John Brennan

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For comic effect Francis Brennan dons some Asian-themed headgear
John and Francis Brennan can’t save Leitrim’s ‘disaster relief’ campsite

Pity the poor Brennan brothers. Ten years after these fastidious Kerry hoteliers began At Your Service (RTÉ One, Sunday, 8.30pm), their business makeo(...)

Lester Cassidy with RTÉ’s Fergal Keane and Irish Times angling correspondent Derek Evans at the new facility on the river Moy
Game-changer: new disabled angling facility opens on the river Moy

“This new facility is going to be a life-changer for me,” declared Lester Cassidy following the opening of the East Mayo Anglers’ Association (EMAA) d(...)

Deirdre Foley (pictured), Mark Redmond and OCS Operations were summonsed under employment legislation over redundancies at the store. Photograph: Collins Courts
Minister ‘lashed out’ summonses over Clerys redundancies, judge told

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection simply “lashed out” summonses when bringing prosecutions over redundancies at the former Cle(...)

Minister claims the judge failed to strike a balance between the public interest in the prosecution of the offences and any risk of an unfair trial. Photograph: Alan Betson
Clerys lay-offs: Minister moves to quash striking-out of charges

A ministerial challenge to a judge’s decision to strike out charges linked to redundancies at Clerys department store in Dublin due to delays in the d(...)

Work is being undertaken on the river Erriff (IFI’s National Salmonid Index Catchment) as part of the Smoltrack project
Study shows survival rates of young salmon are in decline

A new study shows how salmon survival leaving freshwater is an important factor in declining European salmon populations, according to early results f(...)

The Environmental Pillar has highlighted “a clear failure to increase our tree cover in a substantial and sustainable fashion”. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Afforestation: a source of environmental damage and depopulation

The State’s “relentless subsidised Sitka spruce afforestation programme” is not only causing widespread environmental problems but is undermining rura(...)

John Brennan, of Confederation House, Waterford Business Park, Co Waterford, had sought more time from the master to respond to the judgment application by Nama company National Asset Loan Management. Photograph: Alan Betson
Master of High Court strikes out €19m claim against businessman

Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan has struck out a €19 million claim for judgment against a businessman. The bank official who “got the bonus (...)

The court heard the woman tried to take refuge in the defendant’s car when he struck her head off the steering wheel, dragged her by her hair from the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face until she managed to escape.
Man who broke bones in ex partner’s face and pulled out clumps of her hair is jailed

A woman whose ex-partner attacked her, breaking several bones in her face and tearing out clumps of her hair has told a court that the “terror and tor(...)

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations in New York. Photograph: Amir Levy/Reuters
CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince ordered Khashoggi’s death

The CIA has concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to US officials. (...)

A law enforcement officer checks a van seized during an investigation into a series of parcel bombs, in Plantation, Florida. Image: via Reuters.
US pipe bombs suspect charged with five federal offences

US attorney general Jeff Sessions has warned that those responsible for a series of explosive devices sent to senior Democratic figures this week will(...)

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