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18 hours ago | 
independent.ie | David Raleigh
Speaking after the jury in his eight-day trial returned not guilty verdicts on Friday, Garda Tom Flavin of Rathkeale Garda Station in Co Limerick, said: “The last seven years have been a nightmare for me and my family.”Gda Flavin had denied 22 allegations that he had attempted to pervert the course of justice by trying to frustrate criminal prosecutions against individuals, including for driving without insurance.
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21 hours ago | 
independent.ie | Jessica Mercer
It is a classic summer’s morning in Galway – overcast but bright, windy but humid and a fat grey cloud is threatening to drop at any given time. For Galway street photographer Ciaran MacChoncarraige, weather is never an obstacle for capturing the city’s unique character. The 28-year-old has spent the past eight years with his camera poised on the city where he was born and raised, capturing candid moments that reflect his own view of the place he has known his whole life.
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23 hours ago | 
independent.ie | Aisling Bolton-Dowling
For over a decade, parents of schoolchildren attending Gaelscoil Uí Fhiaich and Maynooth Educate Together National School have warned that a child will be seriously injured or killed while walking to school After over a decade of near misses on an “extremely dangerous” road outside two schools in Co Kildare, a young child has been struck by a car while walking home from school.
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23 hours ago | 
independent.ie | Margaret Roddy
Every year for the past nineteen year something wonderful happens in Dundalk. Louth Contemporary Music Society, founded by the husband and wife team Eamonn Quinn and Gemma Murray, bring some of the biggest names in contemporary music to perform, not on the stages of famous concert halls, but in churches, an arts centre, a school chapel, and a pub.
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23 hours ago | 
independent.ie | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Lindsay Whitehurst |Ben Finley
Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador brought back to US to face chargesKilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, Lindsay Whitehurst and Ben Finley©Press AssociationToday at 10:26A man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges.
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1 day ago | 
independent.ie | Wayne Bailey
Wayne Bailey: Ruling Court can clinch rare Guineas-Derby double for Appleby at EpsomTrainer Charlie Appleby. Photo: GettyAlthough I’ve had mixed fortunes betting on it, I would consider the Derby (3.30 Epsom) to be the greatest Flat race in the world. As such, it should follow that the cream rises to the top, and, generally speaking, that’s been the case in recent years, with the last three winners topping the official ratings.
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1 day ago | 
independent.ie | Richard Jolly
He will always have Bilbao. The manager who, in his forties, was in charge of Whittlesea Zebras in the Melbourne suburbs won a European trophy 16 years later. No other manager has had a journey quite like Ange Postecoglou’s. But then no one has had a season the same as Tottenham’s, the club who recorded the lowest ever league finish of any side to lift continental silverware. It was why the emotional choice would have been to keep Postecoglou.
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1 day ago | 
independent.ie | Philip Bump
No one really knows where the billionaire and the president will go from hereThere is only one person who is unquestionably able to both maintain a high level of public visibility and stay on president Donald Trump’s good side. That person is Donald Trump. Everyone else who sidles up to him suffers from the deficit that they are not Trump himself.
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1 day ago | 
independent.ie | William Horobin |Joao Lima |Milda Seputyte
The European Central Bank is approaching the end of its interest-rate cuts, according to two Governing Council members, as others declared inflation has been vanquished. ECB president Christine Lagarde "summarised it nicely yesterday saying that probably we have almost finished the rate-reduction cycle this time around", Estonia's Madis Muller said the day after the ECB lowered borrowing costs for an eighth time in a year. "Regarding what lies ahead – no one can say anything for certain yet."
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1 day ago | 
independent.ie | Vishwam Sankaran
Swarm of ‘city-killer’ asteroids near Venus could pose ‘invisible threat’ to Earth, scientists warnCo-orbital asteroids follow Venus as it circles the sun. Photo: PAA swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study. These space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids, tag along with Venus as it circles the sun and likely originated from debris in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.