The family of a Derry teenager has hit out at headlines claiming their son was the ‘youngest person dying with Covid’ in the region, when their son had, in fact, tested ‘Covid negative’ when he died. Teenager Aaron Doherty was recorded as dying with Covid-19 because he had previously tested positive for the virus some […]
The terrorist group, Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for killing at least 18 people and burning down a church in the Baeti village in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Reuters news agency reports. Kinos Katuho, the leader of a local civil rights group, told the outlet that […]
Famed traditional singer and much-loved Conemara composer, Tomás Mac Eoin, has won this year’s Gradam from RTÉ/Raidió na Gaeltachta in honour of a lifetime of work in conserving, promoting and celebrating the Irish language and traditional culture. Mac Eoin, from an Bóthar Buí in Conemara, is also an actor and a poet, and his command of […]
After a week of violent attacks on Polish churches, including vandalism of statues of the revered Polish Pope, John Paul II, Poles have come out in cities across the country to defend their places of worship. A ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court which found that aborting unborn children with disabilities was discriminatory provoked fury from […]
A priest addressed a group gathered to pray in the Phoenix Park last night as pressure grows on the government to lift a ban on public Masses.
The New York Post, one of America’s oldest newspapers has said that Twitter is a “clear threat to healthy democracy” after the social media platform locked the paper’s account for publishing a major story into Hunter Biden. “Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you,” the paper wrote in a headline story accusing […]
Minister English will take a while to live this one down.
Conversations at home that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the Scottish justice secretary has insisted.
Two homeless people were found dead in Dublin over the bank holiday weekend, bringing to “over 50” the number of those found dead while homeless in the first ten months of 2020. Independent Councillor Anthony Flynn told the Irish Times that the number of deaths of homeless people had increased from 37 at this point […]
The Irish government will not be lifting a ban on public worship services over the coming weeks after five Catholic bishops met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin last night.
Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules according to police chiefs in the UK.
Kyle Lawler, an 18 year-old security guard at the time, did not approach Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi for fear of being branded a racist, an inquiry has heard.