Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he has a duty to protect Irish jobs and workers as he defended plans to travel to Washington DC to meet with the US president as part of the St Patrick’s Day events.

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.

Drivers in Britain are being hit by an average of more than 41,000 parking tickets a day by private companies.

A woman who suffered horrific burns in the Omagh bombing has told how she was given only a 20% chance of survival and was administered the last rites four times in hospital following the explosion.

It is the second time that Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission for maternity failures.