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# Leap Day

This year
2024
The Covid leap day: Experts look back on 2020 and ahead to 2028
The first case of Covid was reported in Ireland on 29 February 2020.
All time
The year the government gave a 'special welcome' of €100 to every baby born on 29 February
There was a mortifying proposal rejection on stage at Adele in Belfast last night
Gardaí in Naas have issued a gas leap day proposal warning for single Irish men
What are the odds: Mother and child both born on leap day