Long before the residents of Dartmouth Square West started becoming concerned about the MetroLink, they spent years concerned about the actions of an Athlone-based businessman who showed up one day, locked the gates of the Victorian park in front of the homes, and claimed ownership of it.
A move by new insurance provider Level Health to challenge a key rule around health insurance provision could have huge implications for older people and those with complex health conditions.
Ambrielle Ensell and her family started visiting Ireland in 2017. Ambrielle, who grew up in Washington State, found a holiday home in Co Laois while searching online, and booked it. From the moment they arrived in the country, they felt a sense of connection.
Social media influencers have stumped up €3.3m in tax after the Revenue Commissioners investigated their online activities.
Four years ago, Maria Crowe’s life changed forever when she was diagnosed with a painful bladder condition called interstitial cystitis.
Actor Kate Gilmore sinks her face into her hands in mock-shame. “Oh, God, Lord above,” she says. “Now, that’s something I would maybe go back and tell myself not to do.” We are talking about her appearance on The Voice of Ireland back in 2012 when she was 18 years old.
It’s probably no surprise that it took Brian Gregan 15 months from his last race to announce he’s finished as an athlete at the age of 35.
For the last few years, I was working as a tour photographer with a band, living on a tour bus with lots of crew and musicians. When you’re living in close quarters with people like this, you build bonds and have unique relationships that rarely happen in adult life. You have breakfast, lunch and dinner with these people, you share a cup of tea in the morning in your PJs and a post-show glass of champers too.
Emmanuel Macron has had a busy week – not just grappling with a budget crisis and the war in Ukraine. France’s embattled president also had to mop up after his key army chief, General Fabien Mandon, created uproar by saying French people must accept the possible loss of its children in a potential future conflict.
The footage of Israeli security forces apparently summarily killing two Palestinians is damning.
Hong Kong’s anti-graft body yesterday said it had arrested eight people in connection with a fire that ripped through a high-rise apartment complex, killing at least 128 people with 200 still missing in the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years.
A healthcare assistant tried to smuggle a man into Ireland so he could “abuse” the common travel area by illegally immigrating to the UK, it is alleged.
People talk a lot about dignity in housing as if it’s directly tied to square footage or light levels. But dignity, for me, was not having to move every May because a landlord’s cousin “needed the room”. It was finding a place – any place – where I wasn’t competing with 27 other hopefuls queued down a terrace as if it was Willy Wonka’s factory tour.
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In March of this year, eight months before she dined on pig’s brain on I’m A Celebrity…, Vogue Williams donned an Amazon-branded jacket and smiled serenely as she stood in front of an Amazon-branded van holding an Amazon-branded package.
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