European states to share 54,000 refugees after divisive deal reached

Barred at Hungary, refugees take longer route through Croatia.

There was a rally in favour of helping the waves of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in Brussels on Monday as EU Interior Ministers held an emergency meeting.

Hungary sent refugees by special trains direct to the Austrian border, trying to offload record numbers streaming into the country before a crackdown by the right-wing government.

The unfolding refugee crisis is become the biggest humanitarian tragedy in Europe since the Yugoslav wars.

Northern Ireland took a major stride towards their first major finals since 1986 tonight.

Northern Ireland inched ever closer to a place in France next summer after victory over the 10-man Faroe Islands.

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts swept across social media after at least 12 Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

Hungarians hoping to get jobs in an apple-processing factory in Ireland were duped by a fellow national living in Cork into paying €156 each on the pretext that this would cover their flights and accommodation to come over to be interviewed.

Sharon O’ Reilly-Coates has been going to Budapest for 12 years - and she’s never disappointed by the city

The business end of the Champions League has been less sweet 16 and more a knockout for England’s elite this week, another chastening trial for the self-styled ‘greatest league in the world’. 

Northern Ireland must wait until Monday to find out whether their Euro 2016 qualifier in Romania next month will take place behind closed doors.

No sooner had he experienced the relief of seeing Seamus Coleman and James McCarthy back in action for Everton, than Martin O’Neill has suffered the double whammy of learning that Glenn Whelan and Wes Hoolahan look set to miss next month’s Euro qualifier away to Scotland.

There are certain sayings that should be banned from the language.

The Republic of Ireland's hopes of reaching the UEFA U21 Championships play-offs ended after a frustrating loss to Hungary in Kecskemet today.

It is a question that rears its ugly head every four years and no, it has nothing to do with the mystery of why Hungarians are so good at swimming.

It is usual in football for a crushing defeat to be followed by recrimination and the search for scapegoats.

Sean St Ledger has warned his Republic of Ireland team-mates it would be a mistake to believe Sunday night's clash with Croatia represents their best chance of a Group C victory.

Giovanni Trapattoni opened a door and inadvertently stumbled into Hungarian manager Sandor Egervari’s post-match press conference in the Ferenc Puskas stadium last night, the Irish manager’s apology and generous smile — which was graciously accepted by Egervari — suggesting the Italian was in a good mood.

Ireland have built a reputation as a team that is bloody difficult to kill off under Giovanni Trapattoni so it was strangely fitting that they should share a hotel yesterday with the man who is best known for starring roles in the ‘Die Hard’ movies.

Ireland’s women yesterday completed their preparations for next month’s UEFA qualifier against Scotland by lifting the Algarve Cup.

The Republic of Ireland will face Hungary in their final warm-up game ahead of the Euro 2012 finals.

FIVE tourists have been killed and two kidnapped in an attack by an armed gang in a remote part of Ethiopia.

Wigan midfielder James McCarthy has been named in Republic of Ireland squad for the forthcoming UEFA U-21 Championships qualifiers against Hungary and Turkey after being excluded from the senior squad yesterday.

The number of households intimidated from their homes by racists in the North has doubled in four years, it was revealed today.

LIMERICK’S special link with Hungary, since it took in hundreds of refugees in 1956 after the Soviet invasion, will be recalled tomorrow at a reception in City Hall.

Tommy Barker says the owners of Fuschia Cottage have extended the property and captured harbour views

PRAYERS are likely to be offered for the success of a dental clinic in a tiny Co Limerick village.

HUNGARY began its fightback against claims that its new media law muzzles the media and prevents free speech, saying it is part of a revolution to break its last links with the communist era.

IT’S been a week dominated by news of a tidal wave of toxic red sludge sweeping through benighted streets.

More than three-quarters of Irish people are in favour of stronger EU economic governance, according to Eurobarometer poll results published today.

Hungary captain Zoltan Gera hailed Steven Gerrard as one of the best midfielders in the world but maintains he is not about to join the England skipper at Liverpool.

Hungary’s centre-right Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orban, a former prime minister who promised to restore “law and order” and pull Hungary out of recession, won a two-thirds parliamentary majority, the National Election Office said.

MARGARET Thatcher complained in private about the numbers of immigrants coming to Britain from south Asia, saying they were being given council houses at the expense of “white citizens”, it was disclosed yesterday.

LIVERPOOL crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing victory in the Hungarian capital last night. They needed to win to give themselves any chance of reaching the last 16, but events in Florence ended those dreams with Fiorentina achieving the victory they needed to qualify.

Debrecen 0 Liverpool 1

RANGERS’ Champions League hopes were left hanging in the balance when a late equaliser from Unirea Urziceni denied them a crucial first victory in the tournament this season.

Hungary’s president said today he is outraged about a planned neo-Nazi rally remembering Rudolf Hess, deputy to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

An Irishman has apparently been killed during a shoot-out in Bolivia between police officers and a gang that was allegedly plotting to assassinate the country's president, Evo Morales.

Northern Ireland 0 Hungary 2

THE evidence of more than 30 witnesses to the hit-and-run deaths of two Irish tourists in Rome will be admitted.

THE European Parliament gets a very mixed press, some of it warranted, some of it not.