📽️ "Renters are being thrown to the wolves" - Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns criticises the Government's new modular home proposals, pointing to up to 22 people sharing one house in Dublin as a "return to tenement conditions"
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▶️🎉Happy birthday to the @player.rte.ie which launched 17 years ago today!
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Apple has announced that Tim Cook will step down in September, handing the chief executive job to company veteran John Ternus.
Ireland 1926 v 2022
👱Population
1926: 2.97 million
2022: 5.15 million
🗺️Place of Birth
1926: 97% Irish‑born
2022: 80% Irish‑born
🧓Life Expectancy
1926: 57 years (men), 58 years (women)
2022: 81 years, 84 years
🏢People at Work
1926: 1,307,662
2022: 2,320,297
🏅 RTÉ is named 2026 News Broadcaster Of The Year by @rtsmedia.bsky.social Ireland
📽 Heated Dáil exchange between Doherty and Harris over cost of living
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🔴Amid mounting pressure on Taoiseach Micheál Martin over the Government's handling of the fuel protests last week, watch Leaders' Questions LIVE from the Dáil
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'Star Trek' actress Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social to lead new RTÉ thriller 'The Yank'
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The 'Star Trek' nerd in me is screaming... 🤓
The series sees seasoned NYPD detective Nora Savage (Mulgrew) take a career break and move to her family home. She is unexpectedly pulled into a murder investigation and as the investigation builds, it pushes Nora and the squad into a thrilling hunt for the killer.
RTÉ has commissioned a new six-part crime thriller, 'The Yank', with Kate Mulgrew & Colm Meaney. Filming has begun in Conamara. 'The Yank' was created specifically for Mulgrew after she and writer Eithne Verling had a chance meeting in Galway while the actor was on holiday
"You can see how you feel being trapped for a while" - Judge tells retired couple who captured their neighbour's cat and tied it in a bag, before leaving it at a lake
www.rte.ie/news/regiona... (via @news.rte.ie)
🎥Tributes paid to 'First Lady of Celtic Music' Clannad singer Moya Brennan
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Defence Forces arrive at Whitegate oil refinery in Cork as gardaí deploy pepper spray and push back protesters | Follow updates
🎫A tale of two (non-existent) tickets:
🕘9am – Céline Dion general sale opens: 3-hour wait to join queue, which was billed as "more than an hour"
🕛12pm – Finally in just to join another “1 hour+” queue
My time matters too, @ticketmaster.com. Disappointing from start to finish
📹Fuel price protester thanks the public and local businesses in Dublin city centre for ‘incredible’ support (via @news.rte.ie)
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📹Deputy Garda Commissioner Shawna Coxon tells fuel protesters to “immediately cease blockades of critical national infrastructure or face the full rigours of the law” - adding that the force is moving to an enforcement phase
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Joint statement from the leaders of 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 and the 🇪🇺 on the ceasefire between the US and Iran:
An expert in work and employment studies tells RTÉ's Behind the Story podcast that forcing people to return to the office instead of continuing with remote working arrangements could be hurting businesses instead of helping them.
Ah sure look... The Oxford English Dictionary has added several new Irish words and phrases in its latest update
90% of the Irish population lived in a house in 2024 - the highest in the EU - versus 19% who lived in a flat, Eurostat figures show
A power outage has struck the entire island of Cuba, the energy ministry said, in the second nationwide blackout in less than a week as its grid struggles under a US oil blockade.
I’ve been reporting on gangland crime in Ireland for 30 years. Last Monday was another significant day in @garda.ie efforts to tackle top tier of Kinahan OCG. I was a guest on RTÉ podcast #BehindtheStory
Actor Nicholas Brendon, who was best known for playing Xander on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has died aged 54.
#BehindtheStory: @barrycummins.bsky.social joins @franmcnulty.bsky.social to discuss the case of Sean McGovern, one of the most senior figures in the Kinahan crime group, extradited from the UAE. He also reveals how the Kinahans are ‘comfortably trapped’ in Dubai
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On this week's Your Politics: @aine-lawlor.bsky.social, Juliette Gash, Joe Mag Raollaigh and @cuanbos.bsky.social discuss covering Washington on St Patrick's Day, Trump & the Irish Open, and what now for fuel prices?
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One to watch:
💶Euro area annual inflation rate was 1.9% in February, up from 1.7% in January, Eurostat data shows.
⬇️Lowest annual rates:
Denmark (0.5%)
Cyprus (0.9%)
Czechia (1.0%)
⬆️Highest annual rates:
Romania (8.3%)
Slovakia (4.0%)
Croatia (3.9%)
Ireland was at 2.5% in February 2026
🌍Ireland is ranked 13th happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Happiness Report, up from 15th in 2024 @worldhappiness.report