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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

TV PRESENTER, comedian and actor Paddy McGuinness has discovered he has Irish ancestors who were neighbours with ancestor of President Joe Biden. On the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are (August 22) discovered that his great-grandmother, Bridget McGuinness, had been baptised in a parish in Co. Mayo to parents Mark McGuinness and Winifred Molloy, who lived near the US president’s … [Read more...] about Paddy McGuinness embraces his Irish roots