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Friday 23 October 2020
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison earlier this year.
It follows a case taken by a French tribunal in 2016.
It may be the largest number to have been given the green light since 2013.
Clubs play on the West Bank, considered occupied land.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the EU should be ashamed, comparing the move to Nazi-era pratices.
Retired jockey Charlie Swan made a settlement of more than €122,000 with Revenue.
And a councillor thinks it could cause reputational damage.
Ireland has joined the US and others in condemning the move.
The US and Amnesty International also want Israel to reverse the decision.
Lawyers for more than 4,500 retired players have accused the league of covering up the effects of hits to the head.
The legal fees bill reached over €46.5m in 2012, an increase of more than €10 million on 2011.
Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu said the plan had created “unnecessary confrontation with the international community” after the US expressed “deep concern”.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan revealed the information in response to a parliamentary question from Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty last month.
Following a visit to Palestine, Irish MEP Emer Costello said the rapid expansion of these settlements was resulting in “the death of so many communities”.
Negotiators are still set to meet on Wednesday for peace talks.
In total, six settlements of over half a million were made – including one by a supermarket owner and another by an amusement arcade operator.
Dozens of protesters were evicted from the first-of-its-kind protest camp in an area slated for Jewish settlement.
Plans to build 523 homes gets go ahead.
Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are the heart of the current deadlock in efforts to strike a peace deal in the Middle East.
Negotiators will meet in Jordan in the hope of setting conditions under which peace talks could be restarted.
Diplomats have condemned the lack of progress toward a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A further 277 apartments in a Jewish settlement deep inside the West Bank have been approved for construction.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
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