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Confirming she will correct the record on Tuesday, Ms McDonald said: “What matters is that we respond fully to the young person in question and what matters is that the Dáil record is accurate.” Ms McDonald said the teen will be given “a full, unequivocal apology from me”. “He’s a young person who ought to […]
The Sanctuary Runners, a Cork-based movement that promotes solidarity through sport, are spearheading the Global Solidarity Run this weekend, a worldwide event aimed at supporting forcibly displaced people and those living in extreme poverty. Founded in Cork in 2018, the organisation has quickly grown, and this 48-hour run marks its largest international initiative to date. […]
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it is investigating the possibility that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the devastating October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war. At this stage, his identity cannot be confirmed, said the military. Israel has killed several commanders of […]
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, local police confirmed on Wednesday, saying the 31-year-old British musician was found dead after falling from his third-floor hotel room balcony. In a statement, the capital police said they were called to the hotel in the capital’s leafy Palermo […]
A woman who has claimed she felt like she was being “being ripped open” and in pain during a day procedure to insert a pacemaker in her chest under local anaesthetic at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork has told the High Court how she later left the country in an effort to forget it. […]
It’s a crisp, sunny autumn afternoon at the Coach House café just outside Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford. Once a grim famine workhouse, today the imposing stone buildings are a popular lunch spot on the Waterford Greenway, ideally positioned for hungry cyclists and walkers roughly halfway down the 46km linear route between Waterford City and Dungarvan. Karl […]
All Irish peacekeepers deployed in Lebanon are accounted for and well, the Defence Forces said on Saturday afternoon. The update comes are Unifil peacekeepers were struck by gunfire in Lebanon on Friday evening. In a statement on Saturday morning, Unifil said: “Last night, a peacekeeper at Unifi’s headquarters in Naqoura was hit by gunfire due […]