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Legal battle looms over Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApp messages
M inisters could be set for a legal battle with the Covid-19 inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries belonging to Boris Johnson. The Cabinet Office has until 4pm on Tuesday to respond to the request from Lady Hallett’s official inquiry. There has so far beenContinue Reading
Covid inquiry legal battle looms over Johnson WhatsApp requests
M inisters could be set for a legal battle with the Covid-19 inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries belonging to Boris Johnson. The Cabinet Office has until 4pm on Tuesday to respond to the request from Lady Hallett’s official inquiry. There has so far beenContinue Reading
Tranq: first UK death from the flesh-rotting ‘zombie drug’ xylazine
The flesh-rotting “zombie drug” xylazine has been wreaking havoc in the US. Now it’s in the UK. A toxicology report showed that a middle-aged man from Solihull, England, died from the effects of xylazine, heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. Drug overdoses in the US have been increasing over the last 20Continue Reading
AI could threaten some jobs, but it is more likely to become our personal assistant
AI systems are likely to find quick traction as assistants to humans. PeopleImages.com – Yuri A / Shutterstock BT recently announced that it would be reducing its staff by 55,000, with around 11,000 of these related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The remainder of the cuts were dueContinue Reading
Motorcyclist in serious condition after traffic collision in Donegal
A man in his 30s is in a serious condition after a collision between a car and a motorcycle this evening. Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene after 5:15pm at Galdonagh, Manorcunningham. The motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Letterkenny. His condition is understood to be serious.Continue Reading
Man killed in workplace explosion in Donegal named locally
Updated at 20:27 A man killed in a workplace explosion in Co Donegal has been named locally as Stephen Montgomery. Mr Montgomery, who was 43-years-old, was a married man with one grown-up child and was from the nearby seaside village area of Dunfanaghy. He was working breaking up rock whileContinue Reading
UK condemns ‘appalling’ Ugandan anti-gay legislation
T he Government has condemned Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation – calling it “appalling” and “deeply discriminatory”. The Bill was signed into law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, sparking international condemnation. The new law does not criminalise those who identify as LGBTQ but still prescribes the death penalty forContinue Reading
Mark Drakeford says UK could break up in stark warning
T he first minister of Wales has warned that the UK could split unless it is rebuilt as a “solidarity union”. Mark Drakeford said the social bonds that tie different parts of the UK together have come under “sustained assault” following decades of free market neoliberalism by the Conservatives. TheContinue Reading
Emergency services praised for ‘quick and comprehensive response’ to Blanchardstown fire
Minister of State Jack Chambers has said he will work with Fingal Council to provide any support and assistance he can following a fire at an apartment complex in Dublin. The fire broke out at Falcon’s View apartment block in Blanchardstown just before 6pm on Sunday evening. Seven units fromContinue Reading
Tory MSP says deposit return scheme could go ahead with glass included
A Scottish Conservative MSP has said Scotland’s deposit return scheme (DRS) could go ahead with glass included, as long as it complied with the internal markets act. On Friday evening, UK Government ministers wrote to First Minister Humza Yousaf and told him that in order for it to allow theContinue Reading