Euro 2016

The threat of transport strikes appears to be receding, two days before the start of the Euro 2016 football championship. However, some disturbances (...)

Irish football fans have been urged to stick to designated fan zones while at the European Championship and to have a plan of escape ready in the even(...)

Portugal coach Fernando Santos accepts his side could be a terror target at Euro 2016 due to Cristiano Ronaldo’s presence. Ronaldo was absent for Thu(...)

Having suggested not long before that he “wanted to kill a few of them,” over the course of Tuesday’s game against Belarus, Roy Keane has called on th(...)

Prime minister Manuel Valls wants to reassure the 2.5 million foreigners – including 100,000 Irish citizens – who are expected to travel to France for(...)

If one judged only from the strikes this week, the showdown between the communist CGT trade union and the French government over the new labour law wo(...)

A French trade union has specifically threatened to paralyse transport in host towns on the days of matches during the Euro 2016 football championship(...)

When he unveiled security arrangements for the Euro 2016 games at a press conference yesterday, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he hop(...)

Football fans have until now focused on the risk of jihadist attacks during the Euro 2016 championship, to be held in 10 French cities from June 10th (...)

French and Egyptian officials consider terrorism to be the most likely cause of the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 over the Mediterranean Sea on Thurs(...)