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Meanwhile…

That was dengue.

This is…

…now.

This morning.

Spray milk on the paddocks?

This changes everything.

President Michael D Higgins

On The Late Late Show…

…Linda Pototzki writes:

President Michael D Higgins will be live in-studio to speak with Ryan about his passion project, his Machnamh 100 series of seminars on the War of Independence and Civil War, his decade as president of Ireland and his love of football.

We mark one hundred years of Irish football with some of the greatest players to have worn the green jersey. Paul McGrath, Niall Quinn, David O’Leary, Packie Bonner and Shay Given will share their memories of the glory days of Irish football.

Also joining the show will be current internationals Gavin Bazunu, Dara O’Shea, Jessie Stapleton and Chloe Mustaki and managers Vera Pauw and Stephen Kenny. John Charlton will also be joining us to pay tribute to his father, the late, great Jack Charlton.

Plus, we will have music from singer-songwriter David Gray who will perform ‘This Year’s Love’ and Dan McCabe will sing ‘Fields of Athenry’.

The Late Late Show on RTÉ One tomorrow at 9:35pm.

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This afternoon.

Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Senior bankers and their hench people arrive for a meeting of the joint Oireachtas Finance Committee.

From top: Managing Director, Retail Banking at AIB Jim O’Keefe (right); PTSB CEO Eamonn Crowley; Chief Executive Officer Retail Ireland Gavin Kelly (left) and representatives from Bank of Ireland and poacher turned poacher, former FG TD and now banking lobbyist Brian Hayes.

We’ve missed you guys.

Ulster Bank to cease transactions with customers by March 2023, committee hears (RTE)

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Have you a spare 12 minutes?

Of course not.

Get it down to three minutes and we’ll talk.

Meanwhile….

Oh.

FIGHT!

Yesterday: Darwin’s Natural Selection

Green Party TDs Patrick Costello (top) Neasa Hourigan (above with Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan) have announced they  will break ranks with the Government to vote in favour of a Sinn Féin motion on the National Maternity Hospital this evening in the dail.

This afternoon.

This afternoon.

Via RTE News::

Green Party TD Patrick Costello has confirmed that he will vote in favour of Sinn Féin’s motion on the National Maternity Hospital.

The Dáil will vote on the motion later tonight, after People Before Profit deputy Richard Boyd Barrett confirmed his colleagues would facilitate it.

Mr Costello’s party colleague Neasa Hourigan yesterday said she would also break ranks with the Government.

Earlier….

on Today with Claire Byrne.

The Tánaiste said there were “a lot of myths and misinformation” around the project that were able to be dispelled during the two-week delay in confirming the hospital would proceed, namely a clear definition to the term “clinically appropriate”.

Mr Varadkar said he understood people’s concerns around ownership of the land and defended the 299-year lease as ownership.

“The perfect can be the enemy of the very, very good. This is a very, very good arrangement. We do own the hospital, we own the bricks and mortar and we have a 300-year leasehold title to the land, and that is ownership,” he said.

The Tánaiste said he also understood people’s concerns given the country’s history with institutional abuse and the church’s influence over healthcare.

Mr Varadkar said what was happening was two hospitals – Holles Street and St Vincent’s – that are currently under Catholic influence are being secularised.

“You would have the impression from some people, that the hospital as being gifted to the nuns. That is just fake news,” he said.

Costello joins Hourigan in support of NMH motion (RTE)

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