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Join us tomorrow at ten for the last ever todaysor : We'll be joined by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan, we'll hear about events stateside with New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd. Also we'll recall some memories from past shows and we'll have live music and craic
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🚨 Dental Surgery in Tenerife tells #TodayCB : "In the past 2 weeks we have been getting a lot of bookings from Irish people, all the patients were requesting an email to confirm the appointment (which is new), and then they are not turning up" @RTERadio1
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📻 "I'm getting e-mails about re-training - I gave 35 years of my life to this business, I didn't do that to be told 'Why don't you re-train as a florist?'" "I need help, I need assistance, & I don't need to be told 'Hold Firm'" - Richard Jacob of @IdahoCafe on #TodayCB now
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Earlier we spoke to Danielle Martins Ribeiro whose husband was due to be deported back to Brazil tomorrow - in the past hour it has been confirmed that her husband has been released from Cloverhill prison and the deportation is not going ahead tomorrow @rtenews
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Taoiseach says he doesn't think barrister Una McGurk's attendance at rally is compatible with membership of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal #TodayCB
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🎙️ "I drove around Conamara looking for needles and syringes" GP Peter Sloane, based in An Cheathrú Rua got vaccines, but no syringes last weekend. #TodayCB
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Just reminding everyone we're back on air tomorrow morning at ten with Sean O'Rourke presenting.... #stillinthechair #todaysor
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📻 Minister @SimonHarrisTD tells Claire Byrne it is his "very firm view" that people who are fully vaccinated and have negative PCR tests should not have to hotel quarantine, & to force them to do so "seems illogical". #TodayCB @RTERadio1
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Retired Judge, Gillian Hussey, did not leave her home during lockdown, in case anyone would feel 'the judge thinks she's above the law', & it took toll on her health. "I'm astounded to think ANY golf function would go ahead, but particularly this one," she says. #TodayCB
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🎙️ "If you blame everyone, no-one is to blame" @fionndavenport responds to Taoiseach's remarks that 'we did this to ourselves as a society' #TodayCB
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🎙️ "I am fully convinced the virus is NOT under control... I see a lot of rules & regulations but it's a laugh for a lot of people... "Until I can make my business safe, & the virus is treatable or there's a vaccine, I am not opening my gyms." - Ben Dunne tells @SarahAMcInerney
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Taoiseach: Dara Calleary has resigned as deputy leader of Fianna Fáil #TodayCB
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🎙️ "I really don't think that Michael O'Leary is a good source of public health advice" - Dr @GabrielScally reacts to the @Ryanair Group CEO's latest commentary on masks #todayrte @rtenews
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📻 Noelle Brown, who was born in Bessborough Mother & Baby Home, tells #TodayCB extracts of the testimony she gave to the Commission arrived to her in the post this morning and it has "at least 10 glaring inaccuracies" within it. @RTERadio1
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Anne Moore, senior lecturer in biochemistry in @ucc warns against ingesting or injecting bleach/disinfectant. #todaySOR
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🎙️ "I'm so disappointed, & completely puzzled...for the first time I could let my child's hand go in the park, because there wasn't traffic roaring by... I have serious questions here" - @neasa_neasa Green Party TD on traffic re-opening in Dublin's Phoenix Park. #TodayRTE
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"Until we have a vaccine or an efficient treatment for those who are ill, we are going to have to be really careful about how we live, & we’ll have to continue social distancing" - Dr Catherine Motherway, president of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland, speaking to #TodaySOR
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Confirmation from a Dublin primary school principal that a child has tested positive for Covid 19 and that the class has been sent home. The pupil did not contract the virus in school #TodayCB
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🎙️ "I haven't spoken to him, but I will invite Barry Cowen to come down here, to the cemetery where my wife & daughter are buried, & I will explain to him the serious problem with unaccompanied learner drivers" - Noel Clancy on #TodayRTE , responding to Barry Cowen's statement.
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🎙️ Dr @CillianDeGascun confirms the NPHET advice since May has been for "mandatory quarantine" at a "designated facility", for international arrivals, and this has been consistent, but he says Government has to balance legislative challenges as well. #TodayRTE
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📻 Dr Mary Favier, Covid-19 Advisor @ICGPnews & Member of NPHET, says it is "dispiriting" and "demoralising" for healthcare workers to see the number of people entering the country in recent weeks. The health service has "one hand tied behind its back", she tells #TodayCB .
