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A message scrawled on a Catholic school in Scotland saying “the famine is over it’s time to go home” is being treated as a hate crime by police. The graffiti appeared on the outside wall of St Aloysius College, a private school in Glasgow.

Police are investigating after a driver nearly caused a major accident by driving the wrong way into the path of oncoming vehicles on a busy motorway bridge. The incident happened in driving rain on the Foyle Bridge in Co Derry. It was daytime but the sky was dark and overcast, and cars all had their… Continue reading Motorist courts disaster by driving wrong way over Irish Motorway Bridge

A British TV presenter has apologised for an off the cuff joke about the Irish famine. The unfortunate gaffe occurred on ITV’s This Morning programme during an item called the Great Fridge Debate about the best way to store food.

The moment a passenger broke through security and ran across the runway to board a Ryanair flight has been captured on video. It’s prompted questions about airport safety and what might have happened if a terrorist had managed to get through in the same way.

Gay Byrne has described his feelings when he realised the Church was hiding shocking secrets from its followers and the lay authorities. The veteran broadcaster features in an RTE documentary Last Orders, which looks at the institutional abuse inflicted on children by the Church. Gay tells how he attended a Christian Brothers school in Dublin… Continue reading How death of a schoolgirl revealed ‘underworld of nastiness’ in the Church

Ireland’s hardest workers are farmers, fishermen and forestry staff. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) anyone working in these sectors can expect to clock the longest days and rack up an average of 49.1 hours a week.

Ireland’s national liver transplant unit is ill-equipped to fight a potentially deadly superbug, health watchdogs have warned. The drug-resistant VRE infection has been on the increase at the unit in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, says the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).

An elderly man from Scotland has been granted bail after he was charged with withholding information surrounding the murder of IRA spy Denis Donaldson. Patrick Gillespie, 74, from Craigvar Street in Glasgow, appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin more than 10 years on from the killing of the top Sinn Fein official.

Three people have been killed in a head-on crash, gardai have said. The two men and one woman died when two cars collided on a minor road beside a wooded area near Corrovaddy, just outside Letterkenny, Co Donegal, at about 1am on Thursday.