Climate activists have called off a protest that planned to use drones to force the closure of Heathrow Airport this summer. Extinction Rebellion, the group that brought London to a standstill in April, had originally scheduled a day of protesting with drones on Tuesday, and a further 10 days starting on 1 July. But on […]
Dublin Port chief executive Eamonn O’Reilly spent almost €95,000 on his credit card on flights, hotels and other expenses in 2018, the Sunday Independent has learned. O’Reilly’s expenses included a €5,500 airfare for Dublin Mayor Nial Ring to fly to Chicago. Please log in or register with Independent.ie for free access to this article. Log […]
Boris Johnson received 114 votes in the first ballot of the leadership contest last week, well ahead of other candidates, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in second place with 43 votes. On Saturday, the candidates faced ordinary party members at the National Conservative Convention, where members were quick to suggest who they might back. Coming […]
Fans of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are being encouraging donations to causes supported by Prince Harry using the hashtag #HappyFathersDayPrinceHarry. This includes Scotty’s Little Soldiers, which helps children who have lost a parent while serving in the British Armed Forces, and the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, a charity Meghan is vice president of that […]
Gardai believe mum-of-three Valerie French Kilroy (41) was beaten to death by a man known to her during a domestic incident at her rural Mayo home. The Sunday Independent has learned this man confessed to killing the occupational therapist after being stopped by uniformed officers while running naked through a field adjacent to Valerie’s home […]
A housing charity is set to pay more than €3m for a development fronted by mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, the Sunday Independent can reveal. Mr McGregor took to social media last month to reveal his involvement in a social housing project in North Dublin which he said was being built for “families that […]
Far more trees may be in danger of being cut down along Dublin’s proposed ”Bus Connects” routes than previously estimated, a university professor has warned. More than 4,700 trees have been identified as growing within a 20m wide corridor along the 16 bus routes earmarked for possible major road-widening, said Gerald Mills, Associate Professor of […]
One of Britain’s top PR experts says Maura Higgins, the Irish girl who has been a hurricane of sexuality and chaos in this year’s Love Island house, could be in line to make up to €1m once she leaves the reality TV show. Rich Leigh, bestselling author of Myths of PR and head of Radioactive […]
The “wholesale destruction and redevelopment” of Dublin struck a chord with so many people that writer Hugh Oram got a book out of it. But this isn’t about great public buildings or the Georgian streetscape that fell to the developers’ wrecking ball in the 1970s and 1980s – but the corner shops, pubs and landmarks […]
Far more trees may be in danger of being cut down along Dublin’s proposed ”Bus Connects” routes than previously estimated, a university professor has warned. More than 4,700 trees have been identified as growing within a 20m wide corridor along the 16 bus routes earmarked for possible major road-widening, said Gerald Mills, Associate Professor of […]