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"Britain declared a trade war on themselves" says @davidmcw , says it's cause for optimism for Ireland: "When your neighbour goes mad, all you have to do is do nothing" #TodayCB
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📻"Today we are expecting 2 Irish patients, but we don't know really if they'll turn up... "Obviously as they are not turning up, we now understand it is just an excuse for a holiday... they are taking appointments away from people who need them" - Tenerife Dentist on #TodayCB
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😷 You are at "additional risk" if you are being served in a hospitality setting, or getting your hair cut, by someone wearing a visor instead of a mask, according to Dr Mary Favier @RosaBlackGP . #TodayCB
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🚨 Dr Colm Henry @CcoHse tells @SarahAMcInerney he is in favour of MANDATORY quarantine for anyone arriving from a country with a high incidence of #Covid19 . He also says people should NOT travel abroad unless "absolutely essential, & that does not include holidays". #TodayRTE
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🎙️ "I do think we need a new leader, and a change of direction" - Éamon Ó Cuív TD ( @eamonocuiv ) on #TodayCB calls for a new leader of the @fiannafailparty @RTERadio1
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🎙"You can't do it without us and we can't do another wave" Dr @sharonlambert0 and Dr @ClionaNi on Covid Women's Voices open letter in @irishexaminer today. #TodayCB
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Fernando Lafuente Saiz tells @TodaySOR : "Basically, I'm not dead." #Ballybrack @rtenews
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"I sort of misspoke, what I meant to say was productivity could be reduced by 40%... I don't think there's any likelihood of anything as mad as a 40% rise in costs [for the National Children's Hospital]" - Tom Parlon of @CIF_Ireland on #TodayRTE now. @rtenews
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📻 Josh Willis is encouraging everyone to get a Covid-19 vaccine, following the death of his wife Samantha last week. Samantha was just 35 years old, but had not been vaccinated, and she died shortly after giving birth to their daughter. Josh joins #TodayCB now. @RTERadio1
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🎙️ "Dara Calleary has set the bar" - Sinn Féin's Health Spokesperson @davidcullinane tells @SarahAMcInerney there should be further resignations today, following Oireachtas Golf Dinner. He says Commissioner Phil Hogan, and Supreme Court Judge Seamus Wolfe, must resign. #TodayRTE
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How many TDs are landlords, and how much do they earn? Our producer @ali_mcconnell crunched the numbers, and we debated whether this was a conflict of interest for the TDs, with @BridSmithTD , @Damien_English and @LorcanSirr Here's what we found:
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🎙️ On Killarney: 'There will always be people who do stupid things... we also shouldn't decide that it's just one generation when we talk about parties. There were no students in Clifden' Minister @SimonHarrisTD #TodayCB
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🎙️ Owen Keegan, CEO of @DubCityCouncil tells @SarahAMcInerney that "unless there is some unanticipated adverse consequence" of a 4-weekend pedestrianisation trial for 5 city-centre Dublin streets, he is "very confident that this will become a permanent feature". #TodayRTE
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Bishop Kevin Doran tells @TodaySOR 'Catholics who voted Yes should consider coming to confession, where you would be received with the same compassion as any other penitent'. He says voting Yes was a 'sin'. #8thRef @RTERadio1
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Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar tells @TodaySOR that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin advised him in the wake of the controversial 'sinning priest' comment: 'Next time you’re looking for an example of hypocrisy, maybe use your own profession'. #TodaySOR @RTERadio1
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Seamus Mallon, veteran political leader of the peace process, tells @MiriamOCal we have seen too many false dawns to be optimistic about latest NI talks & that Karen Bradley isn't the right SoS to drive progress: "She has proved she hasn't a clue what she's doing here". @rtenews
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"His suitability as Taoiseach comes into question, he's been seen as weak he's been seen as arrogant" @MaryLouMcDonald on Leo Varadkar's handling of the current political crisis #TodaySOR
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📻 "I think we should go ahead with a cautious reopening on the 5th of July, and I want to see a challenging public discussion about what is 'acceptable risk'" Prof @SamuelMcConkey1 , Infectious Diseases Consultant, tells #TodayCB
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Q - @SarahAMcInerney : "Was it justified for the IRA to kill people?" A - @MaryLouMcDonald : "It was justified to take on the British state...I'm not justifying every action at all, & I absolutely understand the horror & pain that was visited on people" #TodayRTE @RTERadio1
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📻 Get in touch with the show any time: 🔵 Text 51551 🔵 E-mail todaycb @rte .ie 🔵 Tweet @TodaywithClaire 🔵 Hashtag #TodayCB Join us from 10 until 12, every weekday morning, on @RTERadio1 🎧 Or listen back on , or wherever you get your podcasts
