Tag: Irish

“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 ...

Peter McGarry has made tens of millions of dollars betting on how the bond markets would react to one geopolitical event after another. Now he’s being swept up in one: the anti-migrant sentiment roiling Europe.A senior portfolio manager at Garda Capital Partners in Switzerland, McGarry, 48, is one of ...

A man in Australia who was involved in the online sexual exploitation of hundreds of young women and girls had at least one Irish victim, a senior Australian police officer has said.Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed (29), from Perth, targeted females as young as 10 years old, got them ...

The number of asylum applications pending in the International Protection Office has risen to more than 23,000, with a sharp increase in the number of asylum seekers also appealing the outcome of their decision.A report examining the situation within the international protection system in the month of July, which ...

Members of Ireland’s Bangladeshi community breathed a sigh of relief last week after news broke that the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had resigned and fled to India following a month of violent unrest.Hundreds gathered in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, and later in the Red Cow Hotel, to ...

Two members of a Co Mayo family have been killed in a road crash in Pakistan.Ballinrobe residents Noreen Shafiq (55) and her son Umar (18) were killed. Noreen’s husband, Shafique, and other family members Tahime and Ambreen were injured in the collision between a car and a bus on ...

A total of 109 non-Irish nationals who presented at Dublin Airport between February and May without the required travel papers were charged with offences under the Immigration Act.The charges and subsequent court hearings resulted in 84 convictions, six remands in custody, bench warrants being issued in four cases, and ...

Just under 5,000 people have become Irish citizens over the past two days in six ceremonies in Killarney, Co Kerry – with a further two days of ceremonies to take place in Dublin in 10 days time.Among the lead nations of origin of the 4,800 in Killarney are India, ...