Skills shortages as EU workers shun Brexit Britain
Skills shortages across health, education and construction are “starting to bite” as Brexit exacerbates issues companies have with filling vacancies.
Meanwhile, the UK’s construction industry,...
UK ministers’ threats are food for thought
By PJ Cunningham
“Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it” – Sir Winston Churchill (House of Commons, 1948).
Outside...
Tony Kent: ‘I’m both Irish and English’
Colin Gannon
Hailing from a working-class Irish family, with over 100 first cousins, Tony Kent’s life achievements read as inimitable. Briefly, Kent, fresh out of...
Women artists to celebrate Saint Brigid in London
Following on the immense success of its first-ever celebration of Ireland’s women for St Brigid’s Day, the Embassy of Ireland is hosting an exhibition...
Art and the Great Hunger
The world’s largest collection of Famine-related art on loan from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.
Following its display at Dublin...
Human rights in Northern Ireland ‘in limbo’, says Amnesty
Colin Gannon
Northern Ireland’s ability to push through abortion reform and marriage equality legislation is stuck in a “political limbo” because of a lack of...