Private equity firm DBAY has called for the backing of Eddie Stobart shareholders ahead of a crunch vote over its £55 million bid to buy the trucking firm, saying the move is needed to “safeguard jobs”.
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled in the United States as a storm swept across across the country, leaving travellers scrambling to get home after Thanksgiving.
The small Pacific island nation of Samoa has closed schools and is restricting travel ahead of the Christmas holiday season as the death toll from a measles outbreak tops 50, in the latest flare-up of a global epidemic of the virus.
The White House told Democratic lawmakers on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers would not participate in a congressional impeachment hearing this week, citing a lack of "fundamental fairness."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world's efforts to stop climate change had been "utterly inadequate" so far and there was a danger global warming could pass the "point of no return".
AN EXPERIENCED cattle handler who died at University Hospital Limerick after he was trampled on by a bullock at a farm in West Clare sustained multiple traumatic injuries including a fractured skull, his inquest was told.
A raft of smaller properties in the Royal County sold at auction in recent weeks.
