The HSE has launched a major international campaign to recruit more than 400 consultants to work in Ireland, including medics who practise abroad. As the Irish Examiner reports, there has been a crisis in the profession, with the Irish Hospital Consultants Association saying that more than one in five rolesContinue Reading
F ormer first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has been released without charge after she was arrested as part of the police investigation into the SNP’s finances. Police Scotland said she had been questioned by detectives for around seven hours before being released without charge pending further inquiries. A PoliceContinue Reading
N icola Sturgeon’s resignation was a surprise to many in politics – but the events that have unfolded since she left office have come as even more of a shock. Four months after her resignation, which she insisted was “not a reaction to short-term pressures”, the former first minister hasContinue Reading
Mr Johnson shocked his party by announcing his immediate departure and resignation from his Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat. Despite the former Prime Minister’s attack on the Privileges Committee and its upcoming report on Partygate, Mr Shapps told Sky News Mr Johnson was “perfectly entitled” to stay on as anContinue Reading
Former US president Donald Trump blasted his historic federal indictment as “ridiculous” and “baseless” during his first public appearances since the charges were unsealed. Speaking at Republican state conventions in Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday, he painted the 37 felony counts as an attack on his supporters as heContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak has been urged to call a snap general election after three quick-fire MP resignations left the Prime Minister facing by-election battles on multiple fronts. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Sunak “must finally find a backbone” and send the country to the polls after the PrimeContinue Reading
T he Illegal Migration Bill breaches a “number of the UK’s human rights obligations”, MPs and peers have warned ministers. Most asylum seekers arriving in the UK after the flagship legislation has been passed would have their claim “declared inadmissible”, according to a report published by Parliament’s Joint Committee onContinue Reading
V oters in Boris Johnson’s former constituency have said they are turning away from the Tories as Labour tries to win the seat for the first time in its history. Some passers-by in the centre of Uxbridge, at the heart of the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency where a by-electionContinue Reading
Bus Éireann is to spend €30 million installing electric chargers for buses in regional towns and cities. As the Irish Examiner reports, the transport body is seeking to assemble a panel of companies for the supply, installation, and maintenance of specialised electric vehicle chargers for buses by the year 2035.Continue Reading
T he UK will provide an extra £16 million of humanitarian aid to Ukraine after a dam collapsed in the south of the country. Flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam near Kherson has directly affected 32,000 people. Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up the dam. TheContinue Reading
