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Watch: news2day Monday, 19 January 2026

Get set for Tradfest - HUP! An update from Greenland. New laws to help protect the oceans and much more.

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The Dublin festival celebrating Irish traditional and folk music, Tradfest, is just around the corner. Beginning this Wednesday, there will be lots of music events for the festival around the county. So Cathal went down to one school in Clondalkin, who have gone mad for trad, to see how they were preparing for it!

And there's more news from Ireland and around the world with Florence. She has an update on what is happening in Greenland - check out the Explainer here!

Plus, there's lots more big stories.

There's lots more content from the show, including an archive, on the news2day website.

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