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🎙 “I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty tired. I'm only human. It’s been one of the harder grand tours I've ever done.“ - Sam Bennett @Sammmy_Be spoke to @TodaywithClaire as he faces into a gruelling final week of the #tourdefrance 🚴‍♂️
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"I've worked all my life, so I know nothing else" - Eamonn Duffy, 84-year-old GP who started his Monaghan practice in 1965, tells #TodaySOR he is unable to retire as a replacement for his job has not yet been found. @rtenews @RTERadio1
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@TodaySOR Dr Eamonn Duffy and me, his proud daughter, on at present talking about the GP crisis in Ireland
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Horrendous to see lack of social distance in Dublin, take-out drinking rules need to change, says Consultant Laura Durkan @Rheum2improve #todayrte
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📻 "We're relying on the EU for vaccines... but to protect 5m people, I won't mind going outside the rules of that club, as others have done - we need to reach out to our friends" "The Government is not doing enough" - Fianna Fáil TD @JMcGuinnessTD tells Claire Byrne. #TodayCB
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Education Minister Joe Mc Hugh : "With the 2 metre rule still in place it's hard to see all students being back in September" #todayrte @rtenews
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🎙Public Health specialist @marietcasey tells Claire about a workplace outbreak: 1 colleague asymptomatic, quick meeting in a room with little ventilation, no masks. All 8 infected. #TodayCB
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It's not all down to house parties and young people, says @Rheum2improve . We need to think about brunches, lunches, dinner parties, Communions too. We have to be able to personalise the message and modify our behaviour #TodayCB
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BREAKING: Majella Moynihan, whose story was told on the @RTEdoconone on Saturday, tells @TodaySOR she "welcomes and really appreciates" the Garda Commissioner's offer to meet her and apologise in person. She joins us in studio now, listen on @RTERadio1 . #TodaySOR @rtenews
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Dr David Nabarro from @WHO says " please wear a mask - a visor on it's own is not enough" in the fight against covid 19 @RTERadio1
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Green Party former Gen Election and EU Parliament candidate @saoirse_mchugh confirms that she will not vote for the Programme for Government #todayradio
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John Mc Guinness: "There is a consensus across the country that has grown since polling day, within the membership and indeed unspoken within the parliamentary party that would say we do need now to talk to others, including Sinn Féin". #todayrte
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"He is the leader of this country, he is the leader of the government, he needs to take control" @PhelanVicky tells @MiriamOCal that the labs are running the country with regard to the #CervicalCheckScandal #TodaySOR
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"They couldn't care less about Ruth, or me or our children or our families, they only care about saving money" Emma Mhic Mhathuna discusses the #cervicalcheckscandal with @MiriamOCal now #TodaySOR
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📻 Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD dismisses as "nonsense" a statement from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry that the forced diversion of a Ryanair plane was legal & in line with international rules: "We all know what happened here", he tells #TodayCB @rtenews
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On Min Barry Cowen: 'We now find ourselves in the extraordinary situation that a government minister is contradicting, it seems, a garda report. That is not a sustainable position at all' @MaryLouMcDonald #todayrte
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📻 @TJRyan_77 of @ISAGCOVID19 tells #TodayCB schools are only safe when the community is safe, & they should reopen county-by-county. “The B117 variant is more infectious to children. It's not true that the only risk is parents moving around schools" 🎧⬇️
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📻 "I would see at least 5, 6 even 7 emails and calls from young Irish people - normally they are older - but now they are young and they clearly just want a holiday" - Tenerife Dentist tells #TodayCB they've been receiving Irish appointment requests in past 2 weeks. @RTERadio1
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🎙️ "He was a man of principled compromise, not compromising principles" - @DrMikeRyan of the @WHO pays tribute to #JohnHume , as he joins @SarahAMcInerney now to discuss Covid-19 worldwide #TodayRTE
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"We'd like to thank people for staying at home, & saving lives. We have increasing numbers coming out the other end of moderate & severe symptomatic Covid19, and even walking out of hospital. We can continue doing that as long as we don't hit capacity" - @EoghandeB on #TodaySOR
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Master of Holles Street Professor Shane Higgins tells us that over the next week or two the NMH will be allowing birth partners into the hospital more frequently for longer periods of time #todayrte @RTERadio1
