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Poll: Are you reassessing travel plans as a result of Covid-19? IRISH CITIZENS ARE now being advised against travel to the whole of Italy due to the spread of Covid-19. The Department of Foreign Affairs is also advising against non-essential travel to mainland China, Iran and the Daegu and Cheongdo areas of South Korea. In many other countries, the department is advising travellers to take precautions against the coronavirus as they would here in this country.
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Poll: Would you support the formation of a national unity government? THE GOVERNMENT IS to hold a Cabinet sub-committee on Covid-19 today that will be chaired by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. The committee will discuss issues including the upcoming St Patrick’s parade and sick pay for workers. Fine Gael and independents remain as ministers until a new government is formed following last month’s election.
Michelle Hennessy · TheJournal.ie
Today’s News Coronavirus Yesterday’s News Coronavirus Saturday 7 March, 2020 Pure In Heart Catholic group that taped students together in sex ed talks develops presentation for primary schools Teenagers have previously spoken to TheJournal.ie about the presentations in secondary schools – in one case a group was told condoms fail one in six times.
Opinion: Adult children still at home? There's no blueprint for this time
IT’S 4 AM AND I’m standing wide-awake in my pyjamas on the landing, wondering how to stop it. I’m livid, having been woken, again, in the middle of the night. Noisy, tipsy people are stumbling and giggling through my house in the darkness. How do I stop the party and how do we all escape with our dignity intact? You don’t need to explain Tinder or nightclubs to me, I get it. So do most parents whose twenty-somethings are still living at home.
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Poll: Should children under the age of 12 be banned from heading footballs? A BAN ON children under the age of 12 heading the ball could be implemented over the next few weeks in Scotland due to fears over the links between football and dementia. The BBC has reported that the Scottish FA is expected to announce a ban on under-12s heading the ball in training later this month. A similar ban was put in place in the US in 2015.
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Poll: Should TV cameras be allowed to film high-profile cases in Irish courts? WITHIN THE NEXT few months, crown courts in England and Wales will allow television cameras in for the first time to cover parts of the trial process. Sky News reports that draft legislation is being laid before parliament today, which will pave the way for cameras to cover some of the most high-profile criminal cases. Filming has been permitted in some Court of Appeal cases in the UK since 2013.
At 60, I was unfit, but two years later, it's Olympic weightlifting for me
THEY SAY IT’S never too late to start getting fit. At 62 years of age, I say, you can amaze yourself. Yes, it needs patience and help, gradually teaching your body and brain to do new things, but the satisfaction it gives when you succeed is the same, whether you’re 20 or 70. It’s never too late to love what your body can do. I had literally never set foot in a gym until less than two years ago.
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