A Wicklow pensioner has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a violent assault on his then 97-year-old wife at their family home last year with an object believed to be his walking stick. A sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court heard that the accused, Tom Harte, had a …

A Cabinet sub-committee on migration has heard there were 513 deportation orders issued up to the end of April. Of these, 186 were removed from the State, including 136 voluntary repatriations. At a meeting today, the sub-committee focused on enforcement and speeding up the asylum processing system. Decisions on asylum …

Germany said that police had busted what was probably Europe’s largest network of fraudulent call centres, responsible for thousands of calls a day trying to scam people. An international police operation involving officers from Germany, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon raided 12 call centres and detained 21 people on 18 …

A 35-year-old man has been jailed for six years after he was found guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of GAA broadcaster Paudie Palmer in West Cork in December 2022. Bohdan Bezverkhyi, a Ukrainian national of Rigsdale House, Rigsdale, Ballinhassig, Co Cork, was also disqualified from driving for ten …

Rebuilding homes in Gaza could drag into the next century if the pace follows the trend of previous conflicts, according to a United Nations report. Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment have caused billions of euros in damage, leaving many of the crowded strip’s high-rise concrete buildings reduced to heaps, …

A bus driver who treated a mother of two disabled children “unacceptably” and “as if he was doing her a favour” as she tried to board with a buggy and a toddler in heavy rain has cost his former employer €5,000 in compensation. The Workplace Relations Commission made the award …

Three Irish men have been charged in connection with more than 60 “sophisticated residential burglaries” in Australia. Police in Melbourne, who arrested the trio at a hotel near the city’s airport this morning, allege that the men were responsible for the theft of more than one million Australian dollars (€610,000) …

Protesters calling for a boycott of this year’s Eurovision song contest have gathered outside RTÉ headquarters in Donnybrook. Singers, musicians, artists and activists are taking part in the protest organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. It features a “die-in” by health workers in scrubs depicting the Eurovision as a …

The Dáil has heard that several long-serving members of the Air Corps have been penalised for having made protective disclosures which flagged concerns over health and safety. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit – Solidarity TD, said that the disclosures related to using “dangerous chemicals”, the inability of all members …

A man accused of biting off part of his brother’s finger during a family wedding celebration was today acquitted by a jury at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court. Uche Georgewill-Manjor, 42, of Garranmore, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, embraced supporters who clapped and cried after the verdict was read out in the court. …