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President Biden visit to the island of Ireland
Biden's a hit with the locals during fleeting, and almost floating, visit to Carlingford
US president was shown around Carlingford Castle, the last landmark that his maternal great-great-grandfather Owen Finnegan would have seen before he left Ireland for the US

Wed, 12 Apr, 2023

'Our arms are open' – Carlingford prepares for Joe Biden's visit 
'Our arms are open' – Carlingford prepares for Joe Biden's visit 
All weekend the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth has been swamped with US secret service agents who could be seen flying over the town and around King John’s Castle

Mon, 10 Apr, 2023

Irish Examiner view: Support our soldiers
Irish Examiner view: Support our soldiers
Lebanon death

Thu, 22 Dec, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith weeps as she gets 15 months for Islamic State membership
Mr Justice Tony Hunt, delivering the court's verdict, said that she went to Syria with her "eyes wide open" having watched videos of Isis atrocities

Fri, 22 Jul, 2022

ATM robbers jailed for 20 months after cross-border hunt 
ATM robbers jailed for 20 months after cross-border hunt 
Pair sentenced following two ATM thefts in Dundalk in 2020 that led to pursuit by gardaí and PSNI

Fri, 10 Jun, 2022

Protestant factory worker fails in harassment claim over playing of anti-British songs
Protestant factory worker fails in harassment claim over playing of anti-British songs
Mr Weir also alleged that while the music was being played a co-worker stopped by his desk and shouted “up the RA”

Fri, 08 Apr, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith's lawyers make fresh bid to have charges against her dismissed
Previous judgment of the High Court ruled that the Terrorism Offences Act 2005 can only be used to prosecute people for offences committed against the Irish State or Irish citizens abroad and therefore has no jurisdiction to try Ms Smith, court told

Thu, 07 Apr, 2022

Prosecution evidence 'falls short', barrister tells Lisa Smith trial
Prosecution evidence 'falls short', barrister tells Lisa Smith trial
Lisa Smith's defence barrister disputed the evidence from Dr Gaub, a social scientist and expert on Middle Eastern conflicts

Wed, 30 Mar, 2022

Barrister tells trial Lisa Smith chose to go to area controlled by 'demonic' terrorists
Barrister tells trial Lisa Smith chose to go to area controlled by 'demonic' terrorists
Ms Smith's defence counsel told the court that she did not travel to Syria to take part in combat. She was vulnerable, brittle, suicidal and depressed

Tue, 29 Mar, 2022

Islamic State provided simple answers to life's questions, historian tells Lisa Smith trial
Islamic State provided simple answers to life's questions, historian tells Lisa Smith trial
The court heard there were many Islamic scholars who denounced terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but there were other "respected voices" who saw his caliphate as legitimate

Mon, 28 Mar, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
'Sufficient evidence' to consider whether Lisa Smith was member of Isis, court rules
Ms Smith's lawyers had applied to the court to direct not-guilty verdicts on the grounds there is no evidence to support the prosecution case and that to even consider a verdict would be unfair and could lead to a miscarriage of justice

Thu, 24 Mar, 2022

Lisa Smith said of terrorist leader: 'At least Abu Bakr did something while the rest of us just sit and talk', trial hears
Lisa Smith said of terrorist leader: 'At least Abu Bakr did something while the rest of us just sit and talk', trial hears
Special Criminal Court trial has been listening to private Facebook messages Ms Smith exchanged with other Muslims before she travelled to Syria in 2015

Tue, 15 Mar, 2022

Covid-19 nursing home deaths remembrance event to be held in Cork and Dundalk
Covid-19 nursing home deaths remembrance event to be held in Cork and Dundalk
More than 2,000 people expected to attend March 18 events in counties hit hardest by nursing home deaths during the pandemic

Thu, 10 Mar, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith lawyers waving Data Protection Act like 'garlic at a vampire,' says barrister
Counsel for the State said the right to privacy is not absolute and a breach of a person's right to privacy does not mean the evidence gleaned must be excluded

Thu, 03 Mar, 2022

Lisa Smith's lawyers tell trial Facebook involved in 'wholesale breach of privacy rights'
Lisa Smith's lawyers tell trial Facebook involved in 'wholesale breach of privacy rights'
Counsel said it is the court's job to protect people's rights when there is a "corporation out there recording every utterance from 'Happy Birthday' up"

Wed, 02 Mar, 2022

Lawyers object to evidence of Lisa Smith's alleged contact with convicted terrorists
Lawyers object to evidence of Lisa Smith's alleged contact with convicted terrorists
Ms Smith is believed to have been in contact with John Georgelas and Robert Edward Cerantonio

Tue, 01 Mar, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith told fellow soldier 'we are being controlled by a shower of b*****ds', court hears
The court also heard she was promoting Islam as "the way forward" to a fellow soldier

Mon, 28 Feb, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Judges watch videos of Lisa Smith's Garda interviews  as trial resumes
The trial is in legal argument regarding mutual assistance requests made by gardaí investigating the allegations against Ms Smith to the authorities in America and Australia

Fri, 25 Feb, 2022

'Medical difficulty' delays Lisa Smith trial by a week
'Medical difficulty' delays Lisa Smith trial by a week
The trial continues next Tuesday

Wed, 16 Feb, 2022

LISA SMITH
Local media comments had sparked Garda concerns for Lisa Smith's safety in Ireland
The court also heard of voice messages and texts she sent to her family while she was being held in the Ain Issa camp in Syria in mid-2019

