The couple originally announced their split in 2015. Ben Affleck announced on Instagram today that he completed his third stint in rehab, and it's expected that his divorce from Jennifer Garner will be finalized sooner rather than later. Recently, Jennifer filed a request in a Los Angeles court to have a retired judge be the designated judge in [...]
An elderly woman developed sepsis after she was scalded by tea spilled on her lap while out to lunch. Daphne Anderson, 91, died after she sustained third degree burns over 6% of her body but didn’t immediately report it. An inquest into her death, previously adjourned after the woman’s daughter called for the exhumation of [...]
A jury has returned verdicts of accidental death at inquest arising from a car crash that claimed the lives of three generations of the same family in Co Mayo last year. Mary Ann Wilson, 67, her 39-year-old daughter, Marcella, and her six-year-old son, Sean, died when the car they were travelling in collided with a [...]
A 48-year-old psychiatric nurse has been sentenced to twelve months in prison for assaulting another nurse with a syringe filled with sedating, anti-psychotic medication. Kofi Kankam - with an address at 15 The Clarin, Athenry, Co Galway - denied a charge of assaulting Emer Hyland, causing her harm, at the Psychiatric Unit at University Hospital [...]
The former UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson has separated from his wife Marina Wheeler, and they are now set to be divorced. Johnson, who is also a former London Mayor, has been living apart from Wheeler for the past few months, the Sun reported. The pair have been married for 25 years. A number of UK [...]
Nine people injured – six children, two adults and a teenager – have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a collision between a school bus and a car in Co Limerick. The collision, which occurred at Ardvarna, Lisnagry, was reported to emergency services at 8.15am. The 28-seater bus, contracted by Bus Éireann from a [...]
A mechanic has been awarded €11,500 in compensation after losing his job as a mechanic after 14 years following claims he was dismissed because he could not be depended on to turn up to work on time. The man in question had been employed as a mechanic at a garage from 1 July 2003 to [...]
A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged in relation to a road traffic collision last year in which a man died in Dundalk, Co Louth. Eimear White, with an address Castlecarra, Riverstown, Co Louth, was remanded on bail at Dundalk District Court. She is accused of dangerous driving causing the death of 29-year-old Robert McLoughlin on 21 October [...]
The man who hacked Jennier Lawrence, a Connecticut man who also hacked into more than 200 iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and other people has been sentenced to eight months in prison. George Garofano was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Bridgeport. After prison, he must serve three years of supervised release and perform [...]
An unmarried mother has won a Supreme Court battle to access widowed parent’s allowance for her bereaved children. Siobhan McLaughlin, 46, was refused the benefit after her partner John Adams died from cancer in January 2014 because the couple, who had four children and were together for 23 years, were not married or in a civil [...]