Tag: Irish

“I wish I had more time to read,” says Gabriela Lobianco, as she talks about her weekly schedule pursuing a PhD at Cork University Business School, caring for her 10-year-old daughter and juggling a couple of part-time jobs required to make ends meet.Lobianco estimates work, in its various forms, ...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed for “never again war” in what he described as “today’s dramatic context of a third world war fought piecemeal”.In his first Regina Caeli address, the Queen of Heaven prayer recited by Catholics instead of the Angelus between Easter and Ascension Day, he referred to ...

A 43-year-old man has been given time to put his family affairs in order as he faces the prospect of being jailed for a series of cybercrime offences including offering people computer software designed to disrupt IT systems as well as false bank accounts and credit cards.Suleman Mazhar, previously ...

A four-year-old boy who died after being struck by a car in Co Westmeath was laid to rest on Wednesday afternoon.Abdur Rehman, who recently moved to the Farranshock housing estate in Mullingar with his parents, died shortly after 6:30pm on Monday.It is understood Abdur was on a scooter when ...

Frank Conway’s neighbours on his quiet residential road in England didn’t know who he really was. To them, he was the portly Irish man who lived reclusively in a big house behind a high hedge on their smart road on the edge of Guildford, an hour southwest of London, ...

A total of 14 men and women died while going through the international protection system last year, the highest number since records began. New statistics published biannually by the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) reveal 11 male and two woman asylum seekers died in 2024. The gender of the ...

The annual State spend in accommodating International Protection (IP) applicants last year topped €1 billion for the first time.The daily average spend of €2.75 million per day in accommodating IP applicants is revealed in new figures provided by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Norma Foley ...

“This is not an anti-immigrant protest,” said independent councillor and Ballaghaderreen native Micheál Frain last Sunday before heading out to a candlelit vigil to protest against rising crime rates in the small Co Roscommon town, a 45-minute drive south of Sligo town.“We don’t want this to be dragged into ...

A food delivery man who “abused the trust” of a student who had ordered a takeaway by sexually assaulting her has received a suspended prison sentence.Arslan Cheema (29) of Brookview Avenue, Artane, Dublin 5, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault carried out in a car outside student ...

A taxi driver who repeatedly sexually assaulted a young woman (18) he was driving home from a night out has been jailed for 5½ years.Naveed Rana (42) told the victim to sit in the front seat before he drove off in the wrong direction and sexually assaulted her, Dublin ...