Tue, 15 Feb, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith saw dead man on a cross with his eyes gouged out, court told
She accepted that there were "bad things happening" but she said "you would have to be a Muslim to understand"

Mon, 14 Feb, 2022

LISA SMITH
Lisa Smith watched video of Islamic State drowning men in cage before going to Syria
After watching the video, Ms Smith posted a message to a WhatsApp group saying: 'Now I understand why they were drowned. I didn't know the other half of the story,' the Special Criminal Court has heard

Tue, 08 Feb, 2022

LISA SMITH
Lisa Smith said witness is 'selfish jihadi' and another 'lied about many things', trial hears
Ms Smith denied to the court that she has extremist views and said if she had extremist views before, she doesn't now

Mon, 07 Feb, 2022

LISA SMITH
Lisa Smith went to Islamic State to get away from 'alcohol, prostitution and gay people'
The court heard that Lisa Smith had been imprisoned for five months with 50 to 60 other women in a single house in Syria. 

Thu, 03 Feb, 2022

LISA SMITH
'Fear of hellfire' spurred Lisa Smith to join caliphate, court told
She said she would not go again if another caliphate were announced, adding: "It was four years in prison, that's the way we look at it now." 

Wed, 02 Feb, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith's lawyers challenge the legality of her arrest
Her defence solicitor said that the Act Ms Smith was arrested under has no provision for offences alleged to have taken place outside of Ireland

Mon, 31 Jan, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Islamic State propagandist had proposed to Lisa Smith in Syria, court told
Witness Tanya Joya told the court Lisa Smith said she wanted to use her army training to fight in Syria

Fri, 28 Jan, 2022

Lisa Smith
Court hears of Lisa Smith's marriage to al Qaeda member in Syria
Tanya Joya said Ms Smith was "brainwashed into thinking if you became a martyr you get to go to paradise."

Thu, 27 Jan, 2022

LISA SMITH
'Naive' Lisa Smith tried to justify suicide bombings, trial told
A witness told the court Lisa Smith’s interest in Islam was “more political, not so much Islamic”

Wed, 26 Jan, 2022

Commission of inquiry 'may not be best way' to probe 23 Covid nursing home deaths
Commission of inquiry 'may not be best way' to probe 23 Covid nursing home deaths
It comes after Sinn Féin TD David Cullinane’s successful private member's motion for a public inquiry into nursing home deaths

Wed, 26 Jan, 2022

LISA SMITH
Lisa Smith wanted to 'die a martyr' for Islamic State, trial told
The trial against the 39-year-old Dundalk woman, who is a former member of the Defence Forces, is now underway

Tue, 25 Jan, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Lisa Smith trial to begin after court rejects bid to dismiss terror charges
The 39-year-old, from Co Louth, is accused of being a member of so-called Islamic State (IS) and financing terrorism.

Mon, 24 Jan, 2022

Lisa Smith court case
Defence 'printers regularly crashing' due to 'enormous' amount of Lisa Smith material
Counsel said that with some material "when you go to download it, it gives you a time measured in hours but it never actually finishes - it cuts out"

Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Check out: Three luxury hotel upgrades worth splurging on
Check out: Three luxury hotel upgrades worth splurging on
The Penthouse Suite at Cork's Clayton Hotel is perhaps the most impressive pad in the city

Sat, 09 Oct, 2021

Nursing home hit by deadly Covid-19 outbreak is sold
Nursing home hit by deadly Covid-19 outbreak is sold
Families and TD reiterate their call for a public inquiry into 22 deaths at Dealgan House

Sun, 01 Aug, 2021

Dole recipients will be offered €1,000 to go on training courses 
Dole recipients will be offered €1,000 to go on training courses 
New strategy aims to get 75,000 long-term unemployed people back to work

Mon, 12 Jul, 2021

'We just want to know how our parents died': Families to meet HSE chief over nursing home deaths
'We just want to know how our parents died': Families to meet HSE chief over nursing home deaths
TDs also want to know when the authorities were aware there was an issue

Sun, 11 Jul, 2021

Garda stock
Man extradited from Lithuania due in court on drug offences
He is currently remanded in custody to appear before Dundalk District Court on February 10

Fri, 05 Feb, 2021

Bagatelle lead singer Liam Reilly dies aged 65
Bagatelle lead singer Liam Reilly dies aged 65
Liam Reilly, lead singer of Irish band Bagatelle, has died aged 65. The Dundalk musician’s death was confirmed by his family this morning.

Sat, 02 Jan, 2021

Four arrested as Louth gardaí seize cocaine and cash
Four arrested as Louth gardaí seize cocaine and cash
Four people, a woman and three men all in their 30s, were arrested. 

Fri, 30 Oct, 2020

Military accident
Teenager dies following two-car crash in Dundalk
One driver later went to a gardaí while the driver of the second car is being treated for minor injuries.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2020

Gardaí make arrest in raid on suspected cannabis grow house
Gardaí make arrest in raid on suspected cannabis grow house
Officers found suspected cannabis plants along with around 13kg of suspected cannabis herb

Tue, 18 Aug, 2020

Alan Reynolds named as Ireland U21 assistant manager
Alan Reynolds named as Ireland U21 assistant manager
Former Waterford boss Alan Reynolds has been appointed assistant to Republic of Ireland U21 manager Jim Crawford.

Thu, 09 Jul, 2020

Five people brought to hospital as gardaí investigate Dundalk house fire
Five people brought to hospital as gardaí investigate Dundalk house fire
They suffered what are being described as "non-life threatening" injuries but gardaí have opened a probe into "criminal damage" at the residence in Dundalk.

Sun, 05 Jul, 2020

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