Organisers from the Extinction Rebellion movement told Sky News that more than 1,000 protesters are planning to block Blackfriars, Waterloo, Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark bridges as part of the event. The protest is to draw attention to the group’s campaign for immediate and dramatic action on climate change by the UK government. “A little incremental […]
Multinationals are being forced to wait up to four months to get work permits for staff arriving from abroad to work in Ireland. Long delays in the processing of residency permits has left some employees in a state of panic, it has been warned. Frank Morley, managing director of Corporate Care Relocation, which has offices […]
GARDAI say the reasons why a street trader – who was brutally gunned down last night – left early from his stall outside the Aviva Stadium, will form part of the murder inquiry. The 50-year-old has become the 19th victim of the Hutch-Kinahan feud after being shot twice in the head in a Co Kildare […]
A man accused of raping and causing brain injuries to a baby claimed he may have unintentionally hit the child’s head off a wall while “tired and frustrated”, the High Court has heard. The 25-year-old defendant, who cannot be identified, denies sexually assaulting the 12-day-old infant in Co Down. But prosecutors argued the injuries inflicted, […]
Remediation work begins this weekend on two of three primary schools in Dublin which have been limited to their ground floors because of concerns about structural safety. Work at Tyrrelstown Educate Together and the neighbouring St Luke’s National School, will continue for a number of weeks, both after school hours and over weekends, Education Minister […]
ISTANBUL — Friends and supporters of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi held funeral prayers over an empty marble slab at one of Istanbul’s holiest mosques on Friday, declaring him a martyr and vowing to unmask those behind his murder in the Saudi Consulate 45 days ago. Arab dissidents, journalists and activists filled the outer […]
TULLE, France (AFP) – A French court on Friday (Nov 16) sentenced a mother who kept her baby hidden in the maggot-infested boot of her car to a five-year jail term, three years of which were suspended. Rosa Maria Da Cruz, a Portuguese-born mother of four, kept her daughter Serena hidden away until she was […]
The British government’s policies of austerity are directly linked to a rise in poverty in the United Kingdom, a United Nations expert said in a scathing report on Friday after a two-week fact-finding mission to the country’s poorest districts. Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, concluded that efforts […]
A Frenchwoman who kept her baby in a maggot-filled car boot has been sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended. Rosa-Maria Da Cruz hid her daughter, Séréna, in the Peugeot 307 and a secret room in her house for two years. She is said to have hidden the pregnancy and birth from […]
Hardy, 41, is best-known for films such as Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road, Bronson and The Revenant but he has also appeared on CBeebies, reading a bedtime story for the programme’s pre-school audience. His latest film Venom came out in cinemas during the autumn. While he declined to speak to reporters outside the investiture, he […]