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Thursday 26 November 2020
The enormous baleen whale had been dead for about two weeks. How it died is a mystery however.
Doubts have been raised about their story.
Walking, running, bussing, sitting. There’s something here for everyone.
The cow survived by basically eating everything on the island
It was just too much.
And we thought that only happened in the movies.
However, he is said to be in ‘remarkable physical shape’.
Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he thought about suicide during his 13 months adrift in the Pacific.
Jose Ivan said he had set sail from Mexico on Christmas Eve, 2012.
The man washed up on Thursday and said he has been floating in the Pacific since September 2012.
January is (finally!) over. Here are the nine things you need to know as your weekend – and February – begins.
AMAs are like a box of chocolates…
John McManus told TheJournal.ie that there doesn’t have to be a romantic element to the relationship “but it’d be nice to have a love interest”.
Asked what he wanted after his four months floating away, the Kiribati fisherman said: “Smoke.”
The Panamanian fisherman watched his two companions die after a US cruise liner sailed past their distressed vessel in the middle of the Pacific and failed to stop.
Visual artist Fergal McCarthy has this afternoon taken up residence on a man-made tropical island in the middle of the Liffey in Dublin city centre…
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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