A CHILDREN’S author who allegedly breached a sex offenders order has been refused bail after gardai argued that he posed a flight risk. Dorian Cowland (69) is also alleged to have used a fake Facebook profile to search the names of “injured parties” connected to a previous case. The kids’ book writer – who uses […]

Arshid Hussain was one of the men jailed in 2016 after being convicted of 23 child sex offences carried out through the Rotherham grooming gang. Sammy Woodhouse was one of his victims and fell pregnant aged 15 after being raped. Rotherham Council contacted Hussain in prison to tell him he could request visits from Ms […]

Ukrainian sailors were filmed yesterday giving what Kiev said were forced confessions and brought to court after Russia seized their ships off the coast of Crimea in a major escalation of tensions. A court in Crimea ruled yesterday that 12 of the 24 sailors and security service agents who were captured would be kept in […]

A Fine Gael TD will say he was “astonished” FG Senator Paudie Coffey is suing for defamation over a newspaper article, the High Court heard. Senator Coffey says the January 2016 article in the Kilkenny People was a major factor in the loss of his Waterford Dáil seat. He also disputes that the story was […]

A town has thrown its support behind a two-year-old girl’s dream of walking. The people of Dundalk, Co Louth, have already raised half the target of €100,000 to pay for surgery in the US for little Zoe Murphy. Zoe was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and her parents, Lynda (32) and Eamon (37), have […]

French authorities have arrested a senior civil servant, accusing him of spying for Pyongyang and handing over sensitive information to the North Korean regime. Benôit Quennedey, an official in the upper house Senate who heads up the Franco-Korean Friendship Association (AAFC in French), was detained by security services and is being questioned by the domestic […]

PARIS (REUTERS) – A piece of the original spiral staircase from the Eiffel Tower, Paris’s most famous attraction, was sold for 169,000 euros (S$262,981) on Tuesday (Nov 27), a spokesman for auction house Artcurial said, three times the initial estimate. The successful bidder, an unidentified collector from the Middle East, acquired a section of the […]

A judge jailed a young woman for two months for causing criminal damage to a €1.50 tube of Pringle crisps in a Tesco supermarket. Judge Brian O’Shea jailed Kathleen McDonagh (25) at Cork District Court after hearing she opened the crisp container in a Tesco outlet from which she had been barred when approached by […]

BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – The European Union’s climate chief on Tuesday (Nov 27) called on the bloc to aim for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the most ambitious path in a long-term strategy due to be announced on Wednesday. With President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of international efforts to curb global warming, […]

Sky News can also reveal a former employee at the drug manufacturer was advised not to use Primodos by a doctor working at the company, while it was still being offered to the public. The drug was made up of two pills which would induce a period in women who were not pregnant. Sandra Malcolm […]