News from Middleton

Double tragedy struck the Sydney to Hobart yacht race as two sailors were killed in separate incidents, organisers and local authorities said.

26 December 2024

A woman in her 30s has been killed after a vehicle hit four pedestrians in a hit-and-run incident in Blanchardstown in Dublin.

26 December 2024

Wrenboys were out in big numbers in West Kerry today - one of the last strongholds of the mid-winter tradition.

26 December 2024

Two women and a man have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead at a house in Co Down.

26 December 2024

World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said he is safe after an Israeli strike targeted Sanaa airport in Yemen while he was about to board a flight.

26 December 2024

NATO is ready to help Finland and Estonia as Finnish authorities probe an oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port over the possible "sabotage" of a power cable linking the two member countries, alliance chief Mark Rutte has said.

26 December 2024

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation have told the Reuters news agency.

26 December 2024

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has said that 820 children and young people contacted its Childline service this Christmas, a 12% increase compared to last year.

26 December 2024

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

26 December 2024

Russia is willing to work with Donald Trump's incoming administration to improve relations if the US has serious intentions to do so but it is up to Washington to make the first move, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

26 December 2024

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon has called for a timely Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, citing what it called Israeli violations of a 27 November ceasefire agreement with Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

26 December 2024

South Korea's main opposition party introduced a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, a day before it plans to seek a vote on the move, which could deepen a constitutional crisis.

26 December 2024

A hectic period in the racing calendar explodes into life later today. We've recommendations for Leopardstown, Kempton, Down Royal and Aintree.

26 December 2024

2024 was the year of the weird US election - a primary election process that was all over by the end of January meant a pseudo-campaign that was staggeringly boring for six months, even with the former president on trial in a New York court room, writes Sean Whelan.

26 December 2024

Retail Ireland, the Ibec group that represents the retail sector, has reported a slight increase in the average spending by households this Christmas.

26 December 2024

When Ireland took to the polls in November to elect the next Dáil it was clear that money was on the mind.

26 December 2024

French authorities have said that they rescued 107 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to England.

26 December 2024

The director of a hospital in northern Gaza has said five of the facility's staff, including a doctor, have been killed in an Israeli strike.

26 December 2024

Tearful mourners prayed as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one of the world's worst natural disasters.

26 December 2024

Syria's new authorities launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to pursue "remnants" of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government accused of the attack.

26 December 2024