Every second or third day, Mary* was on the phone looking for help for her daughter after she was sexually assaulted, on her birthday, by four boys. “I needed support for her and for us, to try and deal with this and just to manage day to day,” Mary told the Irish Examiner. “When you have to think about it and tell someone,” she said, “I feel like it’s happening again.”Birthday nightmareShe can’t forget the day their world turned upside down, the day Elizabeth was celebrating her 15th birthday. “There, she later met friends of friends and, a couple of hours later, more friends — acquaintances, really — joined. “She went to school the following morning, and after school she went to her friend’s and told her friend.” she said.

New yellow rain warnings issued for 13 countiesA yellow rain warning has been issued for seven counties on Friday, with a warning also issued for all of the North. Met Éireann has issued a warning to Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Louth, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow. The Met Office has issued a yellow rain warning for the North from midnight on Friday until 6 pm. The scale of the flooding in some areas has heaped pressure on forecaster Met Eireann and the Government over whether the warnings were sufficient. Met Éireann issued a yellow rain warning for the whole day in counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin.

‌Wayne and his wife Coleen observed from the stands, despite Kai previously forbidding the former United and England skipper from watching his matches. Coleen has previously said Kai was determined from an early age there was little point in Rooney attending his youth team games. But there was no risk of that at Old Trafford, where he sat alongside Michael Carrick - the interim manager of United's first team - in the directors' box. Klay is also progressing through United's youth ranks, whilst Cass is treading his dad's path at Everton's academy, though Kit has already 'retired' rather than pursuing a career in football. Article continues belowJoin our new MAN UTD WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Manchester United content from Mirror Football.

Ne-Yo and Akon announce second Dublin concertNe-Yo and Akon have announced a second date at the 3 Arena due to phenomenal demand. The duo announced a concert on April 24th in Dublin, and have added a second date for Saturday, April 25th at the 3 Arena. The concert is part of the Nights Like This tour. NE-YO ascended to superstardom with his 2005 debut single “So Sick,” which was certified quadruple-platinum. AKON is the founder of three major recording labels – Konlive, Konvict Kulture and KONVICT Music - that launched the careers of global artists like T-Pain, Lady Gaga, and Kardinal Offishall.

For more than a decade, these awards have been championing excellence in higher and further education, highlighting outstanding achievements and underlining the importance to the country of a thriving educational sector. This year sponsors include Jisc, specialists in education technology, and QAA Scotland, which oversees standards across higher education. Jason Miles-Campbell, Jisc's Director for Scotland and Northern Ireland, said "we're proud to sponsor the Innovative Use of Technology category once again at The Herald Education Awards. We are delighted to continue supporting the Herald Education Awards as they enter their second decade. The Awards celebrate innovation, creativity and excellence across Scotland’s tertiary sector, showcasing projects and individuals that exemplify the innovation and quality enhancement QAA champions.'

In an arresting development, four former garda stations and residences in Cork and Kerry are up for grabs — if you’re looking for a cheap Irish home and a project. The four properties in Ballyfeard, Knocknagree, and Rathduff in Co Cork and in Brosna, Co Kerry, are as full of character, as you could imagine. The former garda station at Rathduff, Co Cork. The properties will be sold by auction, and guide prices range from €115,000 to €245,000. The former garda station at Brosna, Co Kerry.

However, the total still falls short of the revised 2025 target of 41,000 homes, agreed in November 2024. At the time, the Government said 41,000 homes would be completed in 2025, with output set to rise incrementally to 60,000 homes. In 2025, scheme dwellings accounted for 50.5% of completions, apartments made up 33.2%, and single dwellings represented 16.3%. More than half (57.6%) of all completions in 2025 were delivered in Dublin or the Mid-East — Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow. By local electoral area, Clondalkin in Dublin recorded the highest number of completions, with 1,399 homes finished in 2025.

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By Jonathan McCambridge, Press AssociationA witness has told the Noah Donohoe inquest that she found the schoolboy’s bike on the evening he went missing. I realised the bike described matched the bike in my driveway Karen Crooks, witnessShe said on the evening of Sunday June 21 2020, she found a bike near her car. “I realised the bike described matched the bike in my driveway,” she said. The witness told the jury an area of wasteland where the culvert was located could be accessed through a side gate at her property. Ms Crooks said she had searched the area around her property after Noah went missing, and took part in a community search.

