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Tuesday 3 August 2021
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Freshly released reports also found that prisoners are not being provided with sufficient meaningful human contact.
Head coach Warren Gatland has explained his selection decisions for the third Test.
There’s a clear economic interest in the State allowing the resumption of economically productive indoor activities, writes Dr Donal Coffey.
The walrus was spotted lounging on rocks off Valentia Island in March. Now he’s at Clonea Strand.
Gardaí have said they are investigating whether the driver may have suffered a medical emergency.
The ship has been identified as the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess.
Subway services were temporarily suspended and buses headed to the station were diverted to other stops.
The state’s attorney general Letitia James announced the findings of an independent investigation into allegations against Cuomo.
Ireland’s history-making siblings: Aidan Walsh says his bronze medal is shared with his sister, Michaela.
The latest figures were announced by the Department of Health this evening.
Daniel Murtagh (34) has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.
The jury has been deliberating since Thursday morning.
The Taoiseach said the deal was “fantastic news and a welcome boost to our roll-out”.
The initiative comes as the youngest age groups have proven the slowest in Northern Ireland to take up the vaccine.
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from France in 2018 as a recent anti-restrictions protest.
Vitaly Shishov ran an NGO that helped his compatriots flee repression in Belarus.
Charlie McConalogue asked people to follow the public health guidelines and to hold off on hosting the ceremonies.
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya plans to fly to Poland later in the week.
Minister of State for Agriculture Pippa Hackett writes that the future for farming in Ireland should see increased incomes and decreased emissions.
Ali Price, Liam Williams, Josh Adams, Ken Owens, and Wyn Jones all start too.
DJ and music writer Niall Byrne (Nialler9) says a roadmap for live music is badly needed – to give people work, and hope.
The American was back competing after withdrawing early in the women’s team final last week, citing a desire to protect her mental health.
Single-use cups are to be hit with a levy in the coming months.
The fee could be introduced later this year or early next year.
The claimants say they suffered serious physical and psychological injuries as a result of the incident.
Colleges will implement sanitation and ventilation measures, as well as occupancy limits in certain locations.
The city has reported its first local infections in more than a year.
The child’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
“This initiative makes us beyond proud of younger people,” Paul Reid said.
Gardaí in Portlaoise are investigating yesterday’s fatal collision.
The Work Placement Experience Programme is bad for all workers , writes Paul Murphy TD.
The report argues that the “sudden rush” for ‘net zero’ promises are over-relying on planting trees to remove greenhouse gases.
Here’s what you missed while you were sleeping…
The Dubliner was too strong for Algeria’s Imane Khelif.
‘Effectively, what we give back to the game is 20 goals that would have been disallowed last season by using quite forensic scrutiny,’ said referees chief Mike Riley.
As the Olympics are set in the colourful, animated capital of Tokyo, let’s test your knowledge of Japan’s ‘soft’ cultural power.
A LEVY ON disposable coffee cups looks set to be introduced later this year or early next year.
Precise details of the long-mooted ‘latte levy’ will be published at a later date, however, previous plans indicated that the levy would likely be up to 25 cent.
Ossian Smyth, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communication, said the introduction of this environmental levy is “not primarily intended as a revenue-raising measure, but rather as a means of incentivising increased use of affordable reusable alternatives to disposable coffee cups”.
‘Keep cups’ are reusable receptacles that people bring to cafés to be filled up with coffee or other drinks and are designed to reduce waste. But do you use them?
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