It was on the 21st December 1988 that a Pan Am jet travelling between London and New York was bombed out of the sky. All 259 passengers and crew on board were killed when the aircraft exploded in the skies above Lockerbie. Eleven people were killed on the ground when the wreckage fell. A service […]
Gardai have arrested a man this morning in connection to a pre-dawn attack at a repossessed home in Co Roscommon. A number of searches were carried out this morning at three houses and one yard in Roscommon. A shotgun was seized during the operation and one man was arrested and taken to Roscommon Garda station […]
ONE of the busiest coffee shops in Belfast allegedly had rodents in its food preparation area, Sunday Life can reveal. The operators of Starbucks on Great Victoria Street in the city centre are being taken to court by the City Council due to “contamination stemming from rodent activity” at the premises. The branch already has […]
Dozens of people have gathered tonight to pay an emotional tribute to Baby Belle who was found on a Dublin beach last week and to show support for her mother who has yet to be identified. At a candle-lit vigil this evening at St George’s Square in Balbriggan, local residents carried candles to the square […]
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has described events in Strokestown as “very serious incidents” and says Garda HQ are in almost “hourly contact” with the local divisional commander. Mr Harris said he was briefed about the reprisal raid at the house in Falsk early on Sunday, in which eight men were injured, and says the force […]
Police were called to the St Stephen’s Health Centre close to Roman Road in Tower Hamlets, just after 11 am on Wednesday. They found three people with stab injuries, who were taken to hospital. It was reported their injuries were not life-threatening. One man was detained close to the centre and was also taken to […]
ROME — The construction of a new bridge to replace the viaduct that collapsed in Genoa last summer, killing 43 people, will be overseen by a native son of the city. The authorities announced on Tuesday that they had chosen a design by the architect Renzo Piano for the bridge, which connects the western and […]
Students, teachers and families in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have expressed their shock after a 16-year-old pupil was shot dead in the grounds of her college. Humeyra Öz was attacked in the bike-shed at Rotterdam’s Design College shortly after her lessons finished on Tuesday afternoon. A 31-year-old man has been arrested. The girl’s friends […]
LONDON — Amateur lip readers pored over the video clip almost as soon as the British Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, shook his head and muttered a few words in disgust. Had he really called Prime Minister Theresa May a “stupid woman” in the House of Commons? Yes, they agreed, it appeared he had. The clip […]
Gardaí have released a photofit image of a rape suspect they are hunting after the brutal assault of a young woman after a Christmas party in Dublin 4. Investigators are confident they will catch the taxi driver after they released the reconstructed image of the suspect yesterday. In an unusual move gardaí issued what they […]