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Wednesday 21 October 2020
The All Blacks scored four tries to bounce back after last week’s Bledisloe draw.
The New Zealand Prime Minister won a second term in office in a landslide.
No leader has achieved an outright majority since New Zealand adopted a proportional voting system in 1996.
‘All year we’ve been told that we can’t compete…’
It finished 16-16 between the sides at the end of an awesome contest.
New Zealand Rugby was up in arms when the initial schedule of the four-nation tournament was released.
Strict new coronavirus measures are now in effect – here’s what they mean for you.
What can Ireland learn from other countries as we enter the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic?
The NZ government have relaxed Covid restrictions to allow the Wallabies arrive for games on 11 and 18 October.
A man in his 50s died at an Auckland hospital.
The Auckland lockdown began on 12 August after four cases were detected in the city of 1.5 million.
The 23-year-old is part of the Otago set-up for the upcoming Kiwi competition.
Brenton Harrison Tarrant had pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder and terrorism.
“You have killed my son and to me that is as though you have killed the whole of New Zealand,” one man told Brenton Tarrant.
Victims described how their lives have been completely changed in the wake of the horrific events in March 2019.
The hotly-anticipated clash has been put back a week to 5 September.
Governing body SANZAAR insists it still has a part to play, even though Australia and New Zealand have left it out in the cold on discussions about Super Rugby’s future.
New Zealand’s best players will face off on 29 August.
“New Zealand’s nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States’ tens of thousands,” Jacinda Ardern said.
The New Zealand prime minister has put the election back to October.
The outbreak has spread beyond Auckland, health officials said today.
The surge in new cases raised the prospect that a three-day lockdown imposed in Auckland could be extended.
A three-day stay-at-home order for Auckland — a city of 1.5 million people — went into force today.
People in New Zealand’s largest city are being asked to stay at home again.
There are still 23 active cases but all were detected at the border.
The former lock passed away after a battle with cancer.
The 34-year-old switched codes to sign a lucrative two-year deal with Toronto Wolfpack late last year.
A radical revamp of Super Rugby is also under consideration.
Almost half of New Zealand’s top-flight players believe NZR had not made the right choice in appointing Ian Foster.
Jordie Barrett was the star as the Canes recorded their first win in Super Rugby Aotearoa.
David Clark broke lockdown rules and last week appeared to blame a trusted health official for border lapses.
The ex-All Blacks out-half has been released by the Super Rugby franchise.
Dan Leavy is now in the final stages of his running rehabilitation.
A second officer received serious injuries during the incident in Auckland.
A 24-day run with no new cases was broken yesterday when it emerged two women who recently arrived from Britain were allowed out of quarantine.
Both the new patients were recent arrivals from the United Kingdom, the health ministry said.
Captain John Hamilton is accused of killing indigenous Maori people in the 1860s.
Warren Gatland and Aaron Mauger have named their teams for the return of rugby union.
An open letter from a number of leading scientists and academics urged the government to prioritise crushing the virus.
The actions gets underway on Saturday with the Highlanders hosting the Chiefs.
Today marks the first time since late February there had been no active cases.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
What do you think: Should vegetarian foods be allowed use words like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’?
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