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The head of the RTÉ Delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest has said that this year’s event is not a normal Eurovision and that there is tension in the air in Malmö. Last night’s second semi-final in the Swedish city saw Israeli entry Eden Golan qualify for Saturday’s grand final …

Gardaí have launched a murder inquiry into the death of a motorcyclist aged in his 30s in Co Carlow last month. Tom Connors, from Bunclody in Co Wexford, died in a hit-and-run incident involving a car and his motorbike on the night of 24 April in the Sandbrook area of …

Spain, Ireland and Slovenia plan to symbolically recognise a Palestinian state on 21 May, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. He confirmed the date in an interview with Spanish public radio after RTÉ reported that was when all three countries were planning to act. “As far as I …

A retired member of the Irish Defence Forces has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing his young daughter almost two decades ago. Gerard Lawless, 61, pleaded guilty to four counts of oral rape and seven counts of sexual assault on dates between 1991 and 1998 at the family’s …

A teenage boy who stole cars and led gardaí on a dangerous high-speed pursuit in suburban Dublin on two separate occasions last year has been sentenced to two years in detention. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, drove on the wrong side of the road, …

An operator of an illegal “dodgy box” TV service which cost the operators of pay TV channels over €2m in lost revenue has been further remanded in custody pending the finalisation of sentencing in the case. A sitting of Naas Circuit Criminal Court heard that the illegal service was continuing …

An ex-prisoner has been hospitalised indefinitely for the “senseless” killing of an elderly Irishman in London five days after his release. Hunger Games-obsessed Lee Byer was psychotic when he stabbed 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran in the neck and chest in Greenford, west London, in August 2022. Mr O’Halloran, who used a …

Giant blue-grey Sei whales that vanished from Argentina’s Patagonian coast a century ago due to hunting are now starting to flourish once again, with the species recovering following measures to protect them being put in place. In the 1920s and 1930s regular whaling ships along the shores of Argentina – …

The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, has voted to restore the names of Confederate generals’ to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the US to take such an action. By a 5-1 vote, the board overturned its 2020 decision …

Police have carried out swoops on students protesting the war in Gaza at two prestigious universities, in the latest unrest on campuses across the US. The police action at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston in the northeast resulted in around ten arrests, according to university president Sally …