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Wednesday 3 March 2021
Businesses that had to shut for most of 2020 are hoping for brighter days ahead in 2021.
‘In the second half, we showed what we were about,’ says Katie McCabe after German loss.
After her recent injury return, Ireland fullback Eimear Considine is relishing facing England.
‘The whole season hasn’t been the ideal set-up but I’m grateful to be out here and competing against the world’s best.’
Katie McCabe is thoroughly enjoying the fact that women’s football is riding the crest of a wave at the minute.
Conor McCormack feels Cork City have turned a corner after coming through a dismal run of form.
The controversial former British Olympian will face Shefat Isufi on the undercard of Warrington-Galahad at Wembley Arena.
The Minister was responding to a statement by BAM that suggested it would pull out of the contract if the Government wanted.
Ernesto Valverde’s side grabbed a point at the San Siro on Tuesday to book their place in the last sixteen.
‘Amazing,’ she said. ‘It has been a lot of hard work and realisng that it has paid off is crazy.’
An interesting move for the Cork native.
Kildare are into the Super 8s after they put 3-20 past Fermanagh in a superb display in Navan.
Dublin’s Michael Darragh Macauley put a frustrating, injury-hampered 2017 behind him with an impressive league campaign.
Meanwhile, the 1B play-off will be between Nenagh and Armagh.
The 42-year-old says he came through the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines unscathed.
Without getting carried away, South Africa’s abject performance shouldn’t take anything away from Ireland.
The Limerick champions will face Waterford’s Ballygunner in a repeat of the 2015 decider.
“It was weird with the announcement at the start of pre-season but it in no way has it affected our rugby.”
Dublin will now progress to the semi-final stage of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.
The ITF (International Tag Federation) Tri Nations tournament between Ireland, Britain and Australia is underway this weekend
Cricket Ireland will need assistance from the government as they look to improve facilities at Malahide.
The new league structure means Wexford FC have no hope of promotion. Manager Damien Locke says they must build for the future.
Business groups are calling on councillors to scrap changes that would limit the height of some city centre buildings.
Big Belgian’s strike on halftime proves difference as Reds advance with a game to spare.
Ireland can learn plenty from their talismanic captain.
“It was a probably a timely reminder of where we needed to be,” says the Ireland skipper.
The provinces helped each other out on a nail-biting last round of regular season fixtures.
This side aren’t afraid to go against the tide in order to receive greater recognition.
The sector is 7.7% bigger than this time last year, with most gains in commercial property.
Research from the Education and Skills Centre finds exam results since the DEIS school introduction have continually improved.
Merrion warns of deflation risk amid housing pickup.
Following an shock defeat for Joe Ward, Team Ireland are back on track at the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku.
THE NUMBER OF people in hospital with Covid-19 on Monday night fell to the lowest level since New Year’s Eve.
There were 494 patients in hospital at 8pm on Monday, the first time this number has fallen below 500 so far in 2021. It has also fallen significantly since a peak of 2,020 cases in mid-January.
Last night a further 359 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland, representing the lowest number of cases reported on a single day since mid-December.
On 23 February, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced the government’s new Living with Covid-19 plan and confirmed that the current public health restrictions will remain in place until 5 April, when a further review will be carried out.
Ahead of the unveiling of the plan, Minister Michael McGrath told RTÉ’s News at One that “there can be no fourth wave coming to Ireland”, adding that “what we are doing now, we need to make sure that we are doing for the last time”.
In the North, Stormont’s First Minister Arlene Foster last night vowed that Northern Ireland must never return to lockdown after a cautious plan to ease restrictions was published.
So, today we want to know… Do you think this will be Ireland’s last Level 5 lockdown?
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