It could be a while before normal service resumes at Salthill Co Dublin. Rail services are currently suspended.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new ⁠blows to energy infrastructure

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing "further embarrassment" to party as result of Epstein links.

Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?

Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED" Musk to Epstein emails: • “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” • "I really want to hit the party scene" • "Is there a good time to visit? Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct: "This has to stop"

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.

The US citizen shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a local veterans' hospital who "wanted to make a difference in this world," family members said.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis. AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including: "Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"

Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Back in 2019 Donald Trump’s musings on Greenland were fodder for late night TV comedians and dismissed as more of his fantastical whims, but it turns out he was very serious, writes Tony Connelly.

We’ll hear a lot of noise about what Trump did and said at Davos, but Canada is in the room, and it is worth listening to

IDA would consider removing X from its books if firm deliberately breaches online safety rules

The Taoiseach has described the threat of tariffs by US President Donald Trump on European countries as "extraordinary" and "unacceptable"

“Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office left after pressure to investigate the widow of a woman slain by an ICE officer.” wapo.st/3NgXPJL

Jessie Buckley won Best Actress at the Golden Globes for her performance in Hamnet, on a night when the historical drama also won the coveted Best Picture award.

Greenland "is part of Denmark and the EU is rock-solid behind Denmark" — Taoiseach www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

An international media association has criticised the Israeli government for maintaining its ban on unrestricted media access to Gaza, calling the move disappointing www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Swiss local authorities have admitted they failed to conduct periodic fire and safety inspections over the past five years at a bar where an inferno killed 40 people and injured 116 others

China seeks closer ties with Ireland, Xi tells Martin in Beijing reut.rs/4powMto

The two managers of a bar in the Swiss Alps where at least 40 people died in a New Year’s Day fire are under criminal investigation over suspicion of negligence. Part of the ceiling of the basement bar ignited shortly after waiters distributed bottles of sparklers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Plenty of excuses for Trump to paint other states as ‘fair game’

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Researchers tested the accuracy of five AI models using 500 everyday math prompts. The results show that there is roughly a 40 per cent chance an AI will get the answer wrong.

Former Israeli prime minister joins calls for Netanyahu to resign over Qatar ‘cover-up’ www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

A senior Russian general was killed in southern Moscow today after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement

A so-called 'reparations loan' to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine was discussed at length by EU leaders but ultimately proved too complex, writes Europe Editor Tony Connelly

Last year, Saoirse Domestic Violence Services was unable to provide refuge to 72% of victims due to lack of availability, and 59 calls for refuge were unmet in December alone www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Photographer Christopher Anderson’s exchange with Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller makes this worth a read in itself — wapo.st/49ixYtq

Interesting: A 2023 DCU survey found 57% of Gen-Z and Millennial TikTok users are influenced by, or regularly adopt, nutrition trends from it. “The research also found that only 2% of the analysed nutrition content on TikTok proved to be accurate when compared to public health guidelines.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w... NYT reports that more than 250 Kenyan workers, most of them women, have died in Saudi Arabia. Survivors say they were raped, burned, beaten, starved or locked indoors. And: Kenya’s president’s family and political allies are profiting off a cheap labour pipeline.

Follow live | 12 people killed and dozens wounded after two gunmen open fire during a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach

Watch this report from Joe Galvin and producer John Cunningham back on RTÉ Player — China’s economic prowess much regarded, especially by those who would seek to ‘copy that’, but what about the pollution, and what about people’s human rights? www.rte.ie/player/serie...