In a news conference on Wednesday, Marcelo Bielsa admitted sending someone from the club to watch Derby’s training ahead of the game at Elland Road on Friday. Leeds issued an apology to Derby after the game, which the Yorkshire club won 2-0. Bielsa said: “Many people have made an opinion on my behaviour. Many condemning […]
TRAGIC baby Mary Connors showed no signs of life when she was pulled from a blazing portacabin in the Carrickmines halting site fire. The inquest at the Dublin City Coroner’s Court has been hearing from first responders to the scene. Fireman Ray Martin of Kill Avenue Fire Station told the hearing that they had received […]
LONDON (REUTERS) -Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday (Jan 16) before proposing immediate talks with other party leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock on a Brexit divorce agreement. Lawmakers voted 325 to 306 that they had confidence in May’s government, just 24 hours after handing […]
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 mediation talks will take place this Friday between the legal teams representing Orla Church and the HSE and US laboratory Quest Diagnostics. The […]
ATHENS (REUTERS) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday (Jan 16), clearing a major hurdle for Greece’s approval of an accord to end a dispute over Macedonia’s name and averting the prospect of a snap election. Tsipras called the confidence motion after his right-wing coalition partner Panos Kammenos […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) urged MPs to rule out the possibility that the country leaves the European Union without a deal, to prevent companies from having to make costly contingency planning. JLR said it regretted the parliamentary vote on Tuesday when MPs rejected by a huge margin Prime Minister […]
The Hillsborough disaster took place eight years after police averted another tragedy at the same stadium by opening pitch perimeter gates, a court has heard. Jurors at the manslaughter trial of police chief David Duckenfield were also told how “hooliganism and the effort to prevent hooligan violence had a profound effect on football” in the […]
Turkish prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for New York Knicks basketball player Enes Kanter, Turkish media report. They reportedly accuse Mr Kanter, a 26-year-old centre at the NBA club, of having links with armed groups said to be behind the 2016 failed coup. The athlete, who describes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as […]
European newspapers and broadcasters have reacted with surprise to the scale, if not the fact, of UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Commons defeat on her Brexit deal. Although few are willing to predict what happens next, many expect a delay to the 29 March deadline for Britain to leave the European Union. ‘A new dynamic’ […]
Priceless art is being evacuated and emergency procedures put in place as Paris braces for flooding. Rising water levels in Paris’ River Seine have put the city on flood alert. Art treasures in the famous Louvre museum are being moved to safety because of the threat of floods. The rising water is the result of […]