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Monday 10 August, 2020
A new eight-team competition is set to see Ireland face Wales, England and Fiji.
The game’s governing body was due to hold a meeting of its council tomorrow.
A World Rugby meeting yesterday failed to find consensus on the long-term global calendar.
South Africa hope to have their professional teams back in action by August.
Sweeney did not rule out next year’s Lions tour of South Africa being rescheduled.
The two bodies have been in discussions during the lockdown.
Hannah Bowe of Esportif explains why rugby is on the ‘cusp of change.’
There’s plenty of sporting events on the horizon in 2019, including the Rugby World Cup and Euro 2020 qualifiers.
There’s so much on the horizon including a Winter Olympics, a World Cup and a Ryder Cup.
John Burke from Tipperary took top prize with his study of dolphins off the coast at Youghal.
A new calendar aims to start a conversation about mental health in the agricultural community.
And we’ve got all 12 months.
From 5k forest runs to duathlons and mud runs, here’s this week’s activity events calendar, county by county.
Twelve pictures of someone else’s baby, anyone?
We’ve seen the last of the NSFW cabin crew, according to the chief executive.
Wouldn’t expect anything less.
At least one of these will make an appearance this year.
Male and female players stripped off for a good cause.
Do you buy the calendar, or do you bypass it?
The calendars raised over €100,000 for a Polish children’s charity last year, but a Spanish consumers group wasn’t impressed with the ads for them.
Let TheJournal.ie distract you from the ‘serious’ news with one of life’s REAL dilemmas. (*not really)
Well, from the ‘making of’ video anyway.
Prisoner Cell Block HOT!
Here’s some proof…
Your pommel horse, X Factor, and Strictly-loving chum will thank you for this.
And it’s probably the last repeating date you’ll ever see.
…or so they’ve lead us to believe.
The annual calendar in aid of Bóthar excels itself this year with feather-dusting farmers and baths in a barrel.
This little Irish funny might brighten up your day…
The calendar was slammed as demeaning to women by a flight attendant who gained more than 10,000 signatures on a petition against the initiative.
ALTHOUGH WE ALL always feel more tired after a Bank Holiday Weekend, never fear: we’ve made it to Wednesday and the weekend’s not far away. Interesting, though: August 2010 has five Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays – which only happens once every 823 years.
IT’S A MONTH since the launch of the HSE’s new Covid-19 contact tracing app.
Since then, the app has had well over one million downloads, with the take-up rate heralded as being “the most successful launch” of the app anywhere in the world, said HSE CEO Paul Reid last month.
The app is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren’t family and friends, and uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you’ve been a close contact of someone who’s tested positive for the virus.
Users are encouraged to switch on their Bluetooth settings, and to check in with their symptoms every day. The bluetooth function means that users will be notified via the app if they have been a close contact of a confirmed case.
As cases begin to rise again – particularly in Kildare, Laois and Offaly – health officials fear that transmission could once again spread within the community.
Of the 174 cases reported yesterday, around 50 of them were reported outside of the three counties now under new restrictions.
With that in mind, we want to know: Are you still using the Covid-19 tracker app?
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