With the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste unavailable, it will be Education Minister Ruairà Quinn who attends the late British Prime Minister’s funeral next week.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is under pressure to resign following testimony from James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry yesterday. Rupert Murdoch appears before the media inquiry today.
The mayor was heckled as he visited the Clapham Junction area. Meanwhile shops and businesses across London have stayed closed or shut early this afternoon.
The Liberal Democrats – currently in coalition with the Conservatives – have hinted at supporting the opposition in calls to postpone the proposed takeover.
The Labour party leader Ed Miliband will undergo a nose operation this summer with reports saying it is part of a plan to improve his voice and make him an election winner.
The leader of the British opposition party has announced that he will marry his longtime partner – however, he won’t be asking his brother to be his best man.
SIXTY-EIGHT PER cent of patients are unaware that they can officially complain about their hospital stay.
An Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare survey revealed that although 93 per cent of the patients surveyed were satisfied with the service they received, one in every five wanted to discuss an area of dissatisfaction but a third felt they never had the opportunity to do so.
The aspects of care that patients were most dissatisfied with included emergency department conditions and waiting times and lack of information about hospital routines, tests, medication side effects and after-care.
So today we want to know: Have you ever lodged a complaint about a hospital?
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Meet Britain’s newest political commentator / press watchdog… Joey Barton
Maybe he’ll slate us on Twitter for writing this too.
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