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# leap year

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February 2024
The Covid leap day: Experts look back on 2020 and ahead to 2028
The first case of Covid was reported in Ireland on 29 February 2020.
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The year the government gave a 'special welcome' of €100 to every baby born on 29 February
Quiz: Are these real or fake Leap Year traditions?
The Irish For: Time for two Irish romantic traditions - Leap Year proposals and the Skellig Lists
19 frankly preposterous things that happen in Leap Year
Debt advisers slammed as 'penny pinching misers' after docking workers' Leap Year pay
10 times Hollywood got Ireland all wrong
7 things you should do with your extra day this Leap Year
We're getting an extra second this year, but don't jump for joy just yet...
10 of the biggest crimes Leap Year commits against Irish culture
What are the odds: Mother and child both born on leap day
Open thread: Should a woman propose marriage today?
Happy Leap Year: 'Today is my uncle's 21st. He's 84.'