Inspector Tom Kennedy told Ennis district court yesterday Polish Czeslaw Fiut, 62, was staggering around the aisle on the flight to Shannon on January 12.more
A 47-year-old former social worker has walked free from court after a jury took less than 45 minutes to acquit her of nine counts of deception relating to the alleged theft of over €9,000 from the Deprtment of Social Welfare. Jennifer O'Driscoll of St John's Terrace, World's End, Kinsale, Co Cork had denied all nine charges of deception.more
Three separate operations this weekend saw 44,000 and 46,000 contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Airport. On Saturday, officers seized €14,000 from a British woman in her 20s travelling to Eindhoven in the Netherlands.more
The Department of Social Protection has hit back at claims that millions of Irish people could sue the State over the controversial Public Services Card scheme. Earlier, we reported how the plans cost the State millions or billions of euro in compensation as the identity cards breach new EU privacy laws.more
The number of people found guilty of using a mobile phone at the wheel has plummeted, prompting warnings from the RAC that a drop in traffic officers means fewer offenders are being caught.more
From now on, foreigners from outside the EU will be able to obtain temporary residence permits in Poland as part of an intra-corporate transfer from another country.more
For 10 years, Steph Leese, a lone woman on a building site put up with sexual harassment. "I used to get comments about my breasts, about the size of my bum and things like that," she said. "It just really wasn't nice." In the end, the harassment drove her out of construction work and she said that reporting it was never an option.more
Companies are frantically getting ready for restrictions, and most customers do not know what changes await them. The ban will also hit the stores, which allegedly had to help in competing with large networks - reports Rzeczpospolita commenting on changes in the law on Sunday trading.more
The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in London Arkady Rzegocki responded yesterday to a list of 88 Polish intellectuals, people of culture and art and former politicians about the amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance, which was published on Tuesday in the daily Guardian.more
Countries that are "cracking down" on migration are making a "huge mistake", Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned. Mr Varadkar said "how much better our economy is because of migration, and our public services as well, which depend on attracting talent from around the world".more
Environment Secretary Michael Gove said a ban will be explored as part of a package to drive up welfare standards alongside enhanced licensing conditions for breeders due to come into force later this year.more
The proposed amendments to the Labor Code provide, inter alia, that the overtime salary would not go immediately to the pocket of the employee. Changes are also awaiting for smokers, from whom the employer will be able to demand to make up for lost work because of "a cigarette break".more
He is the world's most persistent illegal immigrant: One Mexican managed to get deported 44 times in 15 years - which means he also managed to sneak back across the border at least that many times.more
There were more than 5,000 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK last year, new figures have revealed. On the day that activists marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in a bid to draw global attention to the issue, NHS Digital also announced that there are around 24,000 women and girls at risk of the illegal procedure in the UK.more
Tesco is facing Britain's largest ever equal pay challenge with a bill potentially running to £4 billion, a law firm claims. Leigh Day has launched legal action against the company on behalf of shop assistants who claim they are paid up to £3 an hour less than their male warehouse workers.more
New anti-terror laws will collect passenger information from non-EU flights in or out of Ireland. The Government said the new rules are part of a shared intelligence network to tackle serious crime. New jobs will be created to collect the data for use by European police.more
More than half a billion pounds has been spent on immigration detention in four years, figures show, prompting renewed calls for a limit on length of time immigrants can be held in removal centres. The Government shelled out £523.5 million on detaining people for immigration reasons between April 2013 and March 2017.more
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to London Arkady Rzegocki, in a letter to the editorial staff of the British Telegraph, defends the amended Act on the Institute of National Remembrance.more
The Irish Cabinet gave the go-ahead for a referendum to relax the country's strict abortion laws on Monday, 35 years after the Catholic-majority country enshrined abortion as a crime in its constitution.more
European Union ministers have met in Brussels to finalise their negotiating position on the transitional period that will follow the UK's departure from the bloc. They propose it will run from Brexit in March 2019 to 31 December 2020.more