Nearly 400 years ago the Dutch owned what is now New York. They called it — not very originally — New Amsterdam and created a trading post that focused on beaver fur, which was a popular product for the making of hats. Their rule of the trading post at the mouth of the Hudson River lasted about 40 years and after war with England they gave up their rights to New Amsterdam. Reminders of the brief Dutch colony are dotted around New York, the Hudson River being one — named after an English navigator paid by the Dutch East India Company to explore the area — and Nassau County, where eight matches in this year’s T20 World Cup are being played. It is named after a prominent 17th century Dutch family.

Netflix accused of defamation by alleged ‘Martha’ in Baby Reindeer lawsuitBy Ellie Iorizzo, PA Los Angeles CorrespondentA woman claiming to have inspired Richard Gadd’s hit TV series Baby Reindeer is seeking at least $170 million (€156 million) in a lawsuit filed against Netflix. Fiona Harvey has accused the streaming platform of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence, and violations of her right of publicity in the lawsuit filed at the Californian federal court. After the show aired, he asked viewers not to speculate over the real people who inspired the series. In the new lawsuit, Harvey has accused Netflix of spreading “brutal lies”, including that she is a “twice convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison”. “Defendants told these lies, and never stopped, because it was a better story than the truth, and better stories made money,” it states.

Asda is set for new ownership after Zuber Issa sold his stake in the supermarket group to private equity backer TDR Capital. TDR Capital, which helped finance Issa and his brother Moshin's debt-fuelled £6.8billion takeover of Asda in 2021, will become the group's majority owner after buying Zuber's 22.5 per cent stake. The private equity firm will own a 67.5 per cent stake in the group when the deal is completed, while Moshin retains his 22.5 per cent stake and former owner Walmart owns 10 per cent. With Mohsin and TDR's ongoing focus and shareholding, I am confident that Asda will achieve its growth ambitions.' Mohsin Issa added: 'Today's announcement further underlines my own and TDR's confidence both in Asda and the UK consumer market.

Local elections 2024: See the full list of candidates in your areaTomas DohertyIreland takes to the polls on Friday for local elections. The last set of local elections took place in May 2019 against a very different political backdrop. Below you can find the full list of all 2,171 candidates standing in this year’s election. In the 2019 local elections, 561 women ran for a seat, while in 2014, 440 women were candidates. The Social Democrats and the Green Party have an even number of men and women standing as candidates.

An electrician and mechanic has converted an used waste area in a Dublin Bus depot into beekeeping grounds. Paul Granger, who is based in Phibsboro, came up with the idea of creating bee hives in the workplace. “Now, we’ve the two hives here in Phibsboro and we’ve introduced them to the Broadstone garage as well. We’d be manipulating hives, we’d have a swarm control, we manage the hives so they don’t swarm. It’s given everyone the chance to look at something outside of work while in work,” he added.

Lynch was born in the UK to Irish parents and has built a series of software businesses before facing the epic US trial. The jury acquitted Lynch on all 15 felony counts facing him. It took years to extradite Lynch from the U.K. and then more legal wrangling before the trial finally began in mid-March. Another former Autonomy finance executive, Stephen Chamberlain, faced fraud charges alongside Lynch during the complex trial. Another former HP CEO, Leo Apotheker, who negotiated the Autonomy deal, was called to the stand by federal prosecutors to outline Lynch’s alleged misconduct.

‘Manifesting is science not magic’ – Irish neuroscientist Dr Sabina Brennan on how we can rewire our brains to help achieve goalsIn an extract from her new book, Dr Sabina Brennan reveals how we can use neuroplasticity to actively shape our realityHow manifesting works in the brainSabina Brennan Yesterday at 03:30Manifesting has frequently been written off by the scientific community as pseudoscience or ‘woo’. However, on closer inspection a lot of the denigrating comments from scientists are directed at the misconception that manifesting is passive, wishful thinking rather than the active practice that is the subject matter of my new book, The Neuroscience of Manifesting.

Junior Cycle Irish students were mostly relieved with straightforward higher and ordinary level papers, teachers have said. Both Ms Dolan and Ms Donnellan said that the ordinary T2 level papers were fair, although Ms Donnellan said that a question about inviting friends to see the actor Paul Mescal may have been challenging for some. “The paper went off without a hitch,” said Ms Dolan. “The language used was student friendly and nothing different to what has been seen on past and sample papers. “Personally, I would love to see more focus on the oral element in junior cycle, as it can make Irish more accessible as a living language,” she said.

