County Kerry

Man found with AI-generated child pornographic material fined €400

Stephen Buckley, whose case was heard at the district court in Tralee, County Kerry, is believed to be the first person in the Republic of Ireland to be convicted of possession of AI-generated child pornographic material.

Land by Maggie O’Farrell review – an ambitious story of mapmaking in Ireland

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel, a lengthy and ambitious story set in the aftermath of the Irish famine. Land opens in 1865 on a rainswept Irish peninsula and takes us to Dublin, Rome, Quebec and Kerala as it tells the story of two generations and gestures backwards and forwards at two more. The opening line came to O’Farrell on a train journey from...

Navy vet charged with murder after attack on California man known for pro-Trump displays

A U.S. Navy veteran accused of fatally assaulting a Southern California man known for his pro-Trump house decorations was charged Wednesday with murder, the San Diego County district attorney said. Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, was charged last month with attempted murder after the attack but before the man’s death. Kerry Sheron, 69, was assaulted outside his home in Escondido on May 20.

McGuinness and Clifford to avoid bans after Kerry-Donegal melee

McGuinness and Clifford to avoid bans after Kerry-Donegal melee

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness

Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak

Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed to the virus in the womb. The infected mother had given birth just hours earlier. The hospital had alerted Dowse to the case before delivery, and he’d braced himself for the worst.

MORNING GLORY: A summer of celebration followed by a fall of mourning

The next four months are anniversary heavy. Before the fireworks of the 250th Fourth of July begin, try with family and friends to agree on what we are celebrating, and try as well to articulate why and how we defend what our country has long been committed to on paper and for 250 years in actual and expanding practice. While the Semiquincentennial is upon us in a month, we are also only three months and an handful of days away from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by Al...

Abuse suit by former NC State athletes dismissed

A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 31 former N.C. State male athletes alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine. In orders filed Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins dismissed claims against Robert M. Murphy Jr., as well as multiple N.C. State athletics officials tied to their oversight rules, citing procedural reasons. The lawsuit was filed in February in state court in a case that...