What happens next? Day by day after the Queen’s death
The new King, Charles, will make a televised address and tour the UK, visiting Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Queen has died and the...
The new King, Charles III
The Queen’s eldest son, Charles, 72, is now King.
He is this country’s longest serving heir to the throne and has carved out his own...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIES AGED 96
The death was announced late Thursday afternoon of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, at the age of 96, after a short illness at Balmoral Castle...
Queen’s family gather by her sickbed in Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth’s family are travelling to be by her sickbed at Balmoral in Scotland amid concerns the 96-year old monarch’s health is deteriorating.
Buckingham Palace...
Number 10 plays down protocol as White House plays it up
Prime Minister Liz Truss and US President Joe Biden exchanged the customary pleasantries and Downing Street and the White House issued their summaries of...
Protocol row can be resolved, says Taoiseach, as he congratulates new PM
Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who is expected to meet new PM Liz Truss within days, congratulated her on becoming the UK Prime Minister.
He said he...
Tax cuts, deregulation, broadband…and the NHS
Britain’s newest Prime Minister, its 56th and third in as many years, Liz Truss, formally took over in Downing Street shortly after 5.00 pm.
Britain’s...
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins pays tribute to Gorbachev
The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said in a statement:
“Among the expressions of sadness at the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, most painful perhaps...
Irish lacrosse team bows out of comp to make way for Native American team
Ireland have withdrawn their lacrosse team from a tournament they had qualified for so that the Native American team named the Iroquois Nationals can...
Ireland repays Native American tribes for famine kindness 173 years on
Irish donors have sent money to native American tribes badly hit by the coronavirus to repay the kindness the Choctaw Nation tribe showed Ireland...