Two men who pleaded guilty to a burglary spree and to possession of stolen property have had to produce a one-way plane ticket home to Lithuania to secure their release from prison.

Two Lithuanians were described as ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’ when they started the night with a bottle of Jameson with vodka and Red Bull before they even went to the pub and ended up smashing a front window at the premises when refused more drink.

Animal welfare and ensuring a good income for farmers are more important than food quality to Irish consumers, an EU survey has found.

Lithuania 0 England 3: England made it a perfect 10 with a beating in the Baltic, but their record-breaking achievement was marred by fighting between the visiting fans and their Lithuanian counterparts.

Frustrated finance ministers for the first time broke the taboo of talking about a “Plan B” for Greece at a fraught meeting in Riga.

The trial of a Lithuanian man accused of murdering a mother and daughter, also from Lithuania, at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee has been shown CCTV footage of his movements on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

A 27-year-old forestry worker accused of murdering a mother and her daughter visited her home twice in the days prior to the date of the alleged crime and had sexual contact with her, a court has heard.

For two weeks in 1992, a US team of NBA superstars spearheaded by Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson destroyed all before them at an Olympic Games notable for the fact that it was the first since the collapse of the Berlin War.

It’s almost 13 years since a basketball club was founded in the Carlow village of Ballon to cater for recreational female players aged 30 or over.

Two Lithuanians have been charged with the manslaughter of a UK father-of-two who was killed by a moving lorry after chasing robbers from his cash and carry store.

This week’s first indication that Ireland is indeed a different, peculiar place came yesterday when the European Commission reported that Irish mobile phone users pay, on average, five times more for calls than users in the EU country where calls are cheapest.

St. Patrick’s Athletic came up way short of their own expectations as they bowed tamely out of the Europa League tonight.

Lithuania’s EU presidency will be impacted by issues it is concerned with, writes Ann Cahill.

One in 10 of Ireland’s workforce is working in another EU country, putting the Irish well ahead of the Poles and Lithuanians and reflecting the ongoing emigration.

Lithuanians exasperated with economic hardship have handed a stunning victory to a populist party led by a disgraced Russian-born millionaire, nearly complete results of yesterday’s election show.

A drug addict, who bound, gagged and strangled two women, who had previously given him food and money, during a “surreal” and “brutal” robbery has been jailed for six years.

The St Vincent de Paul is claiming it has been told not to feed or house destitute migrants from eastern European countries and they will “go home”.

Officers from Revenue's Customs Service have seized 26,540 cigarettes at Dublin Airport with an estimated value of €11,500.

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

FIVE Lithuanians, four of whom have only been in Ireland since Friday last, appeared before Mallow District Court yesterday charged with stealing goods valued at a total of €1,773.22 from 13 different pharmacies across Cork and Waterford on Valentine’s Day.

IRELAND Davis Cup supremo Sean Sorensen insisted that Conor Niland lacked nothing in determination during his crushing shock singles defeat by Laurynas Grigelis.

One of the alleged Omagh bombers was remanded in custody in Belfast today following a legal bid to extradite him to Lithuania to face arms smuggling charges.

Franck Ribery was France’s hero for the second time in five days against Lithuania, his second-half winner in Paris tonight lifting Les Bleus into second place in World Cup qualifying Group Seven.

JUST an hour after turning 36 years of age, a man died in a car crash early yesterday.

THE High Court has further remanded on bail three men wanted in Lithuania on weapons and terrorism charges.

Two Lithuanian men have been jailed for four years for hijacking a car from a fellow national in Skerries.

A jobs fair is being held in Dublin today to encourage Lithuanians to return and find employment in their homeland.

ANYONE who read this morning’s deeply disturbing report about how a naive, young Lithuanian woman was targeted by compatriots who planned to sell her as a sex slave will recognise that the very darkest forces were at work on this island.

A conservative opposition party won the most votes in Lithuania’s election, but strong support for populist groups set the stage for tricky coalition talks, according to an exit poll and partial results.

A Lithuanian woman was gang-raped, drugged and told she would be sold into prostitution during an ordeal, a court heard today.

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Kyle Lafferty insists he is ready to put the frustrating start to his Rangers career behind him and play a key role in what could be one of the club’s most important games of the season.

Rangers can expect to face FBK Kaunas – the Lithuanian club closely associated with Hearts – in the second round of qualifying for the Champions League.

A man has been convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of the manslaughter through dangerous driving of a Lithuanian truck driver almost two years ago.

Poles, Lithuanians, Nigerians and Romanians are just some of the nationalities expected to take part in the annual Festival of Peoples in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral tomorrow.

A FIVE-FOLD increase was recorded in the number of criminals and suspects Ireland extradited to other EU countries last year.

Gardaí have obtained a 47-hour extension to allow them to continue to question two Englishmen arrested last week in connection with the €100m cocaine discovery near Mizen Head in West Cork.

GARDAÍ in Dublin and other parts of the country are increasingly concerned at the escalating use of extreme violence by a small number of eastern European gangs.

Former Hearts chairman George Foulkes insists “no-one with any pride” would want to succeed Valdas Ivanauskas as head coach of the Edinburgh club.

The Lithuanian ambassador to Britain is to establish a temporary consulate in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, after a series of hate crimes.

COASTAL communities had raised €17,000 by last night to help those affected by the sinking of doomed Kinsale trawler, the Honeydew II.