A MAN has been questioned by gardai in connection with an alleged sexual assault at a Dublin hotel last month. The man was arrested yesterday in relation to the alleged assault. He was questioned by gardai and has since been released without charge. A garda spokesman said in a statement: “Gardaí in Dundrum investigating an […]

For an event so small to become an affaire d’état suggests one of two things. Either the opposition and the media are so starved of material with which to beat the president that they are gleefully pushing the “Benalla affair” to the limit – at risk of overplaying their hand. Or the event in itself, […]

Austria must compensate an ex-policeman who was sacked in 1976 for sexual indecency with minors and who lost 25% of his police pension, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. He committed the offence with two boys aged 14 and 15. The age of consent was 18 for male homosexuals at the time. The […]

Five members of a family who had claimed a total of €190,000 damages for car accident injuries abandoned their claims after a barrister’s interrogation. Driver David Joyce (34) had claimed his car was rear-ended at a T-junction on a back road from Ashbourne to Swords in June 2009. But when Mr Joyce, of Wotton Bridge, […]

A 55-year-old Dublin woman with cancer who is suing over the alleged misinterpretation of her CervicalCheck smears has agreed to mediation talks in her legal action. The High Court was told that the mediation talks will take place tomorrow between the legal teams that are representing Orla Church and the HSE and US laboratory Quest […]

PARIS (AFP) – Facebook said on Tuesday (Jan 15) it will tighten rules for political ads in countries with elections scheduled in the first half of the year, building on transparency efforts already under way in the United States, Britain and Brazil after a series of scandals. “As we prepare for major elections around the […]

LONDON (REUTERS, AFP) – Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape its exit from the European Union, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, hit the rocks on Thursday (Jan 17) as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dug in their heels for competing visions. Meanwhile in France, the government activated its […]

A sacked aide to French President Emmanuel Macron has been detained over the use of diplomatic passports. The Paris prosecutor’s office said a preliminary inquiry had been opened into Alexandre Benalla’s alleged possession of two passports. He is alleged to have used them despite losing his job as a security officer in Mr Macron’s staff […]

LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will miss next week’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to focus on Brexit negotiations, sending ministers in her place, Downing Street said on Thursday (Jan 17). “She will not be going to Davos. She will be focused on matters here,” May’s spokeswoman said, adding that […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will try on Thursday to break the impasse in Britain’s political elite over how to leave the European Union by searching for an emergency exit deal, though there is so far little sign of compromise. After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce was crushed by parliament […]