LONDON (AFP) – The risks of catastrophic weather and flooding from climate change are exercising business leaders heading into next week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, the organisation said Wednesday (Jan 16). An annual WEF report – based on a survey of about 1,000 respondents drawn from the Davos community of business leaders, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s government faced a no confidence vote on Wednesday after the crushing defeat of her Brexit divorce deal by parliament left Britain’s exit from the European Union in disarray just 10 weeks before it is due to leave. Lawmakers voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst defeat in modern […]

A rise in Leaving Cert student numbers this year could drive up points for college entry on popular courses. It will be some months before the final candidate figures are available, but it is understood an increase of 3pc, or slightly more, is on the cards. It is the first significant increase in Leaving Cert […]

European Council President Donald Tusk has suggested that the UK should stay in the EU, after the prime minister’s Brexit deal was rejected in parliament. “If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?”, he tweeted. MPs voted […]

A 14-year-old boy bravely climbed into a burning portable cabin to rescue his four-year-old nephew from an horrific fire that claimed 10 lives. Little Tom Connors was the only survivor of the Carrickmines halting site tragedy. His teenage uncle John Keith Connors told how he pulled Tom out of the smoke-filled cabin barely alive. “I […]

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – McDonald’s Corp has lost its rights to the trademark “Big Mac” in a European Union case ruling in favour of Ireland-based fast-food chain Supermac’s, according to a decision by European regulators. The judgment, provided to Reuters by Supermac’s, revoked McDonald’s registration of the trademark, saying that the world’s largest fast-food chain had […]

LONDON (REUTERS) – British lawmakers will on Wednesday (Jan 16) vote on whether they have confidence in the government, after Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered a heavy defeat in parliament. Here is how the process, which could ultimately trigger a general election, will work: HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK? The opposition Labour Party, […]

THE government has shot down claims that it is about to table a new pay offer for over 40,000 nurses to avert six planned strikes. General Secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, Peter Hughes, claimed department officials would table proposals on Monday to bring nurses’ wages in line with other professions at a meeting today. […]

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered a humiliating defeat over her plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union, thrusting the country further into political chaos with only 10 weeks to go until it is scheduled to leave the bloc. The 432-to-202 vote to reject her plan was the biggest defeat in […]

Ulva, a remote Scottish island, is up for sale, and the government is deciding whether to give the local community the right to buy it, instead of it being sold on the open market. Ulva, a remote Scottish island, is up for sale, and the government is deciding whether to give the local community the […]