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8 March The report of a 20-year survey by The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland revealed that 56% of Ireland's native plant species are in decline due to habitat loss, altered grazing pressure, and degradation (re-seeding, over-fertilising, nitrogen deposition, herbicides, soil drainage, mineral enrichment), rather than rising temperatures whose botanical effects – so far – are minor.
RTÉ now broadcasts a business news update as part of the RTÉ News: One O'Clock bulletin in its place. As of 2019, the programme is the first RTÉ TV News of the day on RTÉ TV. The first morning news on TV airs on the RTÉ News channel and is a simulcast of Morning Ireland from RTÉ Radio 1.
9 April – Fine Gael leader Simon Harris, aged 37, became Ireland's youngest Taoiseach after a Dáil vote of 88–69 and being appointed by the President. [37] 10 April – A large fire destroyed industrial units in Dublin known as the 'home of car culture in Ireland'. [38] The buildings were home to Deane Motors, Drift Games and JC Autocare. [39]
The “Today I Learned” (TIL) page is a go-to corner of the internet, where a whopping 39 million people gather to satisfy th You don't have to read a whole book, magazine, or even an ...
In Northern Ireland consultations on a public enquiry into mother and baby homes have begun. Many Irish people are still trying to comprehend the reality of what happened to tens of thousands of ...
On 31 December 1961 Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann, was officially launched.A new Television Complex was built at Donnybrook in Dublin and the news service was the first to move in. Charles Mitchel read the first television news bulletin at 18:00 on 1 January 1962.
Ireland fields a single national rugby team and a single association, the Irish Rugby Football Union, governs the sport across the island. The Irish rugby team have played in every Rugby World Cup, making the quarter-finals in eight of them. [196] Ireland also hosted games during the 1991 and the 1999 Rugby World Cups (including a quarter-final).
The service is broadcast from the news studios at Baile na hAbhann in the Connemara Gaeltacht, County Galway, Ireland. [3] Nuacht RTÉ le TG4 broadcasts daily at 5:00pm on the RTÉ News channel and at 5:40pm on RTÉ One with a repeat available on rte.ie and the RTÉ Player. The Angelus follows for 1 minute after Nuacht RTÉ at 6:00pm.