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Irish campaigners have called for criminal consequences after a report found that 9,000 children had died in the country’s ‘mother and baby homes’ over more than seven decades – with churches now facing calls to pay reparations. Lawmaker Brid Smith demanded ‘justice for the thousands of victims and survivors’ and called for a ‘full criminal … Read more
Twitter is fined £410,000 by Ireland’s data regulator for a bug that made private tweets public Irish regulator made first use of new GDPR ‘One Stop Shop’ EU rules Allow national watchdogs to impose penalties without consulting the bloc EU’s GDPR is part of concerted effort to hold big tech companies accountable Silicon Valley giant … Read more
It’s an Irish discovery 200million years in the making – for the first time ever, dinosaur bones have been identified on the island. Fossil bones from a four-legged plant-eating scelidosaurus and a deadly two-legged carnivore sarcosaurus were found in Islandmagee, on the coast of County Antrim. The remains were originally discovered by school teacher and … Read more
Din O’Saurs discovered! Ireland’s first dinosaur fossils from 200m-year-old beasts are found in County Antrim Fossil bones are from a four-legged plant-eating scelidosaurus in Antrim Another dinosaur – a deadly two-legged carnivore sarcosaurus also found Late teacher and fossil collector Roger Byrne found the bones years ago They were confirmed as being from the dinosaurs … Read more
One of Northern Ireland’s last Second World War veterans, who helped liberate a concentration camp, has died aged 100. Edward ‘Teddy’ Dixon was born in New York but his family moved to Belfast when he was a young child. He served in the US army as an infantryman in the 42nd Infantry ‘Rainbow’ Division, receiving his … Read more
Here’s a property for sale that’s bound to spook the market – Loftus Hall, Ireland’s ‘most haunted house’. The asking price is 2.5million euros (£2.2million) – and you can even view the rooms virtually, if you’re brave enough. The 14th-century mansion’s reputation as a spine-chilling abode dates back to the mid-1700s, when the Devil is said … Read more
The Republic of Ireland has imposed far stricter lockdown restrictions than those in Northern Ireland, including closing gyms, churches and non-essential shops. People in the Republic also can only go within three miles (5km) of their home for exercise, with no such rules in the North despite ‘unnecessary travel’ being banned. Irish retail groups slammed … Read more
Subway sandwiches are too sugary to meet the legal definition of being BREAD, Ireland’s Supreme Court rules The sandwiches could not be categorised as a staple food, Supreme Court ruled Due to their high sugar content, which stands at 10pc of weight of flour in dough Ruling ends a 14-year battle by the global takeaway … Read more
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan is told to ‘consider his position’ by Ireland’s political leaders after he attended golf dinner with more than 80 people in breach of Covid guidelines EU commissioner Phil Hogan attended golf dinner with 80 people on Wednesday Two senior Irish politicians have resigned after details of the dinner came to … Read more
Six whales have died and another is ‘likely’ to perish in what is being described as the largest live stranding of the animals in Ireland’s history. The seven northern bottlenose dolphins were spotted stranded on a beach in Rossnowlagh, County Donegal, on the north west coast of Ireland, earlier today. Conservationists rushed to the beach in … Read more