The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to close on Saturday amid fears of further street violence from “yellow vest” anti-government protests. Across France, 89,000 police officers will be on duty and armoured vehicles will be deployed in the capital, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced. Police have urged shops and restaurants on Paris’s Champs-Elysees to shut […]
ROME (REUTERS) – Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini filled one of Rome’s main squares with tens of thousands of flag-waving supporters on Saturday (Dec 8) in a rally that underscored the growing predominance of his rightist League party. Locked in battle with Brussels over the government’s budget plans, Salvini told the cheering crowds he […]
Famous faces from the worlds of theatre and television joined family and friends at the funeral of Donall Farmer, RTE’s former head of drama, who was probably best known as Fr Tim Devereux, the parish priest “with the kindly face” in the long-running television series Glenroe. Donall’s daughter Orla told mourners at his funeral in […]
An investigation is underway after the body of a man was found outside a house in west Cork this morning. The discovery was made at around 10.30am in Direens, Dunmanway. His body is due to be removed to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem will take place. The results of the post mortem will […]
A couple whose home has been without running water since September after a JCB destroyed a pump house serving the property have brought a High Court case against their neighbours and relatives. Anthony and Kathleen Hogan of Mullica Lower, Donard, Dunlavin, Co Wicklow, are suing Kevin Lawlor Senior and his son Kevin Junior also of […]
NEW technology means taking DNA from the remains of hundreds of babies buried in Tuam is possible, a leading genetics professor has said. A government report last year had indicated that this wasn’t the case. Though, Trinity College professor Aoife McLysaght has said that this claim was later corrected. Ms McLysaght was speaking at an […]
Jamie Acourt, 42, pleaded guilty to the plot to supply cannabis resin in the northeast of England. It’s the last conviction in an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Command, which launched in 2014, with seven men charged over a complex and highly-organised drugs network. Acourt previously denied the conspiracy to supply a class […]
PARIS (AFP) – Businesses in Paris battened down the hatches on Friday (Dec 7) and streets were cleared of material that could be used as weapons amid fears of further violence during a fourth round of “yellow vest” protests. The French capital experienced its worst riots in decades last weekend, plunging President Emmanuel Macron’s government […]
Roxanne Davis, 30, from Gosport and her ex-partner Samuel Davies, 24, from Southampton, were convicted by a jury at Winchester Crown Court of causing or allowing the death of Stanley Davis. The baby had suffered a skull fracture and brain haemorrhage, as well as 32 other fractures to his ribs and nine to his arms […]
HAMBURG, Germany — German conservatives opted for continuity rather than change on Friday, electing Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, an ally of Angela Merkel, to succeed Ms. Merkel as their party leader and giving her the inside track on becoming the next chancellor of Germany. The vote by delegates of the Christian Democratic Union is the first concrete […]