A man has been arrested by Gardaí investigating the murder of Ashling Murphy. As reported in The Irish Times, the man who has been arrested was being treated for injuries in a Dublin hospital. The arrest comes just hours after the 23-year-old’s funeral. The body of Ms Murphy, a talentedContinue Reading
Commenting on the news that the Night Riviera Sleeper service will only run on Fridays and Sundays between Monday 24 January and Thursday 17 March, to accommodate for resilience work at Dawlish, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Luke Pollard said: “We need a fast and resilient mainline, and so IContinue Reading
Climate change is already killing people, but countries don’t have an easy way to count those deaths. A new project might change that.Continue Reading
ANURAK PONGPATIMET/Shutterstock Lockdowns during the pandemic aimed to limit the spread of COVID-19 and related deaths. However, these lockdowns also affected how active people were. Children became significantly more sedentary. There is a risk that short term changes in children’s physical activity in reaction to COVID-19 may end up extendingContinue Reading
Many people around the UK have been scrolling back through the photos on their phones to remind themselves where they were on May 2020, while staff at 10 Downing Street were gathering for what Boris Johnson insists was a work event but which is currently under investigation as a potentialContinue Reading
Care leavers are over-represented in the justice system. HTWE | Shutterstock In the year to June 2021, for every 1,000 women in custody in England and Wales, 3,808 incidents of self-harm were recorded. This represented a shocking increase of 16% on the previous year. Between March 2007 and March 2018,Continue Reading
The British military is currently “too slow and resistant to change”, according to Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the UK’s chief of defence staff. The urgent always takes priority over the important. But in the context of one of the world’s biggest security issues – climate change – threats and adaptationsContinue Reading
£1.5 million pounds has been returned to voters in Plymouth in overpaid taxes, lost benefits or withheld support thanks to Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, and his team of caseworkers. Since being elected in 2017, Luke has been keeping track of the sums of money himContinue Reading
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has said he expects a “phased” reopening of society from the end of January. Strict Covid-19 measures, including the closure of nightclubs and a curfew for hospitality venues, were introduced late last year amid fears about the spread of the Omicron variant. On Sunday, the Tanaiste saidContinue Reading
Racism is being called out across the world – and not just in the usual places. The word “racism” has been taken up by Yazidis in Syria, Uyghurs in China, and Papuans in Indonesia and used to describe their experience of discrimination. Expressed very simply, racism is prejudice and discriminationContinue Reading