PSNI made 323 applications for data relating to journalists – reportBy Rebecca Black and Jonathan McCambridge, PAPolice in the North made 323 applications for communications data relating to journalists since 2011, a report has revealed. The report, which was compiled for the Northern Ireland Policing Board – the PSNI’s oversight body, said of the 323 applications, 10 sought to identify a journalistic source using covert powers. The report also revealed that in the same time period there were 500 applications for communications data related to lawyers who were victims, suspects or witnesses to crime. The report was published online on Thursday following a private meeting of the Policing Board in Belfast. Earlier on Thursday, the NUJ protested outside the Policing Board.

The warmest spring on record was in 1945 with an average temperature of 10.26 degrees. Photograph: Stephen Collins/CollinsThe spring just past was the second warmest on record in Ireland despite being wetter and duller than average. The warmest spring on record was in 1945 with an average temperature of 10.26 degrees. May was the warmest on record in Ireland along with being the warmest May on record globally and the 12th consecutive month with record-high temperatures globally. This indicates that night-time temperatures were particularly high during May 2024, which helped to increase the overall mean temperatures.

The attached assets include movable (Fixed Deposits) and immovable assets acquired by Sameer Joshi, his companies/firms and his co-accused agents/accomplices. As per the chargesheets, a total of 1,267 investors were identified who were defrauded to the tune of Rs 105.05 crore approximately. The movable and immovable assets were situated in Margao and Nagpur, Amravati and Akola districts among other areas across Goa and Maharashtra. In the course of the investment activities, various commission agents were also employed by Shreesurya Group. These Commission agents accepted 3-7 per cent of commission on the investments done by the investors.

Conor Humphries, ReutersIreland's domestic economy expanded by 1.4% in the first three months of the year compared with the previous three months, its strongest quarterly growth in almost two years, official data showed on Thursday. With Ireland's large multinational sector often distorting gross domestic product (GDP), officials prefer to focus on modified domestic demand (MDD) to gauge the strength of the economy. On an annual basis domestic demand was up 1.1% in the first quarter of the year, its strongest growth since the same quarter last year, the Central Statistics Office data showed. The Government has forecast that domestic demand will grow 1.9% for 2024 as a whole and 2.3% in 2025 after growing just 0.5% last year. GDP, which is still the measure used to calculate Ireland's share of activity across the eurozone, expanded by 0.9% in the first quarter compared to the last three months of 2023.

Profiles of every Athlone-area candidate in RoscommonWe sent a questionnaire to all 10 candidates running in the Athlone Electoral Area in Friday's Roscommon County Council election. The responses were published in print in the Westmeath Independent this week. Click on each candidate's name to view their responses here:Sam Brooks (Sinn Féin)Domnick Connolly (Fine Gael)Laurence Fallon (Non-Party)Joe Harney (Sinn Féin)Emer Kelly (Non-Party)John Keogh (Fianna Fáil)James Murray (Fianna Fáil)John Naughten (Fine Gael)Dominic Naughton (Non-Party)Tony Ward (Non-Party)

There are 949 city and county council seats to be filled across 31 local authorities, which are divided into 166 electoral areas. Sinn Fein lost half their councillors in the 2019 election, with their support falling to 9.5% of first preference votes, giving them 81 councillors. Local election polls and general election polls are different, there’s a personal dimension to it as well, in addition to a party poll. The Social Democrats, founded in 2015, won 19 seats in what was its first local election in 2019. The number of Solidarity-People Before Profit council seats fell from 28 to 11, Aontu and Independents4Change had three council seats apiece.

Ireland needs to brace for more extreme and devastating weather in the future, experts have warned, as new data shows how perilously close the world is to the tipping point to stave off the worst of climate change. Scientists have repeatedly warned that warming of 1.5C - the limit set in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement - risks unleashing far more severe climate change impacts, with every fraction of a degree mattering in this context. Globally, the planet is continuing to break temperature records, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Both made more severe by human influences of climate change. He said Ireland needs to work to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, with reductions in emissions alongside adaptation measures.