The victim of Sunday's fatal road traffic collision that occurred just outside Tralee has been named as David Siegel (24) from Tralee. David was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 10am on Sunday as gardai and emergency services responded to reports of a single-vehicle incident involving a car on the N69 at Ballingowan (near the Ballygarry roundabout). Mr Siegel was driving the vehicle and was the sole occupant when the tragic incident happened.
The most eye-catching project involves the US company X-Energy working with Centrica, the owner of British Gas, to build up to 12 advanced modular reactors (AMRs) in Hartlepool. AMRs, part of a group of reactor designs known as Generation IV, use cutting-edge cooling systems and fuel. The government claims the Hartlepool project could power 1.5m homes, create up to 2,500 jobs and deliver a 40bn economic boost, including 12bn for the north-east.
It's all but guaranteed that the Bank of England will hold interest rates at 4% at its meeting on Thursday. The committee will stick to its gradual and cautious guidance, as it continues to try to balance rising inflation with a weakening labour market.
The minister seems happy to skip the first Cabinet meeting since summer and has also taken on role of director of elections for the presidential election Jack Chambers stood in the community garden and sunroom in the village of Kilmeedy in west Limerick taking in the vista. It's marvellous that the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation was able to take a moment for reflection on his visit 12 days ago.
The charges stem from an April 2024 protest at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne museum, where Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina, Alina Petrova, and Anastasia "Taso" Pletner condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. During their performance, the group called Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and Pletner urinated on a portrait of the Russian president. Meanwhile, prosecutors claimed Alyokhina, Pletner, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Alina Petrova spread "false information" about Russian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians in their "Mama, Don't Watch TV" video.
Windsor Castle staff are setting the 50-meter-long (164-feet-long) mahogany table. Grooms are buffing the hooves of the horses that will pull the royal carriages. And the military honor guard is drilling to ensure every step lands with precision. Throughout the halls and grounds of the almost 1,000-year-old castle west of London, hundreds of people are working to make sure King Charles III puts on the best show possible when he welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump for his historic second state visit this week.
With summer holidays behind us, now's the perfect time to escape for a city break. Whether it's a gastronomic getaway in Copenhagen, browsing the vintage stores of Lisbon or getting lost in the twisting, medieval lanes of Carcassonne, we'd love to hear about your favourite destinations in Europe for a short break. The best tip of the week, chosen by Tom Hall of Lonely Planet wins a 200 voucher to stay at a Coolstays property the company has more than 3,000 worldwide.
Ukraine Defense Intelligence (DIU) said that a special forces unit had "successfully detected and destroyed" a Russian Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system on Sunday. The DIU said that the important Russian defensive asset, valued between $40 to $50 million (34 to 42 million), was struck in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region in southeastern Ukraine. Ukraine's military said the missile system which can engage airborne targets and both sea and land-based targets was located near Oleksandrivka in the Melitopol district.
Tesla's share price jumped in premarket trading after Elon Musk bought a fresh load of shares. Musk bought $1 billion of the company's stock, an SEC filing released Monday shows. The stock was set to gain roughly 6% at market open.
More and more people are looking to retire abroad in search of a different lifestyle and lower cost of living. And while the United States doesn't have an official retirement visa program, dozens of other countries around the world do. This year, Global Citizen Solutions published its Global Retirement Report 2025, ranking 44 passive income and retirement visa programs. The report looked at 20 targeted indicators grouped into six sub-indices: procedure, citizenship and mobility, economics, tax optimization, quality of life, and safety and integration.
Follow the latest developments in the presidential race on our Irish Independent live blog Three candidates have been nominated by parties via the Oireachtas route - Catherine Connolly, Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin So far no Independent candidate has secured the backing of 20 TDs or senators needed to get a nomination Candidates are also pitching to local councillors, in a bid to get
After President Vladimir Putin sent his army into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with the Russian central bank and finance ministry and blocked €350bn of sovereign Russian assets, mostly European, US and British government bonds held in a European securities depository. Reuters reported that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants the European Union to find a new way to finance Ukraine's defence against Russia using the cash balances associated with Russian assets frozen in Europe.
The NTSB said in June that "the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the left MED [mid exit door] plug due to Boeing's failure to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight necessary to ensure that manufacturing personnel could consistently and correctly comply with its parts removal process." The NTSB also said the FAA's compliance and enforcement systems "were inadequate to identify repetitive and systemic discrepancies and nonconformance issues" at Boeing.
The first impression of businesswoman Andrea Shaw's home is one of comfort and elegance combined. Then two distinct themes emerge - a lot of the furnishings are Chinese, while the rest are very Donegal, and happily the two work really well together, just as the two cultures have done in Andrea's own life. She adores her home county, particularly the Inishowen Peninsula, and given half a chance will wax eloquently for hours about the mountains, the hiking trails, the swim spots, even the local tweed.
Having already visited preferred partners such as US President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, Poland's new president, Karol Nawrocki, will on Monday evening travel to Germany, a country that Polish right-wing conservatives deeply mistrust. While there, he will meet both German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday. From Berlin, he will travel on to Paris.
Country star Kelsea Ballerini and Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes have split after nearly three years, Ballerini's rep confirmed to on September 14. Sneakily announced right before the Emmy Awards started on Sunday night, the news came as a shock considering Stokes had just posted an Instagram photo dump celebrating Ballerini's birthday two days prior on September 12. "Although you keep saying you're not excited for 32, id say I'm lookin forward to more of this," Stokes wrote in the caption. "Happy birthday my love."
Italy is expected to be Europe's top relocation destination for millionaires in 2025, according to a recent report by investment and citizenship consultancy firm Henley & Partners. The firm's 2025 wealth flow forecasts estimate that, out of the over 142,000 millionaires expected to relocate worldwide, around 3,600 will have chosen Italy as their new home by the end of the year.
Marianne Smyth, an American, claimed to be Jennifer Aniston, a psychic, an heiress and a Satanic priestess - all part of a long career on both sides of the Atlantic as a swindler and a conwoman. Smyth has now been convicted at Downpatrick Crown Court of swindling more than £115,000 from four victims, including Derry GAA player Dermot McNicholl.
