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Families seeking International Protection are to be housed in JJ Gannon’s Hotel in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, the Department for Integration has confirmed. “While initially ear-marked for adult males, there is now an acute shortage of accommodation for families and children and it is now intended to place families into this …

A Dublin man named as a senior member of the Kinahan crime cartel has appeared before a London court charged with 12 firearms offences. Liam Byrne, 42, was extradited from Spain to face the charges following his arrest by the British National Crime Agency. Mr Byrne appeared before the Central …

A decorated former League of Ireland soccer player has appeared before the High Court in Dublin on foot of an extradition warrant issued by the authorities in Northern Ireland. Kenneth Joseph Oman, 41, is wanted to stand trial in that jurisdiction arising out of an incident that occurred in a …

Brenda Power If I was Minister for Education, I’d get rid of Irish textbooks entirely at primary level and concentrate on turning out a generation of 12-year-olds who could hold a basic conversation in Irish. I’d have teachers switch between Irish and English in the classroom from day one, and …

A Dublin man named as a senior member of the Kinahan crime cartel has appeared before a London court charged with 12 firearms offences. Liam Byrne, 42, was extradited from Spain to face the charges following his arrest by the British National Crime Agency. Mr Byrne appeared before the Central …

Farmers opposed to Berlin’s plans to cut tax breaks for agriculture used tractors to block roads across Germany, kicking off a series of crippling strikes sinking the country deeper into a winter of discontent. In Berlin, dozens of tractors and lorries stationed in the city centre blasted their horns to …

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011 and is now “suicidal” according to his lawyer, has appeared in court in his lawsuit against Norway over his prison conditions. As he entered the gymnasium of the Ringerike prison where the five-day trial was being held, Breivik …

Food inflation fell to 7.1% in the three months leading to Christmas, according to the latest data from global retail market analyst Kantar. The figure represents the eighth month in a row food inflation has fallen and is down from 15.5% in January last year. Emer Healy of Kantar said …

An Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters. The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when their car …

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath is to meet with tech companies in Silicon Valley this week as part of an official visit to California. The purpose of the trip is to highlight the two-way trade and investment relationship between Ireland and the US, and to meet with a number of …