In pictures: Prestigious Wicklow hotel voted as AA Hotel of the Year
Spectacular: WicklowWicklow's Powerscourt Hotel Resort & Spa has been named as the AA's Hotel of the Year.The prestigious hotel was yesterday awarded the accolade by Minister of State for Tourism...
View ArticleDublin is getting a new cinema along with more than 60 jobs
Get the popcorn outDozens of jobs are being created with the opening of a new cinema in north Dublin.The state-of-the-art Odeon cinema will open on 18 October in Charlestown Shopping Centre in Finglas....
View ArticleHSE Investigation after wheels fall off ambulance transporting patient
The driver found the two wheels at the rear of the ambulance became dislodgedThe Health Service Executive is investigating a road incident during which two wheels fell off an ambulance that was...
View ArticleBar fined €137,000 after Nitro-Jagermeister shot led to teen's stomach removal
Gaby Scanlon was given the drink for free on her 18th birthdayA wine bar has been fined £100,000 (€137,000) after a teenager needed her stomach removing after drinking a smoking liquid nitrogen...
View ArticlePolice find 3,714 'bladed weapons' in woman's home
Horror: Inside one of the rooms in the house (Pic credit: Hernando County Sheriff's Office)Police in Florida have arrested a woman after her home was found to be stuffed with lethal weapons.Police...
View ArticleQuestions raised as US spy plane makes several passes over Ireland
A Boeing E3 SentryA US spy plane spent several hours over Ireland earlier this week, prompting questions as to the nature of such clandestine surveillance flights.The plane's erratic behaviour was...
View ArticleGardai investigating after fatal truck crash
FILE PHOTOGardaí in Mullingar are investigating a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the N52 between Mullingar and Delvin this afternoon.The incident happend in the townland...
View ArticleIreland's Costa Mafia's blood bond is the envy of foreign mobs
Like father, like son: Christy Jnr with Christy SnrTheirs is a bond of blood envied by the Russian, British, Eastern European, Moroccan and Colombian crime syndicates on the Costa del Sol.The Irish...
View ArticleMissing Dubliner Stephen Sherlock found safe and well
Safe and well: Stephen SherlockStephen Sherlock, who had been missing from the Pearse Street area of Dublin since September 8, has been found safe and well.Gardai confirmed the good news this evening....
View ArticleGardai investigating death of homeless man make an arrest
The alleged attack occurred on Lower Oliver Plunkett Street at 2pm on ThursdayGardaí investigating the death of 37 year old Vincent Morgain have arrested an man in his 20s.The incident occurred at...
View ArticleSuspected high ranking drug cartel member held over missing students
Gildardo Lopez AstudilloA suspected high-ranking drug cartel member implicated in last year's disappearance of 43 college students in the Mexican state of Guerrero has been captured.National Security...
View ArticleBreaking Bad fan facing jail after he 'tried to buy ricin online '
A computer geek is facing jail for trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad.Software programmer Mohammed Ali, 31, was found...
View ArticleUK on high alert after outbreak of drug resistant gonorrhoea
An outbreak of highly drug resistant gonorrhoea has been detected in the north of England, triggering a national alert.Fifteen cases have been detected by Public Health England (PHE) so far, the...
View ArticleTeen facing life for stabbing cyclist in horror attack
A teenager is facing a life sentence for stabbing a 15-year-old boy to death as he tried to steal his bicycle.Joshua Williams, 18, lashed out with a blade as popular young student Alan Cartwright was...
View ArticleSt Judy's right to be Pe'd off at smelly sport
Judy MurrayGod bless Judy Murray and all who sail in her.The tennis coach has picked at the big scab of PE for girls and called for a rethink of the regular torture of organised sport in schools. In...
View ArticleDublin mother caught with stun gun outside hotel
Sarah ByrneA mother-of-one caught with a stun gun did not have it for any "sinister" purpose, a court heard.Sarah Byrne (30) was illegally holding the stun gun outside a Dublin hotel when gardai...
View ArticleMan whose father was gunned down in gangland hit took own life
Glen Murphy McNallyA 20-year-old man who was "badly affected" by the gangland shootings of his father and uncle died by suicide just two days after he discharged himself from hospital.Glen Murphy...
View ArticlePest control company warns of toxic spider plague
Ireland is facing a toxic spider plague according to a pest control company which is now dealing with 10 – 15 spider related callouts a week.Fears are growing as Ireland has been experiencing milder...
View ArticleTraffic chaos in Dublin following Port Tunnel fire
Traffic chaos (Photo: Kyran O'Brien)Traffic chaos in Dublin as Port Tunnel shut due to fire.A truck caught fire in Dublin’s Port Tunnell at 7am this morning, no injuries were reported but the north and...
View ArticleWoman drugs man then snips off his penis with scissors
Liu running to the alleyway (Credit: People's Daily Online)A man’s penis was allegedly cut off by his mistress after she drugged him with a sleeping pill in a hotel in Hangzhou, eastern China.People's...
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