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Watch: news2day Tuesday, 16 January 2024

We get up and active with the Olympic Movement Breaks. Plus there's an amazing exhibition in Trinity College and lots more news from Ireland and around the world.

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Team Ireland will be going for gold at the Paris Olympics this summer, but they want everyone to exercise their mind and bodies! Irish Olympian Thomas Barr and the gang from St Fergal's BNS in Finglas had their own Olympic Movement Break and they told Barry all about it.

If you or your class would like to get involved go to the Dare To Believe website for more information.

And we've lots more news from Molly in studio. At Dublin's Trinity College there is an amazing Book of Kells exhibition. Kate Varley tells us more - check it out if you can.

In the USA Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus for the Republican Party. You can learn more about how they pick the President here.

Closer to home there have been protests continue over asylum seeker accomodation in Roscrea, Co Roscommon. Windfarms provided 35% of Ireland's energy. Dublin's Dean Rock retires and we meet a rare white penguin.

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