Daniel Joseph Kinahan, an Irish fugitive suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, authorities said, ending a years-long hunt for an alleged boss of one of the world’s most notorious cartels. Source link
One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online. These nearly 3 million records will be of great significance to Ireland’s population, and a global diaspora of some 80 million claiming Irish ancestry. As well as providing insight into socioeconomic circumstances following the establishment of Saorstát Éireann (the Irish Free State) in 1922, the 1926 census holds several keys to unravelling Ireland’s complicated past. For many, this public release will help reconcile the enormous loss caused by the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland at the outset of the Irish civil war. An explosion laid waste to over 700 years of Irish historical records, including some of the 19th-century censuses. In Ireland, public access to historical census returns is legally restricted for 100 years. Almost 16 years since the online release of the 1901 and 1911 household census returns, the demand for more genealogical records is palpable. So, please be patient with the system (and the wonderful people behind it) as it …
Stephen Nolan. BBC Northern Ireland has won a complaint against the Irish News over four articles that alleged staff had been “planted” in the audience of presenter Stephen Nolan’s TV show. Press regulator IPSO found the Irish News had “overstated” the nature of audience manipulation allegations shared with it by a source. Rather than staff posing as audience members, IPSO said, the source’s description appeared to match up better with the BBC’s position: that “spotters” would point out people who wished to participate for the production staff to call upon. The allegations relating to Nolan Live were reported in four articles over the course of five days in August 2023. IPSO said the inaccuracy was significant because it “represented a serious allegation of editorial misconduct that could have serious reputational implications” both for the BBC and individuals working on the programme. IPSO added that the Irish News had failed to provide the allegations to the BBC ahead of the first article, which related mainly to the “work environment” of the programme but included references to …
Rising to his feet from the government benches, Healy-Rae said he’d spent Monday night talking to aggrieved voters in the Plough Bar in his County Kerry constituency — and had come away persuaded he should stop supporting Martin. “I met tractor men, lorry men, farmers, telling me how unhappy they were. The leader of the country should have listened,” Healy-Rae told a hushed chamber. “Because I believe this government have let the people of Ireland down, I will be voting no confidence in the leader of the country, and I will be tendering my resignation as a minister of state from now,” he said. Healy-Rae accused the government of lacking sympathy for farmers and truckers struggling to pay runaway diesel prices. “People cried at the protests — and they were workers! They were respectable people!” he shouted. He then exited the Leinster House parliamentary building to cheers from the hundreds of fuel-price protesters, mostly middle-aged men, who had gathered outside behind security barriers. Healy-Rae — who invariably dons an Irish flat cap — is the …
The head of Ireland’s police service has vowed to step up enforcement against fuel-cost protesters blocking critical infrastructure. Source link
Footage posted on X appears to show a deranged man hammering away on top of a U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules parked at Shannon Airport on Ireland’s west coast on Friday. “A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool,” the Clash Report wrote on X. WATCH: A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool. He was arrested. pic.twitter.com/uls2tfgGND — Clash Report (@clashreport) April 11, 2026 Local media outlet Clare FM described the incident as a “security breach,” with airport operations briefly suspended while police arrested “the person, understood to be a male,” who was “seen in the vicinity of a United States Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft that had been parked on a remote taxiway at the airport.” US Air Force C-130H Hercules 91-1653 landed at Shannon yesterday from Rosecrans Air National Guard air base St Josephs Kansas, via St. John’s Canada. It spent the night at Shannon, …
Government leaders welcomed news of the security operation in Whitegate, two days after Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan ordered army assistance for the Garda Síochána, Ireland’s national police force. “If the Whitegate oil refinery isn’t reopened, this country will shut down. It’s a matter of national security,” said Thomas Byrne, Ireland’s junior minister for European affairs and defense. Fuels for Ireland, which represents distributors and filling stations, said about 600 of Ireland’s 1,500 gas stations nationwide had already run out of supplies. Protesters continue to block key roads in central Dublin and several motorway junctions nationwide as part of their demand for immediate tax cuts. The epicenter of the protest is O’Connell Street, Dublin’s central thoroughfare, where scores of parked tractors, trucks and vans have snarled public transport in the capital since Tuesday. Ireland’s center-right government — which last month cut taxes on petrol and diesel in response to oil price hikes spurred by the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran — has refused to talk directly to the wildcat protesters because they are acting without support from …
DUBLIN, April 11 (Reuters) – Irish police took action to clear protesters blockading the country’s only oil refinery on Saturday after a senior government minister said protests over surging fuel prices had created a “very dangerous economic moment” for Ireland. Protesters angered by a more than 20% rise in diesel prices since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran nL6N40S1FU, have used tractors and trucks nL8N40R116 to block the Whitegate refinery, two ports, a fuel terminal and a number of roads in the capital Dublin. Hundreds of petrol stations have been left without fuel, endangering some emergency services, the government has said. Police on Saturday detained at least one protester, pushed back others and dispatched equipment designed to move large vehicles at the Whitegate refinery, footage from state broadcaster RTE showed. Police issued video on social media showing a number of oil trucks entering the refinery. The action came after Finance Minister Simon Harris said the protests had caused an extremely dangerous moment for the economy. Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Friday said nL1N40T0F8 …
Garda have been attempting to restore access to the Whitegate oil refinery in Co Cork for fuel trucks amid the days-long blockade. Source link
However, speaking on RTE Radio’s Morning Ireland show, one of them, John Dallon said he does not speak for the protesters blocking fuel depots: “I’m here on the streets of Dublin, I have no voice as regards what’s happening down the country as regards blocking up ports.” Source link
