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# protest - Saturday 29 February, 2020
Bizarre scenes as Bayern and Hoffenheim play keep-ball for 10 minutes in response to offensive banner
The Bundesliga game was halted three times due to an offensive banner.
# protest - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
Dutch farmers bring tractors into city in protest over planned emissions policy
The demonstration comes a day before a debate in parliament on how to rein in emissions of the pollutant nitrogen oxide.
# protest - Sunday 16 February, 2020
Porto striker walks off pitch after monkey chants
Moussa Marega was targeted by some fans in a stormy Portuguese league game at Vitoria Guimaeres on Sunday.
# protest - Saturday 15 February, 2020
Extinction Rebellion activists anger motorists as traffic blocked in London Fashion Week protest
A taxi driver shouted “Just f****** move” to a samba band which stood in front of cars playing music.
# protest - Friday 14 February, 2020
'We've been waiting for 12 years': Hundreds of Community Employment supervisors strike over pension rights
They want the incoming government to implement a Labour Court recommendation issued in 2008 that a pension scheme be put in place for them.
# protest - Friday 7 February, 2020
'We're the ones who will suffer': Secondary school students stage climate change protest
Gardaí had said they would not sanction the protest but it went ahead anyway this afternoon.
# protest - Wednesday 5 February, 2020
'This is huge': Thousands of childcare protesters march across Dublin city
The Early Years Alliance said the crisis was caused by the government’s “chronic under-investment” in the industry.
# protest - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
Opinion: We don’t want the crumbs from the table – childcare is in crisis and we need support
Cut the bureaucracy and fund childcare properly, writes crèche operator Margaret Connell.
# protest - Thursday 30 January, 2020
Zappone reverses funding cut for creches on day of protest action next week
Creche owners had been told the department will not fund an alternative day to make up time for the protest.
# protest - Wednesday 29 January, 2020
High Court asked to lift injunction limiting extent of greyhound racing protest
Late last year the operators of Shelbourne Park, Greyhound Stadium Ltd, secured the temporary injunction.
# protest - Thursday 16 January, 2020
Garda receives minor injuries after being struck with moving vehicle during farmer protest
The vehicle involved is understood not to have been a tractor. No arrests have been made.
# protest - Wednesday 15 January, 2020
Farmers warn of further 'civil disobedience' as dozens of tractors shut down busy Dublin streets
It follows a similar protest in November when dozens of farmers also arrived on tractors.
# protest - Wednesday 1 January, 2020
Tens of thousands march in Hong Kong pro-democracy rally after police use tear gas in clashes
The city has been battered by nearly seven months of unrest, which was sparked by a proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China.
# protest - Friday 27 December, 2019
Paul Pogba launches own anti-racism protest
The France international was subjected to abuse on social media at the start of the season.
# protest - Monday 9 December, 2019
IFA staging blockade outside Tesco distribution centre in Dublin
The latest blockade is part of the ongoing farmer campaign for an increase in beef prices.
# protest - Friday 6 December, 2019
'No more hostels, build more homes': Aungier Street reopens after housing protest
Demonstrators held signs bearing slogans like “homes not hostels”, and “children first”.
# protest - Thursday 5 December, 2019
'Shame on Leo': Thousands march through Dublin and Cork against homelessness
Protesters called on the government to do more to tackle homelessness.
# protest - Tuesday 3 December, 2019
Opinion: 'Hong Kong people are more tolerant of radical protest because of guilt - not anger'
Dr Chung Kam Kwok, a Research Fellow at Trinity College, gives some background to the violent protests seen in 2019 and asks what’s next for the territory.
# protest - Wednesday 27 November, 2019
Farmers have begun to leave tractor protest in Dublin city centre
Traffic disruption was experienced today due to the ongoing protest.
# protest - Sunday 24 November, 2019
Hong Kong voters wait in hundred metre-long queues to cast their ballot in elections
One-third of registered voters had cast their ballot in the first five hours.
