Philip Roe News Today

This week in our series, AEDIN JOHNSTON finds out about a government project that enabled a Cork school to expand its library and obtain 2,000 new ...

Leading a team of 150.

After almost three years.

SIR – The government move to make gas boilers illegal by 2035 will not solve the cost-of-living crisis, but make it worse for homeowners.

The boy slipped in a sandpit and struck his head against logs, and three months later fell and hurt his lip…

Child injured himself twice within a few months in separate incidents at facility

DEFENCE Secretary Liam Fox was, apparently, “deeply saddened” to learn about the death of Lance Corporal Paul Watkins, recently killed, in Afghanistan. How desperately sad, and appalling, the death of the Lance Corporal killed, apparently, by a fifth columnist Taliban assassin. That these soldiers are having to put their lives on-the-line in a futile, un-winnable war is bad enough, but when these same soldiers have to carry the added burden of not knowing, whether, or not, that partic...

ALTHOUGH a General Election galvanises readers into action, a local election can be just as demanding. Existing and potential politicians make promises, produce denials and attack opponents. Once an election is over some successful candidates continue to use the paper to keep readers informed of policies and local arguments, while others fade into obscurity. On a national level our local MPs were unusually quiet, although MEP Geoffrey Bloom appeared in print on 11 occasions. As the year...

UK Space Sector Skills Survey highlights industry shortage The UK Space Agency has published its Space Sector Skills Survey for 2020. A key problem identified is the supply of relevant skills to support future growth in the industry. In this area, it was noted that while “the industry recruits easily across cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities”, the number of women employed in the industry is under-representative of the working age female population. Brexit was also identified as a harm...