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Feb 25, 2024 | rte.ie | Pat McGrath |Pacu fish

In one respect, the issues facing Irish language speakers seeking accommodation in Gaeltacht areas are common to those in many other parts of the country, like soaring prices, a lack of rental properties and protracted problems in securing planning permission. However, the recently formed Bánú group says the difficulties are becoming so pronounced that the longer-term viability of state-designated havens for Irish speakers is under threat.

Feb 25, 2024 | rte.ie | Tony O'Donoghue |Pacu fish

Another uneventful week in Irish football. Nothing much happened, nothing to see here, move along now please. Except of course there was the Republic of Ireland women's team playing Italy in Eileen Gleeson’s first game as full-time head coach, a game they probably should have won but a draw away from home against higher ranked opposition is no bad result, and continues the progress made since Ms Gleeson took over from Vera Pauw.

Feb 25, 2024 | rte.ie | Orla O'Donnell |Pacu fish

The events at RTÉ in recent months have shone a light on the legal issues that come into play when someone in a senior position leaves an organisation. RTÉ Legal Affairs Correspondent Orla O'Donnell has been examining why companies and their senior employees enter into "termination agreements", what such agreements entail and why they are usually kept secret. This week saw the largest ever award for unfair dismissal granted by the Workplace Relations Commission.

Feb 25, 2024 | rte.ie | Conor Kane |Pacu fish

The school, the church, the sports club, the doctor's and the post office. Symbols of everyday life in communities the length and breadth of the country, rural and urban, for generations. Take them away, we hear, and it's bye-bye community. Over recent decades, some have declined in relevance and presence, while others have changed in other ways. However, the post office remains one of those emotive bases to which we remain anchored and heaven help anyone who tries to take it away.

Feb 25, 2024 | rte.ie | Samantha Libreri |Pacu fish

On 7 August 2002, a report from RTÉ's Six One News shows the late transport minister Séamus Brennan, wearing a hard hat and hi-vis vest, climbing a ladder onto a construction site. He was there to inspect the bridge, which at the time, was being built in his constituency of Dundrum in south Dublin, as part of the planned Luas Green Line project. The Fianna Fáil minister predicted that it will become one of the most recognised landmarks in Dublin.