Dublin footballer Philly McMahon says his weekly visits to prisoners at Mountjoy Prison are helping to turn their lives around. The 31-year-old businessman and GAA star, from Ballymun, who has racked up six All-Ireland medals, has been mentoring inmates at the prison’s progression unit twice a week since last spring. He believes his work has […]
The four-star Dublin hotel co-owned by U2’s Bono and The Edge is one of dozens of Dublin businesses to lodge an objection against a planned injecting centre for chronic heroin and cocaine addicts. Last month, Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) lodged its plans with Dublin City Council for the State’s first medically supervised injection centre that […]
A couple blocked from getting married due to suspicions their relationship was a sham have issued High Court proceedings against the Civil Registration Service and the HSE. A registrar objected to the union after forming the belief it would be “a marriage of convenience”. Such marriages have been prevalent in Ireland in recent years and […]
Gardaí are continuing to investigate the death of a two-year-old girl who died as a result of complications relating to methadone toxicity. Officers are seeking clarification in relation to a report connected to the death of the child, Dublin Coroner’s Court heard. Inspector Tom Condon sought an adjournment of inquest proceedings from Coroner Dr Myra […]
A man whose close relative fled Ireland as his life was under threat pretended to be him so he could collect his dole. Jonathan Murtagh (24) had planned on sending the money to his relative, who was living in Scotland at the time. He told a court that his close relative had been “shot at” […]
MOSCOW — Russia’s multiple arrests of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny during street protests amount to a politically motivated campaign to silence him, Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Thursday, in a rare finding that a government had abused its prosecutorial powers with political intent. Observers of the work of the European Court […]
A High Court hearing will take place next week into the purported expulsion from school of two students who posted videos on social media of another pupil “snorting sugar” during class. The secondary school, which cannot be named, has claimed the students were not expelled but had been suspended pending a final decision by the […]
Macedonia was spared the inter-ethnic violence that raged elsewhere in the Balkans following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, but came close to civil war a decade after independence. Rebels staged an uprising in early 2001, demanding greater rights for the ethnic-Albanian minority. After months of skirmishes, EU and Nato support enabled the […]
A young Dublin woman said she was left in tears when she discovered the bridal store she had bought her wedding dress from had gone into administration. Berketex Bridal, a UK bridal chain with one store in Ireland in Jervis Shopping Centre, announced on Tuesday that their 12 outlets were to close with “immediate effect”. […]
The sister of a man who died in a motorway accident last weekend has paid tribute to her “much-loved brother and best friend”. Darryl Thompson (22), from Kilcam Road in Beragh, Co Tyrone, was killed after being hit by a car on a section of the M1 between junctions 14 and 15 near Dungannon at […]