# protest - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
Cyclists stage 'die in' outside the Dáil in second day of protest
Yesterday, cyclists staged a similar protest outside the Dublin City Council offices.
# protest - Monday 4 November, 2019
Protesters plan 'bikini & shorts' protest over Taoiseach 'positive' climate change remarks
Varadkar said one of the benefits to climate change is warmer winters.
# protest - Monday 14 October, 2019
Farmers block industry representatives from entering first taskforce meeting
A newly established beef task force was due to meet this morning to examine the future of the beef industry in Ireland.
# protest - Saturday 12 October, 2019
Kurdish people in Ireland and Europe protest against Turkey's Syria offensive
Kurdish people in Dublin held a rally on O’Connell Street outside the GPO.
# protest - Thursday 10 October, 2019
Cyclists blocking traffic in Dublin city as part of climate change protest
The demonstration has been organised in support of Extinction Rebellion.
# protest - Tuesday 8 October, 2019
Extinction Rebellion protesters moved by gardaí during sit-in outside Dáil
The demonstration is part of a week-long protest by the group.
# protest - Monday 7 October, 2019
276 people arrested during Extinction Rebellion protests in London
Climate protests were held in cities around the globe today.
'We're not going to stop': Extinction Rebellion activists begin week-long protest
Thousands of people joined the protest, before activists made camp in Merrion Square.
# protest - Thursday 3 October, 2019
Four climate protestors arrested after spraying fake blood on UK Treasury building
The environmental campaign group said 1,800 litres of fake blood was used.
# protest - Sunday 29 September, 2019
Flanagan said there is 'no threat' to local communities from Direct Provision
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan was speaking to RTÉ One’s The Week in Politics this afternoon.
Hundreds of laid-off Wrightbus workers protest outside church over donations
Wrightbus went into administration last week with the loss of 1,200 jobs.
# protest - Saturday 28 September, 2019
Thousands protest in London against ‘Soldier F’ prosecution over Bloody Sunday deaths
Soldier F is charged with the murder of William McKinney, 27, and 22-year-old James Wray
Large crowds expected at March for Choice in Dublin this afternoon
This will be the first March for Choice since Ireland enacted abortion legislation in December.
# protest - Thursday 19 September, 2019
'I won't sign on, it's demeaning': School secretaries will strike tomorrow over pay
A school secretary could be paid as little as €12,500 a year, with no holiday pay, sick leave or pension entitlements.
# protest - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
Paddy Jackson left out of London Irish squad for Munster trip
A scheduled protest against the signing of the former Ireland out-half will still go ahead at Musgrave Park, however.
# protest - Saturday 31 August, 2019
'Boris Johnson shame on you': Thousands across Britain protest against decision to suspend parliament
Demonstrations are expected all across Britain today.
Scottish police launch 'thorough and robust inquiry' after Irish unity march riot
Police said a planned parade by a republican flute band was met by a ‘disruptive’ counter protest.
Police fire tear gas and water cannon as Hong Kong protesters defy rally ban
Police had banned today’s demonstration on security grounds.
# protest - Wednesday 28 August, 2019
'If you shut down our parliament, we shut down the streets': Thousands protest decision to suspend UK parliament
The queen approved the request to suspend UK parliament next month.
# protest - Saturday 24 August, 2019
Hong Kong police fire tear gas as clashes return to city following days of peace
The protests ended a nearly week-long period of peace in the semi-autonomous region.
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PEOPLE AROUND IRELAND and across the world are spending a lot more time indoors than most of us are used to.
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Peter Flanagan says Covid-19 has stripped Johnson of his dreams of a clean Brexit legacy.
Opinion: Emergency Covid-19 legislation harks back to the Civil War, ‘the Emergency’ and the Troubles
By Conor Casey
Conor Casey of Trinity College says a challenge to the new legislation would be unlikely to succeed.
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