T he Conservative Party’s chairman has said it was a “difficult night for the party,” with the Tories losing council seats in the local elections. Labour has made gains nationwide which could reflect the nation’s mood as well as issues that affect voters more locally. Tory chairman Greg Hands toldContinue Reading
Ireland could get cooler, wetter and stormier due to climate change. A new report into Ireland’s ocean climate found the Gulf Stream, which gives Ireland its temperate climate, could decrease by 30 per cent. The research warns the country will still experience other consequences of a warming planet, with seaContinue Reading
Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of coloured thread”, each one of them loaded with symbolism. Over the centuries, tartan has been “a source of pride,Continue Reading
R ishi Sunak’s Tories were on course for heavy losses in the Prime Minister’s first electoral test as Labour and the Liberal Democrats both made gains in elections across England. The contests were the first to be fought under new rules requiring voters to carry photographic ID, and the electionsContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak’s Tories are braced for a bruising set of local election results as votes continue to be counted across England. The contests were the first to be fought under new rules requiring voters to carry photographic ID, and the elections watchdog said “regrettably” some people were turned awayContinue Reading
Commuting more than five hours per week had a number of negative consequences. Tania Volosianko/ Shutterstock In the past year, a growing number of companies have asked employees to return to the office either full- or part-time after years of pandemic-induced remote working. While this is a good thing whenContinue Reading
Millions of people around the world will be watching as Charles is crowned king of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. And it’s fair to say that a huge number of them could claim some degree of kinship with the new monarch as distant cousins at least. It’sContinue Reading
The Government is to explore paying social welfare to Ukrainians as a way of encouraging them to return home when the temporary protection directive ends. As the Irish Examiner reports, a paper by the Department of Justice put forward at the Cabinet committee on Ukraine outlined a number of policiesContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak said the UK and Rwanda were “leading the way” on global migration challenges during his meeting with the president of the east African country. The Prime Minister welcomed fellow leader Paul Kagame in Downing Street and posed for photos before they made their way into the building forContinue Reading
F ormer US president Donald Trump has said he is cutting his trip to Ireland short so he can return to “confront” his accuser in a New York civil rape case, which he described as a “political attack”. Mr Trump said he would “probably attend” the hearing as he spokeContinue Reading
