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Thursday 4 March 2021
Fancy treating yourself to even more top-class sports coverage while simultaneously supporting The42?
Another busy week lies ahead…
It’s a sports journalism superspreading event.
We continue to provide our brand of independent Irish sports journalism in exchange for your valued support.
Get ready for another big week…
From The42
Get locked down with the Rugby Weekly cast.
We’d recommend ordering one of everything.
Join us, fellow sports consumers.
Melissa Reddy, Len Gaynor, newsletters, podcasts and more.
We’ve plenty of podcasts, newsletters and other great benefits to keep you off the streets.
The 28-year-old should still be available to feature for the national team in 2021.
Here’s this week’s substantial sports journalism meal.
We’ve failed to socially distance these podcasts and newsletters.
Sportswriting chat, GAA icons, a coaching masterclass and another journey through space and time.
Sam Smith will discuss covering Michael Jordan and the Bulls on tomorrow’s sportswriting podcast.
There’s plenty to keep you off the streets again over the coming days.
The acclaimed writer penned a piece especially for our supporters.
We’ve welcomed a huge number of new supporters over the past week.
The country is not out the woods though and its people are still feeling austerity.
Meanwhile, Terenure tore Young Munster apart to move top of the Division 1A table.
You don’t even have to leave the house to watch UCD take on St Mary’s tonight.
THE NUMBER OF people in hospital with Covid-19 on Monday night fell to the lowest level since New Year’s Eve.
There were 494 patients in hospital at 8pm on Monday, the first time this number has fallen below 500 so far in 2021. It has also fallen significantly since a peak of 2,020 cases in mid-January.
Last night a further 359 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland, representing the lowest number of cases reported on a single day since mid-December.
On 23 February, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced the government’s new Living with Covid-19 plan and confirmed that the current public health restrictions will remain in place until 5 April, when a further review will be carried out.
Ahead of the unveiling of the plan, Minister Michael McGrath told RTÉ’s News at One that “there can be no fourth wave coming to Ireland”, adding that “what we are doing now, we need to make sure that we are doing for the last time”.
In the North, Stormont’s First Minister Arlene Foster last night vowed that Northern Ireland must never return to lockdown after a cautious plan to ease restrictions was published.
So, today we want to know… Do you think this will be Ireland’s last Level 5 lockdown?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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