Tommy Meskill

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Tommy Meskill

The UK Prime Minister has said that his government is "fully considering" the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Belfast, which found that an independent public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown must be established without further delay. Mr Brown was chairman of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA in south Derry and was locking up the gates of his club when he was assaulted, abducted and murdered by a loyalist gang in May 1997.

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Tommy Meskill

A man shot dead by police in Milton Keynes in England on Tuesday has been named as Irishman David Joyce. Mr Joyce, aged 38, has been living in the Milton Keynes area, north of London. Officers were called to the Milton Keynes station at around 12.55pm on Tuesday following reports of a man carrying a gun.

3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Tommy Meskill

The DUP leader Gavin Robinson has called on the UK Prime Minister to take steps to "exempt" Northern Ireland from EU retaliatory action against the US. During Prime Ministers Questions this afternoon, Mr Robinson said that imports to Northern Ireland could be impacted by EU retaliatory steps. In response, Keir Starmer said that businesses in Northern Ireland could claim reimbursement for goods that do not enter the European Union.

3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Tommy Meskill

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3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Tommy Meskill

"Trump is emotionally pro-Brit", Reform leader Nigel Farage declared to a room of journalists at a lunchtime gathering in the Palace of Westminster this week. "Trump is the least isolationist, probably of the whole of the senior Republican party" he claimed. In his usual brash manner, the friend of US President Donald Trump lamented that when it came to a free-trade deal with the United States, "we've blown it".