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Later at ten we'll speak to @GabrielScally about border security, the Boris Johnson address last night and cancer screening - it's the same SOR team with Sarah Mc Inerney in the chair.. you can email todayradio @rte .ie and tweet us @TodayRadioRTE
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📻 Brendan Ó Dufaigh Snr, whose son Ogie, captain of the Monaghan U-20s football team, died in a car accident last month, joins #TodayCB now, ahead of his month's mind this weekend @RTERadio1
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📻 "I was in India when a tsunami struck, I was in an ED after a plane crash in Sudan, when dead bodies flooded in - but this is by far the scariest experience" Dr Ahmed El Samani tells @evelyn_orourke about calls to fast-track citizenship for foreign front-line workers #TodayCB
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🎙️ "There are centres across the country that have seen a 50% test positivity rate" Paul Reid HSE Chief Exec @paulreiddublin #TodayCB
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🎙️ "The leak has broken trust with government again" Catherine Corless, Tuam historian on the Mother & Baby Homes report. #TodayCB
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🎙️ "The wind was so strong nobody could hear us scream" - Ellen Glynn, one of the paddleboarders rescued off Galway Bay yesterday, is on #TodayRTE now. @RTERadio1
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🎙️ On Dr Anthony O'Connor leaving Twitter, Min for Health @DonnellyStephen says: "I'm a big fan of Anthony's, he's a phenomenal advocate for healthcare... This was a private message from one citizen to another... it had nothing to do with me". #TodayCB
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📻 Thousands of people from Donegal will march on Dublin next week, amid growing anger over the Mica Redress Scheme @BarryLenihan reports for #TodayCB 🎧⬇️
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Former @fiannafailparty Minister Mary O'Rourke says the winner of last night's debate on #VMTVBigDebate was @MaryLouMcDonald @rtenews #GeneralElection2020 #todaysor
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"It's all about Britain for #DanielKinahan now, & it's up to the British media, who sadly have been quiet so far. We're blue in the face, now it's time for British journalists to step up & ask hard questions." - @IsFearrAnStar Crime Correspondent @MickTheHack tells #TodayRTE
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🎙️ "At one FG meeting... somebody had gone to the effort of getting a sod of turf... and she was going to present it to me, in front of people... that's designed to diminish... 'you're not from here'": Former FG TD Kate O'Connell @campaignforkate #TodayCB
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📻 Minister for Health @DonnellyStephen tells #TodayCB he "can't answer definitively" whether the Taoiseach has the authority to sack a FG minister. He says "this is a coalition, & in a coalition govt one party does not tell another party who they can & can't have at Cabinet"
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🎙️ "Unless someone puts a bit of research in front of me to tell me that those blocks will be fine... then the only thing that I can suggest, if they're pointed out to be deleterious, is to take them out" Dr Ambrose McCloskey, Structural Engineer on #MICA #TodayCB
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Earlier @DrMikeRyan Executive Director, WHO Health Emergency Programme told us that pubs here may have to re-opened on a county by county basis @rtenews
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🎙️ @SarahAMcInerney : "Are you telling me in relation to the Green List countries that you should not travel there?" 🎙️ Tánaiste @LeoVaradkar : "No… the virus doesn't know if you’re on essential or non-essential business. But the safest thing is not to travel at all" #TodayRTE
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Dr @GabrielScally tells #TodaySOR Stormont politicians who have read @TheSundayTimes Insight article "must surely re-evaluate their adherence to Whitehall advice, they've got it seriously wrong on several issues...it looks like the UK could have the highest deaths in Europe"
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Indeed I am, with the brilliant @ClaireByrneLive . It's in preparation for my post-Brexit asylum application.
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According to the latest available Register of Members' Interests for Dáil Eireann (for the year 2018): 🔴 35 TDs in the current Dáil are landlords 🔴 That's 22% of the 158 sitting TDs
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📻 Goodbye to Lord Ross & Murph, hello to the new crew @olivercallan will be in studio after 11am.
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🎙️ 26 out of 28 residents in a nursing home in the West have tested positive for Covid 19. Speaking to GP @DrMartinDaly now. Nurse is 72 hours on duty with three other staff. #TodayCB
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GAA President John Horan tells #TodaySOR he is "shocked" to hear reports that inter-county GAA players could be permitted to train: "At no stage have we discussed the return of inter-county training, with any Government department... I'm aghast as to where this has come from."
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📻 Trainer Ted Walsh tells Claire Byrne that Gordon Elliott losing his stable stars, such as Envoi Allen, will hurt more than any licence penalty he could receive from the IHRB 🎧Listen back to the full interview here ⬇️ #TodayCB
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