Eimer McAuley

22 hours ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

THE NEWS THAT Bernard Gloster will step down from his role as CEO of the HSE in March of next year has been met with mixed reactions and some dismay by workers in the health service, who have spoken to The Journal on an unnamed basis. Gloster, who previously served as the CEO of Tusla, said that the choice to step down was a “significant personal decision”.

1 day ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

THE CEO OF the HSE Bernard Gloster has announced that he is to resign in March of next year, after being appointed just two years and three months ago. Gloster took up the job in the wake of Covid, following Dr Tony Holohan’s departure, and for much of his leadership he was focused on getting the health service’s spending back within budget limits, leading to a recruitment embargo that was largely criticised by unions.

1 day ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

A PARIS COURT found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of having sexually assaulted two women on a 2021 film set, sentencing him to an 18-month suspended prison sentence. The actor, 76, was convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). The panel of judges will deliver a verdict regarding another plaintiff and pronounce a sentence later on Tuesday.

1 day ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

KNEECAP’S HEADLINE SET at London’s Wide Awake festival is to go ahead as planned after a number of the band’s concerts were cancelled by organisers. The group has seen several gigs in the UK cancelled, including a performance at the Eden Project in Cornwall on 4 July, after footage from old concerts appeared to show a member of the group shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, and another video allegedly showing one calling for Conservative MPs to be killed.

1 day ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

A 21-YEAR-OLD MAN has been arrested over suspected arson attacks on two properties owned by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police said the suspect was arrested in the early hours of this morning on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. Emergency services were called to blazes at the doors of two homes in north London within 24 hours of each other – one just after 1.30am yesterday and the other on Sunday.