The State’s longest serving prisoner is battling for two days temporary release per year. John Shaw (73) has been in custody since September 1976 when both he and another English man, Geoffrey Evans, were arrested for the abduction, rape, torture and murder of Elizabeth Plunkett (22) in Wicklow and Mary Duffy (24) in Mayo that […]
BERLIN — For all Berlin’s attractions, it is a small, wooden shack that tops the must-see lists of many tourists here. The former guard house stands behind a row of sandbags at a busy intersection in the heart of the city’s downtown, beneath a sign announcing “U.S. Army Checkpoint.” The world knows the spot better […]
A 21-year-old Irishman has died following a tragic scooter accident while on a college exchange trip in Austin, Texas. Third year UCD student Mark Sands was struck by a car in the early hours of Friday morning while riding an electric scooter. The young man from Blackrock, Co Louth was immediately brought to hospital, but […]
BADEN-BADEN, Germany (REUTERS) – “Love is in the Bin”, the work by graffiti artist Banksy that shredded itself live after it was sold at auction last year, went on display at a German museum – after officials had made sure its shredding mechanism was no longer working. The painting was originally auctioned as “Girl with […]
THE son of a man whose body was recovered in a farmyard tank two years after his disappearance, has told how he felt that the landowner seemed to want him “out of the yard as quick as she could get him out”. He knew “something wasn’t right about the way she was acting,” he said. […]
A murder trial witness has said that she heard someone shout “Smiley I think you killed him” the night a former soldier was stabbed to death on a roadway in north Dublin. The witness also told the jury that her friend’s house party was not “chaotic” and there was “absolutely no loud music” being played. […]
A Fine Gael councillor and constituency ally of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is suing a Sinn Féin activist over what the High Court heard was a defamatory statement on Facebook. Cllr Ted Leddy (32), who holds the council seat in Castleknock once held by Mr Varadkar, claims activist Alan Donnelly defamed him in in a Facebook […]
MADRID/PARIS (REUTERS) – Spain, France, Britain, Austria, Sweden and Denmark recognised Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela on Monday (Feb 4). The coordinated move from major European nations came after the expiry of an eight-day deadline they set last weekend for President Nicolas Maduro to call a new vote. The Venezuelan […]
Gardaí are investigating a fire that ripped through a number of businesses in Buncrana, Co Donegal on Sunday night. The fire broke out at a premises on Main Street at around 9.40pm yesterday evening. Scenes of crime investigators are due to attend the scene later this morning “when it is safe to do so,” a […]
RTÉ says it remains “committed to regional coverage” despite stinging criticism from the broadcaster’s former correspondent for the south-east, Damien Tiernan. Mr Tiernan – who took voluntary redundancy last month and begins his new mid-morning programme on Waterford’s WLRFM today – stands by his claim that regional news reports have reduced, particularly on RTÉ’s ‘Six […]