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A RECORD number of people have been granted Irish citizenship this year, newly released figures show. More than 30,000 applications for citizenship have been processed in the past year, Ireland’s Department of Justice have confirmed today. That is a significant increase on the 20,000 citizenships granted in 2023 and is almost double the amount granted the previous … [Read more...] about Record number of people granted Irish citizenship in 2024

CHRISTMAS bonus payments will be paid to more than 1million households across Ireland this week. The bonus scheme provides a 100 per cent increase in the weekly rate of social welfare payment usually given to eligible recipients including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers and lone parents. They will receive the extra cash in addition to and on the same day that they … [Read more...] about Lump sum Christmas bonus payments being made to families across Ireland

POLICE have appealed to the public for information after gunshots were fired at a caravan in a seaside village in Co. Down. PSNI detectives are investigating the incident, which saw bullet holes left in a caravan and a car at the site in Bangor which they were alerted to ar around 12.10pm on December 1. Gunshots were fired at a caravan in this seaside village in Co. … [Read more...] about Shots fired at caravan in picturesque seaside village

A TEENAGER has died after the car he was driving was involved in a collision near Buncrana in Dongeal. The young man, aged in his late teens, was driving on the R244 (Mountain Road) at Ballinlough shortly after 5am on December 12 when the single vehicle incident happened. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He has been named locally as Tiernan Doherty-Kelly, who was 18 years … [Read more...] about Teenager dies following collision in Donegal

A SCHOOL is in mourning after one of its young students died following an assault in Wexford. An eight-year-old girl died from injuries sustained in the incident, which occurred at around 11.45pm on December 1 at a house in New Ross. She was taken to University Hospital Waterford, where she died from her injuries in the early hours of yesterday morning (December 2). A woman and … [Read more...] about School mourns ‘tragic’ death of eight-year-old student