Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021
14:23
New Taoiseach Brian Cowen in 2008
Reeling in the Years recalls the hits and headlines of 2008, when Bertie Ahern stepped down as Taoiseach and was replaced by Brian Cowen.
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RTÉ News report as Bertie Ahern announces he will step down as Taoiseach and leader of the Fianna Fáil party on 2 April 2008 (via RTÉ Archives)
Abroad, it was the year Barack Obama campaigned under the slogan Yes We Can and was elected President of the USA.
For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something.
“I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.”
Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then production, before getting a job in RTE when he was 26, as a researcher.
For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something.
“I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.”
Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then production, before getting a job in RTE when he was 26, as a researcher.
#RTEVirtualParade has been trending on Twitter in Ireland all day and there have been thousands of posts from home and abroad.
What a brilliant toy parade in #Kildare, it goes on and on showing the huge effort that went in to setting it up
Some told the story of St Patrick in their own words, including two young girls decided to re-enact St Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland with jelly worms.
Children in Killorglin in Kerry carried a cut out Sam Maguire in their floats, while one musical family used the Hamiliton soundtrack to tell the story of our patron saint.
21 arrested over breaches of public health regulations
Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
20:48
Crime Correspondent
Twenty-one people - 17 males and four females - have been arrested in connection with public order offences and breaches of Covid-19 legislation in Dublin.
Fourteen people appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice this evening. Seven were charged and released on station bail.
Gardaí say the vast majority of people are complying with the regulations, and added that overwhelming levels of compliance were reported throughout today.
A number of events which were organised on social media took place, but gardaí said limited numbers were in attendance.