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Health inequalities worsening despite improvements in economic measures, report finds

The ESRI study examines socioeconomic conditions across communities in Ireland.
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Four children among 50 injured after car ploughs into Liverpool parade crowd

A total of 27 people were taken to hospital following the incident.
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‘My accent is very soft’: Pierce Brosnan responds to criticism of his Irish accent

The Drogheda-born star plays mobster Conrad Harrigan in the Paramount+ series.
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A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation
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Dramatic video shows teens helping save family from burning home on way home from prom

“It’s just crazy that we were the first ones there,” one of the teens said.
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Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during procession through Jerusalem

Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during procession through Jerusalem
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Half of ‘red wall’ voters disapprove of Labour’s handing of benefits, says poll

Reform UK most trusted on benefits with Nigel Farage expected to say he would scrap two-child limit

Nearly half of all “red wall” voters disapprove of the way Keir Starmer’s government has dealt with benefits-related policy, a poll has found, as ministers faced continued pressure over winter fuel and disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap.

According to the survey across 42 traditionally Labour seats won by the Conservatives in 2019, 48% of all voters had a somewhat or strongly negative view of the government’s handling of the policies, against 25% who approved.

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Don’t cut £13.2bn warm homes pledge over winter fuel payments, Labour told

Charities and experts urge government to honour pledge on energy efficiency as it looks to pay for policy reversal

Plans to reinstate the winter fuel payment will be undermined if the government presses ahead with mooted cuts to home insulation upgrades, dozens of charities and experts have warned ahead of the forthcoming spending review.

Labour pledged before entering government to prioritise plugging the leaks in the country’s draughty homes as a way of reducing household bills and wasted energy.

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France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged

France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has spent tens of thousands of euros in an effort to counter research revealing that Paris has consistently underestimated the devastating impact of its nuclear tests in French Polynesia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Days before a parliamentary inquiry presents its report on the tests, documents obtained by the investigative outlet Disclose, and seen by Le Monde and the Guardian, suggest the CEA ran a concerted campaign to discredit the revelations.

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Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’

Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels

The boss of Australian gas giant Woodside, Meg O’Neill, has attacked young people who take an ideological stand against fossil fuels, suggesting they are hypocrites for ordering cheap online consumer goods “without any sort of recognition of the energy and carbon impact of their actions”.

O’Neill was speaking during the gas industry’s annual conference in Brisbane, where the resources minister, Madeleine King, said the government was working to enhance exploration for gas while improving the approvals process for companies.

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