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Monday 26 October 2020
The well-travelled Cavan man was on form for Israeli side Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona last night.
Two Irish filmmakers travelled to Gaza to make a documentary about life there.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called it a “terrorist” attack and reinforcements have been sent.
RTÉ received dozens of emails in the days leading up to this year’s competition.
Rafi Peretz’s latest controversial comments came in a television interview on Saturday.
Israeli prime minister inaugurated the new settlement on Sunday.
The strange spectacle served as a distraction for Netanyahu who has failed to build a coalition and must hold another election.
Here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.
Parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself and setting elections for 17 September.
A total of 284,700 people watched Saturday’s final.
Eurovision fans are already blaming the Brexit factor for the UK’s dire showing.
Fine Gael voted against the Bill, which passed second stage in the Dáil this year.
Sarah McTernan represented her country in this evening’s semi-final.
The demonstrations came two weeks after a ceasefire was announced in the region.
GCC passed a motion last night calling on RTÉ not to broadcast the contest.
You can show solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom against Israeli apartheid, occupation and war crimes by supporting the boycott, writes Zoe Lawlor.
They pretend that the Jewish people have no right to live in the places where they were born and where their history, religion and culture are deeply rooted, writes the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Ophir Kariv.
At least 23 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed.
Tánaiste Simon Coveney called for an end to the ‘indiscriminate attacks’.
The Hamas rocket launches come as tensions in the region have ratcheted upwards.
There have been widespread calls for a boycott of this year’s event both in Ireland and abroad.
The craft suffered an engine failure when it was preparing to land this evening.
The move came as a result of multiple lawsuits being filed by hosts against the company.
The win would likely see ‘Bibi’ become the longest-serving leader of the country.
Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday.
Sligo County Council has previously voted to fly the Palestinian flag from Council Officers for a month in 2017, as well as voting to support a bill to ban goods from Israeli settlements in 2018.
He was hit in the head by shrapnel.
Israel deployed several thousand troops along the border, with the anniversary coming at a sensitive time ahead of its 9 April elections.
“Our response was very powerful, very very powerful,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The move breaks with decades of international consensus against Israel’s claims.
The property was located in around 20km north of Tel Aviv.
His comments come in the wake of renewed calls for RTÉ to sit out this year’s contest.
Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967.
The protest follows this morning’s announcement that Sarah McTernan will represent Ireland at this year’s contest.
Sarah McTernan came third in The Voice of Ireland in 2015.
The claims have echoes of those against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.
‘At first, I hated shooting school children with rubber-coated bullets … but after a few months in Hebron, we would high-five each other every time we hit one’, writes Dean Issacharoff.
The Israeli prime minister’s office has said that he was “misquoted” in the article, and said that he meant individual Poles.
The government lost by 75 votes to 45 votes, with three abstentions.
Government is likely to lose vote over legislation that would prohibit the purchase of goods or services produced in all settlements deemed illegal.
THERE ARE 59 shopping days until Christmas.
Most retailers across the country will be closed until 1 December, losing out on some vital festive shopping business.
Many are depending on customers shifting to online sales during that time.
So we want to know: Will you do more of your Christmas shopping online this year?
Poll Results:
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