Updated / Saturday, 20 Feb 2021 19:09 Eve Hewson and Bono Bono’s daughter, actress Eve Hewson, has revealed how her famous father would often mortify her and her siblings when he was dropping them to school by wearing his dressing gown, shades and even jumping out of the car to dance during traffic light stops. Speaking…
Mark English produced his fastest ever indoor 800 metres time on the first day of the Micro Meeting at the National Indoor Arena in Abbotstown and shattered his own Irish record in the process. The three-time European medallist needed every straining fibre of his tall frame to fend off the extraordinary emerging talent of 18-year-old…
Updated / Saturday, 20 Feb 2021 18:27 La Rochelle head coach Ronan O’Gara talks with Stade Francais’ counterpart Gonzalo Quesada Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle side have reached the summit of the Top 14 table after a home win over Stade Francais. The 16-11 victory means the former Munster and Ireland out-half’s team go top in France…
Republic of Ireland internationals Conor Hourihane, Shane Long and Scott Hogan all found the net in the Championship on Saturday. Norwich took advantage of defeats for the Swans and Brentford to move seven points clear at the top of the table with a 1-0 victory over Rotherham at Carrow Road. Teemu Pukki’s 15th goal of…
Updated / Saturday, 20 Feb 2021 17:42 Passport Service staff have been reassigned to other roles for the time being The Passport Service has temporarily paused the processing of routine applications while Ireland remains at Level 5 restrictions. The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that Passport Service staff “do not have access to private,…
ROME — The artist who sculpted “Charging Bull,” the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Sicily at age 80.Arturo Di Modica died at his home in Vittoria on Friday evening, the town said in a statement on Saturday. Di Modica had been…
Human remains found in Lee County, North Carolina last Friday have been identified as Cory Dale Moore, a 32-year-old father who has been missing since September, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.The remains were found around 1 p.m. on Friday, February 12, 2021 in a heavily wooded area near Carbonton and Pickard roads in…
Janteyl Johnson had a plan. She wanted to go to beauty school in Philadelphia where she would train to be a hairstylist. And she wanted to go to business school to learn how to open and run her own salon.“She loved doing hair… she was always changing hers up,” Janteyl’s mother Kyma Johnson told Dateline.…
A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in Tennessee was deported Saturday back to his home country of Germany.In February 2020, a Memphis immigration judge ruled that Friedrich Karl Berger could be deported because he assisted in “Nazi-sponsored persecution” when he served as an armed guard in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp…
President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in Texas as the state reels from a severe winter storm that left millions of people without power amid freezing temperatures.Biden’s action makes federal funding available to communities across 77 counties, including hard-hit Harris County, where Houston is located. Additional disaster designations may be made after further…
