The family of an Irish father of two brutally murdered by his American wife and father-in-law have said they retain full faith in the North Carolina justice system. Tracey Corbett-Lynch, her sister, Marilyn, her brother, Wayne, and friend Lynn Shanahan have flown to the US to attend the opening of the appeal by Molly (34) […]
PASSO DEL TONALE (AFP) – When Mr Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have come a long way since then. Today, the US-born artist is in charge of an ice orchestra of local musicians playing a series of concerts at […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – A drawing by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens sold for US$8.2 million (S$11 million) in an auction in New York on Wednesday (Jan 30) that was criticised by some in the Netherlands who said the work should have been offered to a Dutch museum. Sotheby’s described the small, rectangular “Nude […]
SKOPJE (AFP) – Children are missing school and hospitals are running out of beds as a noxious smog smothers Skopje, earning the small Macedonian city the grim distinction of being Europe’s most polluted capital. “This is not human any more,” says Ms Marina, a mother who has been forced to take two months off work […]
Health Minister Simon Harris has said that financial penalties against nurses will be considered in the coming days and weeks. However, he said he does not think the Government should be “in that space” on the first day of a series of six strikes by 40,000 nurses. The Government has the power to freeze nurses’ […]
A WOMAN has told a murder trial that she confronted the man who was leasing her farm and accused him of taking her underwear from the clothes line. Mary Lowry told the Central Criminal Court that she had four CCTV cameras installed on her farm in November 2012 after the Eircom Phonewatch alarm system she’d […]
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 […]
The already troubled British border in Calais, on continental Europe, is facing additional complications after the Brexit vote. The French president has called on the UK to do more about refugees and migrants trying to make it to Britain via Calais. Emmanuel Macron said he would discuss the issue with the British Prime Minister Theresa […]
A daughter survived the collision that claimed her father’s life after both were struck by a passing jeep, an inquest heard. Abbie Hall Finn was thrown into the ditch by the impact. Her father Martin Finn (60) suffered fatal injuries at the 12th Lock, Newcastle Road, Clondakin, Dublin 22 on January 17, 2017. The pair […]
German foreign minister says Berlin intends to have ‘better negotiations’ with Ankara. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said that Berlin intends to have “better negotiations” with Ankara in a sign which might be seen as a thawing of bilateral relations. “Of course, we have the intention of having better negotiations with Turkey again. This […]