County Westmeath
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Commission dealt with 1.3m documents and held 195 hearings
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 14, 2021, 18:55
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission states in bold type in its report that “the conclusions it reaches may not always accord with the prevailing narr(...)

Bon Secours sisters who ran Tuam home offer ‘profound apologies’
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 13, 2021, 20:47
The Bon Secours sisters, who ran the mother and baby home at Tuam, yesterday yesterday offered “profound apologies” and acknowledged that children wer(...)

Court urges family to make efforts to mediate in dispute over hotel business
- Transport & Tourism
- January 11, 2021, 16:17
A High Court judge has urged that further efforts be made to mediate a dispute between family members over the running of a company that owns hotels i(...)

Coronavirus in Ireland: 6,888 new cases and eight further deaths reported
- Health
- January 10, 2021, 17:04
There were 6,888 new cases of Covid-19 and eight further deaths reported by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) on Sunday. Sunday’s fig(...)

Young Scientist: Cork student wins with programme to detect ‘deepfakes’
- Science
- January 8, 2021, 17:11
A new software programme that could make the internet a safer place has culminated in its developer Greg Tarr winning the 2021 BT Young Scientist &(...)

Connellan takes his case for funding reform nationwide
- Gaelic Games
- January 8, 2021, 01:00
John Connellan could generally be found in a Dublin jersey growing up in Athlone, drilling frees like Charlie Redmond and jinking past imaginary defen(...)

2020 was wetter and warmer than usual
- Irish News
- January 6, 2021, 17:17
The year of 2020 was warmer and wetter than usual with a dry spring that coincided with the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. Met Éireann’s a(...)

John Clarke on missing his wife Marian Finucane: ‘I didn’t realise how much we chatted’
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 2, 2021
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends” – Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking If (...)

Dublin’s next archbishop is a former president at Maynooth
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 2, 2021, 01:00
Dublin’s Catholic archbishop-elect, Dermot Farrell (66), is from Westmeath and a priest of Meath diocese. He will replace Diarmuid Martin on February (...)

Successor to Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin announced
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 29, 2020, 11:57
The new Catholic Archbishop of Dublin is to be current Bishop of Ossory Dermot Farrell (66). A former president of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, he (...)