Diarmuid Pepper
Broadcast Journalist at Freelance
News Reporter at TheJournal.ie
Twitter user 299,949,746! Former teacher, currently a journalist with @thejournal_ie
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Diarmuid Pepper
A SHOP HAS BEEN cleared of discriminating against two children who were asked if they had anything larger when they tried to pay for €68 worth of goods with 10 and 20 cent coins. The father of the two children – a boy and a girl – submitted a claim to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on their behalf and alleged that his children were discriminated against as they were members of the Traveler community. The identities of both parties have been anonymised due to the involvement of children.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Diarmuid Pepper
THERE’S A NEW craze in town and it’s already captured celebrities from Cher to David Beckham. Rihanna, Dua Lipa and Kim Kardashian are also among the big names to have been seen with Labubu dolls dangling from their handbags and luggage in recent weeks. The doll are made in China and the country’s official state news agency has even expressed hope that Labubu dolls will allow the western world to see “Cool China”. But what exactly is a Labubu?
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Diarmuid Pepper
A MOTORCYCLIST IS in a critical but stable condition in hospital following a two-vehicle collision yesterday in Co Antrim. The collision involving a motorcycle and a van occurred yesterday evening at around 6.50pm on the Garron Road in the village of Carnlough on the northeast coast of Antrim. The road had been closed following the collision but reopened this morning.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Diarmuid Pepper
AONTÚ LEADER PEADAR Tóibín has claimed that the Government is “understating” both homelessness figures and the numbers of people on social housing waiting lists. Speaking in the Dáil this afternoon during Leader’s Questions, Tóibín said he had submitted Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to every Local Authority and that the information he received “contradicted the information the Government is giving out”.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Diarmuid Pepper
GALWAY GIRL SINGER Ed Sheeran this week said he identifies culturally as Irish – despite being born and raised in England. While he was brought up in Suffolk, Sheeran has a large Irish family and said he would spend his holidays in the country as a child. “I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with,” Sheeran told the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast.
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