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Merkel urges new restrictions amid German alarm on Irish infection rates

The Irish Times 15 Jan 2021

“We are not obsessed with Ireland but it is a cautionary tale for politically-responsible people,” said Steffen Seibert, the chancellor’s spokesman, to The Irish Times ... “An Irish colleague told me that, in Ireland, Christmas is holy, with drinking and partying like never before....

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An eventful day

Evening Times 15 Jan 2021

You’ve also got the founding of the University of Notre Dame in 1844 (those Irish have been Fighting for a long time), the first use of the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party back in 1870 (not the mascot I would have chosen, but it was originally meant to be derisive maybe it still is ... Martin Luther King, Jr.'s national holiday ... ....

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Mairia Cahill resolves legal action over local government candidates having to publish addresses

Belfast Telegraph 15 Jan 2021

Former SDLP councillor Mairia Cahill has resolved her legal action over a law which required local government election candidates to publish their home address ... A former Irish Labour Party Senator before joining the SDLP, she had been expected to contest the 2019 local elections ... Proceedings were then put on hold due to those indications ... ....

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UK closes all travel corridors; Covid restrictions tighten in Spain and Italy

La Prensa Latina 15 Jan 2021

UNITED KINGDOM ... The flight ban, which includes all South American nations, as well as Panama, Cape Verde and Portugal, came into effect Friday but exempts British and Irish nationals as well as third-party UK residents ... The UK Prime Minister said the new rules would be in force until at least 15 February. SPAIN ... Tags .......

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EU's top court gives opinion in first Irish language case

RTE 14 Jan 2021

"My client is very satisfied that he is one of the parties in the first case before the Court of Justice that has Irish as the language of the proceedings," Sean Ó Cearbhaill, the applicant's solicitor, said ... "It will I believe signal a further positive shift in the status of the Irish language in the Union," he said....

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NI hospitals and schools facing food shortages in ‘major crisis’ – minister

AOL 14 Jan 2021

Northern Ireland’s hospitals and schools risk running out of food when post-Brexit Irish Sea trade arrangements are fully implemented, a Stormont minister has claimed ... He singled out the Irish Government, Sinn Fein, the SDLP and Alliance Party for criticism ... Irish Sea Border....

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British Labour party begins Belfast Agreement education programme

The Irish Times 14 Jan 2021

The programme, which was developed with political scientist Jon Tonge and the Labour Party Irish Society will use webinars and other online resources to tell the story of the peace process and the role of key figures in both communities ... The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is personal to me, and it is personal to the Labour Party....

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Labour Party to launch programme to teach members about Good Friday Agreement

Belfast Telegraph 14 Jan 2021

The Labour Party is to launch a ... The programme has been developed by academic Jon Tonge and the Labour Party Irish Society and will tell the story of the peace process, the role of woman and the trade union movement, at what it means to the new generation of young people here....

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UK issues travel ban for South American nations amid Brazil variant fears

La Prensa Latina 14 Jan 2021

Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, said the ban would come into effect on Friday ... UK and Irish residents as well as third party residence permit holders will be exempt from the new rules but will have to quarantine for 10 days upon arrival. Truckers traveling from Portugal to the UK will also be exempt ... gx/jt Tags .......

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Kerry council very concerned over impact of court challenges to greenway

The Irish Times 14 Jan 2021

That in turn lead to some of the grounds of his clients’ challenge, he said ... The core claim against the State parties is of failure to transpose into Irish law an obligation to determine if a road should be made subject of an EIA ... Both actions are against the Board and State with Kerry County Council as a notice party. ....

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Brexit: DUP MP to table Westminister question on Irish Sea Border

BBC News 13 Jan 2021

The government is to face more questions at Westminster later about the ongoing disruption to trade across the new Irish Sea border ... However the government has resisted the party's calls so far ... The 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and ......

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Opposition parties criticise content of State apology

RTE 13 Jan 2021

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said survivors have waited a long time to hear an apology, but it was untrue to say it was simply a failure of empathy and compassion in Irish society ... "It is plainly untrue to suggest that the whole of Irish society is responsible....

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Brexit: DUP's Donaldson accuses UK Government of failing to consider impact of NI protocol

Belfast Telegraph 13 Jan 2021

Sir Jeffrey is also to ask Mr Gove an urgent question on the issue in the Commons on Wednesday afternoon and will quote 17 examples of disruption his party claims are due to the Northern Ireland protocol ... It was put to Sir Jeffrey that his party fought for Brexit and this issues were inevitable going to arise as a result of it, he replied....