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Thursday 1 December 2022
When the clubs are full.
Tonight is expected to the busiest of the week as part of the city’s unofficial rag week.
Cork City Council wants on-campus bars to open later during Rag and Freshers weeks.
When the students of this country lose their entire minds.
Extra resources are being drafted in to deal with the anticipated large crowds.
Jason McNulty had travelled up to Galway with a group of friends.
Queues formed in the morning for the now annual “Donegal Tuesday” event in Galway city.
The tradition lives on.
A large crowd had gathered on John St.
Pat McDonagh says that students were “exemplary”.
The gardaí said the decision to close the ‘unofficial’ Rag Week night was made on the grounds of health and safety reasons.
RAG Week is a topic that has provokes strong emotions in recent weeks, but what is RAG all about? Where did RAG Week come from? What does the future hold for RAG? asks Daithí de Buitléir.
The President of the Student’s Union at NUI Galway, Paul Curley said he has been led to believe that none of the people arrested were from NUI.
Students must “endeavour to show respect” as residents complain of anti-social behaviour.
The Students’ Union council votes by 107 votes to 7 to scrap the event, in exchange for extra cash towards student hardship funds.
There are reports of dozens of students being arrested for public order offences as they celebrated ‘College Week’.
A new retail banking review has said the Government should preemptively legislate to ensure that cash continues to be accepted by certain sectors and businesses.
The review found that in Ireland, consumers are already being impacted by some businesses refusing to accept cash. These challenges range from minor issues such as the inability to purchase a coffee in a café, to being unable to seek insurance from some companies that do not accept cash.
Currently, Euro notes and coins have the status of legal tender in Ireland, meaning that retail transactions are governed by contract law. In the context of this, where a business places no restrictions on the means of payment it is prepared to accept, it must accept legal tender when offered by a customer.
However, if a business specifies in advance of a transaction that payment must be in a form other than cash, the customer cannot subsequently claim a legal right to pay in cash, even if that cash is legal tender. This can be achieved, for example, by displaying signs at the cash till and at the store entrance.
So, today we want to know… Should businesses be legally obliged to take cash?
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Employers will soon be required to pay their staff when too sick to work.
Polina Bashkina speaks to older Ukrainian people left to cope on the front lines of this war.
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