Week 8 - Wednesday
Midlands Today with Will Faulkner
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 - 2 hours 1 minute
Midlanders stranded in US blizzard — Birr native Michael Caman and other locals in New Jersey and Rhode Island describe being snowed in for days after Storm Hernando shut down cities and cancelled transatlantic flights.
Electricity price gap under fire — Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan says it’s “grossly unfair” that Irish households are paying almost twice as much for electricity as data centres.
Latte levy backlash grows — Offaly TD Carol Nolan calls for the proposed single-use cup levy to be scrapped, warning it would pile further costs onto small businesses and consumers.
