A 20-year-old Yemeni model was abducted in the middle of the street in broad daylight for failing to wear a hijab headscarf during a photoshoot. Entesar Al-Hammadi was arrested along with two friends on the way to a movie set in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa by Islamic Houthi rebels, and is facing prosecution in […]
Other than taking names, Gardaí attending the scene did not appear to take issue with the Sunday prayers in videos seen by Gript.ie.
A courier with an expired Pakistani passport has been charged with allegedly claiming €6,650 euro in fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment payments following a Garda probe. Khurram Cheema, 39, who resides in County Cork, appeared before the Bandon District Court on a number of PUP-related charges. Judge Colm Roberts heard that the charges relate to PUP that […]
The Biden administration has declared a national emergency on Thursday amid growing tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border, and citing alleged Russian cyberattacks and election interference. This week the administration put sanctions on more than six Russian companies and 32 individuals, and expelled 10 Russian diplomats, giving them 30 days to leave the US. America has […]
Unemployment isn’t expected to return to pre-Covid “normal” levels until at least 2025, meaning income supports similar to the PUP will very likely be with us for years, according to new official forecasts from the Department of Finance. The projections, which have been prepared by the Department for the European Commission, indicate that even with […]
A group of six independent Senators has said that the 2022 Winter Olympics should not take place in Beijing and that, if the International Olympic Committee doesn’t change the venue, the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) should boycott the event. Led by Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen, the Oireachtas group criticized the “deteriorating human rights […]
Taoiseach Michéal Martin has said that he “can’t be definitive” that the country won’t experience a fourth wave of covid-19 this winter and go into lockdown again as a result. Speaking on The Tonight Show on Virgin Media, the Taoiseach was asked: “Are you suggesting that you would be confident that, once the vaccination programme […]
Pfizer’s chief executive has said that it is “likely” that a booster jab will be required as early as 6 months after an individual is “fully vaccinated”, and that annual booster jabs may be necessary – a development that could put even greater strain on the global vaccine supply. “A likely scenario is that there […]
There is, as Irish Catholic Editor Michael Kelly noted last night, a “glorious irony” to this: There is a glorious irony in the fact that the Irish Republic has now gone so rogue that Poland and Hungary are rightly raising concerns about the rule of law here. https://t.co/f6WlZnEiAV — Michael Kelly ن (@MichaelPTKelly) April 15, […]
The Danish government is planning to return hundreds of Syrian refugees back to their country of origin after Damascus and the surrounding area were deemed safe, despite objections from the EU. In June of last year, the Danish Refugee Board deemed that the city of Damascus was safe in five separate asylum claims. “Conditions in […]
One of these days, my friends, Ireland will find itself facing a problem to which Paul Murphy’s answer will not be “seize all private property”. But it is not this day. Here he is, popping up on RTE’s Drive Time radio programme to advocate….. seizing hotels and turning them into Government prison camps quarantine facilities […]
Residential property prices have risen 3% across the Republic of Ireland in the year leading up to February, with homes outside of Dublin rising by almost 5%. According to the latest CSO figures, house prices in Dublin rose by 1.2%, while Dublin apartments rose by just under 1%. In south Dublin, costs increased by as […]