Restaurant staff who lost their jobs after a popular Irish chain went into liquidation last week have been offered employment by a number of employers, including Eddie Rockets. In a surprise announcement on Friday, the Jo’Burger chain, which owned some of Dublin’s most popular restaurants including Crackbird and Jo Burger, said they were to cease […]
Chester Zoo has said it is “devastated” by the loss of some of its animals in yesterday’s fire, as supporters helped it smash a fundraising target. Members of the public donated more than £50,000 online in little more than 24 hours since the blaze began on Saturday. The money will help the zoo recover from […]
A post mortem examination of a newly born baby, whose body was found on a beach on Saturday morning, has determined that no foul play was involved in its death. The baby was discovered on Bell’s Beach near Balbriggan, north county Dublin at 10am by a volunteer who was cleaning the beach along the sea […]
Martina Fitzgerald’s future at RTE is at the centre of legal talks after both sides sought legal advice to handle the fallout from the station’s decision to replace her as political correspondent. Solicitors representing Ms Fitzgerald and RTE have been in contact about the former political broadcaster’s future at Montrose. Ms Fitzgerald was left devastated […]
‘Santy’s a bollix,” is not a phrase you’re used to hearing at this time of year. But those are the words that inspired fitness and wellness coach Helen Walsh to expand her Christmas charity effort, Operation Snowball, to include children from refuges. “I was out on the streets giving out some leftover food from our […]
Visitors were evacuated and the zoo was closed when a blaze broke out and destroyed much of the roof covering its Monsoon Forest area on Saturday. Orangutans, crocodiles, turtles and exotic birds were among the species living in the southeast Asian environment-style habitat. In a statement on Sunday, Chester Zoo said it had been “one […]
LELYSTAD, Netherlands (AFP) – Dutch ranger Andre Donker sighs as he looks out at the rippling grey waters of the Markermeer, one of Europe’s largest freshwater lakes. “Once upon a time it was teeming with fish here,” he says. But this vast 700-square-kilometre expanse of water, which regulates the level of water in the rest […]
Police are investigating the sudden death of a woman in Glengormley, Co Antrim. It is understood the woman, believed to be in her 40s, was found dead in the Collinward Park area in the early hours of Saturday morning. “Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a woman at a house in […]
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s Parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation on Friday to form an army, prompting criticism from NATO and European Union officials and angering neighboring Serbia, which said it was prepared to use its own army to protect ethnic Serbs in Kosovo. All 107 lawmakers present in Kosovo’s 120-seat Parliament, which is dominated by ethnic […]
Emergency services were called to a blaze at a house in Woodhill Road, Collingham, at around 7am on Saturday. Firefighters rescued five people – believed to be from the same family – from the property but two later died. Chief Inspector Rich Stapleford said: “This morning, our fire and rescue colleagues were able to remove […]