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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
#RIP: Australian writer and broadcaster Clive James has died at the age of 80.
#CORBYN: UK’s Labour Party has accused the Conservatives of negotiating a secret trade deal with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.
#COMMISSION: The European Parliament has voted to approve the new European Commission.
#BUZZFEED: US motivational speaker Tony Robbins is taking legal action against news site Buzzfeed in the Irish courts over a series of articles about his alleged behaviour.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched an online banking app today – and called it Bó which is the Irish word for ‘cow’.
The bank does not acknowledge the Irish translation in its statement about the new app, but it goes into detail about the fada on the o, which is the accent used as Gaeilge to elongate vowel sounds.
RBS says that ‘Bó’ is pronounced “the same way you would go, low, yo, mow, row, dough! It’s the fada (the acute accent) over the o that turns the ‘o’ into an ‘oh’ sound”.
“So we’re Bó or Bo. We’re most definitely not BO.”
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