A woman who alleged she was tripped at a Spin Roller Disco by an unidentified child, who put its leg out in front of her as she walked through a crowd, has been awarded €25,000 damages against the company running the event. Barbara Thomas, a 44-year-old executive officer, told Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond […]
Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan has said he would “do it again” after he broke windows in a courtroom in protest at the stuffy conditions. The senior counsel hit headlines in the Sunday newspapers after it emerged he broke three small window panes in his Four Courts courtroom after he complained about the […]
German justice minister Katarina Barley has sharply condemned an online scheme launched by the far-right AfD party to get schoolchildren to inform on teachers who are politically partial. The far-right party entered parliament for the first time this year, becoming the biggest opposition party. Its informant site started in Hamburg and is likely to be […]
Gardaí are investigating a serious road traffic collision in the capital last night. The incident occurred on Cappagh Avenue, Finglas at approximately 10pm on Monday evening. A motorcyclist was seriously injured after he struck a van and caught fire on impact. Emergency services attended the scene and the injured was rushed to hospital in Blanchardstown. […]
A mother-of-two has been spared jail but was given a life-time pet ban after her two dogs were found in emaciated and starving conditions. Kelly Bennett, with an address at Glenshane Grove, Tallaght, Dublin wept in court as she was prosecuted for neglecting her three-old Jack Russell terrier named Buddy and Jessie a now 12-year-old […]
More than 100 firefighters and emergency workers in southern Spain searched yesterday for a two-year-old boy who fell into a narrow and deep borehole. Rescuers have been unable to get into the borehole, which is no wider than 25cm in diameter and is believed to go down more than 100 meters. Yesterday afternoon they were […]
A graveyard was searched for weapons and bombs ahead of a funeral in the Midlands yesterday over an escalating Traveller feud. More than 50 gardaí were involved in the operation ahead of the funeral of Maureen Stokes (93) at St Mel’s Cathedral in Co Longford. The special policing plan was put in place after an […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Monday he would remain in his position if Britain leaves the European Union on March 29 without a deal, because he would need to help oversee the process. Asked on BBC television if he would remain in government if Britain left the bloc without a deal […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – Prime Minister Theresa May must win a vote in parliament to get her Brexit deal approved, or risk seeing Britain’s exit from the European Union descend into chaos. May postponed a parliamentary vote on her deal last month, admitting she was set to lose it, and pledging to seek assurances from the […]
The widow of a man killed in a traffic collision held up a photo of her husband in court and shouted that she wanted the man responsible for his death to see how young he had been. Michael Jones (25), a roofer from Whitestown Drive, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing the […]