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RTÉ's children's news programme news2day asked the children of Ireland to send in questions to put to Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn and here's what he said.
A west-Sligo based artist has spoken about how lockdown created a painting which scooped a prestigious national award.
Waterford native Aidan Crotty, who has lived in Easkey for 15 years, was chosen as the winner of the Zurich Portrait Prize in December, with his entry Portrait of a Boy holding off stiff competition to take top spot.
Mr Crotty s entry was based on a portrait he painted of his eight-year-old son Rían during the course of three months in early 2020, as the first of the Covid-19 restrictions came into place. The reason I even started taking the portrait of my son was because even within the first week of the lockdown, me and my wife because she works in the arts sector as well, we were just receiving email after email of cancelled events and cancelled exhibitions and the whole lot just fell through, Mr Crotty explained to The Sligo Champion.
The GAA Museum remembers Bloody Sunday. Remember with us.
Original Match Ticket
In 1920, Tipperary and Dublin were two of the best teams in the country. The political situation at the time saw very few GAA championships completed.
Tipperary had qualified for the 1920 Munster semi-final but the military refused to grant permission for the match to take place. Tipperary needed a challenge game and looked to Dublin, a team that had already qualified for the All-Ireland final.
On 1st November, a letter from the Tipperary team appeared in the Freemans Journal newspaper: We understand that Tipperary s superiority over Dublin in football, despite two decisive victories is being questioned by Dublin. We, therefore, challenge Dublin to a match on the first available date, on any venue and for any object .
Over 800 people went online across the globe to watch Dromore West Sings for Christmas.
The opening scene of the concert started with a little boy and his dad walking up the streets of Dromore West and running to the post office to send his letter to Santa, capturing the magic of Christmas and the hearts of the audience. Róisín Kilgannon, starting the concert with the lyrics It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank from an empty Flying Horse Pub, which will sadly not see any customers this Christmas.
But the thoughts of how Christmas 2020 will be different from how it would normally be celebrated, didn t last long when the CCE Tireragh Grupa Cheoil band kicked in at the end of the song, bringing a bit of craic agus ceol to the concert.