The single sheet of paper was pushed across the table for me to read as we sat drinking coffee in the lobby of a Dublin hotel. The people on the other side reckoned that it would explain things better than they could. The page contained less than 500 words of a transcript from a taped conversation between two individuals I'd never heard of.
As a shy, introverted kid, I never had big dreams of adventures in faraway places. In fact, I didn't even own a passport until my family relocated from the US to Ireland for my dad's job when I was 16. Now, things couldn't be more different. Living abroad opened my eyes to the world, and I was bitten by the travel bug.
More than 55,000 people have signed register of those who wish not to donate organs when they die The release last week of the figure of more than 55,000 people opting out of assumed consent for organ donation took some by surprise. The number joining the new register featured in a HSE response to a parliamentary question from TD Cormac Devlin, and appeared to some observers large and worrying.
The rain, which might turn heavy, could cause localised flooding, difficult travel conditions and poor visibility in these areas. Meanwhile, it will be mostly dry this morning, bringing crisp sunshine and some well-scattered showers, with most of those "hugging the Atlantic seaboard", Met Éireann has said. The day will gradually become cloudier, with patchy rain and drizzle developing over the western half of the country in the afternoon, and turning heavier in the evening.
The pilot of a light aircraft that transported €8.4 million of cocaine into the Midlands from France in 2022 has been convicted by a jury for his role in the drug importation operation.
Met Éireann issued the rain alert yesterday for counties Cork and Kerry, valid from 11am tomorrow until 8pm. Joining them under the alert tomorrow will be Galway and Mayo between the times of midday and 8pm, the national forecaster said today. The rain warnings will follow the trend of unsettled conditions across the country this week, signalling the potential for flooding and strong gusts in the south and southwest, Met Éireann has said.
"You are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist," one victim said. A "monster" whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years. Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002.
Ireland is a trend setter when it comes to having a housing crisis. In fact in the last five years, it seems most cities in the western world have started to follow our lead.
Gardai deployed near the Citywest facility on Thursday in anticipation of another possible standoff with mobs that on Tuesday and Wednesday night threw fireworks and missiles and set a police vehicle on fire. In a statement the police force, An Garda Siochana, urged people to stay away from violent protest: This is not fun and games and entertainment for social media, it said.
Helicopter ambulance crews have been scrambled to treat thousands of patients over the past decade in Ireland - but mission success rates drop during the winter, a new study shows. The research shows mission success falls from 66pc in summer to 51pc in winter, reflecting the fact that both of the country's helicopter bases - in the south and the midlands - operate a daylight-only service. This means operating hours range from 17 hours in summer - to as little as eight hours in winter.
The number of fraudulent payments reached €160m last year with so-called e-money fraud suffering the sharpest rise, a study by the Central Bank of Ireland shows. The biggest losses last year were credit transfers, or bank payments, followed by card payments, which made up a combined €113m. Neither saw significant increase, however, but fraudulent e-money payments rose from €3.3m in 2023 to €25.6m last year. E-money is the digital form of cash stored electronically, which can also be referred to as digital or electronic wallets.
­Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys each spent around €18,000 on Meta ads Fianna Fáil spent more than €14,000 on social media advertising for Jim Gavin's presidential campaign before he withdrew from the race last Sunday. Due to new EU rules around ­political advertising coming into effect this weekend, Meta decided to halt all political and social issue ads on its platforms Facebook and Instagram in advance.
People don't realise how many kids go without food. It may be financial or because the parents are too busy and I think it's fantastic that the government have this program in place.
So, with that rain tomorrow, we do have a Status Yellow rain warning in effect from 6am to 8pm tomorrow for much of Munster, Connacht, and then counties in Leinster and Ulster as well. Then on Friday, we'll see Storm Amy, and at the moment now it's a feature that's being fuelled by tropical remnants in the tropic west Atlantic, and when that warm, moist, tropical air meets the cooler air, after it transitions it then gets picked up by a strengthening jet stream which is sending it across to us, across the Atlantic. It is forecast to rapidly intensify, becoming Storm Amy as it reaches us then on Friday.
