The Health Service Executive has shut down all its IT systems to protect them from a “significant” ransomware attack, crippling diagnostic services, disrupting Covid-19 testing and forcing hospitals to cancel many appointments. The Covid-19 vaccination programme is not disrupted as it is on a different system, but the attack is affectingContinue Reading
The Police’s decision to marshal G7 protestors on Plymouth Hoe has been described as a “disaster waiting to happen” by local MP, Luke Pollard The historic Hoe with its parade of historic statues and war memorials, views of Plymouth Sound, and close proximity to the Barbican and the city centre has beenContinue Reading
Derab is strongly-fancied to justify obvious favouritism in a thirteen-runner Novice Stakes over the famous Newmarket Rowley mile today, when a hundred and fifty miles or so North the third and final day of the ‘Spring ‘Dante’ meeting should answer a few group class posers on ground which was poundedContinue Reading
Desert Dreamer returns tonight to the scene of her sensational debut success under Hollie Doyle last month when Stuart William’s charge contests an eleven-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of ‘good’ ground on the famous Newmarket Rowley mile course; finding a serious rival to just about the best two-year-old we’veContinue Reading
Raging attempts to go one better tonight in a thirteen-runner class 4 Maiden Stakes over five furlongs at Bath where the highest racecourse in the United Kingdom stages a punter-friendly seven-race card on ‘good, good to soft’ ground; given the amount of rain we’ve been subjected to during the lastContinue Reading
On Monday, 17th May at 10am a bugler will sound Reveille on the roof of the Keep to mark the Museum’s reopening. Afterwards a piper – Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Graham, late of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders – will play. The Keep’s first visitor since lockdown will be theContinue Reading
Some European startups have not just weathered the crisis, they’ve laid the groundwork to thriveContinue Reading
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said everyone who wants a Covid-19 vaccine appointment could be offered one by the end of June. As The Irish Times reports, Mr Varadkar raised the prospect at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday evening. Sources said Mr Varadkar told TDs and Senators that an announcementContinue Reading
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Just Jacob might well be overlooked in a class 5 Novice Auction Stakes over the straight undulating mile of ‘good to soft’ Chepstow where William Haggas’ charge will be ridden by stable jockey Tom Marquand, partner of leading jockey Hollie Doyle. Many thought it would be a reverse situation andContinue Reading
