live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to a split edition of today . i m matt lauer where the opening ceremony will be held tonight. a look back over 1,000 years of russian history. in honor of that on a friday morning, we re starting 400 years ago with meredith vieira sitting next to me. all i can say is the stench of vodka. and we re off and running. yes. do we miss that. exactly. we are on air, guys. we knew the opening ceremony would have drama and tension. the gang is all here. what we want to know is russia ready to welcome the the world. they better be. 40,000 people getting in the stadium is going to be a little awkward. they are still doing little funny things. you see them planting palm trees. the wrappers are still on them. still painting going on. but the opening ceremonies seems ready. yeah. a few little kinks. but it is so ambitious. if they pull it off it s going to be fantastic. we ll tell you more in just a li
The Land Development Agency is turning vacant state land at Dundrum's Central Mental Hospital on Dublin’s southside into a new housing development for over 850 houses, duplexes and apartments on the site. Finishing it all will take up to a decade, but residents will be handed keys in the first phase within two years of shovels going in the ground.
Wicklow Green Party TD Steven Matthews has called for a new body to be formed to investigate, assess and report on rights of way, after two men from a Wicklow walking group launched a GoFundMe appeal to help them pay almost €40,000 in costs having lost a protracted legal battle with a local landowner.
Cork City and County Archives recently gratefully accepted manuscripts of the works of prose writer, scribe and poet Dáibhí de Barra (Dáth an Ghleanna, Davy of the Glens), from a historical society in the county. Most of his manuscripts are now held in the Maynooth (where Coláiste Cholmáin, Fermoy transferred its collection of works to the Russell Library in 2013), the National Library of Ireland, the Royal Irish Aacedamy, NUI, as well as UCC.