A US-owned cargo ship has been hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen, a British security agency and maritime risk company said, a day after Houthi rebels fired a cruise missile at a US destroyer. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations security agency reported a “vessel hit from …

Enoch Burke’s parents, his sister Ammi and brother Isaac protested outside the Criminal Courts of Justice today after the Court of Appeal refused to allow them to attend in person when they failed to make an undertaking that they would not interrupt proceedings. Enoch Burke, who is in Mountjoy Prison, …

The sentencing of former solicitor Michael Lynn for stealing almost €18 million from financial institutions in 2006 and 2007 has been adjourned following an application from his lawyers. Lynn, who is 55 and from Millbrook Court, Redcross, Co Wicklow, was found guilty in December of 11 counts of theft from …

A US-owned cargo ship was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen, a British security agency and maritime risk company said, a day after Houthi rebels fired a cruise missile at a US destroyer. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations security agency reported a “vessel hit from above …

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse has urged others to come forward and seek help after a judge jailed her abuser for five and a half years. Hannah Irish, who was abused from the age of seven by an older cousin, said today was a day of justice and the …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is travelling to Switzerland today, his office said, as Ukraine tries to ensure stable support from allies as the war against Russia nears its second anniversary. Zelensky is due to “meet the heads of both houses of parliament, party leaders and the President of Switzerland, participate …

More than a quarter of a million calls for help were received last year by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, a ten per cent increase on the number of calls in 2022. The charity says that just over 90,000 or over a third of the callers, were requesting …

A man will go on trial at the Special Criminal Court later this week after he pleaded not guilty to helping a criminal organisation murder Noel Kirwan, an innocent man who was not involved in criminality. Mr Kirwan, 62, was shot six times as he sat in his car on …

At least 19 people were wounded, one of them critically, in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in the central Israeli city of Raanana, Israeli media said. Police later said that 13 people had been injured in the incident. Residents have been instructed to stay off the streets. Raanana is situated …

Ukraine said it had destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 spy plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post in the Sea of Azov area, dealing a blow to Russian military operations in occupied southern Ukraine. “Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy IL-22 …