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Gaelic games The Ulster Club Football Championship got underway with a derby at Omagh’s Healy Park this evening. Tyrone’s Errigal Ciaran, who defended their county title last week, won against the 16-time Donegal champions St Eunan’s with a final score of 0-12 to 0-10. Letterkenny’s St Eunan’s led 0-10 to 0-9 as the game entered […]
Scottish comedian Janey Godley has died aged 63 after receiving palliative treatment for terminal cancer, her management company has confirmed. In a statement, Chris Davis Management said she would be “hugely missed by her family, friends and her many fans”. Godley, who found viral fame with her dubbed parodies of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus news briefings […]
A taxi driver who dislocated a man’s shoulder after he clamped his car has been handed a suspended sentence. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Feliks Andrianov (54) of Corduff Green, Blanchardstown, Dublin, was found guilty after a trial of assault causing harm at McDonald’s restaurant, Dublin Airport on July 5th 2019. He has no […]
Taoiseach Simon Harris has expressed his condolences on the deaths of at least 158 people in Spain following flash flooding. Spain’s worst natural disaster in generations has left a trail of destruction in the south and east of the country, resulting in cars piled on top of one another, uprooted trees and downed power lines. […]
The firm that operates J.P. McManus’s five-star Adare Manor Hotel resort in Co Limerick was loss-making in 2023. That is according to an auditor’s report lodged on behalf of the operator of the luxury resort, Tizzard Holdings Unlimited Company with the Companies Office. The detailed financial performance of the Adare Manor hotel firm is put […]
All-Ireland champions Armagh have landed six coveted slots on the PwC Football All-star team for 2024, which was announced on Thursday morning. All-Ireland winning captain Aidan Forker leads the contingent from the Orchard County, where he is joined in defence by Barry McCambridge, midfielder Ben Crealey and forwards Rian O’Neill, Oisín Conaty, and Conor Turbitt. […]
A chairwoman has been appointed to examine how Ireland handled the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Anne Scott will lead a comprehensive evaluation of how the country managed Covid-19, with the aim of learning lessons from the pandemic experience. The Government made the announcement on Wednesday evening following a Cabinet meeting, and said it has agreed the […]
Over this bank holiday period, gardaí carried out over 880 mandatory intoxicant testing (MIT) checkpoints which led to over 218 arrests for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. 60 of those were detected between 7am on Monday and 7am yesterday. Throughout the October bank holiday weekend, an extensive Garda Roads Policing Operation was in […]
The Republic of Ireland are easing into the Playoff Final for next summer’s Women’s European Championships. Captain Katie McCabe, Julie-Ann Russell, and Kyra Carusa all scored to give Ireland a 3-0 win against Georgia at Tallaght Stadium. McCabe also missed a penalty, but Eileen Gleeson’s team won 9-0 on aggregate in the tie. In the […]
Four members of the Garda National Technical Bureau volunteered to flank Hollywood actor Colin Farrell as he ran the Dublin City Marathon on Sunday. Detective gardaí Ian Redican, Barry Duggan, Ernie Frazer, and Detective Sergeant Tom Power swapped their CSI suits for blue running vests to complete the marathon while also providing an extra layer […]