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A Dublin Airport worker has failed to get the High Court to restore his security clearance after it was removed over his alleged "ability to facilitate nefarious activity" allegedly because he made a video in support of Gerry "the Monk" Hutch's election campaign.

Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to an incident involving two dogs that occurred at a residential property in Callan in Co Kilkenny at approximately 3pm this afternoon, Wednesday, January 28. An infant boy sustained serious injuries following this incident and is currently receiving treatment at Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening at this time.

BAY RIDGE - FASTELAVN, THE DANISH VERSION OF MARDI GRAS, comes to Bay Ridge on Saturday, Feb. 7. The Scandinavian East Coast Museum sponsors this annual event, held in advance of the penitential season of Lent, which is observed in many Lutheran countries, including in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Lent begins early this year, on Feb. 18, which will be Ash Wednesday. Bay Ridge carries a rich Scandinavian history dating back to the immigration waves of the mid-19th century and again post-World War II.

The chief executive of Rowing Ireland did not attend an Oireachtas committee hearing into the safeguarding of high-performance athletes at the organisation in what was described as an "extraordinary meeting before it ever started".

Solo travel can be intimidating, but it also gives you total freedom. You can eat where you want, linger where you want and change plans on a whim. TripAdvisor just released its 2026 Travelers Choice Awards, including Best of the Best Destinations, and, for the first time, the list includes awards for the best destinations for solo travel. The Best of the Best Awards are based on millions of reviews and ratings from October 2024 to September 2025.

"It's so evocative. I'm surprised they got rid of it," Duffy said. "It's written by Stockton's Wing, Mike Hanrahan and the boys. I used to meet Mike in the old radio centre when he was in, doing bits of work." "And he'd always say to me, at least once a year: 'Thanks, we got the Lanzarote this year off it'. I just think it's evocative. And the programme is in a very hard time, a quarter to two. So you need something, a call to listen," he told The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk.

Hungarian prosecutors have charged Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony over his role in arranging last year's gay pride march in the capital city, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people despite a ban. Prosecutors have filed charges and seek a fine against the mayor of Budapest, who organised and led a public gathering despite a police ban, their office said in a statement announcing the case on Wednesday.

"Our shared commitment to advancing IoT innovation creates a unique opportunity to power some of the most advanced IoT solutions globally," he said. "Through our close alignment on values, culture and commitment to service, we can accelerate adoption across industries, enabling operators and enterprises to unlock the full potential of connected ecosystems. Together, we will make LoRaWAN the default infrastructure for massive IoT."

Stat of the National League's opening weekend: Mayo kicked the same number of two-pointers in the first half in Salthill on Sunday - three - as they did across their six championship matches of 2025.

As of today, we do not receive any particularly useful information from our allies regarding the use of drones,

European markets have kicked off on a negative fitting in a day that looks jampacked full of potential obstacles that will leave many be believing they are best served sitting it out for now. In a week that has seen a new front runner for the fed chair position, today's FOMC interest rate decision provides the basis for market rate expectations in the months ahead.

A Qatari military cargo plane carrying security staff in Italy to assist with law enforcement for the Winter Olympics struck a lighting tower on Sunday as it manoeuvred upon landing at Milan's Malpensa airport, it has emerged. The aircraft was carrying 104 personnel from the Gulf state's elite security forces, plus huge jeeps and snowmobiles, as part of an agreement made with the Italian government, despite Qatar not competing in the games.

Businesses and residents in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford are continuing to count the costs of Tuesday's catastrophic flooding which saw the River Slaney burst its banks and wreak havoc throughout the town. Despite being forewarned on Monday that flooding was likely due to the arrival of Storm Chandra, residents and retailers were forced to deal with a worst-case scenario as the River Slaney reached record levels by high tide at lunchtime on Tuesday.

Russia targeted a passenger train in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine killing five people, authorities said. A Russian drone hit a carriage carrying nearly 200 passengers, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on social media. The train strike occurred just hours after drones pounded the southern city of Odesa, killing three people and wounding 25 Russia has intensified attacks on energy infrastructure, leaving Ukrainians without power in freezing temperatures.

Andy Farrell has been left reeling by another blow, with news that Hugo Keenan is out of Ireland's opening Six Nations game against France on Thursday week after suffering a fractured thumb in training yesterday.

After losing his left arm in a farming accident, Joel Caceda struggles to work delivering packages. His tough job is typical of many that migrants are forced to take when they arrive in Spain without any legal papers. So, the 30-year-old Peruvian welcomed the news that Spain plans to regularise about 500,000 undocumented migrants, in a break with harsh policies on immigration elsewhere in Europe, in countries like Denmark, Germany and Austria, and in the United States.

After Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Janos Lazar is one of the most recognizable politicians in Hungary. In fact, the construction and transpor minister, who regularly makes headlines with racist and belittling attacks on minorities and poor people, is one of the few recognizable politicians within Orban's Fidesz party. He is still remembered for saying years ago that "those who have nothing are worth exactly that." Lazar, who is said to be keen to replace Orban one day, has now created the biggest scandal yet in Hungary's 2026 election campaign.

She was, she says, a block of stone. They were in the neurological ward of a huge hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Travelling on the Metro, the hospital name scribbled on a scrap of paper, it had taken Henderson an hour to find. Roderick looked comfortable when she arrived; he was a good colour, but there was a round red mark in the centre of his forehead and a small tube inside his mouth, attached to something she later learned was breathing for him.

A record number of people including Hungarians from across the country and dozens of MEPs and officials from across Europe turned up, transforming the march into a potent symbol of pushback against Orban and his government's steady rollback of rights. On Wednesday, prosecutors said Karacsony had organised and led a public gathering despite the police ban, adding in a statement that they were proposing that the court impose a fine on the defendant in a summary judgment without a trial.

The UK's tax collector is budgeting to spend more than £2 billion on new tech deals in the next couple of years, including a contract set for AWS and another for Capgemini to be awarded without competition. According to a spreadsheet of the procurement pipeline for this year and next, His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is starting with a data warehouse transformation program with a contract value estimated at £410 million.

Parts of Ireland will remain on flood alert as further rainfall is expected over the next 72 hours after Storm Chandra battered the country. There was near-record flooding on the east coast, which caused millions of euro worth of property damage and left parts of a Wexford town effectively cut off. Gardaí, fire brigade units, council staff and the Civil Defence were deployed in parts of Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford and Kilkenny as torrential rainfall resulted in rivers breaking their banks and flood defences being overwhelmed.

At least four people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram. Zelenskyy added that four people were still missing, and that two people were injured in the attack. In Ukraine's Odesa region, three people were killed, and 25 others were injured in a Russian attack on a building, the head of the regional military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr Browne, under whose departmental remit Met Éireann falls, said that communication and forewarning are essential components in preventing the types of flood damage currently being experienced by households and businesses in eastern counties as a result of Storm Chandra which continues to affect communities, particularly in Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin. The minister said there is a distinct deficiency in information-sharing on adverse weather events coming down the tracks that could severely hit communities.

The total number of Russian soldiers who have been killed, injured or gone missing since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has reached over 1.2 million, according to a new report published on Wednesday. The Washington-based think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), gathered its data from information from military personnel, intelligence agencies and various governments. The report also predicted that the combined number of losses for both sides could reach 2 million by April if fighting continues at its current intensity.

Blaine Parker can now be named after his ex-girlfriend indicated she wanted him identified at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court, where the judge described it as the worst domestic violence case he had seen