Former Ireland international rugby player Mick Galwey took an article comparing a former junior minister to a highway robber to be a “complete joke”, the High Court heard. Mr Galwey will be giving evidence in the defamation case taken by Fine Gael Senator Paudie Coffey against Iconic Newspapers, the publishers of the ‘Kilkenny People’. Senator […]
Four men remained in custody overnight after members of the Garda Armed Support Unit conducted a series of raids in Drogheda. The men – three of whom are in their 20s and a fourth man in his 40s – have involvement in the local feud, which has escalated recently, culminating in the kidnapping and torture […]
Opportunities to stop the Manchester bombing were missed as a result of a catalogue of failings by security services, a major new report has concluded. A number of shortcomings in the handling of Salman Abedi before he launched a suicide attack at a pop concert in May last year, killing 22 people, were detailed by […]
Police in Venice have been accused of heavy-handed behaviour after fining a four-year-old boy nearly €70 for riding his scooter in St Mark’s Square. The little boy was riding his scooter when he was stopped by police, who issued his father with a fine for €67. Toy scooters and roller skates are banned from being […]
ROME — Italy’s famously Leaning Tower of Pisa is a little less off-kilter. Nearly two decades after engineers completed consolidation work to keep the tower from toppling over, officials monitoring the monument said recently that its famed tilt had been further reduced by 4 centimeters, or 1.5 inches. The tower “is continuing to straighten,” said […]
A woman in her 50s has died following a collision in Co Galway this morning. Gardai are investigating the collision that occurred at approximately 10.20am at Lismanny, Laurencetown, Ballinasloe on the Eyrecourt to Ballinasloe Road. The woman (56), who was the sole occupant of the car, was fatally injured and was pronounced dead at scene. […]
LONDON — A damning parliamentary report released on Thursday raised questions about the way Britain tracked terrorism suspects, accusing the authorities of moving too slowly to forestall one of five major jihadist attacks in 2017 and finding a “litany of errors” in the handling of another. The report by the cross-party Intelligence and Security Committee, […]
LONDON — The tents have become a familiar sight on the streets of London, popping up outside stores shuttered by a slowdown in trade or even below the plate-glass windows of high-end home improvement outlets. Small and flimsy, they offer some rudiment of shelter to the growing ranks of the homeless in a city that […]
Thirty-six people died and many more were injured when terrorists attacked Manchester Arena and launched vehicle, knife and bomb attacks in London. An committee of MPs has said that in the case of Manchester attacker Salman Abedi, there were several missed opportunities to uncover his plans. He visited a known extremist contact in prison on […]
ROME (AFP) – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is now stable and has even straightened slightly, thanks to engineering work to save the world-renowned tourist attraction, experts said on Wednesday (Nov 21). The tower’s Surveillance Group – set up to monitor restoration progress – said in a statement that after 17 years of observation, “the […]