REAL Christmas trees are better for the environment but Irish shoppers prefer their artificial counterparts, retailers have revealed. Retailers say that early indications this year suggests that artificial Christmas trees have overtaken natural pine, spruce and fir as the nation’s choice. This comes as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Andrew Doyle has […]
New figures showing nearly 10,000 people are homeless are “not worth the paper they are written on”, according to experts in the area. The Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) group and the Simon Community have both questioned the validity of figures which show a slight increase in people requiring emergency accommodation during October. Department of […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is in Argentina for the G20 summit, but he remains firmly in the crosshairs of the yellow vest protest movement that appears to have the support of the French public. The yellow vest rebellion in France began in opposition to fuel tax increases, but has spread to cover a wide range […]
The slide is at Winifred Lane play area in the village of Aughton and police posted a video on Facebook showing the blade. The video has been viewed and shared thousands of times and the vandals were described as “vile”, “sick” and “evil” by those who watched it. Lancashire Police said on Friday that the […]
French police are struggling to regain the upper hand against violent “yellow jacket” protesters in central Paris, resorting to water cannons to try to quell the demonstration. The protesters who are angry over rising taxes and the high cost of living have sprayed graffiti on the Arc de Triomphe, torched at least one car, and […]
BUENOS AIRES (REUTERS) – European officials said that G-20 nations had agreed to commit to reforming the World Trade Organisation in a preliminary draft of the communique due to be released at the end of a two-day meeting of the bloc on Saturday (Dec 1). An EU official said the language currently being negotiated for […]
Crash victim Stephen Marron had been hoping to bring his children to see Santa Claus this weekend. Speaking before the funeral mass, parish priest Canon Shane McCaughey said Mr Marron’s family “are in a state of shock.” Mourners gathered early at St Mary’s Church in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan for the funeral of Mr Marron, the […]
Gardai are investigating whether a gun attack in the capital on Thursday night was linked to the notorious Hutch/Kinahan feud which has claimed 19 lives. Detectives believe it is a “complete fluke” that no one died in the botched shooting in the Belclare Grove area of Ballymun shortly after 8.30pm. Gardai fear the shooting on […]
Police have captured an unlawfully at large prisoner who breached his conditions during home leave. Stephen Allison (31) was imprisoned for a number of charges including assault, attempted robbery and driving offences. He went missing around 4pm on Tuesday November 27 in Belfast city centre. Police recaptured Allison on Bangor on Friday evening A PSNI […]
TRAVNIK, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The school in this medieval town is divided by a flimsy metal fence and the legacy of war. Each day, children stream into the same school building, only to study separately, using separate textbooks, while learning in different languages. The ethnic Croatians from the suburbs are taught in the right […]