Saoirse McGarrigle

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle

DISGRACED SURGEON MICHAEL Shine claimed during the 2019 trial that saw him jailed for abusing seven boys that he had “no memory whatsoever” of any of the victims, but in an interview with The Journal last week he recalled the medical treatment he gave one victim and shared details of the abdominal surgery that he performed on him. Furthermore, the paedophile surgeon claimed to have “cured him”.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle

AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the world is “breaking the bodies and minds” of the children of Gaza. Irishman Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, said people are “complicit” in what is happening in Gaza if they fail to act. It comes as aid workers warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis following two months of an aid and food blockade.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle

GAZA’S CIVIL DEFENCE agency said that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people including three babies up to a year old. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (1AM Irish time).

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle

RUSSIAN DRONE STRIKES on Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv wounded 47 people late yesterday, police said, while Russian officials reported a “massive attack” by Ukraine on the Krasnodar region. “Hostile attacks on Kharkiv resulted in 47 injured civilians,” police in the Kharkiv region wrote on Telegram. Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov previously said that around 50 people had been wounded in the strikes, including an 11-year-old girl. “Fires have broken out.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle

A WOMAN INVOLVED in robberies died early today after an explosion in front of a bank in Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, the police said. The 38-year-old was rushed to the hospital after her hand was mutilated in the explosion. Police spokeswoman Konstantia Dimoglidou said investigators were trying to determine the “possible scenario” that she was carrying a device that exploded.