Gardai have warned that Christmas shoppers and revellers in the capital should “exercise all necessary caution” as undercover officers patrol the city centre in a major crackdown on street crime. As part of Operation Pier, gardai from Pearse Street Station have been arresting an average of 120 suspects a week in a huge drive against […]
The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople Patriarchate traditionally regarded as the Orthodox faith’s headquarters. The Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church has at least 150 million followers – more than half the total of Orthodox Christians. The dispute centres on Constantinople’s decision last week to recognise the independence […]
High winds have caused disruptions to electricity wires and motorists are advised to be aware of wind-blown debris and fallen trees as Storm Deirdre hits the country. More than 4,000 homes and businesses were left without power earlier in the Glengariff area of Cork with ESB technicians currently working to repair the fault. It is […]
PARIS (AFP) – Four family members of the gunman who killed three people at a popular Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg were released from custody on Saturday (Dec 15), the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Three more people close to the attacker Cherif Chekatt, who was shot dead by police on Thursday, were […]
MOSCOW — Ukrainian officials have been raising alarms about what they say is a huge buildup of Russian troops, tanks and artillery pieces along their border that could signal preparations for an invasion. While the Russian military presence along the border is undisputed, some analysts have questioned its characterization as a buildup that might telegraph […]
Gardai have issued an urgent appeal to the mother of a newly born baby, whose body was found on a beach this morning to contact them. The baby was discovered on the Cardyrock beach at Balbriggan in north county Dublin at 10am today by a local, who was walking along the sea shore. Gardai and […]
KATOWICE, Poland – Marathon United Nations climate talks went deep into overtime on Saturday (Dec 15), as negotiators tried to overcome differences on a deal meant to drive greater efforts to limit the threat from increasingly extreme weather. Exhausted negotiators from nearly 200 nations were expected to agree to a deal by Saturday afternoon (early […]
In the dying days of the Soviet Union, Russians used humour to escape the bleak reality of economic stagnation, food shortages and long queues. Political satire flourished on TV in the form of latex puppets during the 1990s, but it was quickly slapped down when Vladimir Putin came to power. In today’s Russia, where the […]
LONDON (NYTIMES) – French officials paid their respects on Friday (Dec 14) at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg, where 37 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims had been defaced with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti in the same week that a deadly attack that shook the nation. “When a place of recollection is desecrated, […]
A woman who says she saw her lover being stabbed to death by her boyfriend has told a murder trial that parts of her original statements to gardai were not true and that she “hated” her boyfriend at the time. Claire McGrath said she was back with the accused within days of the fatal “love […]