Paul Kelso, health correspondent You are far more likely to be treated in the NHS by an immigrant than you are to be stuck in a queue behind one. Almost 13% of NHS England’s 1.2m staff come from overseas, 63,000 (5.6%) from the European Union, with a further 81,000 from non-EU countries (7.1%). British and […]
Gardaí will take a DNA sample from the remains of a baby girl found on a north Dublin beach in the hope of identifying her mother. The newborn, named Belle by gardaí, was discovered at around 10am on Saturday at a beach in Balbriggan. The infant was a full-term baby but tragically died following a […]
MMA champion Conor McGregor has had the latest motoring case against him struck out by a court. The UFC fighter (30) appeared in Dublin District Court today accused of uninsured and unlicenced driving- the second time in less than three weeks he has come before a judge accused of road traffic offences. However, Judge Geraldine […]
The man, who has not been named, fell in the Tower Gully area of the mountain in the highlands of Scotland. Emergency services were called to the area at around 2.25pm on Sunday, and he was airlifted to the Belford Ford Hospital in Fort William. A second man, believed to have been climbing with the […]
Members of a Co Sligo community have expressed “sadness and anger” after a statue was stolen from the car park at WB Yeats’ final resting place. The bronze sculpture is missing from the main car park at Drumcliffe in Co Sligo. It is understood that the statue was reported missing on Sunday. It forms part […]
HOMES had to be evacuated after a bomb was discovered in a vehicle in Meath in the early hours of the morning. The army bomb squad arrived at the scene in the Brews Hill area of Navan at around 3am. Families were evacuated from nearby homes for around five hours until the scene was made […]
The mishandling is so serious that councils have threatened to pull out of a “dispersal” scheme to house asylum seekers, in a move that could have “severe” consequences for vulnerable people. Two years after warning asylum seekers were routinely living in unsafe, unsanitary and substandard housing, the home affairs select committee said “very little has […]
Gardaí investigating the feud related murder of Kane McCormack have arrested a man in his 20s. Gardaí carried out two searches in Clondalkin early this morning. The arrested man is being detained in Ashbourne Garda Station. Father-of-one McCormack (24) was shot dead in a field close to Dunboyne, Co Meath, on the night of December […]
Gardaí are investigating a dissident link to a violent incident at a house in Co Roscommon which was at the centre of a “heavy-handed” eviction last week. Yesterday morning, a group of more than 20 men raided a property in Falsk, Strokestown, armed with baseball bats and targeted security men hired to guard the farm […]
A husband has been charged with multiple counts of raping, beating and injuring his wife at their home – including an incident in which he allegedly flushed her head in the toilet. The accused (46) was granted bail subject to conditions when he appeared at Dublin District Court accused of repeatedly attacking his wife in […]