Haulage firm sentenced for tampering with safety equipment on lorries

A HAULAGE firm based in Co. Tyrone has been sentenced for fraud after admitting tampering with the safety equipment on their lorries. Michael Doherty Haulage Ltd were found to be manipulating tachograph recording equipment fitted to a number of the company’s vehicles following a mutli-agency investigation in Northern Ireland. Officers from the PSNI’s Road Policing Unit and … [Read more...] about Haulage firm sentenced for tampering with safety equipment on lorries

PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked Taoiseach Simon Harris for his “personal attention” to the issue of Ukrainian children being abducted by Russian forces. The Ukrainian leader stopped off in Ireland on his way back from a summit marking the 75th anniversary of Nato in Washington. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy steps off the plane in Shannon Airport for the first … [Read more...] about President Zelensky thanks Ireland for ‘commitment’ to bringing children abducted by Russia home

TWELVE people were arrested at an anti-immigration protest in Dublin yesterday. Tensions erupted in Coolock in the north of the city at a site which was due to to be made available to house asylum seekers. Emergency services were called to the scene yesterday afternoon, where anti-immigration protestors were demonstrating outside the former Crown Paints factory on the Malahide … [Read more...] about Twelve people arrested during anti-immigration protest in Dublin

A FORMER deputy headteacher has been sentenced after admitting a series of child sex offences against a pupil at a school where he had worked. Paul Cleary, 58, of Plumpton Gardens, Doncaster, previously pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communication with a child and three counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 17. At Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday, he was given … [Read more...] about Former deputy headteacher who used position to ‘target and groom’ girl is sentenced for child sex offences

POLICE have appealed for information after a man sustained head injuries in a brawl in Belfast city centre. The man, aged in his 30s, was treated in hospital for his injuries and subsequently arrested. The incident unfolded on the Bedford Street area of the city on Friday afternoon, July 12. "Shortly before 3.45pm we received a report that a man had been assaulted during a … [Read more...] about Man sustains head injuries in Belfast city centre brawl