Applications for college entry are up slightly on this time last year. The CAO received 73,157 applications when the normal deadline passed at 5.1.5pm today. However the final tally will likely be higher as there is a facility to make late applications, and normally a few thousand more come in. The late application facility, which […]
Gardai are to carry out further searches today of a wooded area near the Border for hides being used by dissident republicans to store arms. Around a thousand rounds of ammunition and a mortar tube were discovered in two hides about six kilometres from Omeath, Co Louth, yesterday. The assorted ammunition was for use in […]
MET Éireann has confirmed they are looking to work with the UK weather office to incorporate weather warnings, after the Irish forecasting office came under criticism for not including Northern Ireland. Former Lord Mayor of Belfast Niall Ó Donnghaile said it was a cause of “great frustration” that the Irish office do not include Northern […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – A London mother was found guilty of subjecting her three-year-old daughter to female genital mutilation on Friday (Feb 1) in Britain’s first conviction for female genital mutilation (FGM) – more than 30 years after the practice was outlawed. The Ugandan mother-of-two, who cannot be named for legal reasons, could face up to […]
Full text of the ‘Dear Patricia’ letter dated February 20, 2011 “I’ve made a right mess of my life and I need help on how to go forward. It all started four years ago, when my best friend died. This man was also my wife’s cousin and a close family friend. He left a wife […]
LONDON — A woman in London was convicted on Friday over the genital cutting of her daughter, becoming the first person to be successfully prosecuted under the country’s law banning the practice. The 37-year-old woman was found guilty of committing female genital mutilation in August 2017, when her daughter was 3. The girl’s father, 43, […]
BERLIN (REUTERS) – Germany’s Jewish community is angry at plans to build a museum celebrating a local sausage delicacy on the site of a facility where the Nazis held Jews before sending them to the Buchenwald concentration camp in the eastern state of Thuringia. Friends of the Thuringian Sausage, an association that runs a museum […]
A WITNESS in the Tipperary murder trial rang complaining about ‘Missing’ posters that had been erected outside her home on the anniversary of Bobby Ryan’s disappearance. Mary Lowry told the court she had found the posters “intimidating”. Pat Quirke (50) of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 52 year […]
One of the most famous faces in Northern Ireland is retiring. One of the most famous faces in Northern Ireland is retiring. Gerry Adams was considered spokesman for the Irish Republican Army in its 30-year war to end British rule of Northern Ireland. The boy from Belfast became active in Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement […]
The accused: Patrick Quirke Patrick Quirke (50) is accused of the murder of Bobby Ryan on a date unknown between June 3, 2011, and April 30, 2013 – a charge he denies. The farmer, who is married to Imelda Quirke and has three sons, was involved in an affair with Mary Lowry, his wife’s sister-in-law […]