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Sunday 28 February 2021
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
Normal People is nominated for Best Limited Series, with star Daisy Edgar-Jones also securing a nomination.
At least six cases of the variant first detected in Manaus have been found in Britain.
“The problem is that a lot of this information is put up very quickly, a lot of this information is hidden.”
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Here’s what was said and who said what this week.
Protesters are demanding that the government of Aung San Suu Kyi be restored to power after being ousted.
Dr Ronan Glynn said that “since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Ireland last February, our lives have changed in ways we never thought possible”.
Daily cases in Northern Ireland have been mostly between 200 and 400 in recent weeks, but dropped today to 136.
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
Antoinette Cunningham said her organisation has had no operational guidance, instructions or details on this matter.
A Commission on the Defence Forces is due to deliver a report this year on challenges within the armed forces.
Gardaí say they are not looking for anyone else in relation to the deaths.
A statement from his family said Briggs died peacefully after a long illness.
Police arrested 55 of the city’s best-known pro-democracy campaigners last month.
Betty Nolan, 60, is missing from her home since yesterday afternoon.
Studies have shown that the past year of lockdowns and restrictions on day-to-day life has distorted our perception of time.
Gardaí attended to a report of a house party at Glenties Drive, Finglas shortly before midnight last night.
Mr Burns spent the majority of his career at RTÉ becoming head of news and later London Editor.
Representatives of Irish hauliers have said they are being held up for longer than they should because of French officials.
Mikhail Kennedy, who was 19 when he played in the English Championship, quit professional football last year.
Footage showed protesters in Yangon running away from police as they charged at them.
More than 25 years ago, an Irish consortium led by Eamon Dunphy tried to buy Wimbledon FC and move it to Dublin. Some of the key players recall the story, and wonder what Irish football might look like now had it happened.
Harris yesterday told RTÉ News that both far-right and far-left factions were involved in yesterday’s clashes which left several Gardaí injured.
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We asked, and you answered in your droves.
Maeve Higgins says Ireland’s home care assistants and other migrant workers perform a vital service and should be given proper immigration status.
A young woman claimed the politician asked her inappropriate questions about her sex life including whether she had ever had sex with older men.
J&J also is seeking authorisation for emergency use of its vaccine in Europe and from the World Health Organisation.
Ireland’s 48-10 victory yesterday was impressive but context is needed – Italy are a very poor side.
The callouts were spread more evenly across the north and south of the county compared to 2019.
The changes announced this week related to those with underlying health conditions.
Meath All-Ireland winner and Intermediate Player of the Year Vikki Wall speaks candidly about the regular verbal abuse she has been subjected to on the pitch.
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
Three gardaí were injured at the Dublin protest this afternoon, with one needing hospital treatment.
A careful, gradual reopening of our society will protect our communities.
The defeat all but ended reigning the champions’ hopes of a successful title defence.
STUDIES HAVE SHOWN that the past year of lockdowns and restrictions on day-to-day life has distorted our perception of time, but the experience isn’t uniform.
Dr Ruth Ogden, an academic specialising in experimental psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, seized 2020 as an unprecedented research opportunity and spoke to TheJournal.ie this week about her work – and why our perception of time may have changed.
Ogden has carried out three surveys to examine the pandemic’s impact on our sense of how much time is passing, two in the United Kingdom and one in Argentina (one is available here, while the others are under review).
The results were split uniformly: 20% of people felt as though time was passing at a normal speed, 40% felt it was passing faster, and 40% felt it was passing slower.
So today, we’re asking: Have you felt time go slower or faster during the pandemic?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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