Luxury Italian designer sent white models down catwalk at Milan fashion week wearing religious headpiece. Sikh commentators and organisations have criticised Gucci for using turbans in a recent runway show, saying the fashion brand has culturally appropriated their religious headpiece. A host of models wore turbans in Gucci’s show on Wednesday as part of Milan […]

PARIS/BERLIN (REUTERS) – France, Germany and Britain have opened a new channel for non-dollar trade with Iran to avert US sanctions, although diplomats say it is unlikely to allow for the big transactions that Teheran says it needs to keep a nuclear deal afloat. Washington’s major European allies opposed last year’s decision by US President […]

Former Republican paramilitary Declan “Whacker” Duffy is facing the prospect of a return to Northern Ireland, where he is wanted to continue serving a life sentence for murder. Declan Duffy (43), with a last address at Hannover Street West in Dublin, had been serving a term of life imprisonment for the murder of British army […]

A then 17-year-old girl arrested over a serious attack in which young woman’s face was slashed in Dublin city-centre has been sent forward for trial. The teenager appeared before Judge John O’Connor at the Dublin Children’s Court charged with causing serious harm, contrary to Section Four of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, to […]

France’s National Assembly has approved a law banning the wearing of masks at protests, and another to ban specific people from taking part in rallies. Wearing a mask could now result in a one-year prison sentence and a €15,000 (£13,000; $17,000) fine. France has seen weekly protests by the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) movement – […]

LONDON (REUTERS) – Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, visited London’s National Theatre as the venue’s new royal patron on Wednesday (Jan 30), watching a line-run of a Shakespeare play and meeting aspiring performers. But as theatre-trained Meghan briefly reconnected with her acting past, a return to her former television series “Suits”was all but ruled out […]

A 21st birthday party is a key part of the garda investigation into the aggravated burglary of an elderly woman at her home in the early hours of last Saturday. The incident occurred at around 2.30am when an elderly woman living at Carrickbanagher near Colooney, in Co Sligo was threatened and assaulted by a male […]

A medical expert told the trial of a retired surgeon, who is accused of groping a number of boys in his care, that he was “shocked” by allegations. Michael Shine (86) of Ballsbridge, Dublin has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 13 charges of indecent assault allegedly committed during medical examinations at […]

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator told Britain on Wednesday that time was too short to find an alternative to the Irish border arrangement agreed in their divorce deal, as London wants, and that this deal was not open for renegotiation. With only two months left before Britain is due by law to […]

Forecasters have warned that most part of the country will be hit by significant levels of snow from early today. A status yellow warning for snow and ice remains in place for Ireland until Saturday, with showers of hail, sleet and snow forecast. Today will see widespread outbreaks of heavy rain spreading in a north-easterly […]