Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass this Easter Sunday in St Peter’s Square, after which he offered the urbi et orbi benediction – the blessing of the city and the world – which it is tradition for the Pope to give at Easter and at Christmas. The Holy Father delivered remarks to the faithful gathered...
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Easter vacationers described their terror after the airplane carrying them dropped rapidly out of the sky towards mountains and was forced to make an emergency landing earlier today. The passengers, who were flying from Italy to England on Ryanair, heard the pilot calling “mayday” just 15 minutes after they had taken off as cabin...
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She’s the great-great granddaughter of a woman banished to Tasmania on a prison ship who has made an emotional return to her ancestral home. Eliza Davis was shipped off to Van Diemen’s Land in 1845 after being convicted of murdering her baby boy. Her descendant, Gail Mulhern, followed her great-great grandmother’s story back to...
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A man and his teenage daughter were injured in a drive-by shooting in north Belfast today. He was hit at least twice when they were ambushed outside a house at Evelyn Gardens, Skegoneill. The girl, aged 18, was also rushed to hospital. The pair were either in or about to get into a car...
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Florida Police in the U.S. are hunting the killer of Tipperary-born Tom Walsh who was gunned down as he tried to prevent a robbery at the restaurant he managed. Mr. Walsh (43 yrs) from Templemore, lost his life for just $3,000 when the raider held up the Mainstreet Grill at DeLand, neat Daytona Beach...
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Until this years tremendously well received “High Ground” there hasn’t been a realistic portrayal of returning war veterans that approached what 1946′s “The Best Years of Our Lives”, a film which captured the physical, emotional and social challenges for returning vets, dealing with life after World War II, had achieved for the very first...
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Shattering that glass ceiling, an Irish mother-of-two has been appointed the first female deputy director for public prosecutions. Pamela Atchison is a solicitor with extensive experience in criminal law who was responsible at the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) for the Stevens 3 investigation into collusion between members of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries....
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Speaking on RTE radio’s The Week in Politics, Mr. Kenny urged voters not to reject the Treaty. He said “You be sure this will be a one shot referendum because this has to be approved by 1 January next year. “Whatever differences we have at home, whatever differences we are having among ourselves I...
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The conclusion of a long-awaited euro-area finance ministers’ meeting to bolster Europe’s crisis-fighting efforts was thrown into confusion as a childish spat between Luxembourg and Austria erupted over who got to brief journalists first on the outcome. Jean-Claude Juncker (57), who chairs the meetings, abruptly cancelled a press conference in Copenhagen yesterday after Austria’s...
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