Thomas Slaughter News Today

An additional $300 per month for military personnel in frigid climates was signed into law in 2022. More than a year later, service members are still waiting to see that pay increase.

Redevelopment of Stanwix Village in Thurles, Co Tipperary, known locally – and lovingly – as the ‘Widows’ Homes’, is one that has caught the imagination

Today marks the 245th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, by which our founders formally threw off a distant monarchy and established a new nation. Today is also the date that the modern-day successor to those founders — President Joe Biden — set as a different sort of independence day, our independence from the COVID-19 virus that immobilized much of the nation and, indeed, much of the world for more than a year. So, how are we doing on that score? That an...