With these latest deaths there have now been 22 executions in the United States this year — 12 in Florida, four in Texas, three in Oklahoma, and one each in Arizona, Tennessee and Alabama. The death ...

THE FUNERAL OF GAA star James McHugh and his wife Noreen will take place later today in Co Donegal. The couple died after their car collided with a van on the N3 at Drummallaght, between Virginia and ...

LAST UPDATE | 14 Aug PINERGY HAS ANNOUNCED an increase to its residential electricity prices. It will result in the typical household cost rising by 7.6% and it is understood that the hike will impact ...

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The US midterm elections are still months away, but attention is already turning to the 2028 presidential race. Speculation about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has grown after the New York congresswoman ...

POLLS HAVE CLOSED in one of the most bizarre byelections the UK has ever seen, with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage hoping to retain his seat in Clacton. His main rival is Count Binface, a satirical ...

In Shankill in south county Dublin, the stony beach saw visitors arrive with dogs and eclipse glasses as the solar event’s peak neared. Children carried their tin foiled-cereal boxes and adults ...

At 15 and unmarried, Ann was pregnant. To be a teenager and pregnant outside of marriage is never easy, but in 1980s Ireland it was a situation fraught with danger, shame and stigma. The previous year ...

AT LEAST ONE person was killed and several injured in an explosion at a Rotterdam port refinery belonging to the Dutch subsidiary of the Swiss-based Gunvor Group on Thursday, police said. Rotterdam ...

A chief fire officer said it was “one of the most significant” incidents the region’s fire service has ever dealt with.

AS CLARE PREPARES for a visit of US President Donald Trump in September, American officials are struggling to find enough hotels for the presidential entourage, The Journal has learned. Plans can ...

A BOIL WATER notice has been delayed for a housing estate in Co Waterford as negotiations continue between the management company, the council and residents. Some 74 households in the Woodlands Estate ...