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Friday 4 December 2020
In the World Cups that were contested on the streets, if you weren’t Maradona, you were no one.
Dr Ryan said he doesn’t “envy” the Irish government and there are “no easy answers”.
Here’s what’s making headlines this morning.
Ski slopes could be shut until 10 January.
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A judge refused the actor permission to appeal against his ruling, but Depp can still apply directly to the Court of Appeal.
The Reds were beaten at home by an Atalanta side they defeated 5-0 in Italy three weeks ago.
Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI over his Russian contacts.
Maradona embodied so much of his people and his country that he elevated football to beyond just a game and the World Cup to a level it will perhaps never again reach.
Baroness Sugg, whose brief included sustainable development, said promises should be kept in the ‘tough times as well as the good’.
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The football icon has passed away at the age of 60.
The object was discovered by local officials who were counting sheep from a helicopter.
The macabre phenomenon was observed at an improvised mass grave in a military training field
The car had the slogan ‘You damned murderers of children and old people’ painted on the other side.
Markle said in an article for the New York Times that she lost her second child in July.
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Here’s what’s making headlines this morning.
Bobbi Sternheim told a Manhattan judge that Maxwell is awoken every 15 minutes to ensure she is breathing.
The suspect was known to police and had recently been investigated.
Biden told reporters yesterday that he did not want to see “a guarded border”.
France’s infection rate per 100,000 people is now less than a third of what it was at the start of November.
Joe Biden said that his team would ’embody my core beliefs that America is strongest when it works with its allies’.
Pat Finucane’s widow Geraldine and son John met the Taoiseach yesterday.
Donald Trump has acknowledged it is time for the General Services Administration to “do what needs to be done”.
Police have launched an investigation and notified Interpol.
Andy Mitten grants an insight into how Alex Ferguson operated on the latest episode of Behind the Lines.
The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill will introduce a legal right of free access to items such as tampons in public buildings.
Some experts say the mission could pave the way for a crewed lunar mission.
It edged out other finalist words “pandemic” and “lockdown”.
Public health officials have pleaded with Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving or spend the holiday with people from outside their household.
“There’s lower risk or higher risk – but there is a risk,” Maria Van Kerkhove said.
The expected nomination of the former secretary of state is the latest of Mr Biden’s key picks for national security and foreign policy roles.
The trial will resume on Thursday.
The British Prime Minister said today that the previous regime of restrictions did not do enough to tackle the virus.
The former head of state walked out of an inquiry investigating alleged corruption.
The UK’s post-Brexit transitionary period ends on 31 December.
The vaccine has been developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
Pat Quinn helped raise millions of dollars to help others with motor neurone disease.
Trump’s latest legal setback came when a Pennsylvania court threw out his fraud claims in a scathing judgment.
The name of the suspect has not been released, and authorities did not announce any charges.
It comes amid work within the UK to allow people to meet in a “careful and limited way” over Christmas.
An FAI statement confirmed that the Republic of Ireland manager has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
THIS YEAR HAS given us a lot of unexpected things, but one of the bigger cultural changes of 2020 has been the wide-scale move to working from home.
Writing in TheJournal.ie today, Arlene Vithaldas of the UCC Academy argues that it’s time for society to change its view of a workplace that includes commuting to offices.
Some people have found that working from home has given them more time, because they don’t have to commute both ways or end up getting stuck in the office after hours.
However, others miss the collaborative nature and social aspect of being in the office, as well as the chance to regularly be in urban centres where offices tend to be located.
Today we’re asking: Do you enjoy working remotely?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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