The new Prime Minister will reintroduce direct rule in Northern Ireland in the autumn, it has been claimed. The Times yesterday reported that Westminster would take back the reins within the next three months in order to deliver Brexit.

A review of the latest smear check scandal will not examine whether women have been delayed treatment or a cervical cancer diagnosis. Dublin City University president Brian MacCraith is to hold an “immediate rapid review” of an IT glitch which left 800 women without smear test results. This will only look into when the HSE was told and how the error was handled.

Its reported that the cost of the nurses’ pay deal after their strike earlier this year is running millions of euro ahead of the Government’s original estimate and is contributing to an acceptance among Ministers that it will now be impossible to avoid another sizeable financial bailout for the health service this year.

The Irish Sun reports that women are twice as likely to lose their jobs to robots as men are, an alarming new report reveals. Nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of Brits in industries at high risk from automation are women, a study by the IPPR think-tank found.

An online therapeutic support service for victims of sexual violence will be the first alternative treatment of its kind in the world, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said.

In consumer news, back-to-school costs are a financial burden for three-quarters of parents and one-third cannot afford some of the school items needed, a new survey has found.

The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources "digital first". Pearson said students would only be able to rent physical textbooks from now on, and they would be updated much less frequently.

Doubling the amount of ethanol in petrol would significantly reduce our carbon emissions. A new climate action report has found that doubling the amount of ethanol in petrol will reduce our carbon emissions by 150,000 tonnes.

In today's zen, have a listen below to 'The Rocket Man' by Elton John to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.