Ibec’s first assessment of current measures projects a loss of between four and six billion euro in trade in the short term.

The Parole Board recommended William Dunlop be moved but Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood blocked the transfer.

A 13-year-old girl has died in a house fire near Liverpool. The blaze was found in the first-floor rear bedroom of a mid-terraced house in Kingsway, Prescot, late on Wednesday evening, Merseyside ...