Children as young as 11 have been involved in schoolboy football matches that had to be abandoned due to violent or unsavoury incidents in recent weeks. In a statement yesterday, the Dublin and District Schoolboys League (DDSL) confirmed that seven matches have been abandoned in the past six weeks. It’s understood that of those, three […]

A judge who threatened to impose “a Trump solution” of ordering the building of a wall between warring Dublin neighbours has invited them to try to settle the boundary disputes. Artist Begona Alvarez O’Neill and Lucita Pascual Sanmiguel, of “Mullaghmore”, 73 Dublin Road, Sutton, Dublin 13, are being sued left and right by their neighbours […]

Matic didn’t have a poppy on his shirt during the side’s 2-1 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday, but has worn them in previous years. The Serbian explained the symbol now reminds him of the fear he felt when his country was bombed in 1999. In a statement on Instagram, Matic said: “I recognise fully why […]

Italy’s populist deputy PM Matteo Salvini has brushed off news of his break-up publicised by his former girlfriend on Instagram on Monday. Elisa Isoardi, a TV host who had been in a relationship with Mr Salvini for three years, made the announcement as he flew to Ghana to discuss migrants. He later dismissed it, saying […]

French journalist Philippe Lançon has made his first public appearance since being wounded in the deadly 2015 attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Lançon appeared before cameras in Paris to collect the Femina literary prize for his book Le Lambeau (The Thread). He was hit in the jaw and arm during the attack when Islamist […]

LONDON (REUTERS) – Superbug infections resistant to multiple antibiotics kill around 33,000 people a year in Europe, health experts said on Monday (Nov 5), and the burden of these diseases is comparable to that of flu, tuberculosis and HIV combined. An analysis by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found the impact […]

Search engine giant Google needs to do better in dealing with issues of sexual harassment and discrimination, its head of Irish operations has said. Fionnuala Meehan, head of Google Ireland, also confirmed that none of the company’s employees here has been fired for sexual harassment. The company supported its workers who staged a walk out […]

Officers said they arrested two 49-year-olds, a 55-year-old, another man aged 46 and a 19-year-old after they handed themselves in to a south London police station on Monday night. It comes after Theresa May condemned the video, which emerged online, calling it “utterly unacceptable”. The footage, which prompted an outcry on Monday, showed a large […]

It is the third shark attack in the last two months in the same area. Police said the 33-year-old tourist from Victoria was with a group of friends who had chartered a yacht, when the shark struck leaving him with severe leg and arm injuries. Despite at least two of the people he was with […]

A 50-year-old woman charged with the murder of a man in his 20s in south Dublin has requested a psychiatric assessment during her first court appearance. Grace Miano, with an address at Tudor Lawns in Foxrock, appeared at a special sitting of Dublin District Court yesterday morning in connection with the killing of Malawian national […]