World indoor and outdoor silver medallist Kate O’Connor and five-time European medallist Mark English will headline a strong Irish team for the upcoming World Indoor Championships. The 25-year-old went onto win silver in the Heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last September. English has also been in excellent form this season, lowering his own Irish indoor 800m record on two occasions. He also ran an Irish indoor 600m record in January, clocking 1:15.80 at the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena in Dublin. Ciara Neville, Emma Moore, James Gormley and Elizabeth Ndudi, have achieved the Athletics Ireland ‘B’ Standard and are provisionally selected pending confirmation of their qualification status by World Athletics.

He is now on the brink of becoming Nepal’s youngest prime minister after his party scored a landslide victory in elections last week. Shah, a millennial with an often aggressive and aggrieved style on social media, is its pick to lead Nepal. “They’re saying, in a populist way, that he’s a god.”A socially conscious rapper, Shah has prided himself on not being bound to Nepal’s political establishment. Many domestic and local buses in Kathmandu, Nepal, display stickers of Balen Shah. As leader of Nepal, Shah will have to be more flexible.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 20s about the sexual assault of a young girl and suspicious approaches to other children in north Dublin. Gardaí have been investigating since the alleged incidents occurred on February 15.

The deal comes after CVC had spent months trying unsuccessfully to sell a large stake in GSG at a €9 billion valuation. GSG was created last year by the Amsterdam-listed private equity firm to house its sports investments, spanning European football leagues, English rugby and women’s tennis. The US private capital firm will also pay up to €200 million for a 6 per cent equity stake in GSG, with CVC owning the rest, the people added. CVC’s approach has been to take minority stakes in competitions – its 2017 and 2020 flagship private equity funds invested in seven sports leagues – and then to influence how they are run. Critics believe CVC created GSG partly to mask some of its unsuccessful investments, including in French football and English club rugby.

The ‘hate’ from a march in support of the Iranian regime planned this Sunday ‘has no place in our society,’ a minister has said. The Al Quds demonstration, due to take place on March 15, is intended to express solidarity with Palestinians and opposition to Israel. This sort of thing has no place in our society.’Courts minister Sarah Sackman said 'marches like the Al Quds march has no place in British society'The Al Quds demonstration, due to take place on March 15, is intended to express solidarity with Palestinians and opposition to Israel. Al Quds marchers in Britain have previously carried the flags of Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, and placards calling for the destruction of Israel. A spokesman from the group added: ‘'Any ban on Al Quds Day would destroy any remaining credibility that the UK has.'

A member of the My Lovely Horse Rescue charity responds to an animal in need. You’re putting an animal out of his misery, but you can’t undo the misery that the animal has been through.”Kerry-Anne Pollock, head of animal welfare advocacy at My Lovely Horse RescueParticularly during afterhours or on weekends, when other services or charities are not in operation, the organisation receives calls from “distressed” people. The discovery was made on a Saturday morning and My Lovely Horse Rescue was contacted. “Animal cruelty is a red flag to wider criminality and there’s lots of research that supports that case,” she says. It is “satisfied that these measures provide a comprehensive framework and sufficient safeguards to ensure animal welfare”.

Police carry out 30 searches in Hanley and seize spice, monkey dust and cannabisKnives were also seizedView Image Police outside Hanley Bus StationPolice have carried out 30 searches in the city centre - and seized spice, monkey dust and cannabis. They issued 10 public protection notices during the operation centred around Hanley Bus Station. ‌"Officers carried out searches in the Hanley area. We found spice, monkey dust and cannabis. Following the activity, three community resolutions and 10 public protection notices were issued.

A year after welcoming her much longed-for daughter, Kaia, now 1, she discovered that she has nearly fifty siblings, after being invited to a Facebook group by another woman who had used the same donor. Here, she discovered that Kaia has a 'community of half siblings' - all around the same age as her. Ms Nuremberg said: 'Finding the Facebook group was overwhelming at first, but once I met the other mums I began to form real connections. First up for the group of single mums is a planned trip to Disneyland later this month. Aggeles' sperm, which was sold between 2000 and 2014, has been used to create 19 boys and 17 girls from 26 families.

