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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
Oppenheimer
1. Cillian Murphy has won the Best Actor Oscar at the 96th Academy Awards for his portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.
Breastfeeding
2. The HSE has dropped a target to increase breastfeeding rates by 2 percentage points per year.
The health service has consistently missed most of its breastfeeding targets over a period of several years. The number of women breastfeeding is increasing, but has not increased fast enough to hit the HSE’s goals.
Poor Things
3. It was a successful night for Irish production company Element Pictures as Poor Things picked up four Oscars at the Academy Awards.
Emma Stone picked up the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthamos’ latest film, which was coproduced by Element Pictures along with Film4 and TSG Entertainment.
Portuguese elections
4. Portugal’s main centre-right party narrowly defeated the incumbent Socialists but fell well short of a majority in a general election that saw the far-right Chega party surge to become potential kingmakers.
Abuse inquiry
5. A state inquiry examining the case of Bill Kenneally is to hear from the convicted sex offender himself when it returns for its final sittings this week.
It’s also called back the father of one victim. At an earlier appearance at the commission, he made claims related to a previously unknown meeting allegedly about Kenneally’s crimes which he said was attended by senior gardaí.
Kill notice
6. Three major photo agencies have issued a “kill notice” for a photo of Kate Middleton and her children published today by Kensington Palace.
The photo of the Princess of Wales and her children, taken by Prince William in Windsor earlier this week, was posted on social media to mark Mother’s Day.
Whitehouse visit
7. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to travel to the United States tomorrow and will make two visits to the White House as part of the St Patrick’s Day engagements in Washington DC.
It is tradition for ministers and ministers of state to travel to different places around the world to mark St Patrick’s Day.
Winners and losers
8. The 96th Academy Awards have ended in success for Cillian Murphy, who brings home the Best Actor award at the first time of asking.
Oppenheimer made good on many of its nominations, with further wins for Christopher Nolan as Best Director, Robert Downey Jnr as Best Supporting Actor, Ludwig Goransson for Best Original Score, as well best cinematography and best film editing.
Here is a roundup of who came away smiling in Hollywood last night.
Hollywood protest
9. The start of the Academy Awards ceremony was briefly delayed last night by a protest over the ongoing conflict in Gaza as a number of stars sported red pins in support of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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Not blunt enough
Superb!!
Does every party have a sword at it??? Maybe that’s were my parties are going wrong
Bit of bread and salt, be grand…
Knighting or beheading! I guess there is a cure for James Blunt :D
Used to think blunt was a w****r untill I seen his twitter account, man’s a legend on that
He rules twitter. Love that guy
@Neill Bradley: Any sword for Blunt would be by nature blunt ;)
”tis but a flesh wound!
All fun and games till someone looses an eye
Ah now, rushed to hospital? It’s a scratch!
He’d probably get €2M + expenses if it happened on these shores!
First cut is the deepest!
Looking at the peoples who receive the title of knighthood (UK) and the medal of freedom (USA) it suggests how important distraction of the masses is with entertainment hero worship to the controllers.
@Bondage Informer: I thought you would be the first to know that TV keeps people distracted from thinking about the truth and it tries to control what people believe, look at the news about the White Helmets, Al Qaeda’s spin doctors…
Strange country..
Could they not leave swords outside with the umbrellas like civilised people? ;-)
Nothing shaves as close as a Princess Beatrice, a new advert for Wilkinson?
Who da fuq is Princess Beatrice!?
@Guybrush Threepwood: A new type of Royal mushroom ;)
@Guybrush Threepwood: She’s a sheepdog?
Beatrice daughter of Prince Andrew and Fergie should know never to play with weapons.
Carrying a concealed weapon!! Arrest her!
Be hard to conceal a sword
I see a nice claim going in there.
Swordplay…..
If I was out with the royals I’d be at the same lark
As a Non-Dubliner and as a non TV watcher can you explain who “Princess Beatrice” is ?
Is it a fictional fairy tale character or what ?
@eastsmer #IRExit: Yes.
@Daisy Chainsaw: So it’s a royal fawning west brits thing or something like that ?
She is Fergies daughter.
@Rosa Parks: The Queens granddaughter….
@Chris Kirk: Aswell
Let me Google that for you
The King of the north !
All fun and games until somebody loses an eye. As my mother used to say.
And as a previous poster has already said.
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