A MAN who sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl and forced her to send him indecent photographs of herself has been sentenced to 18 years in jail. Alan Cunningham, 63, from Wigan, was already ...

SINN FÉIN have tabled a motion for Monday’s full Dublin City Council meeting urging the Irish Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill. Dublin Sinn Féin City Councillor Daithí Doolan said ...

POLICE investigating a series of distraction burglaries around the West Midlands in England have named a suspect in the hope the public can help find him. Bernard McDonagh, who is also known as ...

IRISH PRESIDENT Michael D. Higgins has offered his condolences to those affected by the Guildford pub bombings. Mr Higgins was speaking on the 50th anniversary of the IRA attacks that claimed five ...

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched following the death of an inmate at Cloverhill Prison in Dublin. Gardaí say a man was treated for injuries sustained in an incident at the prison in the early hours ...

POLICE are appealing for information after three staff members were assaulted by a knife-wielding man during an armed robbery at a Belfast off-licence. The incident occurred at a premises on the ...

AS callouts go, it’s probably one of the more unusual jobs Dublin firefighters have encountered. In the past month, Dublin Fire Brigade units have faced blazes, beach rescues and even births. However, ...

POLICE in England are hunting a man with an Irish accent in connection with a burglary during which another man sustained head injuries. The incident occurred in Fixby, Huddersfield on February 26 ...

BELFAST football club Linfield has said it will investigate an incident at its Windsor Park ground during which an opposition player was reportedly subjected to racist abuse. Glentoran midfielder Fuad ...

GARDAÍ have seized £280,000 worth of suspected heroin as well as a number of offensive weapons following searches in Dublin. The items were discovered during a search of a number of properties in ...

AN ELDERLY man who was seriously injured in a road traffic collision in Co. Kilkenny two weeks ago has passed away. The collision, which involved a motorcycle and a pedestrian, occurred on the N24 in ...

THE PSNI has issued a renewed appeal for information on the whereabouts of an American woman who has been missing for almost five months. Sofi Johansson, 56, was last seen in the Banbridge area of Co.