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The water’s fine, the surroundings are clean, access is easy and the signs make sense – if that’s your local beach then chances are it got a blue flag to prove it. The annual Blue Flag awards were announced on Friday and the beaches that can tick all the important boxes now get to fly […]

Keir Starmer’s job as UK prime minister appeared to be slipping away from him on Monday night as 70 of his own Labour MPs called on him to step down or set out a timeline for departure. Starmer, under pressure over his party’s dire performance in elections last week, had hoped to shore up his […]

Ireland might find itself presiding over the formal establishment of the much-discussed digital euro when it assumes the presidency of the council of the European Union later this year. And while consumers won’t be able to actually use the virtual currency until the end of the decade at the earliest, the latest shake-up in how […]

Sooner or later, everything crosses the Atlantic to wash up on Ireland’s shore. Generations of us have scavenged among the flotsam for blue jeans and bluegrass, hamburgers and Black Friday, the Kardashians, Mickey Mouse and Lisa Simpson’s accent. But the tide has turned across the water and now here comes the jetsam. If you want […]

Sir, – Jennifer Murphy (Letters, May 5th) correctly and helpfully draws attention to some of the adverse consequences – the sequelae – of onset of shingles. As we age into our seventh and eighth decades of life we develop immune senescence, the age-related weakening of our immune system. Shingles can become a much more severe […]

One of the largest waste collection companies in Ireland, Panda, has unilaterally announced a fuel surcharge of 97 cents starting this month. It does not sound like much, but when you include VAT and multiply it by the firm’s 350,000 customers, it comes to €385,000 a month or more than €4.6 million a year. That’s […]

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has called for anyone abused by Jonathan Creswell to come forward after a review found a failure to properly investigate the murder of Katie Simpson. The body representing the tech industry is asking the Government to push for an exemption to smart watches from new EU rules requiring […]

Support for the Republic remaining a member of the European Union remains strong, but fewer than half of all people in the State believe that the bloc is “moving in the right direction”, according to a new survey. Migration was the single greatest concern among voters who believe the EU is moving in the wrong […]

“I had a call this morning from a gent – he just rang me out of the blue – and he was so, so angry,” says Sharon Byrne, chairperson of the Irish Bookmakers Association. “He does his daughters’ birthdays in our shops and thinks it is very unfair he’ll never be able to do that […]

US president Donald Trump said he will increase tariffs on cars and trucks made in the EU from next week. In a post to his Truth Social network, Trump said he was making the move “based on the fact the European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal.” “The Tariff will […]