A bogus taxi was caught working out of Dublin Airport yesterday by the National Transport Authority (NTA) and An Garda Siochana. The car had just picked up two passengers. Gardai pulled over the vehicle as it was leaving the airport. The vehicle was seized for ‘no insurance and other offences’, according to the @GardaTraffic Twitter […]

MADRID (AFP) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday (Nov 24) his government will back a Brexit deal with Britain after reaching an agreement on Gibraltar. Mr Sanchez had warned he could boycott a special EU summit on Brexit on Sunday (Nov 25) if London and Brussels did not confirm his country’s right […]

The newspaper says the toddler’s death has been confirmed by Merseyside Police. He was found lying on the pavement with a head injury outside a house in Tuebrook on 17 November, and was taken to hospital in a critical condition. The boy’s relatives reportedly decided to switch off his life support on Friday night. According […]

Demonstrators wearing yellow jackets set up barricades and threw stones as they protest against Macron’s government. Security forces in Paris fired tear gas and water cannon on Saturday to disperse protesters who tried to break through a police cordon on the Champs-Elysees. Several thousand demonstrators, wearing high-visibility yellow jackets, had gathered on the avenue as […]

An investigation was launched earlier this month when children at Stoke High School in Ipswich raised concerns about the age of a new student, who enrolled in September. The question of his age came to light when students sent Snapchat photographs of the man with the caption “how’s there a 30-year-old man in my maths […]

PARIS — The police in Paris used tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to try to disperse protesters in “yellow vests” who were part of another wave of nationwide rallies and road blockades by drivers angry over rising fuel taxes and Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. Clashes broke out on the Champs-Élysées after the police set […]

There are knock-on delays to many flights at Dublin airport this morning after flight operations were suspended for almost an hour this morning. An issue with the radar system meant no departures were permitted and inbound flights were forced to divert. The issue with the system has been resolved and it is now ‘back up […]

Adam Boulton, editor at large Did you know it’s Black Friday? Yes I know it’s a Saturday, but there it is blazoned across the the wrap-around front of the Evening Standard, a London freesheet. The advert is by Amazon, one of the world’s most powerful retailers: “Black Friday Sale 16th – 25th November”. So Black […]

The Swiss love their referendums, but a proposal going to the vote on Sunday on Swiss sovereignty has upset almost the whole of the political spectrum and could affect Swiss relations with the EU and even the United Nations. Why the fuss? The main proposal calls for Swiss law to take precedence over international law […]

A father and daughter have been jailed for five years for firing the same gun during a family altercation in which a six-month-old baby was shot in the legs. Charlene (23) and Dan Donovan (49) both pleaded guilty to possessing a shotgun with intent to endanger life and to recklessly discharging a firearm at Parslickstown […]