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Senior women’s futsal team suffer heavy defeat against Slovakia Slovakia overpowered Northern Ireland’s senior women’s futsal team in their third and final preliminary round qualifier for the UEFA European Women’s Futsal Championship 2022. Keith Gibson’s team registered their first competitive victory when they defeated Lithuania 1-0 on Thursday. But Slovakia were a different proposition as they recorded an 8-0 win to top Group A of the preliminary round of the Women’s Futsal Euro and progress to the next stage. In their third game in the mini tournament in Lithuania this week, No...

Senior women’s futsal team prepare for Euro qualifiers in Lithuania Northern Ireland’s senior women’s futsal team are gearing up for three Euro qualifiers in Lithuania next month. Team boss Keith Gibson has put together an 18-strong training squad ahead of the three matches which will be whittled down to 12 before his team travel to eastern Europe. The matches from 5-8 May against Lithuania, Slovakia and top seeds Serbia are in Group A of the preliminary round of the UEFA European Women’s Futsal Championship 2022. The winners of three Women’s Futsal Euro preliminary rounds next mont...

Deborah Witkiss, Insight Legal Eduardo Reyes, Law Society Gazette In the legal sector, near-universal remote working arrived overnight. Transactions underwent a digital transformation and platforms many had never heard of, such as Zoom, were suddenly in general use. Imagination, too, was applied to delivering the services, advice and support that vulnerable clients needed. Software provider Insight Legal’s chief operating officer Deborah Witkiss notes that lawyers’ scepticism about using ‘the cloud’ was instantly overcome. ‘We definitely saw a change in people being open to the idea...

Three months in and we’re yet to see the full effect of life outside the bloc. But for industries reliant on overseas staff like the care and agriculture sectors, it’s a different story It’s a job that pays around £40,000 a year but few people want to do it, and it can’t be done by a machine. So when ‘chick sexers’ – who determine whether young chickens are male or female so they can be sorted for meat or eggs – were added to the skilled worker list set by the Migration Advisory Committee, poultry farmers breathed a sigh of relief. Butchers, bricklayers and deckhands have als...

Eduardo Reyes reports The low down The high contracting parties of the government and EU have spent the time since Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement was rejected by parliament wrangling over sea fish, state aid and ‘regulatory alignment’. Our hugely valuable legal and financial services sectors have looked on with bemusement as London and Brussels edged towards trade arrangements that may not even allow an unfrozen sausage to travel from Belfast to Dublin. With a ‘thin’ deal in place, nevertheless, agreement could be reached on the mutual recognition of judgments and qualifications...