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# civil-war - Sunday 21 June, 2020
'People die in a surprisingly short amount of time': Call for urgent intervention as war-torn Yemen battles Covid-19
Experts have warned that Yemen’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse.
# civil-war - Thursday 5 December, 2019
Tributes to Professor Séamus Lawless, who died on Mt Everest, as project to restore Four Courts documents launched
Historical records destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War have been restored digitally.
# civil-war - Friday 26 July, 2019
Civil War grenade found in Malahide and made safe
An Army Bomb Disposal Team arrived at the scene shortly after noon today.
# civil-war - Saturday 23 February, 2019
'Volunteers were sent for the coffins': New docs reveal IRA activities during War of Independence
The Brigade Activity Files are the latest release by the Military Service Pensions Collection.
# civil-war - Friday 25 January, 2019
Venezuela wants to 'avoid civil war' as US removes staff from country
US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself ‘acting president’.
# civil-war - Saturday 29 December, 2018
Government urged to apologise for the at least 77 executed by Free State during Civil War
In the Dáil in 2011, Leo Varadkar said those executed without trial during this time period were “murdered”.
# civil-war - Friday 28 December, 2018
Fancy researching your family history from the revolutionary period? This is a good place to start...
Did you have a family member who fought in the Civil War or War of Independence?
# civil-war - Monday 15 October, 2018
Explainer: 13 million people are facing starvation in Yemen. Why?
Six years of near-constant fighting in the Gulf state have brought the already-impoverished country to its knees.
# civil-war - Saturday 22 September, 2018
'He's the only assistant who gets this much publicity. It’s bonkers' - Mick McCarthy on Saipan and Roy Keane
And the former Ireland boss admits he knew the Saipan pitch was ‘shite’.
# civil-war - Sunday 15 July, 2018
In memory of my Mother: football, family and finding comfort in the past
After his Mum passed away, Eoin O’Callaghan began to look into his grandfather’s football career in 1920s Cork.
# civil-war - Saturday 9 June, 2018
Simon Coveney in Jordan: '80,000 live in Zaatari refugee camp. That's the same population as Galway City'
‘Children are growing up in Zaatari refugee camp having never known any other home,’ writes Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney.
# civil-war - Saturday 31 March, 2018
Daniel was on the side of the Trócaire box six years ago - now, he wants to be a doctor
Here’s how Irish donations have helped one family get back on their feet.
# civil-war - Sunday 11 March, 2018
A Civil War mortar shell was found in a tree in Co Kildare
The munition was found in Ballymore Eustace.
# civil-war - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
'We have two options: death or displacement'
Air strikes, barrel bombs dropped by regime aircraft and heavy artillery shelling have turned several towns in Eastern Ghouta into fields of ruins.
# civil-war - Sunday 12 November, 2017
Wounded Syrians are arriving in Israel on donkeys, desperate for treatment
Israel and Syria are officially at war, but wounded people are seeking care in the Golan Heights.
# civil-war - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
Fish and chips meets Black and Tans: Details revealed of Leo Burdock's IRA service
The new documents also reveal his involvement in the Civil War on the Anti-Treaty side.
# civil-war - Wednesday 6 September, 2017
Member of Syrian White Helmets to receive Tipperary Peace Prize today
The group is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives in war-ravaged Syria.
# civil-war - Monday 21 August, 2017
Confederate statues removed in dead of night from Texas campus
The statues were moved at night for safety reasons, a spokesperson for the University of Texas said.
# civil-war - Thursday 10 August, 2017
At least 56 people die after human traffickers force 300 off boats and into the sea
The migrants were being smuggled from Africa to Yemen.
# civil-war - Friday 21 July, 2017
The world's largest ever outbreak of cholera looks like it's about to get even worse
Yemen’s rainy season could accelerate the outbreak, agencies have warned.
# civil-war - Sunday 2 July, 2017
Suicide bomber kills 18 after car chase in Damascus
It’s the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months.
