Notorious criminals who dodge their sentencing hearings could be dragged into the dock using “reasonable force” with the power to make them attend enshrined in law, the Justice Secretary has said. A ...

Questions have been asked about odours after a waste incinerator was approved in north Belfast. Developers have claimed there would be no odour impact from a planned new waste disposal ...

The teenager was detained after the young victim was found with serious injuries in Hall Green, Birmingham at 3pm yesterday (Tue). Emergency services rushed to the scene on Scribers Lane and took the ...

Kilkenny forward John Donnelly will captain the Cats this season. Donnelly was nominated for the role of skipper by his club Thomastown after helping them bridge a 78-year gap when landing the ...

Daryl Hall has announced a new tour for 2025. The dates for the spring run are a co-headlining tour with Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook. Among the concerts Hall and Tilbrook have lined up for 2025 is a ...

The Irish Independent will be running a live blog, with up-to-the-minute updates, including pictures, videos and analysis from 4pm President-elect Donald Trump and vice president-elect JD Vance ...

Vickers told jurors that finally becoming a father was the “best feeling I’ve ever had” as he and Scarlett’s mother Sarah Hall had been trying for a baby for years and previously suffered ...

An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced controversial pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, also known as Tataloo, to death after he was found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. “The Supreme ...

Cuts to funding for a GCSE course which teaches students road safety have been reversed. Grants to schools to teach a GCSE in Motor Vehicle and Road User Studies were axed in 2023, alongside other ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered one of the city’s largest private spa complexes, connected to a lavish banquet hall in the Regio IX district. The remarkable discovery, located in insula ...

The finishes against the likes of Dr Crokes, Clonoe and Kilcoo have proved that. “Years gone by, when we would have been down by a point or two in the closing stages, you may not necessarily ...

His Tory rival Susan Hall made nine successive attempts at Mayor’s Question Time to ask Sir Sadiq whether there were gangs operating, or previously active, in the capital. But Sir Sadiq repeatedly ...