LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape its exit from the EU, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, hit the rocks on Thursday as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dug in their heels for competing visions. After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce with an […]
The daughter of Oughterard publican and teacher, John Kenny, who was found dead in his pub seven years ago, told a jury yesterday she believed a group of Romanian men, led by one man in particular, had killed her father. Gillian Kenny told the trial: “My father was made bits of. His injuries shattered every […]
A mother-of-one stole up to €395,000 from a credit union by taking out false loans on members’ accounts, a court has heard. Susan Redmond (49) had worked at Larkhill and District Credit Union in Dublin for 20 years and began taking out the loans in 2003. Redmond completed and signed loan applications and then issued cheques, […]
Gardaí are appealing for help in trying to trace two men, who are missing in separate cases. Joe O’Boyle (21), originally from Celbridge, Co. Kildare, currently lives in Dartry, Dublin 6. He was last seen on Mayor Street, Dublin 1 on Tuesday afternoon, January 15. He is described as approximately 5ft 11” in height and […]
A 32-year-old man charged with the murder of his mother Elzbieta Piotrowska in Co. Louth, has been further remanded in custody. Tomasz Krzysztof Piotrowski, 32, was charged last week with the murder of his 57-year-old mother, who was originally from Poland, after her body was found on January 8 last in her home in Ardee. […]
Liam Neeson’s nephew has died aged 35. The ‘Taken’ star’s relative Ronan Sexton passed away in Cushendall, Northern Ireland, over the weekend, nearly five years after he fell from a telephone kiosk. Ronan never recovered from the fall, which occurred in Brighton, south east England, in June 2014 when he lost his balance on top […]
Rail passengers could be subject to passport checks on cross-Border services in the event of a hard Brexit. But passengers travelling on Enterprise services between Dublin to Belfast are not expected to endure lengthy delays, according to Irish Rail chief executive Jim Meade. He said if passport controls are required in the event of the […]
OSLO (AFP) – “Norway needs more children! I don’t think I need to tell anyone how this is done,” Norway’s prime minister said cheekily, but she was raising a real concern. Too few babies are being born in the Nordic region. The Nordic countries were long a bastion of strong fertility rates on an Old […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday and then appealed to MPs from across the political divide to come together to try to break the impasse on a Brexit divorce agreement. MPs voted 325 to 306 that they had confidence in May’s government, just 24 […]