#ROOF COLLAPSE: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said an arrest has been made after a fire completely destroyed the country’s national parliament building.
#KOREA: An unidentified person entered North Korea from South Korea on New Year’s Day, the military in Seoul said today, a rare breach of the heavily fortified border between the two neighbours.
#COLORADO: Three people are missing and at least 991 homes are thought to have been destroyed in wildfires in the US state of Colorado.
PARTING SHOT:
“While often underrated,” writes The Journal’s Christina Finn, “independent TD Catherine Connolly packs a punch where she knows how – grilling witnesses in committee, calling for accountability when it comes to the mismanagement of State funding, calling out the mistreatment of others, and giving the Taoiseach and Tánaiste a dressing down in the Dáil from time to time.”
In this wide-ranging interview, the Leas Ceann Comhairle — who is rarely out front and centre in the media, Finn writes — touches on some of her biggest concerns heading into 2022.
One of those concerns, Connolly says, is the lack of democratic oversight of the Government’s wide-ranging Covid-19 emergency powers, which have been extended to 31 March.
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