Hundreds of Muslims celebrate Eid in Croke Park today, for the second year in a row
Jack Power
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Jack Power
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- At the rate the banks are dipping out of the Irish market we’ll be left getting our mortgages from Revolut
- Are they going to legalise yokes again?Tánaiste @LeoVaradkar says to young people in Ireland "you've given up two years of your youth to help keep others safe," and added, "in 2022 we will do what we can to make it up to you." | More: bit.ly/3q8LCaG
00:00 - So in other news Peter Casey is now having a go on Twitter with a Luke Ming Flanagan parody account from 2013
- Some of the nearly 100 Irish doctors who returned from Perth today to help hospitals here fight the coronavirus. Absolute legends, full story up shortly on @IrishTimes
00:00 - Behind every number each evening is a person. We sadly said goodbye to my 92-year-old grandad Jim last week, who picked up the virus while in hospital. We are all in for a rough few weeks, so #StayHome to give our healthcare workers the best chance at fighting this surge
- Chants of Free, Free Palestine from the crowd of thousands gathered in Dublin
00:00 - A homeless father and son have been sleeping rough in tents a hundred yards from where Richard Bruton bared his abs in a viral Fine Gael video yesterday in Clontarf
- “You can stick your co-living up your arse” protesters chant at Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy at count centre
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- Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was speaking at a Cambridge University online talk when the power went out in north Dublin there, leaving him to tune back in as a shadowy figure on his phone...
- Interestingly, the Tánaiste’s department previously responded to an FOI request from myself and clearly stated there was no records of any texts between Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone about the Merrion event, which we now know was not the case
- Some people haven’t taken too kindly to the St Stephen’s Green bandstand being closed off..
00:00 - My best piece of Monk trivial is I used to serve him when I worked in a chipper in the inner city. His order was a regular burger with extra onions (€2.60)
