Your morning briefing: New warnings as Storm Ciarán nears, energy prices set to fall by up to 30% for Irish households
Businesses and homes in Carlingford, Co Louth, also reported damage to premises following flooding, and a bridge outside Riverstown collapsed amid rising water on the Cooley peninsula. Yellow warnings are in place for most coastal counties this morning.Paul McKibbon walking through flood water in McCartan Bros clothes store in Newry Town, Co Down on Tuesday evening.
The UK was hit by “widespread failure” in its response to Covid-19, an official inquiry into the pandemic has heard, with Boris Johnson believing old people should contract the virus to protect the economy and wavering on whether to impose lockdowns.aris police shot and critically wounded a woman wearing a hijab who was behaving in a threatening manner and shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “You’re all going to die” in a metro station on Tuesday morning, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said.