The payment scheme is aimed at specific healthcare workers who have long Covid. Following a Labour Court recommendation in June 2025, that scheme will formally conclude on 31 December 2025. "It's ...

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a ...

One of its headline findings is that 23,000 fewer people would have died in England during the first wave had the government introduced a lockdown one week earlier, writes Tommy Meskill.

The "petty party politics" that characterised Stormont's response to Covid-19 must never be repeated in the event of another ...

A man who used an e-bike to assault a garda who was trying to enforce Covid lockdown restrictions has been given a prison term of 20 months.

Covid Inquiry chair Heather Hallett did not give enough consideration to Northern Ireland's system of government when she criticised Stormont's response to the pandemic, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has ...

The unemployment rate for 15 to 65-year-olds reached 5.3% in the third quarter of this year, up 0.8 percentage points from 4.5% the same time in 2024.