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Friday 27 November 2020
Dublin Port Riverfest takes place this weekend and the ships are the star attraction.
The East Link is going up. And it will stay up for around an hour. Good timing, right?
The Tall Ship Astrid ran aground off the coast of Kinsale earlier today. All people aboard were rescued safely.
Festivals and events can bring much-needed tourism to a town, village or region, generating substantial economic and socio-cultural benefits. Feargus Dunne advises on how to organise one.
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know this morning.
Press Association photographer Julien Behal had a unique vantage point for recording this ship’s departure from Dublin yesterday.
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport hailed the four-day festival as a “huge achievement and success”.
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
The 40-strong international fleet has left Dublin.
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
Ice-cream, piracy, and dramatic cloud cover…
A Cork-based personal assistant is granted an injunction stopping her former partner from selling a scale model.
The Defence Forces have taken some amazing shots of the Tall Ships in Dublin from an Air Corp helicopter.
The three-day 2012 Tall Ships Races festivities kicked off in Dublin today, with music, family fun and even wakeboarding.
The huge vessels have begun arriving in advance of the three-day festival, which gets underway tomorrow.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Photographer Shane O’Neill has captured 72 hours, 500,000 visitors, 45 Tall Ships and a town in full summer swing in 10-minute timelapse video.
TheJournal.ie’s readers captured the festival atmosphere and stunning ships in the southeast…
This is the week that was, in pictures.
A half a million people are expected to visit the city this weekend, before the ships move on to their next port in Scotland.
a 100 ft tall ship on its way to Waterford collided with a yacht 10 miles south of Rosslare Harbour in the early hours of this morning.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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