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Restriction on number of passengers could send Xmas prices for London to Dublin single fares higher than £400 RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary has said that passengers using Dublin Airport could face higher prices this Xmas — perhaps as much as €500 (approx. £430) due the passenger cap at Dublin Airport. A reduction of up to 1million passengers may be required to ensure that the 32 … [Read more...] about Passenger cap at Dublin Airport could cause fare price rise

US PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Donald Trump continues to use Sinéad O’Connor’s recording of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies, despite being asked to refrain by her estate. O’Connor died in 2023 in London at the age of 56. In March, the late singer’s estate and record label told the BBC that she would have been ‘hurt, disgusted and insulted’ by Trump’s use of her music. … [Read more...] about Trump uses Sinéad recording despite being warned not to

A TEENAGER has been arrested after a serving Irish Defence Forces chaplain Father Paul Murphy was stabbed on Thursday evening. Father Paul Murphy remains in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed several times. The attack, at Renmore Barracks, Co. Galway, was curtailed by the intervention of Irish Defence Forces members who restrained the … [Read more...] about Gardaí investigate a terror link to attack on Irish army chaplain

FORMER Match of the Day host Des Lynam has criticised female ex-professionals working as pundits in the men’s soccer game. The former BBC presenter feels there is space in the game for female hosts, but not for their punditry on male soccer. Desmond Michael Lynam (now 81) was born in Ennis, Co. Clare. When his family moved to Brighton, England, when he was a child, he recalls … [Read more...] about Lynam critcises women soccer commentators

AN IRISHMAN has been jailed for 10 months after racially abusing a bus driver in Hayes, Middlesex and violently attacking a betting shop. Michael Mongan, 39, of Castle Road, Ealing, west London, attacked a Ladbrokes branch in Northolt on 27 July of this year. In that incident Mongan repeatedly battered windows with a stick and racially abused staff while under the influence of … [Read more...] about Irishman jailed for racist abuse of a bus driver