Bridgerton star Yerin Ha says ‘magical’ new series is ‘a real Cinderella story’By Carla Feric, Press Association Entertainment ReporterBridgerton star Yerin Ha described the latest series of the Regency romance show as “so magical”, adding that it is “a real Cinderella story”. The hit costume drama is based on a series of books of the same name by Julia Quinn, and follows the eight siblings of the Bridgerton family in their quest to find love. Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson star in the latest season of Bridgerton as Sophie Baek and Benedict Bridgerton (Ian West/PA) Photo by Ian WestSpeaking to the Press Association, Ha said: “I remember at the reading, the way everybody was reacting to the scenes. “She’s desperate and she’s surviving and it’s really cut through society, so she’s trying to maintain her reputation, while having this dark secret that she can’t reveal. “There’s a lot at stake for her.”Four episodes of series four of Bridgerton were released on Netflix on January 29th.

Xabi Alonso gets ringing endorsement from Liverpool team-mate over job – 'Change needed'Ex-Spain and Bayern Munich star Javi Martinez has endorsed Xabi Alonso to become Liverpool manager, with reports continuing to heavily link the former Reds midfielder with the Anfield postView 3 Images Javi Martinez believes Xabi Alonso would be the perfect fit for Liverpool. Javi Martinez has backed Xabi Alonso to take over as Liverpool manager, insisting the Reds require a shake-up. Arne Slot is facing mounting pressure on Merseyside with the Premier League champions languishing in sixth place and confronting a fight to secure Champions League qualification for next season. ‌The former Liverpool midfielder was sacked by Real Madrid at the start of January after their Supercopa final loss to Barcelona. "Xabi Alonso is a young coach that brings a lot of new things, it's [from] the Pep [Guardiola] school.

More than 36,000 homes completed in 2025By Cillian Sherlock, Press AssociationNew dwelling completions rose by more than 20 per cent last year, with 2025 seeing the highest number of completions since the Central Statistics Office tracked the figures in 2011. The new data from the CSO shows there were 36,284 new dwelling completions in 2025, an increase of 20.4 per cent from 2024. The number of apartments completed in 2025 was 12,047, up 38.7 per cent on last year. By Local Electoral Area, the most completions in 2025 were in Clondalkin in Dublin, with 1,399. That plan, announced in November, saw the scrapping of annual targets set by the last coalition, which set incremental increases from 41,000 homes in 2025 up to 60,000 in 2030.

And with each gloomy day the Irish obsession with weather has reached new heights. At the time of writing, there have been a total of 1.5 hours of sunshine recorded at Dublin Airport weather station over the past week, that includes four days with zero sunshine. An Irish therapist living in the United States writes about how his gay and immigrant clients were growing more and more anxious in Trump’s America. Nice words, comforting words, challenging words, but even I know they are just words, and words often can’t stop or delay the inevitable. Buckley is well-placed to become the first Irish woman ever to win the best actress prize, writes Donald Clarke.

Ireland’s economy shrank in the last three months of 2025, according to early estimates from the statistics agency. The latest GDP decline was mainly driven by contraction in the multinational dominated Industry sector, the CSO said. That will be clearer when the more definitive Quarterly National Accounts are published in early March, which drawn on additional data sources. Regardless of the final numbers for Q4 the Irish economy grew strongly in 2025 as a whole, in GDP terms. GDP is the standard measure used to compare economies but in the case of Ireland it is volatile even at the best of tines because of the outsized impact of multinationals.

Maxim Naumov after skating in the Legacy On Ice US Figure Skating Benefit in Washington in March, 2025. His coach had a notion that the two should work on a few routines to see if they might make a potentially great figure skating pairs team representing the Soviet Union. Evgenia 'Zhenya' Shishkova and Vadim Naumov perform at the 1995 World Figure Skating Championships in Birmingham, UK. “It’s all about being resilient,” said Maxim Naumov shortly before competing at this year’s US Figure Skating Championships in St Louis, Missouri. For the free-skate performance that clinched his place at the Olympics, Naumov chose The Irrepressibles’ In This Shirt as his musical accompaniment.