The State faces paying a €100m bill in just over two years’ time for failing to meet legally binding climate change targets. Failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a 2020 deadline is expected to incur a bill ranging from €6m to €13m, while a shortfall in achieving renewable energy targets could cost up to […]

There are major fears that the number of historic alleged child abuse cases involving scouting organisations is set to soar. It comes after a review of cases found evidence of 71 suspected abusers and 108 victims mostly dating from the 1960s to the 1980s. Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone revealed the shocking numbers at an Oireachtas […]

A Kerry footballer has been convicted of three assaults, two of them on gardaí, after becoming “violent and aggressive” following a day out at a Munster rugby match. Tralee District Court heard Kevin McCarthy, of Gortnatona, Kilcummin, attended the Munster game in Thomond Park on St Stephen’s Day. He drank a “voluminous” amount of alcohol […]

STOCKHOLM (NYTIMES) – Few countries have been moving toward a cashless society as fast as Sweden. But cash is being squeezed out so quickly – with half the nation’s retailers predicting they will stop accepting bills before 2025 – that the government is recalculating the societal costs of a cash-free future. The financial authorities, who […]

ROME — The European Union upped the ante in a standoff with Italy on Wednesday, taking another step toward punishing a government that has repeatedly flaunted its fiscal rules by insisting on a heavy-spending budget that fails to bring down the country’s burdensome debt. “With what the Italian government has put on the table, we […]

BERLIN (REUTERS) – The Trump administration has invited the heads of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler to the White House to discuss US tariffs on carmakers, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Wednesday (Nov 21). Citing industry and diplomatic sources, the paper said the meeting could possibly take place as soon as next week, depending on circumstances. […]

Grinning cheerfully as he swipes his mop neatly across the glass front of an optician’s shop, Sandor the window cleaner tells me he doesn’t think much of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party. “They may say the economy’s thriving but we don’t feel it,” he says. “The one thing they do right is to keep the migrants […]

MURDER accused Cathal O’Sullivan (45) said his girlfriend, who was found dead with 125 different injuries to her body in his flat, was “happy” dying beside him as both sang songs to each other. O’Sullivan, who denies the murder of mother of three Nicola Collins (38), said the last moments of her life were “kind […]

A 26-year-old man has been charged in a case described by police as Norway’s biggest ever sexual abuse case. The man, reportedly a football referee, has been under investigation for several years and now faces charges involving more than 300 teenage boys. The victims were mainly targeted over the internet in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, […]

A REVIEW of historic cases of alleged child abuse in Scouting Ireland has found evidence of 71 alleged abusers and 108 victims. Children Minister Katherine Zappone revealed the shocking figures at an Oireachtas committee this morning. The alleged cases relate to a period between the 1960s and 1980s. Ms Zappone said that none of the […]