Judges with official ribbons stand behind a wooden desk in a panelled court room.

Between 1976 and 1978, an extrajudicial campaign of violent repression was waged by South American dictatorships against political dissidents and exiles who spoke out against domestic repression and military rule. Operation Condor, as this campaign was known, has since inspired multiple novels, plays and exhibitions, not to mention a forthcomingContinue Reading

Gardaí have arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of a grandmother in Co Kerry. The body of the woman, named locally as Miriam Burns (75), was discovered on Monday at 1.15pm on the Ardshanavooly housing estate in Killarney. The man, aged in his 50s, is currently being detainedContinue Reading

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Immigration is an ideological headache for the UK’s Conservative party, caught between its neoliberal new right that champions free markets, and its social conservatism, which immigration is said to threaten. But a restrictive immigration stance has been a winning ticket for the Conservatives since David Cameron’s 2010 pledge to reduceContinue Reading

The two men arrested in connection with the fatal assault incident on Church Street in Athlone in the early hours of Saturday morning have been charged. They will appear before a special sitting of Mullingar District Court this evening, Paul Babs Connolly, 49, from Edenderry in Co Offaly was attendingContinue Reading