Natalie McNally was 15 weeks pregnant when she was killed at her home in Lurgan on December 18th, 2022. An ex-partner of murder victim Natalie McNally has said resetting his phone after her death had been nothing to do with her. The man, who cannot be named because of a court order, had been arrested for questioning by detectives probing the murder but was later released. Her partner, Stephen McCullagh (36) of Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, is on trial for her murder at Belfast Crown Court. The man responded saying that was “ridiculous” when that was put to him in court on Monday.

The sharp increase in applications for veterinary medicine courses coincides with the first intakes to two new veterinary medicine colleges, at South East Technological University and Atlantic Technological University, from September. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty ImagesThe number of CAO applicants hoping to study veterinary medicine almost tripled this year, while applications for pharmacy, medicine and physiotherapy all saw considerable rises as additional courses and places come on stream. The figures show a near tripling in the number of applicants listing veterinary medicine courses in their applications, rising by 198 per cent from 902 in 2025 to 2,692 this year. This coincides with the first intakes to two new veterinary medicine colleges, at South East Technological University and Atlantic Technological University, from September. Health-related degrees received the highest number of “total mentions” at 91,571, an increase of 22 per cent from last year.

No British ministers who served during the Troubles and who gave orders to British soldiers and police will find themselves alongside veterans if they face new legacy investigations, two senior retired British Army commanders have said. Sharply critical of the legacy legislation agreement between London and Dublin, the two retired officers said ministers would not “be present to answer for the choices they made”, yet veterans would have to do so. “Yet today the British state is content to let individuals face legal scrutiny alone, while both the chain of command and the government that sent them to Northern Ireland step back from responsibility. The legacy framework agreed last November between Dublin and London will replace controversial legislation passed by the Conservatives that blocked Troubles inquests and civil actions. Legacy promises should offer pledges to families and victims that can be kept, not ones that will simply keep old sores permanently open.

Francisco Franco and his wife Carmen Polo, who oversaw the Board for the Protection of Women. Photograph: Keystone/Getty ImagesSpain is to formally pardon a group of 53 women who are among thousands who were incarcerated by the Franco regime on the grounds that they were supposedly “fallen or in danger of falling”. The women were locked up as adolescents by the Board for the Protection of Women, a collection of institutions run by religious orders. The board, which had echoes of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries, was overseen by Carmen Polo, the wife of the dictator Francisco Franco. In a ceremony next week, the government will pardon the 53 survivors and recognise them as victims of Francoist repression.

A teenage girl complained of a headache before she was found dead with her boyfriend at a holiday park, an inquest has heard. Cherish Adele Bean, 15, and Ethan Harry Slater, 17, were described as 'fit and well' before being discovered unresponsive at a holiday park last month. They had been staying at a lodge known as the Man Cave at Little Eden Holiday Park near Bridlington, East Yorkshire. On Tuesday, East Riding Coroner's Court heard that Cherish had been feeling unwell in the moments before she was discovered dead on holiday. Mr Marks told how the teenagers had been on a family holiday to the lodge park, near the village of Carnaby.

An artist's impression of the proposed Glenveagh housing scheme adjoining Belcamp Hall off the Malahide Road in north Dublin. Fingal County Council has delayed two major housing schemes proposed by Glenveagh, which together would deliver more than 2,100 new homes across north Dublin. The Belcamp application followed Glenveagh’s €130 million acquisition last year of property from Gannon Homes, including the 119.5‑acre site. Only one objection has been lodged, relating to changes in the proposed road layout serving the site. Fingal County Council has also sought further information on the Balbriggan scheme, requesting that the developer address issues relating to site layout, urban design and visual impact.

Having a difficult person in your life could be ageing you quicker, a new study has warned. 'Each additional hassler is associated with faster biological ageing,' the team from New York University, said. Analysis revealed that for each additional hassler a person regularly interacted with, their rate of biological ageing increased by around 1.5 per cent. <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>The authors explained that negative social interactions could contribute to faster biological ageing by putting strain on the body's hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. At the same time, chronic social stress can fuel inflammation in the body, leading to faster biological ageing.