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A MAN has been charged after three police officers were assaulted in Belfast. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday morning in the Dublin Road area of the city. Meanwhile, Superintendent Rosie Thompson has condemned attacks on officers after 20 more were injured between Friday night and Saturday morning. "We will investigate these shameful and unacceptable attacks … [Read more...] about Man charged with assaulting three police officers in Belfast

A MAN arrested on suspicion of murder by gardaí investigating the disappearance of eight-year-old Kyran Durnin has been released. Meanwhile, searches of two properties in Co. Louth have been completed. Investigators have previously claimed there is no evidence that Kyran — who was reported missing in August — is still alive and believe he has been missing for two years. Gardaí … [Read more...] about Man arrested on suspicion of murder as part of Kyran Durnin investigation is released

Irish racing legend Eddie Jordan has revealed on a podcast that he is currently being treated for an "aggressive form of cancer" that has spread into his spine and the pelvis. The racing legend and Dublin native is best known as the founder of the Jordan Grand Prix Formula 1 team, which competed in F1 from 1991 to 2005. He is also a prominent television personality and pundit, … [Read more...] about Eddie Jordan confirms he is being treated for an “aggressive form of cancer”

COMEDIAN Jimmy Cricket was born James Mulgrew in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone and brought up in Belfast. He first rose to fame in the 1970s after winning a TV talent show. Jimmy was subsequently given his own television series on a show called And There's More produced by Central Television. Jimmy Cricket What are you up to? In between writing Christmas cards, I’m promoting my new … [Read more...] about Ten minutes with…Jimmy Cricket

NOSTALGIA for Ireland among exiles perhaps conjures occasionally unrealistic images of a distant past in which we are all living in quaint thatched cottages, kneeling in a circle in the living room to say the rosary together each evening. And that Ireland is not so far in the past that some older people cannot recall it. There may indeed be a thatched cottage somewhere on the … [Read more...] about Ireland’s beauty faces environmental challenges