For Áine Finnegan the Leaving Certificate results were devastating.
It's seven months now since I've been off this island and back in that other lifetime that was only a short hop to Yorkshire.
The chief project engineer for Boeing's 737 Max jet told a committee of the US House of Representatives investigating two fatal airplane crashes that he approved a critical design change to software on the plane even though he was unaware of key details about how it worked.
The number of centenarians in Japan has topped 80,000 for the first time, casting a spotlight on the growing challenges posed by the country's ageing population.
A single dose of a man-made antibody has been found to cut the risk of patients being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 by more than 70pc, a small study has found.
Greek authorities are still struggling to move thousands of migrants sleeping rough into a temporary camp, a week after the overcrowded Moria migrant camp burned down on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Japan's Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament yesterday to become the country's first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe's line-up.
