Anita Patterson Peppers/Shutterstock Becoming a parent comes with all sorts of questions and pressures. One of the most important decisions for new parents to make is how they are going to feed their baby – whether to breastfeed, bottle feed, or a mixture of the two. Research has found thatContinue Reading
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
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
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
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
The death of Queen Elizabeth II after 70 years on the throne has, of course, been met with widespread sadness and mourning. For most people in Britain, she is the only monarch they have known. Yet, inevitably, the mourning of her passing will be followed by a discussion about theContinue Reading
In the aftermath of her passing, it was reported that Queen Elizabeth could speak the local dialect of Balmoral and the region around it. This dialect of the north-east of Scotland – called the Doric by local people –- is a distinctive, well-preserved form of the Scots language. “Doric” isContinue Reading
In France, the gig economy platform welcomed thousands of immigrants during the pandemic, unions say. Now it’s deactivating them en masse.Continue Reading
In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage. For the Married Women’s Association, the right to vote – won for women over 30 in 1918 – was just the beginning ofContinue Reading
Four more Aer Lingus flights have been cancelled today after an IT glitch took IT systems down on Saturday. That brings the total number of flights axed to 55, with trips to and from Lanzarote and Newark affected today. Despite that, the schedule is mostly running on time, with someContinue Reading
