 1996.
Catch up on all you missed overnight from the Olympic Games.
“We cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it,” the WHO chief said.
Harrington faced Thai opponent Sudaporn Seesondee.
The Department has said work will be progressed this autumn.
The garda was told that, due to his failure to pass a physical test, his services were being dispensed with.
CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland Adrian Cummins has called for the limit on closing times to end from September onwards.
Team Ireland track cyclist Shannon McCurley’s Road to Tokyo hasn’t exactly been straightforward.
It is the largest amount ever paid for a ram in Ireland.
A defence barrister said the actions of suspect ‘YZ’ are “suspicious” but do not lead to the conclusion he tortured Kevin Lunney.
Jack Conan, Tadhg Furlong, and Robbie Henshaw have been named to start all three Tests.
The era of the EU spending billions on Irish roads is over – instead, the focus is on a standardised Europe-wide transport network.
At least 214 people were killed in the blast in Lebanon’s capital.
The IOC has received a report from Belarus’s Olympic committee, which is “being evaluated.”
The event’s promoter had said earlier this week he was confident it could go ahead.
There has been a total of 5,044 deaths related to Covid-19 in Ireland.
The driver of the bus was also killed in the crash on the Strand Road in Monkstown yesterday.
It comes in the wake of reports that former Minister Katherine Zappone held a large social event outdoors at Dublin’s Merrion Hotel.
The two-term US president’s birthday is on Wednesday and had reportedly invited hundreds of celebrities and politicos to celebrate this weekend.
The incident happened at the family home in Kanturk on 26 October 2020, following a dispute over the inheritance of a farm.
Locailsed flooding and hazardous driving conditions have been forecast.
Dermot Farrell claimed the Government’s Covid-19 measures were “discriminatory” to the Catholic Church.
Lukashenko has been cracking down on opponents since protests erupted last year following ‘unfair’ elections.
O’Connor and Kilkenny finish joint-seventh in Wednesday’s individual final.
Hoops head coach Stephen Bradley reveals 22-year-old defender might not be destined for Celtic Park after record €600,000 bid.
Calvin Gilchrist died after he collided with other vehicles while on his motorcycle.
Emerald Airlines plans to hire over 400 new staff members as it adds additional aircraft to its fleet.
The charges – in place in London for almost 20 years – are intended to discourage people from driving in city centres.
The Royal Navy’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said the incident was ‘complete’
China is battling its largest outbreak in months by testing entire cities and locking down millions.
A report said the public health team became the “de facto decision maker” rather than simply an adviser to government.
“I think he should resign,” US President Joe Biden told reporters.
The law to break up the Irish Aviation Authority is currently before the Seanad.
Bohemians manager Keith Long hails his players for savouring ‘the time of their lives’ after first-leg win over PAOK but expresses frustration at lack of TV coverage.
Catch up on all you missed overnight from the Olympic Games.
LAST WEEK, THE Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee recommended that the Government examine the introduction of congestion charges to help pay for the cost of climate change.
In 2003, London introduced a £5 levy for driving into a relatively small area of central London between 7am and 6.30pm on weekdays, with exemptions for taxis, emergency vehicles and people living inside the zone.
Aside from some supposedly temporary pandemic tightening, the scheme remains the same in its essentials today and is widely hailed as a success.
Pete Lunn, head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute, said it is “incontrovertible” that these charges are an effective way to reduce congestion.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland bring in congestion charges?
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