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# For auld lang syne

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Crowds gather in New Zealand and China for New Year celebrations - but a muted tone is struck elsewhere

In New York’s Times Square, the usual overflow crowd was replaced with a group of specially invited frontline workers.

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Jan 1st 2021, 7:48 AM

Crowd limits prompt cancellation of Dublin's New Year’s Festival

More than 100,000 people attended the three-day event last year.

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Sep 27th 2020, 5:29 PM