Image source, Getty ImagesFellow politicians have paid tribute to Tory MP James Brokenshire, who has died aged 53, having been diagnosed with lung cancer more than three years ago.Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the father of three, a former Northern Ireland secretary, as the “nicest, kindest” colleague.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called him “a thoroughly…
Ireland needs assurances that a global minimum corporate tax rate would not change and will be implemented by all countries signing up to it, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. The Minister for Enterprise and Trade made the remarks as he addressed an audience including representatives of US business and its public sector at the Centre…
Businessman Declan Ganley says Ireland should hold out against a global minimum corporate tax rate. The Government is under pressure to sign up to a deal agreed by 130 OECD countries, that would set a corporate tax floor of 15%. However efforts to raise the country’s 12.5% rate have been long resisted. Speaking in New…
The existing EU interpretation of rules surrounding the Northern Ireland protocol could lead to a destabilisation of the supply of medicines not only north of the Border but also in the Republic, pharmaceutical manufacturers have warned. The representative bodies for the manufacturers of generic and biosimilar pharmaceuticals in Ireland and across Europe, Medicines for Ireland…
Ireland ranks last out of 36 developed countries for investment in education as a measure of our national wealth or gross domestic product (GDP), according to latest OECD data. Economists say the presence of multinationals distorts our GDP figures, but education unions say the figures confirm the extent of under-investment in our schools. The annual…
Any cull of Dublin’s gull population would be ‘illegal and unwarranted’, according to Birdwatch Ireland. It comes after fresh calls for a cull from another Dublin city councillor. On Lunchtime Live this afternoon Fine Gael Councillor Paddy McCartan said he was “shocked” at the number of gulls he encountered while out in Howth yesterday –…
Taoiseach Micheál Martin gave Emmanuel Macron a special, limited edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses as a gift when the French president visited him at Government Buildings on Thursday. After bilateral talks and an outdoor press conference, they took a leisurely walk to Trinity College, pausing to listen to a piper and fiddler in front of…
AN Italian conman posed as a fashion photographer in Ireland to help run a multi-million euro Europe wide fraud scam. Using a bogus name, Giuseppe Diviccaro, 45, who was living in Glasnevin, north Dublin, and also operated in Belfast, boasted that he was an international photographer based in Dublin, Venice and Lagos in Nigeria. 5Giuseppe…
Research into natural products is on the rise again as scientists in Ireland become 21st-century “medicine hunters” searching for ingredients for drugs, cosmetics and functional foods in Irish boglands, coastal waters and other terrains. The traditional use of plants in medicines, cosmetics and food predates both western medicine and scientific research. But as scientists began…
It’s maybe a year since Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty began to gel as a women’s four. Maybe. This morning, they franked a superb run of form by claiming a bronze medal under a burning sun.It is Ireland’s first podium place of these Games but surely not the last with this…
