Any cull of Dublin’s gull population would be ‘illegal and unwarranted’, according to Birdwatch Ireland. It comes after fresh calls for a cull from another Dublin city councillor. On Lunchtime Live this afternoon Fine Gael Councillor Paddy McCartan said he was “shocked” at the number of gulls he encountered while out in Howth yesterday –…
Taoiseach Micheál Martin gave Emmanuel Macron a special, limited edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses as a gift when the French president visited him at Government Buildings on Thursday. After bilateral talks and an outdoor press conference, they took a leisurely walk to Trinity College, pausing to listen to a piper and fiddler in front of…
You might not know the singer but you will more than likely recognise the song. What a Difference a Day Makes was popularised by Dinah Washington in 1959, having been written initially in Spanish by Maria Grever a quarter of a century earlier. 24 hours, brought the sun and the flowers where there used to…
AN Italian conman posed as a fashion photographer in Ireland to help run a multi-million euro Europe wide fraud scam. Using a bogus name, Giuseppe Diviccaro, 45, who was living in Glasnevin, north Dublin, and also operated in Belfast, boasted that he was an international photographer based in Dublin, Venice and Lagos in Nigeria. 5Giuseppe…
Cork 1-37 Kilkenny 1-32 A MARATHON HURLING afternoon of extraordinary entertainment culminated in a Cork success as they eventually outlasted Kilkenny. Robbie O’Flynn with Padraig Walsh and Conor Fogarty. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Kieran Kingston’s team summoned the energy and enthusiasm to pull clear, Patrick Horgan top scoring with a massive haul of 0-15 while the…
Research into natural products is on the rise again as scientists in Ireland become 21st-century “medicine hunters” searching for ingredients for drugs, cosmetics and functional foods in Irish boglands, coastal waters and other terrains. The traditional use of plants in medicines, cosmetics and food predates both western medicine and scientific research. But as scientists began…
It’s maybe a year since Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty began to gel as a women’s four. Maybe. This morning, they franked a superb run of form by claiming a bronze medal under a burning sun.It is Ireland’s first podium place of these Games but surely not the last with this…
The UK has today outlined proposed changes to the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, with a cabinet minister saying that “we cannot go on as we are”. The move is set to ignite a furious row with the EU, with one of its top officials saying there is no room for renegotiation of the protocol. Northern…
14 May 2021 Unique sporting auction in aid of Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Steve Dukes, Head of Kit and Equipment for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is to auction a unique haul of personally signed shirts, including from all 92 clubs in the Premier League and Football League pyramid, in memory of his late father…
Ireland’s health service IT system has been shut down as a precautionary measure, following a cyber attack today. The Health Service Executive (HSE) believes the attack is by international criminals attempting to extort money, although no demand has yet been received. HSE confirmed there had been “a significant ransomware attack on the HSE IT systems”…
