Presidential contender Ron DeSantis, who was once viewed as Republicans’ best shot at moving past Donald Trump, has dropped out of the primary race for the White House. Mr DeSantis, 45, endorsed Mr Trump in a video posted to the X social media site. Mr DeSantis had been widely seen …

Updated / Sunday, 21 Jan 2024 20:04 Emergency services making the area safe around a damaged structure (Pic: Dublin Fire Brigade) High waves attract onlookers in Salthill, Galway A clock tower falls to the ground in Eyre Square, Galway The clock being cleared from the pathway Passengers at Euston station, …

Irish actress Saoirse Ronan has said she was meant to be “a weird Barbie” in the Greta Gerwig-directed film about the popular Mattel doll. The actress, 29, who starred in Gerwig’s 2017 movie Lady Bird and her 2019 adaptation of Little Women, said she would have starred alongside Saturday Night …

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma, her spokesman has said. The disease was discovered after several moles were removed during treatment for her last cancer. One of the moles was found to be cancerous and doctors are working to establish if it was caught …

Ireland 4-3 Korea Ireland booked their ticket to the Paris Games with a magnificent victory over Korea in their men’s Olympic hockey qualifier third-placed play-off in Valencia on Sunday. Goals from Matthew Nelson, Ben Johnson, John McKee and Shane O’Donoghue swung it for the Green Machine, but a superb match …

A strike on a crowded market in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine has left at least 25 people dead and 20 wounded, Moscow-backed officials said. Both Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks on civilian areas over the past two months. …

The Taoiseach is compliant with the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) rules on political donations, a spokesperson for Leo Varadkar has said. The Ditch website reported that the Taoiseach had to file three statutory declarations of his political donations last year following queries from SIPO. The first declaration was …

The toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October has passed 25,000, Gaza health officials have said, while Israeli attacks and street battles raged across the Hamas-run enclave today. Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed in several places, from …

Ian Bailey, a suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, has died in west Cork. Mr Bailey, a former journalist who was originally from England, always denied any involvement in the murder. Ms Toscan du Plantier was killed in west Cork in December 1996. Her badly beaten body …

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