LAST UPDATE | 6 May
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Israel’s army has said it is evacuating about 100,000 people from eastern Rafah, ahead of an expected ground assault in southern Gaza.
About 1.2 million people are currently sheltering in Rafah, according to the World Health Organization, most having fled there from elsewhere in Gaza during the seven-month war.
The prospect of an invasion in Rafah has triggered alarm from aid groups and world leaders.
A man has died and three men have been arrested following a shooting in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.
A Garda spokesman said that at approximately 12:15am, a male “sustained fatal injuries during the course of a shooting” on the Knocknarea Road, Drimnagh.
The body of the man remains at the scene and a post-mortem examination is being arranged.
While the dispute over Micheál Martin’s plans to change the triple-lock on deployment of troops abroad has been grabbing the headlines over the past week, Niall O’Connor reports that Irish Defence Forces officers have their own concerns about the impending legislation.
The Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO) had strongly criticised a supposed gagging order on their ability to comment on Government policy. PDFORRA, which represents non-commissioned ranks, also had criticised the measure.
Officers’ representatives accuse the legislation of ignoring concerns raised by an Oireachtas committee which had been working on the Bill.
A new eating disorder treatment hub is set to be opened as the government continues the rollout of a plan to overhaul specialist services.
The Department of Health said the facility will be for adults located in CHO (Community Health Organisation) 7, which covers Kildare, west Wicklow and several areas in Dublin, including the west and south-west of the county.
The latest hub brings the number of specialist community treatment facilities to 12, although this remains below the 16 which the government aimed to have in place by the end of last year.
A Fianna Fáil TD has called for gardai to be deployed to check points on the border to deal with a reported increase in migrants entering from Northern Ireland.
The comments from Cork East deputy James O’Connor came as tensions between London and Dublin have increased in recent days.
This followed Justice Minister Helen McEntee claiming there had been an upsurge in asylum seekers crossing the border from the UK into the Republic of Ireland after the passing of the Safety of Rwanda Act at Westminster.
A Sinn Féin MP looking to leave the House of Commons and represent the Republic in Europe has said the party ‘wont be going centre-right’ as it seeks seats at different levels of government over the coming months.
The member of parliament for Fermanagh-South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew was speaking to The Journal during a campaign stop in Dundalk in her bid to become an MEP in the Midlands-North West constituency.
The future of an artists collective based in Dublin’s north inner city hangs in the balance, as Dublin City Council seeks to remove the group from the building in order to complete works.
D-Light Studios has occupied a warehouse space on Dublin 1′s Great Clarence Street for 15 years through a series of short-term leases.
The artists and the council, which acts as a landlord for the studios, have been at loggerheads for years over management of the space.
Two people were rescued over the weekend off the coast of Cork by the Ballycotton RNLI.
The operation came following a request for assistance from the crew of a 24-foot-long power boat that had suffered mechanical failure.
The boat had been on passage from Penzance to Kinsale when the failure occured.
“The unions and trade organisations approached the government in an unusual display of solidarity. They expressed their concern about the decline in demand for Irish goods, which was expected to accelerate, and emphasised the urgent need to establish a campaign for their promotion.”
Author and historian Enda MacMahon looks back at half a century of Guaranteed Irish, the nonprofit representing indigenous and international businesses operating in Ireland.
Rhasidat Adeleke ran a blistering leg as Ireland’s mixed 4x400m relay team won their first major medal, taking bronze at the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas overnight.
Adeleke’s split of 48.45 seconds was more than a second faster than any another female runner, and anchor Sharlene Mawdsley went toe-to-to with Dutch star Femke Bol down the stretch, as Ireland set a new national record for the second time in as many nights.
The quartet of Cillin Greene, Adeleke, Tom Barr, and Mawdsley clocked a brilliant 3:11.53 in third behind winners United States of America (3:10.73) and runners-up the Netherlands (3:11.45).
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