Ministers are set to sign off on an 80 cent increase to the minimum wage to €11.30 per hour from January. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, the Minister for Enterprise, is also expected to recommend to the Cabinet on Wednesday that the living wage is set at €13.10 from next year. AccordingContinue Reading
BARCELONA take on Bayern Munich tonight in a massive clash between European behemoths in the Champions League. Robert Lewandowski will be hoping he can score against his former side tonight in one of the week’s mouth-watering fixtures. Start time: 8pm BST TV/Live stream: BT Sport 4 Bayern XI: To followContinue Reading
Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock BA.4.6, a subvariant of the omicron COVID variant which has been quickly gaining traction in the US, is now confirmed to be spreading in the UK. The latest briefing document on COVID variants from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) noted that during the week beginning August 14,Continue Reading
Most people outside Ukraine, even military analysts, have never heard of Oleksander Syrski. But Colonel General Syrski has a claim to being the most successful general of the 21st century so far. The success of this week’s operation in eastern Ukraine – which he commanded – amounts to the mostContinue Reading
SpeedKingz/Shutterstock People in the UK might be tempted to keep their heating turned off to offset the large increases in energy bills this winter. A recent YouGov poll, revealed that 21% of respondents would not turn their heating on until at least November. Could the health of these people beContinue Reading
M any of the UK’s cinemas will close on the day of the Queen’s state funeral – while others will remain open to screen the event for free, they have said. Major chains including Cineworld, Odeon and Showcase will shut their sites on September 19 in a mark of respect.Continue Reading
Rost9/Shutterstock What is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes? – Julia, aged 14, London Matter is “stuff”. It is anything that is made up of particles that take up space. Everything we can feel and see on Earth is matter, and it’s usually in one ofContinue Reading
Despite recently electing Chile’s most progressive president in the shape of former student protest leader Gabriel Boric, voters in the country have now rejected his most important reform. A plebiscite held on September 4 to replace the constitution imposed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet with a progressive new oneContinue Reading
TESCO, M&S and Lidl have confirmed they’ll be closing the majority of their stores next Monday for the Queen’s funeral. Tesco said its large stores will be closed all day while its Express stores will stay closed until 5pm so colleagues can pay their respects. Getty The majority of TescoContinue Reading
The nationalist, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats are the major gainers of the 2022 Swedish national elections. Votes are still being counted but preliminary results show the party has gained 3.1%. This makes it the second largest party in Sweden, trailing only the the left-wing Social Democrats (albeit only by about 1.5%Continue Reading
