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Watch: news2day Friday, 1 December 2023

Barry finds out about an Irish poem going to space. George Lee reports from COP28 and Saibh has another climate change Jargon Buster. And we plant some trees!

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Ireland's first ever satellite, EIRSAT-1, launched on 1 December. Barry went along to mission control in UCD to meet Megha who has a special part in the hostoric event. She was one of the young poets who wrote All Ways Home. It is written on EIRSAT-1 and she tells us about the project.

COP28 continues in the UAE. RTÉ News' George Lee gives us an update from the big event and we have another Jargon Buster from Saibh.

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Darndale in Dublin is joining Milan, Barcelona and Brașov as one of four locations across Europe planting thousands of trees as part of European Urban Forest Week. RTÉ's Laura Fletcher has the report.

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