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Karen Gregory, a tourist from Oklahoma, visited Dublin this week, inhaled an aroma of malted barley at Teeling Whiskey Distillery, and picked a side in a ...

By the 1980s, Ireland had only two distilleries producing a tiny fraction of Scotland’s output. Ireland claims – as do other countries – to be the home of whiskey. Last month, the Irish government launched a €750,000 “spirit of Ireland” campaign to promote Irish products in US bars and liquor stores. The former mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor launched a brand in 2018. Ireland’s distilleries prevailed in the 19th century, accounting for more than 60% of sales in the US, before disaster struck. Karen Gregory, a tourist from Oklahoma, visited Dublin this week, inhaled an aroma of malted barley at Teeling Whiskey Distillery, and picked a side in a centuries-old contest.

I've found time for family and volunteering during my company's pilot – and productivity for all of us has increased, says training manager Jill Tichborne.

We measure productivity through the number of jobs completed so we can see this on a daily basis through our systems. Of course, the move to a four-day week has been a big change, and it took some getting used to. As a single mum I have always had to juggle work, school and being a chauffeur for my children, but this new system means that I can be there for my children and enjoy our time together.

Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion.

While Fox is more financially comfortable than OAN and NewsMax, it is not invulnerable. A potential precedent in the Dominion v Fox case could be found in a recent case involving Sarah Palin, who sued the New York Times. Palin claimed the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. We also reported on critics of the Trump claims”. Dominion is already suing Fox News, as well as OAN and Newsmax. Davis’s ruling is not a guarantee that Fox will be found liable. “While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.” “The reason Dominion is suing is because Fox and other rightwing news outlets repeated vicious lies that Dominion’s voting machines stole the 2020 election from Trump for Biden. But all of these conspiracy theories about Dominion’s machines were just pure bunk, and Fox as a news organization should have known that and not given this aspect of the big lie a megaphone.” In February a jury sided with the Times, finding that a Times employee had not acted with “actual malice” against a public figure or with “reckless disregard” for the truth – the criteria necessary to prove defamation. In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson said: “Limiting the ability of the press to report freely on the American election process stands in stark contrast to the liberties on which this nation was founded, and we are confident we will prevail in this case, as the first amendment is the foundation of our democracy and freedom of the press must be protected.” “Dominion has a very strong case against Fox News – and against OAN for that matter,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a professor who teaches constitutional law at Stetson University and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute. “These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” Judge Eric Davis said. Fox Corp had attempted to have the suit dismissed, but a Delaware judge said Dominion had shown adequate evidence for the suit to proceed.

Trio were praised in February for wearing yellow uniforms in apparent show of support for Ukraine.

But in fact we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it,” he said. Hines tweeted about the US’s Independence Day on Monday. “This is a long-awaited day that residents of the occupied areas of the Luhansk region have been waiting for eight years.

Experts say €60m repaint before Paris hosts 2024 Olympics is only a cosmetic makeover.

“Paint is the essential ingredient for protecting a metallic structure and the care with which this is done is the only guarantee of its longevity,” he wrote at the time. However, delays to the work caused by Covid and the presence of lead in the old paint means only 5% will be treated. Now, however, confidential reports leaked to the French magazine Marianne suggest the monument is in a poor state and riddled with rust.

Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable over election fraud claims. Plus, the amazing fates of Hollywood's greatest dresses.

Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades there could be a third species of giant waterlily and worked with researchers in its native home in Bolivia to see if their thesis was correct. A giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century. With leaves growing up to 3 meters in the wild, it is also the largest giant waterlily on the planet. The median monthly rent in the US hit an all-time high of $2,002 a month in May 2022. The search for survivors of a glacier collapse in which at least six people have died has resumed in Italy’s Dolomites region. On certain nights on a quiet California beach, thousands of small, silvery fish gather in the moonlight to perform a unique mating ritual. US consumer prices increased 8.6% from May 2021 to May 2022, the biggest increase since 1981, outpacing overall annual wage growth at 5.2% in May 2022. Whatever your feelings about Galagate, the furore does make you wonder about the fate of other coveted – and increasingly valuable – garments from Hollywood history. Grunion are a rare fish species that come ashore to spawn. Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) has estimated the damage done so far to buildings and infrastructure at nearly $104bn. “But there are people in the community who want me dead.” In hisfirst trip outside mainland China since the pandemic began, the Chinese president met only people who had undergone quarantine.

Palaeontologist whose part in the discovery of the early human fossil Lucy furthered his work as a science populariser.

In 2002 he chaired the Coppens commission, tasked with drafting an environmental charter that recognises rights and duties of environmental protection in French law. He also backed a theory of “multiregional evolution”, which proposed the simultaneous appearance of modern humans across African and Eurasia, opposed to a widely accepted Out of Africa theory in which we evolved on that continent before migrating out. His achievements in research and popularising science were widely recognised with honours and prizes. Later in life, he compared himself to heroic male explorers, the film-makers – and diver and vulcanologist, respectively – Jacques Cousteau and Haroun Tazieff. This urge manifested itself in what Coppens called his two “pathologies” – obsessions with “l’exotite” (the exotic), especially Africa and tropical Asia, and with archaeology and history. In 1974 Gray and Johanson found bone fragments that they recognised at once to be hominin (more like us than chimpanzee). Over three weeks the team forensically collected one of the most complete early human – or pre-human, as Coppens would put it – skeletons known, later allocated to a new, upright-walking species, Australopithecus afarensis, alive about 3.2m years ago. In the early 1970s, as an experienced archaeological excavator, he was asked by Maurice Taieb, a French geologist, to join an expedition in Ethiopia. Taieb had high hopes for Hadar, a remote desert location he had recognised for its fossil-bearing possibilities.