Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine to demonstrate that the river is clean enough to host the outdoor swimming events at the Paris Olympics. Now there’s just a week left to go before the opening ceremony. Hewlett-Packard: By the time the tech company moved its headquarters from San Jose to Houston in 2020, an exodus was in full swing. Oracle: The database software company also switched states in 2020, shifting its headquarters from Redwood, California, to the Texan state capital, Austin. In 2021 he relocated his electric vehicle company’s headquarters from Palo Alto in Silicon Valley to Austin’s “Silicon Hills”.

‘This place is gone to the dogs…’You will find it hard to believe what I am about to tell you. The first fact is that the world has gone mad and totally ‘gone to the dogs’. The world is gone to the dogs. I like dogs, same as with people, I have liked a lot of dogs in my time, and loved a few. But there are dogs, and there are dogs.

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Playwright Lou Harry and director Katherine Michelle Tanner had similar reactions when they first read the 2016 book “We Are Still Tornadoes.” They couldn’t put it down and imagined it as a play. “It was such a pleasantly and movingly digestible book, a quick read but a strong one. The movie rights also were sold but Tree Fort got permission to stage the play. Harry, who has published dozens of books and written numerous plays, said he feels like “more of a midwife of this book becoming a play. “I hope the film gets made and if it keeps the play from being staged, so be it,” he said.

Profile of a Parkrunner: Meet Edenderry's Finbar RedmondMeet Finbar Redmond, from Edenderry, who has recently completed his 150th parkrun at Mountlucas parkrun. My favourite thing about parkrun is the friendliness, getting to meet new people, the interaction, getting to do something outdoors. I’ve ran one in Washington DC, in Cleveland, in Cornwall in the UK, and I’ve ran numerous ones around Ireland. Some of my favourite parkrun moments are (and other people mightn’t understand this!) The best way to describe Mountlucas parkrun is one of the friendliest parkruns I’ve been to.

David Nash’s collection, No Man’s Land, is filled with poems that act as monuments to absence and loss. The poems in this striking collection are notable as much for what is not present as for what is. All through the book we see landscapes changing, not being what they were or what they should be. We also see poems that grieve for loss of language, means of expression, the Irish language in particular. We see none of the things that normally populate contemporary poetry collections such as love, heartbreak, illness, grief, or parenthood.

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Rory McIlroy says he was beaten by wind at Troon as hunt for fifth major goes onPhil Casey, PA Golf CorrespondentRory McIlroy’s bid to win a fifth major title will stretch into another decade after he suffered his second worst performance in the Open Championship. Five weeks after his heartbreaking loss in the US Open, McIlroy added a second round of 75 to his opening 78 at Royal Troon to finish 11 over par, a single shot better than he managed at Muirfield in 2013. Further shots went on the fifth and sixth before conditions eased slightly and McIlroy followed seven straight pars with a birdie on the 14th after holing out from a greenside bunker. “I feel like I say this every Open Championship, but it’s not as if we only play four events a year,” McIlroy added. “We play like 25, so there’s still a few things there’s left to play for.

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The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) warned passengers travelling through Dublin and Cork airports to allow extra time to get through the airport, with queues already forming. Photograph: Fran VealeIrish businesses and consumers have been hit by a major IT outage that grounded airlines, disrupted financial services and hit media groups globally. Cont’d in comments… — Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 19, 2024Passengers seemed to be moving through check-in at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 1 largely without issue on Friday morning. Dublin Airport Authority (Daa) said it had deployed additional staff in terminals to ease the impact of the disruption. There is a global outage affecting multiple countries at the moment.

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By Jonathan McCambridge, PAThe government needs to do more to tackle the rise in road deaths in Ireland, Taoiseach Simon Harris has said. Mr Harris has suggested examining the roles and functions of the Road Safety Authority as one of the steps that might be considered. “The Road Safety Authority has done an excellent job over several years, do we now need to examine its roles and functions? “Do we need to look at the supports, resources and empowerments that we give to the Road Safety Authority? “I certainly believe we are at a moment now that more needs to be done when it comes to road safety and of course that involves government doing more.

Shane Lowry during the Team Ireland Paris Olympics team announcement for golf earlier this week. Photo: David Fitzgerald/SportsfileLowry leads Open Championship after completing second roundShane Lowry is the current Open Championship leader after following his opening round of 66 with a second round of 69 at Royal Troon. The Offaly man finished his second round with a flourish, sinking a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th role to reach seven under par. At the time of writing, Lowry is two strokes ahead of Daniel Brown who is on (-5), but the Englishman had yet to complete his second round. Lowry claimed a sensational victory in the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Antrim, and the Clara native looks set to make a strong bid for the coveted Claret Jug again this year.

The outage has hit industries across the world, leading to cancelled flights and problems in some healthcare, retail and banking settings. A spokesperson for the Department of Health in Northern Ireland said there were a number of impacts to healthcare. “Around two thirds of GP practices across Northern Ireland use an IT system that has been affected. Gerard Greene, Chief Executive of Community Pharmacy NI (CPNI/PA)Gerard Greene, chief executive of Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland, reassured patients that pharmacies are dispensing medicines as normal. In Ireland, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) said it was experiencing some disruption to services.