PARIS (REUTRS) – Facebook will allow French regulators to “embed” inside the company to examine how it combats online hate speech, the first time the wary tech giant has opened its doors in such a way, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday (Nov 12). From January, Macron’s administration will send a small team of senior […]
A private medical clinic has apologised in the High Court for the failures in the care provided to a woman who died from sepsis after developing a rare infection following a hernia operation. The apology from the Hermitage Medical Clinic in Dublin was read out as part of a €300,000 settlement to the family of […]
New border crossings have been opened between the Turkish and Greek sides of Cyprus – the first in eight years. Dozens crossed via the new routes near Dherynia and Lefke as border guards removed barbed wire fences. Monday’s opening of new border crossings follows the breakdown of United Nations-sponsored reunification talks last year. UN peacekeepers […]
A garda convicted last week of possessing images and videos of children being subjected to sexual acts will be sentenced next January. Joseph O’Connor (58) of west Dublin had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to five counts of possession of child pornography at his home on dates between January 1, 2010 and […]
Around 15 officers and an archaeologist had been searching the property, which was once owned by the mother of the prime suspect John Cannan. But despite a two-week search and an excavation of the back garden, nothing has been found. The 25-year-old estate agent went missing in London in 1986 and was declared dead, presumed […]
An Estonian man has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder a man in Northern Ireland last year. Imre Arakas (59), with an address in Sopruse, Tallinn, Estonia, admitted today to conspiring with others not before the court to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between April 3rd and April […]
The two criminals who masterminded the brutal murder of a Polish father, hacked to death with a machete in front of his terrified wife and children at their Cork home, are now living between Latvia and Lithuania in the Baltic states. However, gardaí do not yet have enough evidence to seek a European Arrest Warrant […]
A referee was hospitalised yesterday after an alleged assault following an adult soccer match. Daniel Sweeney was treated for facial injuries following the alleged attack by three Mullingar Town players in a car park after their away match with Horseleap yesterday in Co Offaly. It is understood a spectator was allegedly involved in the attack, […]
A spokesman said the foreign secretary’s visit – the first by a UK minister since Mr Khashoggi’s death – would build on talks held between the permanent under-secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Simon McDonald,the Saudi King, and the country’s foreign minister. Mr Hunt will have meetings with King Salman and the country’s […]
Five hundred of the food delivery app’s riders will display posters on the bags used to carry food as part of a campaign with charity Missing People. The Deliveroo app will also introduce a fundraising feature called Ride to Find, which will give customers the opportunity to donate. Will Shu Deliveroo’s chief executive, said: “The […]