An Irish businessman on the board of a company that produces controversial pesticide Roundup said consumers and farmers should be in no doubt that the product is safe. Liam Condon, who is originally from Dublin, made his comments five months after a Californian jury ordered Monsanto, the company that produces Roundup, to pay $289m (€252m) […]
Minister for Culture and Heritage Josepha Madigan said she “acknowledges” the concerns outlined in a letter sent to her by some 300 actors, directors and playwrights about the Abbey Theatre. Ms Madigan issued a response to the letter, which was addressed to her and published earlier today. She said she understood the Abbey will “engage […]
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to punish people who hold unsanctioned protests after seven weeks of anti-government unrest. His government wants to draft new legislation that will ban troublemakers from protests and clamp down on the wearing of masks at demonstrations. He said 80,000 members of the security forces would be deployed […]
A nine-year-old Kildare boy’s dream came true when he was described as a “real-life hero” by actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. The American semi-retired professional wrestler recently welcomed PJ to the set of his Fast & Furious spin-off ‘Hobbs & Shaw’. PJ is living with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare disease in which cancer cells are […]
Paul Fuller, 37, knew the pair were alone when he arrived at the property near Carlisle in the early hours of 30 July last year, carrying a holdall with a meat cleaver, two knives and a baton stowed inside. His terrified victim asked if he was going to kill her as he carried out his […]
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has acknowledged that low pay is an issue for the Irish Defence Forces but said it is a career choice that is “always about more than money”. Amid ongoing criticism about the pay and conditions facing Irish soldiers Mr Varadkar has mooted overseas allowances as one area that could be looked at […]
THE model, actress and mother Jasmine McMonagle was buried alongside her beloved grandmother today, after a priest earlier referenced her devotion to her family. Hundreds of people walked the short distance from St Mary’s Church in Castlefinn in Donegal to the nearby graveyard to say a final farewell to the 28-year-old. The mother-of-two died at […]
Darren Shane Pencille, 35, from Farnham, allegedly stabbed the 51-year-old, who was travelling to London with his 14-year-old son, on Friday. Pencille appeared in the dock at Staines Magistrates’ Court wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit and glasses on Monday morning during a hearing which lasted just over two minutes. He is charged with murder and […]
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Traffic jams formed on a highway between France and Belgium on Monday (Jan 7) during the first of a series of protests that unions plan in EU countries against reforms affecting lorry and bus drivers. Police said traffic backed up several kilometres for around 90 minutes on Monday morning because of a […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission repeated on Monday that EU leaders would not renegotiate a Brexit treaty agreed last month with Prime Minister Theresa May and was pressing on with planning for Britain to crash out of the Union without a deal. “The deal that is on the table is the best and the […]