DUBLIN (REUTERS) – Ireland will aim to ensure there is as little friction as possible in trade across its border with British-ruled Northern Ireland if Britain crashes out of the European Union without a deal, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Tuesday (Feb 5). The future of the border, which will be the United Kingdom’s […]

A man in his twenties has been charged with the murder of his 66-year-old grandfather in Douglas on the southside of Cork city in July of last year. Christopher O’Callaghan (22) from Pinecroft, Grange, Douglas, appeared before Cork District Court charged with murdering Joe O’Callaghan at his home in Galwey’s Lane in Douglas on July […]

An Irish stylist who has been helped through her recent cancer treatment by charity campaigner and model Alli MacDonnell has paid and emotional tribute to her after the news of her sudden death was announced on Monday evening. Alli, a mother of four (37) from Rathfarnham, died tragically on Monday. In recent years she fronted […]

Gardaí have searched 23 addresses in 11 counties as part of a crackdown on the possession and distribution of child pornography. The Online Child Exploitation Unit at the Garda National Protection Services Bureau is leading Operation Ketch 5. The latest phase took place since last Friday, and involved searches under warrants issued under the Child […]

LONDON/BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Brussels on Thursday (Feb 7) to tell European Union leaders they must accept legally binding changes to the Irish border arrangements of the divorce deal or face the prospect of a disorderly no-deal Brexit. The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU in just […]

A timeframe has yet to be set to lift the wreck of the plane carrying Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, investigators have said. The Piper Malibu N264DB carrying Sala (28) and Ibbotson (59) was discovered off the coast of Alderney in the English Channel on Sunday evening – almost two weeks […]

BELFAST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Northern Irish party which props up Prime Minister Theresa May’s minority government demanded on Tuesday that the European Union replace the “toxic” Irish border backstop she agreed, so that the United Kingdom can quit the bloc in an orderly fashion. With the United Kingdom due to leave the EU in just […]

Ex-Manchester United boss José Mourinho has agreed a prison term in Spain for tax fraud but will not go to jail. A one-year prison sentence will instead be exchanged for a fine of €182,500 (£160,160). That will be added to a separate fine of €2m. Spain rarely enforces sentences of less than two years for […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will receive British Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels on Thursday, the spokesman for the bloc’s executive said. Source: Read Full Article

Police Scotland are asking members of the public in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if they can help with a robbery in a Fife village. The raid took place in Lundin Road, Crossford, on Friday May 4, when a 76-year-old woman was held in a house and a number of items were stolen. […]