Following the health concerns during the summer that forced her to withdraw from the presidential election, Mairead McGuinness is back on the circuit. The former MEP and European Commissioner has been spotted at two gigs with a European flavour in recent weeks. She saw Enda Kenny presented with the inaugural Trinity European Laureate Award a few weeks back and attended the European Movement Christmas party in the Mansion House last week.
The duration of a total solar eclipse always varies. In April 2024, the eclipse that crossed North America lasted 4 minutes and 28 seconds. By contrast, the one that will reach Spain in August 2026 will only last 1 minute and 43 seconds. In less than two years, both will be put to shame by the longest conjunction of the century.
Guests feasted on oysters and Guinness with mulled wine and Champagne and seasonal cocktails The couple booked out the entire castle for their ceremony Ryan Tubridy and his new wife Dr Clare Kambamettu married in a "beautiful" and "intimate" ceremony at a castle in the heart of Connemara yesterday. The beaming couple tied the knot in a civil ceremony at their favourite hotel, the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel in Clifden, in front of just over 100 guests.
Detectives believe the innocent child, Tadhg Farrell, and his grandaunt Mary Holt were murdered in the attack carried out by a local drugs gang as part of an intimidation campaign
In Ryan George's wonderful "Pitch Meeting" series, on YouTube, the excitable producer character, relishing the eager screenwriter character's ability to load a conflict with life-or-death consequences, always enunciates "stakes!" with shivering excitement. Similarly, when we read non-narrative scholarly books, what we want in exchange for all the minutiae is a sense that something significant, something we might call stakesy, is on the line.
King Charles and Queen Camilla have chosen their 20th wedding anniversary portrait for their official Christmas card this year. Charles and Camilla are pictured standing side by side, with the queen's arm linking the king's, in the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky, the British ambassador's residence in Rome, earlier this year. The photograph is framed inside the card by a dark red border, with the printed message in a matching colour on the opposite side reading Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
The bodies of at least 17 migrants and asylum seekers have been found in a partially deflated boat off the Greek island of Crete, according to the country's coastguard. The victims, as well as two survivors, were discovered on Saturday, some 26 nautical miles (48km) southwest of Crete. list of 4 itemsend of list A spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard told the AFP news agency that all of the victims were men.
At least 18 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an inflatable boat died when it capsized south of the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Saturday. The half-sunken boat was located Saturday by a passing Turkish merchant vessel, authorities said. Two survivors were rescued and a rescue operation to find more was ongoing. Greece is a major entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and fatal accidents are a common occurrence.
Nikita Bier, head of product at X, has announced the cancellation of the EU Commission's advertising account. 'Your advertising account has been closed,' Bier wrote in a post to which he attached another post from the European Commission. The Ad account is an additional account linked to a main account, designed to manage advertising campaigns, and X's announcement came after the European Commission imposed a £120 million fine on the social network on Friday for violating transparency rules.
The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace. DW has more. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Merz, Netanyahu said Israel believed that any Palestinian state would pose a risk to Israel's securityImage: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance
"I had to beat traffic to get out to the High Performance Centre and I had a long work call between 8am and 11am," Johnny Sexton recalls. "The lads were then coming out to training and I was sitting there in the car with my shirt on. Call over, I'd have to take it off, put my gear on, jump out, train with the lads, do the kicking session, back into the car and off to work again for the rest of the day."
Garda Peadar Óg Ó Gríofa, 33, with an address at Harristown, Dean Hill Road, Navan, Co Meath, appeared before Derrynea District Court in Galway last week facing five summonses in connection with the alleged incident. One relates to dangerous driving, while others relate to a hit-and-run collision, specifically failure to give appropriate information, failure to remain at the scene, failure to stop, and failure to report an occurrence of damage to another vehicle. A grey Toyota Yaris is alleged to have been damaged in the incident, which occurred at Annaghvaan, Lettermore, Co Galway on March 17, 2025.
The Templeogue star, who won silver in the 200m individual medley final on Saturday night, touched home first in a time of 2:03.24 ahead of Denmark's Helena Rosendahl Bach and Italy's Anita Gastaldi. Walshe will go for another medal tonight in the final of the 400m individual medley in what has proved to be a glittering week for Irish swimming with a haul of seven medals. Last Tuesday, Daniel Wiffen started Ireland's medal haul with bronze in the men's 400m freestyle final.
FULL-TIME: Dingle 1-18 St.Finbarr's 0-20 Unbelievable. St.Finbarr's were in total control of that game but displine has let them down. Bill O'Connell is penalised for not retreating from the foul. The referee moves the free forward 50 metres which takes it right to the edge of the arc. Cometh the hour, cometh the man - Conor Geaney dispatches the two-point free to snatch a slender win. Dingle are Munster SFC champions! It's cruel on the Barrs but they were the architects of their own downfall.
Hungarian politicians from the country's ruling right-wing populist Fidesz party accuse national conservative opposition leader Peter Magyar of all sorts of things. They say that the 44-year-old leader of the Tisza party and favorite for the parliamentary elections in spring 2026 is a Brussels mercenary. They call him a Ukrainian agent and a warmonger who wants to forcibly recruit Hungarian men.
A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 653 drones and 51 missiles on Ukraine in the overnight attack, adding that its forces downed 585 drones and 30 missiles.
Eurovision boycott shows the depths of anti-Israel feeling in Ireland, but few would argue against the Jewish state has the right to exist two events this week illustrate how deeply, institutionally anti-Israeli Ireland has become. The first was the rejection on a technicality of Dublin city councillors' attempt to rename Herzog Park in Rathgar. The second was RTÉ's decision not to take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
"Food, friendship, music and song are reminders of what Irish people are," she said, adding "that identity is much stronger" when friendship is extended to all newcomers. Mercedes Verona Pereira, from Cuba - one of the event organisers - told the gathering: "You don't need to fear anything, as our mutual responsibility as a community is to take care of you."
I think it was going to be a big race with the girls tonight, it was a stacked field of fliers, so it was going to be about who had the better back end, you just have to hold on for the first 150m and then just try bring it home the last 50 and that's just what I did, I just kicked like hell,
The incident occurred on the R132 at Dowdallshill in Dundalk at around 8.20pm on Saturday evening. A female driver (20s) of one of the vehicles was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda with injuries that are understood to be non-life-threatening. A passenger in the vehicle, an infant baby boy, was rushed to Children's University Hospital last night.
"There are already concrete considerations on this: the organisation is capable of deploying several dozen people at short notice. The OSCE could observe the ceasefire, monitor the ceasefire line, monitor elections, and so on," Cassis told SonntagsBlick newspaper. "But the front line currently stretches for 1,300 kilometres -- the OSCE alone is too small to monitor its entire length. This would require a significant commitment from the participating states."
The central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk came under attack by dozens of Russian drones and missiles overnight, causing power and water outages, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi and the Ukrainian air force said on Sunday. The city, located on the Dnipro River 259 km (161 miles) from the capital, Kyiv, is a major industrial hub and the site of one of Ukraine's biggest oil refineries.
