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Watch: news2day Monday, 8 September 2025

Celebrate World Literacy Day. A Galway school wants a safe route to school. Surf's pup with for some pets. And Rory McIlroy wins the Irish Open!

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Today is World Literacy Day, a day to celebrate the importance of reading and writing! So that's exactly what the savvy sixth classers from St Christopher's Primary School in Dublin did with the help of MS Dreamspace and the Doomsday Club. Florence went along to check it out!

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A school in Conamara, Co. na Gaillimhe are campaigning for a reduction of the speed limit close to their school. There were protests last year and they are continuing in the new school term.

A sensational final round from Rory McIlroy, including an eagle at the last to force a play-off with Sweden's Joakim Lagergren, saw the world number two claim a dramatic Amgen Irish Open at the K Club.

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