While many former soldiers took to the streets of Dublin to highlight the dire pay and conditions endured by their serving compatriots, one man took it upon himself to show solidarity by holding his own march 11,600km away.
Sat, 22 Sep, 2018
The complainant says Tomkins' "overpowered" her and she was also too drunk to consent to sex.
Thu, 18 May, 2017
Ireland’s best young athletes are in Athlone this weekend while the nation’s best masters have been flying the flag in Daegu.
Fri, 24 Mar, 2017
A Ugandan opposition leader running for president has been arrested while campaigning in the capital, raising tensions ahead of elections widely seen as close.
Mon, 15 Feb, 2016
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Sat, 14 Mar, 2015
The US Embassy in Uganda has warned of a specific threat by an unknown terrorist group to attack the country’s only international airport.
Thu, 03 Jul, 2014
The Lonely Planet proclaimed it the top destination in 2012, yet Uganda is still a hidden pearl, writes Geoff Power.
Sun, 29 Jun, 2014
An explosion at an illegal World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people while security forces arrested a "terror kingpin" among nearly 500 people detained as suspected terrorists in the southeast of the country.
Thu, 19 Jun, 2014
A criminal investigation is under way in Uganda following a second case of financial irregularities in the disbursement of foreign aid.
Mon, 03 Mar, 2014
The Ugandan President signed into law on February 24 legislation that criminalises homosexuality. This new law provides for a 14-year jail term for a first offence and life imprisonment for the offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’.
Sat, 01 Mar, 2014
Uganda’s health minister has said gay people will not be discriminated against by medical workers despite the strengthening of criminal penalties against homosexuals.
Wed, 26 Feb, 2014
Two US military aircraft responding to the outbreak of violence in South Sudan were hit by incoming fire, wounding three US service member, officials say.
Sat, 21 Dec, 2013
A petrol tanker explosion has killed 29 people in Uganda and left scores more badly burned.
Sun, 30 Jun, 2013
A newspaper in Uganda has reopened after being shut down by authorities for 10 days.
Thu, 30 May, 2013
Rebels started to retreat from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern provincial capital today after an attempt to garner ammunition at the airport failed and their original pullout was postponed, a UN official said.
Sat, 01 Dec, 2012
The defence minister of Uganda says he is mediating talks between Congolese officials and representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congolese city of Goma and threatens to topple the government of President Joseph Kabila.
Sun, 25 Nov, 2012
The Government of Uganda is to repay €4m of Irish aid funding which was transferred into unauthorised accounts.
Mon, 05 Nov, 2012
The impact of Ireland’s role in clearing landmines from parts of Vietnam scarred from the war is being seen first hand this week by junior minister Joe Costello.
Sun, 28 Oct, 2012
Uganda has expressed concern at the suspension of Irish aid to the country after €4m of taxpayers’ money went missing in a suspected fraud.
Sat, 27 Oct, 2012
Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.
Fri, 26 Oct, 2012
Some €4m of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has disclosed.
Thu, 25 Oct, 2012
A British producer jailed for staging a play about a gay businessman has been freed on bail in Uganda.
Mon, 17 Sep, 2012
IT was Kampala’s famous potholes that drove Ian Clarke into politics.
Mon, 20 Aug, 2012
Concern chief executive Tom Arnold writes from Somalia exactly one year on from the famine that struck the country and wider region, and finds a country that has been rejuvenated
Wed, 01 Aug, 2012
The Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, health officials said, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes.
Mon, 30 Jul, 2012
Top climate scientists have warned the world’s political leaders to get ready for more dangerous and “unprecedented extreme weather” caused by global warming.
Fri, 18 Nov, 2011
A TEAM of Ugandan and French paleontologists announced last night they had found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in north-eastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region’s evolutionary history.
Wed, 03 Aug, 2011
Military police officers shot Uganda’s top opposition politician in the arm and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out across the country.
Thu, 14 Apr, 2011
Uganda has become the first country to offer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge if he chooses exile.
Wed, 30 Mar, 2011
TULLOW OIL has signed a critical Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Uganda after several months of discussions.
Wed, 16 Mar, 2011
Millions of Ugandans lined up to vote today in the east African nation’s presidential ballot pitting the country’s long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician.
Fri, 18 Feb, 2011
TULLOW Oil has said it will miss its previously anticipated 2011 target for oil production in Uganda and will not start producing there until next year.
Wed, 12 Jan, 2011
TWENTY-ONE people died after a bus collided with a truck carrying fuel in northern Uganda yesterday.
Mon, 25 Oct, 2010
THE great world spins towards another All-Ireland Sunday. Around the world – for an hour or two at least – Irish feet will not make footprints on the fine sands of southeast Asia’s beaches.
Fri, 17 Sep, 2010
The confessed mastermind of bomb attacks in Uganda against World Cup football fans said he had hoped to kill many more Americans in the explosions in which 76 people, including one American, died last month.
Fri, 13 Aug, 2010
African leaders are pledging thousands of new troops for Somalia to fight al Qaida-linked militants responsible for the twin World Cup bombings that killed 76 people, and the US said it will help bankroll the military campaign.
Wed, 28 Jul, 2010
UGANDAN police have recovered an unexploded suicide vest and arrested six people suspected of planning bombings that killed 76 people, including an Irish woman, on Sunday.
Wed, 14 Jul, 2010
The Irish woman killed in a bomb blast in Uganda on Sunday has been named as Marie Smith.
Tue, 13 Jul, 2010
An unexploded suicide vest containing ball bearings was found in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, near the sites of two weekend bomb blasts, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said today.
Arrests have been made in Uganda following two bombings that killed at least 74 people.
AN Irish citizen is believed to have been among more than 70 people killed in bomb attacks in Uganda as they watched the World Cup final.
An Irish citizen is believed to have been among more than 70 people killed in bomb attacks in Uganda as they watched the World Cup final.
Mon, 12 Jul, 2010
Scores of football fans were killed as they watched the World Cup final on TV by two al-Qaida-linked suicide bombers in Uganda.
Simultaneous bombings bearing the hallmarks of international terrorists ripped through crowds watching the World Cup final in Uganda's capital, killing 64 people.
IRISH troops have spoken of their task, in Uganda, in training 2,000 Somali soldiers to help fight pirates involved in a number of hijacks on international ships.
Sat, 03 Jul, 2010
WHEN Dr Anne Merriman arrived in Uganda almost 20 years ago, the first thing that stood out for her was the number of coffin makers who had set up along the roadsides – the business of death in a country then dealing with the tragedy of an AIDS epidemic.
Tue, 29 Jun, 2010
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin will be seeking closer trade links between Ireland and Africa during a five-day trip to the continent, he said today.
Mon, 28 Jun, 2010
Uganda: PFC Energy, a US oil and gas industry consultant, backed a planned partnership between Tullow Oil Plc, Total SA and China National Offshore Oil Corp to develop Uganda’s oil fields, the East African nation’s presidency said.
Sat, 05 Jun, 2010
Five Irish soldiers will be hand-picked in the coming weeks to train up troops for reputedly the most dangerous country in the world, it was revealed today.
Mon, 08 Mar, 2010
Landslides have swamped three villages in Uganda, killing at least 86 people and leaving hundreds missing after rivers of mud swept through a church and hospital, officials said today.
Wed, 03 Mar, 2010
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