Gardai had looked through the window of the couple’s home on the date in question.
J. Thomas Schipp and Abraham Smith were lynched in Indiana, on this day, August 7th, 1930. To date, they are the last known victims of lynching in the United States. Arrested on suspicion of murder, rape, and robbery the night before, Schipp and Smith were taken from their jail cells by an angry, all-white mob, […]
Ten men, mostly Syrian refugees but also including one German national, have been found guilty over the gang rape of a woman outside a nightclub in Freiburg, a southern city of Germany, the BBC reports. The woman, who was 18 at the time of the attack, was drugged by a group of men in the […]
Journalist Gemma O’Doherty has said neither she nor fellow litigant John Waters should have to pay costs in their court application challenging the government’s Covid-19 restrictions. Ms O’Doherty tweeted that “John Waters and I are not remotely afraid of costs.” She said ” We are terrified for Ireland which is facing its darkest moment. Our […]
A woman has lost her bid to have her mother’s tombstone engraved with a saying written in Irish without translation in an English cemetery. BBC reports that Caroline Newey’s mother, Margaret Keane died two years ago and is buried in the cemetery at the Meadows in Ash Green, Coventry. Mrs Newey wanted her mother’s headstone […]
David Daleiden is now an internationally recognised whistle-blower, whose work exposed the seedy underbelly of the abortion industry with clinic directors caught on camera discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts. Since he exposed that horrific practise, Daleiden and his fellow undercover investigators have been repeatedly attacked through the courts, not just by Planned […]
WATCH: The media are guilty of a witch-hunt says Tim Jackson, as Cardinal Pell is found not guilty and released from prison after 400 days. #gript
The solicitor of a man found guilty of raping a Donegal women told the court that he had a “badly incorrect” view of what rape is. Kelvin Opoku (33) is one of two Ghanaian nationals who raped the young woman in their flat in Letterkenny in 2015. Opoku and Boakye Osei (29), both living in Letterkenny were […]
A judge has ordered the arrest of former Labour senator James Heffernan (40) after the Limerick man failed to appear at Dublin District Court on charges of theft and an offence against the Public Order Act.
Germany’s highest court has overturned a ban on assisted suicide, introduced in 2015, which was ‘supposed to prevent anyone offering assisted sucide as a commercial venture’ while excempting from punishment ‘relatives or doctors who helped a single patient to die on a one-off basis’; the German constitutional court ruled that the ban meant those ‘offering […]
The Association of Accredited Clinics for Voluntary Interruption of Pregnany (ACAI) has been found guilty of misleading advertising by a Spanish court in a case taken against the network of abortion clinics.
A paralysed former builder from Leeds, 63-year-old Paul Lamb, has failed in his ‘High Court bid to challenge the law on assisted dying’; having ‘lost a right-to-die case in the Supreme Court in 2014’, he argued that ‘the current law, which bans assisted suicide under threat of up to 14 years in jail, is discriminatory […]