Small-business owner Johnny Carroll only got refund after a year of pleading and the company eventually said it had been a 'malware incident'
At around 7pm on April 25, 2024, some protesters allegedly became involved in criminal activity, including setting fires and causing damage, and that some were said to have been intent on injuring gardaí at the scene. A Garda inspector told Bray District Court at an earlier sitting that the violence encountered on the night was relentless and prolonged, and that several Garda vehicles were damaged during the disturbance.
Zelensky's visit is part of a brief tour of his western allies that saw him seal an energy deal with Greece on Sunday and will include a visit to Spain on Tuesday. The Ukrainian leader has said that "a major deal with France" will be announced soon, but it was not known if that would be finalised in his talks with President Emmanuel Macron. The French presidency said Macron would "put French excellence in the armaments industry field at the service of the defence of Ukraine".
A Ukrainian military official early on November 17 said three people were killed and at least 10 injured in a Russian strike on the eastern city of Balakliya, an important railroad junction in the Kharkiv region. Vitaliy Karabanov, head of Balakliya's military administration, said the attack struck the city center and injured at least three children. Nine people were hospitalized, while emergency crews were at the site, he added.
In a note to Aer Lingus staff seen by the Irish Independent, the airline said that its executive team held a briefing with staff at Manchester today. In the note, the airline confirmed the poor margin performance. 'This makes it difficult to justify further investment in the Manchester base and raises the question as to whether there are potentially better alternative uses of the two aircraft that are in the Manchester base,' it told staff.
As the 19th International Architecture Exhibition enters its final week before closing on November 23, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale offers a lens through which to revisit the ideas and experiments that have shaped this year's global architectural conversation. Curated by Carlo Ratti under the theme "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.", the Biennale brings together more than 750 participants across national pavilions, collateral events, and city-wide installations.
The European Commission wants to investigate whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud fall under the Digital Markets Act. After large-scale cloud outages, concerns are growing about the dominance of three major players in the cloud market. This is according to Bloomberg, based on sources. The investigation follows several major outages in the cloud sector. Last month, an Amazon services outage affected hundreds of companies.
The alarm was raised at 2pm on Saturday after Ms Herbst got into difficulty, having entered the sea at Magherabeg Beach while attempting to save her family dog from the choppy waters. Greystones and Wicklow Coast Guard units were tasked to the scene, along with the Dublin-based Coast Guard helicopter R116. A body was recovered from the water at around 4pm and a second person was also rescued from the water and taken to hospital.
Europe currently does not have the means to defend itself against potential Russian drone attacks and needs to integrate Ukraine's know-how and capabilities to boost its defense, EU defense commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. "Why did it take us more than two years and the trigger of the Russian provocation with drones against Poland, and also against Baltic States and Romania, to understand that we are not ready to detect Russian drones and to destroy them with cost-effective means?"
It's amazing, I had a conversation with Carmen [Ballesteros's ex-wife] before I went out to play today and she told me how proud he would have been. He means so much to this Tour and the European Ryder Cup team. We rally so much around his spirit and around his quotes and everything he meant for European golf. To equal him last year was cool, but to surpass him this year, I didn't get this far in my dreams, so it's very cool.
Met Éireann has said there may be further flooding in Leinster and Munster after heavy rain. Overall, this morning will start off mostly dry and cloudy, with just isolated rain and drizzle. It will turn sunnier during the day, with just isolated showers, and highest temperatures of 7 to 12C. It will stay dry in most areas tonight with long clear spells and just the occasional showers, mainly in northern areas. Temperatures will drop to lows of 0 to 4C.
I feel like I'm going to go home and cry, Conor Benn said quietly in the early hours of Sunday morning at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. I think I'm going to cry here. Oh man, it's been hard. Despite the surprising ease with which he had beaten his nemesis Chris Eubank Jr over 12 one-sided rounds on Saturday night, Benn's face was bruised.
