David MacRedmond

5 days ago | thejournal.ie | Jane Matthews |David MacRedmond

A 27-YEAR-OLD bride was killed when gunmen attacked a wedding party in a village in southeastern France on Saturday night. Three other people, including a child, were injured in the attack, which plunged the village of Goult into shock. According to a source close to the investigation, the violence might be linked to possible drug-related score-settling. At around 4:30am (2:30am Irish time) the newlyweds were leaving the party when they were confronted by masked assailants who opened fire.

5 days ago | thejournal.ie | David MacRedmond

IN THE SPACE of less than two weeks, the US position on the Israel-Iran conflict has been marked by contradiction and confusion that resembles the Trump administration’s haphazard approach to tariffs and trade policy. Yesterday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both insisted that the US was not interested in overthrowing the government of Iran, but last night President Donald Trump said the opposite. “Anything can happen in conflict.

5 days ago | thejournal.ie | David MacRedmond

Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day. Iran has promised retaliation against the US for the attack on its nuclear sites over the weekend. The US struck three nuclear facilities with the bunker-buster bombs on Saturday night as it waded into the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, which saw more exchanges of fire in the early hours of this morning.

5 days ago | thejournal.ie | David MacRedmond

TÁNAISTE AND MINISTER for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris is set to attend a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels today, where a report on Israel’s breaches of its agreement with the EU will be discussed. The weekend’s US bombing of nuclear sites in Iran, however, will likely dominate today’s proceedings. Harris will address Israel’s ongoing war on the Palestinian enclave, where the world is watching “dystopian scenes” unfold.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | David MacRedmond

THE EUROPEAN UNION has the political, economic, and diplomatic means to stop Israel’s “calculated evisceration of the very systems that sustain life” in Gaza, and “empty rhetoric” is not enough. That’s what European government leaders have been told in an open letter written by the heads of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), eleven of whose staff members have been killed during the 20 months of war on the besieged Palestinian territory.