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Saturday 5 December 2020
Volunteers spend time with sick children in hospital, doing crafts, reading to them or playing games with them.
In this wintry weather, even the smallest helping hand could have made a difference.
The hosts had to battle back after Marc Albrighton opened the scoring for Leicester.
The rail line has already been delayed for more than a decade.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he hopes to expand the subsidy scheme to more families in the future.
St Patrick’s Athletic claimed a 1-0 win over Drogheda United on the road tonight.
William Hanbury-Tenison walked the full length of the border counties earlier in the year.
From Monday, 20 stores will be subject to industrial action.
Up to 15 stores could be affected by the strike action next week, with more ballots due tonight.
The funding injection was announced at the association’s AGM.
The supermarket giant had its first quarterly UK sales growth in three years.
It’s the second time this year the retailer has taken the crown from Tesco.
The retailer is promising to automatically reduce the price of branded goods against other leading supermarkets.
Back to school was good for Tesco.
Lovely people all round. :)
Tesco was the only chain to see sales drop.
The store doesn’t even exist.
Crosscare are looking for food donations as demand increases ahead of Christmas.
The Trócaire Lenten campaign is in its 41st year.
The Christmas Bonus will be reintroduced this year – one of two increases in the area of social welfare announced in today’s Budget.
Talks are over voluntary redundancy or redeployment of staff.
The account hurled abuse at Tesco customers.
Foodcloud enables businesses to donate their excess food to charity.
Last week Childline said its service deals not just with abuse children, but with children who are worried about the recession and how it’s impacted on their families.
Researchers will take swabs from willing volunteers on Tuesday to help in a study looking at cell mutations.
Mír gan choinne sa cheantar mála.
The finance minister gives his formal tip-of-the-hat to the news that the two European bailout funds are delaying repayments.
The Irish actor Colin Farrell dropped in with presents to spend time with some of the young patients yesterday.
Mirad Hadziahmetovic isn’t expected to win the election in Zenica, Bosnia – but wants people to vote for him based on his PR strategy.
The recovery of the money relates to funding provided that was unduly spent and is part of a wider recouping of nearly €55m from many EU member states.
The giant retailer has conceded that it cannot build a “scalable business” in Japan and has announced it is selling up.
The cut was in response to a fall in global oil prices.
Tesco says more jobs will be created as a result of the construction of new stores.
The announcement has come from data analytics firm Nathean Technologies
Andrea O’Reilly is claiming the lotto ticket but Tesco wants to donate the money to charity and a High Court battle is now set to take place.
THIS WEEKEND MARKS the first Saturday and Sunday since six weeks of Level 5 restrictions across the country ended on 1 December.
Many will use the occasion to socialise and see people whom they haven’t been able to meet since October, particularly after the re-opening of pubs and restaurants yesterday.
Others have already used the days since the return to Level 3 on Tuesday to meet people.
However, public health officials are still urging the public to limit their social contacts in order to prevent another rise in cases over the festive period.
Today we’re asking: Has your number of social contacts increased since the end of Level 5 restrictions?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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