A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old were on the same bike when it crashed with a grey Vauxhall Insignia in Oldham Road, Oldham at 2.55am on Saturday. Both cyclists were taken to hospital, where the 17-year-old died from his injuries. The 19-year-old remains in a critical condition. The car was driven from the scene of the […]
A well-known homelessness advocate has called on Irish people to change their attitudes towards the homeless. Campaigner Alice Leahy highlighted the challenges homeless people face while speaking about her new book ‘The Stars Are Our Only Warmth’ on The Late Late Show on Friday night. “People say ‘why can’t they get up and work?’” Alice […]
The victims had been travelling in a VW Touran people carrier, when it was hit by a black VW Golf. Moments earlier, the Golf car was being pursued by police. Those killed included two men aged 35 and 50 and a woman aged 41. A one-year-old boy died later in hospital. Three other passengers in […]
Twenty-nine initiatives, 10 of which are based in London and include independent organisations and local authorities, have been earmarked for the funding. It is part of an early intervention youth fund, announced in April as part of the government’s serious violence strategy, and follows intense pressure over spiralling levels of violent crime in British cities. […]
GAA clubs across Ireland and around the world have paid tribute to the family of little Annabel Loughlin (3). Condolences have been passed on to her grieving family through their local Clonkill GAA Club. The club have received messages from GAA clubs in Australia, the UK and from across Ireland. The WA GAA club in […]
An Austrian colonel is being investigated on suspicion of spying for Russia, Austrian officials have said. The 70-year-old suspect, recently retired, is said to have been spying since the 1990s up until this year. Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl has cancelled her planned December visit to Russia over the scandal. Until now, Austria has been […]
A 40-year old woman who suffered a severe head injury when she was knocked off her bicycle by an 84-year old driver has settled her High Court action. Olivia Walsh suffered fractures to her upper body and was in an induced coma for two weeks after the accident as she cycled on the main Bandon […]
ROME — Before her brother Stefano died in the prison wing of a Rome hospital on Oct. 22, 2009, Ilaria Cucchi lived what she described as a “normalissima” life, as a model wife and working mother of two. That all changed after she saw her brother’s body stretched out on a morgue slab, his face […]
Over 100 gardaí have carried out raids across three counties as part of an ongoing operation targeting drug dealing in the Munster area. Members of the Limerick Divisional Drug Unit, supported by the Garda dog unit and local officers, carried out searches on 29 premises in Limerick, Tipperary and Cork this morning. Three people, all […]
MARSEILLE (AFP) – Rescue workers on Friday (Nov 9) pulled an eighth body from the rubble of two dilapidated buildings which collapsed in the southern French city of Marseille, as residents were evacuated and nearby buildings inspected. Officials had feared five residents and three visitors were in one of the buildings which suddenly crumbled on […]