Nothing short of a disaster for Scotland, but a magnificent comeback by Argentina. The hosts were 21-0 up and cruising in the second half, when a loose Finn Russell pass was seized on by opponents that had been woeful until that point. Five Argentina tries in the final 23 minutes, and a comeback orchestrated in stunning fashion by Bath's Santi Carreras, sealed Scotland's fate.
Lars Klingbeil's trip will be the first visit to China by a cabinet minister of the current German government and the trip to Berlin's most important trading partner comes at a sensitive time. Chinese export controls, especially on rare earths, have highlighted the German economy's heavy dependence on China. The German automotive industry, for example, has felt the effects as it faces a shortage of important parts.
James Meagher was convicted in 2022 of defrauding a friend of €41,000 and served one month in jail. A convicted fraudster who was appointed to the management set-up of the Kilkenny camogie team last week has said he just wants to move on with his life. There was surprise among many in local GAA circles that Kilkenny Camogie would appoint a man with a recent conviction for fraud to help manage the county team in the aftermath of the DJ Carey case.
IAC Executive Vice President Christoph Heubner called the auction "cynical and shameless." Heubner said in a statement that the history of Holocaust survivors was "being exploited for commercial gain." "Documents relating to persecution and the Holocaust belong to the families of those who were persecuted," he said. "They should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade."
It seems like the Toronto Blue Jays are legitimate contenders to earn Kyle Tucker's services. Myles Straw and Tucker were both drafted in 2015 by the Houston Astros and even made their big league debuts in the same season (2018). They played parts of four seasons together before Straw was traded to the Cleveland Guardians. Well, it looks as if the two can reunite in Canada. Acquired last off-season, it's been Straw who has led the recruiting charge for the Blue Jays to sign Tucker.
Ukraine's army said on Saturday it struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region near Moscow, as part of efforts to reduce the enemy's ability to launch missile and bomb strikes. Explosions and a large fire were observed at the site, said the military. Ryazan is located about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Moscow. Russian officials often do not admit such attacks have succeeded.
Today's 'screenagers' have grown up against a backdrop of crises, but they get their work done at 'incredible speed' The country is "grinding to a halt", thundered Digicel founder Denis O'Brien in a speech to the Business Post Economic Outlook Forum last week, holding forth with all the bluster of a Dickensian industrialist. Remote working was a "mistake". Most "troubling" of all, he said, was a "decline in our work ethic".
Canadian-born Patrick Roberts Loewen has survived a 'criminal' childhood, cancer and drug addiction to become a vigilante of sorts for the city The community spirit in Galway city is definitely strong, but it is rare to see someone caring about its streets like Patrick Roberts Loewen does. Patrick is using his art not only to keep Galway clean but also to keep it safe. And after hearing his back story - which includes a difficult childhood, cancer, an abrupt change of career, and a vision - the reasons are clear.
A trio of young falcons born atop a 35-storey building in Melbourne's CBD have taken flight for the first time, with the take-off captured on a livestream for the world to see. The three peregrine falcons two females and one male fledged late last week, with the footage of their first flight posted on Instagram by non-profit organisation Bird Life Australia.
On this episode, Tabitha Monahan and Cónal Thomas from the Irish Independent political team break down the Government's new housing policy that strangely has no annual targets. Can it finally solve the crisis or is it set to fail? As Fianna Fáil's presidential fiasco shows no sign of going away, is it in danger of becoming a "perma-crisis" for Taoiseach Micheál Martin?
Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine around the frontline city of Pokrovsk as Russia carried out another overnight attack on Kyiv that hit civilian infrastructure. First-responders were still searching through rubble on the morning of November 15, but the drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital killed at least seven people, Kyiv military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said. Ukrainian authorities said that three missiles and 135 drones were fired overnight, with the country's air defenses taking out all but one missile and 41 drones.
Ex-adviser to Bertie Ahern linked up with Fine Gael Áras candidate as his firm did training for debates Jackie Gallagher says he had tea with Humphreys and sat in on interview preparation session Media advice mirrored role played by former FG minister Ivan Yates in Fianna Fáil camp When they squared off in the first presidential election debate, the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael candidates had been taught tricks by the other side of the Civil War politics divide.