# civil-war - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
Macron tells Marine Le Pen her election would lead to a French 'civil war'
Tonight’s final debate between Le Pen and presidential rival Emmanuel Macron was a spiteful affair.
# civil-war - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Ireland pledges €2 million to 'forgotten humanitarian crisis' in Yemen
Almost 19 million Yemenis require humanitarian support, said Minister Charlie Flanagan.
# civil-war - Saturday 17 December, 2016
Desperate civilians wait for evacuations from Aleppo
The Red Cross pleaded for a deal to “save thousands of lives”
# civil-war - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
Colombia's government will sign a new peace deal this week
The new, revised accord will be submitted to Congress for approval, after the last one was rejected in a referendum.
# civil-war - Saturday 15 October, 2016
Syria's heroes: the volunteers who run towards the bombing
“To save one life is to save all of humanity”.
# civil-war - Friday 7 October, 2016
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the President of Colombia
Juan Manuel Santos has won for his efforts to broker a civil war peace deal.
# civil-war - Thursday 29 September, 2016
German woman kidnapped in Syria while pregnant has been released with her baby
The pair were released yesterday and had safely crossed the border into Turkey, a ministry spokeswoman said.
# civil-war - Sunday 18 September, 2016
Divorces and multiple marriages - the other issues in the Syrian civil war
According to official figures, polygamous relationships accounted for 30% of marriages registered in Damascus in 2015, up from just 5% in 2010.
# civil-war - Wednesday 7 September, 2016
Warplanes have dropped suspected chlorine bombs on a crowded neighbourhood in Aleppo
At least 71 people were hospitalised after the attack, with 10 in critical condition.
# civil-war - Thursday 23 June, 2016
The longest-running war in the world comes to an end today
Colombia and FARC rebels have agreed a peace deal.
# civil-war - Monday 18 April, 2016
Irishman Joshua Molloy became foreign fighter in Syria after seeing Isis atrocities
The 24-year-old is currently being held by Kurdish authorities.
# civil-war - Monday 28 March, 2016
The man who lived: How one convicted murderer escaped Ireland's death penalty
Patrick Aylward, 63, was accused of burning a young child to death.
# civil-war - Wednesday 17 February, 2016
Aid will finally reach 500,000 besieged Syrians today but peace is a long way off
Almost half a million people in Syria are in areas under siege.
# civil-war - Saturday 6 February, 2016
Tens of thousands flee for Turkish border amid Russia-backed onslaught on Aleppo
Turkey last faced such an influx in 2014 when 200,000 refugees fled the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane over three days.
# civil-war - Sunday 31 January, 2016
'When a working class person writes, you're asked: Is it like Roddy Doyle?'
Emmet Kirwan spoke to us about his role in Juno and the Paycock.
# civil-war - Friday 18 December, 2015
The UN Security Council has backed a US-Russian plan for peace in Syria
The US and Moscow are ‘agreeing to disagree’ on the fate of Bashar al-Assad.
# civil-war - Saturday 12 December, 2015
ISIS have taken their oil, so Syria has put a tax on shwarmas to pay for the civil war
The country’s oil revenues have imploded.
# civil-war - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
The case for war: Reasons for and against bombing Islamic State in Syria
MPs will vote on airstrikes today.
# civil-war - Tuesday 3 November, 2015
Joe Duffy: 'It's only a matter of time before all this stuff comes back to bite him in the ass'
The UFC lightweight is putting his Dublin nightmare behind him.
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THE HSE HAS unveiled their new Covid-19 tracing app, with it becoming available to download from app stores last night.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly called the new app “a powerful tool” that’ll be used to help health authorities track down close contacts of people with Covid-19.
According to registrations within the tracing app, over 200,000 people have already downloaded the app, with over 120,000 people checking in so far.
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View from a teacher: No, we have not been 'sitting at home on full pay' in lockdown
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Our family law courts are not fit for purpose and we owe it to children to address this now
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