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Shares of NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTCT – Get Free Report) fell 3.4% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as low as $19.90 and last traded at $19.95. 231,195 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 68% from the average session volume of 718,044 shares. The stock had previously closed at […]

Shares of NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTCT – Get Free Report) traded down 3.4% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $19.90 and last traded at $19.95. 231,195 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 68% from the average session volume of 718,044 shares. The stock had previously closed at […]

?Simon Harris’s plans to freshen up the embattled government with a new and shiny image are not a new concept in politics.

It took three years to agree and there are doubts about whether it will work in practice. But dialling down the threat of far-right anti-immigration candidates making gains in European and local council elections in 10 weeks’ time depends on progress in controlling a runaway migration problem.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed into the river after a large cargo ship collided with a support - with multiple vehicles falling into the Patapsco River

The first of many crises of religious faith to strike me happened on a Good Friday a long time ago. It came when I belatedly found out that the iconic western series The Virginian had been ousted from the television schedules and replaced with hymns, scripture readings and sacred music, in efforts to piously reflect sympathy with the Saviour’s suffering.

As Leo Varadkar stepped out, and Simon Harris steps in, this is the eighth time an internal leader switch has given us a new taoiseach. Here’s a summary of the previous seven “switcheroos” and a flavour of how the switches worked – and sometimes did not.

Ireland has voted to reject both government proposals to change the Constitution on Family and Care, but it is not the first time governments have found themselves on the losing side of constitutional reform in this country.

In the end it was a close-run thing played out to the background sounds of fierce street protests by farmers. The EU’s embattled plans to restore nature and wildlife in the coming decades just scraped the bar as they went over in a crucial European Parliament vote.

It’s reminiscent of one of those real old Irish questions, like what time is midnight mass? Not only does Seachtain na Gaeilge – A Week of Irish – go on for more than a fortnight, it actually starts on March 1, St David’s Day, celebrating the Welsh patron saint, only to then abruptly end on St Patrick’s Day, the Irish patron’s day.