Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he has a duty to protect Irish jobs and workers as he defended plans to travel to Washington DC to meet with the US president as part of the St Patrick’s Day events.

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.

The Love Libraries campaign begins on February 14 and runs until October and is designed to encourage more people to make use of their resources.

It is the second time that Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission for maternity failures.

It was reported last week that Defra minister Daniel Zeichner told a rural conference that farmers are ‘not high on the pecking order’.