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Eoin O’Faodhagain, from Co Donegal, was monitoring a webcam of the loch when he saw movement in the waterThe Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register hasn’t recorded a new entry since October 11, 2022 Jaw-dropping footage reveals “the first Nessie sighting of 2023” after a mysterious presence “too big” to be a fish was recorded in the water. Veteran Nessie hunter Eoin O’Faodhagain was monitoring a webcam of the loch when he spotted something that he “couldn’t believe”. In two clips captured roughly seven minutes apart, something stirs in the loch, seen first as a long, dark shape near...

Kraus’ daughter Virginia Guinan said in a deposition that he was asleep when she dropped by that day and she didn’t want to wake him because he was in ill health and also upset that his dog had died. Alerted about the bloodbath later, Guinan rushed back to his home, where she saw paramedics performing CPR on her dad as he lay in a pool of blood. A trail led to the chicken house, where she saw one of the birds with blood on its claws and suspected it was the same one that had been sent to live on...

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci reunite in new set photos captured during the shooting of The Irishman. Based on a book by Charles Brandt, The Irishman traces the life of real-life reputed mob hitman Frank Sheeran (De Niro), who among other things claimed to have been involved in the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a mystery that to this day remains unsolved (despite outrageous claims like his body being buried under the old Giants Stadium). Al Pacino is set to make his Scorsese debut playing Hoffa. The Irishman marks Martin Scorsese’s return to gangster film...

DUBLIN (AFP) — An Irish long-distance runner has completed a gruelling seven marathons on seven continents in less than six days, a charity chief said Thursday. Richard Donovan, 42, from Galway in the west of Ireland, began his challenge in numbing sub-zero temperatures in Antarctica on January 31 and finished in Sydney just five days, nine hours and eight minutes later.

There is an Irishman getting ready to jump to his death from a bridge when a priest walks past. The man turns to the priest and says, "Don't try to stop me father, I'm going to jump." "Don't jump." says the priest, "It can't be that bad. Think of the life you have yet to live." "That's one of the reasons I'm jumping." says the Irishman. "Well if that won't stop you, think about your family." says the priest. "That's another reason." says the Irishman. "Well think about your job." says the priest. "There's another reason." says the Irishman. "Well...

A PEACE activist from Northern Ireland, arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank and initially thought to be an IRA bombmaker, was expelled from Israel and placed on a London-bound plane at Israel's main international airport today, witnesses said. He had earlier been taken from the Israeli prison in Petah Tikva, where he was held for three days, to Ben Gurion airport for his expulsion by the Israeli authorities. Israeli forces had said they arrested John Morgan, 40, and said to be a member of the Real IRA, a hardline faction Irish Republican Army, on Saturday. But it later...

Israeli officials have confirmed a mistake has been made in the arrest of a man suspected of being an IRA member and of helping Palestinian militants, Israel radio reported on 15 July. "There are increasing doubts that the Briton arrested by Israel near Ramallah earlier this week is in fact a weapons expert who came to assist Palestinian terrorists. Friends of the man, whose name is [name withheld], say he is a peace activist and has no connection with terrorism," the radio reported. "The wanted man has the same name, and there are indications that this may be a case...