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Irish Daily Mirror
19-07-2025
- Irish Daily Mirror
Church removes remains of Bishop Eamonn Casey from cathedral crypt
The remains of an Irish bishop accused of sexual abuse have been removed from a cathedral crypt and placed in the care of his family, his former diocese has said. Eamonn Casey gained worldwide notoriety in 1992 after it came to light that he had a son with American divorcee Annie Murphy and had paid her thousands for his upkeep in the US. The bishop died aged 89 in a nursing home in the west of Ireland in 2017 after a long illness. He was interred in the crypt of Galway's Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas after his funeral mass was held there. Last year, an investigation by the Irish Daily Mail and RTE revealed allegations of sexual abuse against the former Galway bishop. Bishop Eamonn Casey (Image: Eamonn Farrell // Photocall Ireland) At the time, the Galway Diocesan Office said it would begin a period of "careful consideration and consultation" about his remains. On Saturday, it announced that his remains had been "entrusted" to the care of his family. It said the presence of the bishop's remains at the cathedral "was a deeply felt matter that affected many people in different ways". In a statement, it said: "The diocese would like to thank everyone for their understanding of the situation, for their patience and for their respect as this process was undertaken and brought to a conclusion. "Significant consensus emerged around the unique role of a cathedral as a place of unity rather than division, healing rather than hurt, and peace rather than disquiet. "Now, with the assent and co-operation of members of the late Bishop Eamonn's family and following prayers for the dead, his mortal remains have been moved from the cathedral crypt and entrusted to their care. "It is their express wish that the arrangements they have made for Bishop Eamonn's final resting place remain private." No information on when the removal took place was provided in the statement. The diocese said: "The members of Bishop Eamonn's family involved ask that their earnest desire for privacy be respected at this time. "We pray that God will continue to draw all those who have been affected by this matter into his healing love." Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
The Irish Sun
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Gamer stars confirmed for Dublin's Comic Con line-up with brand-new gaming floor partner
GAMER Jolly Holly will be one of the stars at Comic Con which comes to Dublin's Convention Centre next month. Streamer Holly will be cosplaying iconic character Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 at the Convention Centre on August 9 and 10. Advertisement 3 Online streamer Jolly Holly will be at Dublin Comic Con next month Credit: Photocall Ireland 3 Over 20,000 are due at the event, which will also feature The Gara Show Credit: Photocall Ireland 3 Currys has been announced as the event's official gaming partner Credit: Photocall Ireland Over 20,000 attendees are expected at the two-day event, sponsored by leading tech retailer Currys. This year's edition will feature attractions including a gaming floor highlighting the latest in games hardware and innovations. And Gaming Ambassador Chris O'Gara, better known as The Gara Show, will take to the main stage to host an interactive panel alongside a line-up of popular content creators. Together, they'll dive into the latest in gaming culture, community dynamics, and fan engagement, all while bringing plenty of energy and laughs to the crowd. Advertisement READ MORE IN TECH Attendees can also look forward to exclusive giveaways and top tech prizes, making this a must-see highlight of the weekend. Jaimie Cantwell, Head of Brand and Marketing at Currys Ireland, said: "We're incredibly excited to be part of Dublin Comic Con this summer. "It's the perfect opportunity to connect with fans and gamers across Ireland, showcase cutting-edge gaming technology, and celebrate the vibrant culture that defines Comic Con." While Karl Walsh, co-founder of Dublin Comic Con added: "We're thrilled to welcome Currys as the official Gaming Floor Partner of DCC. Advertisement MOST READ IN THE IRISH SUN "Gaming has been a core part of DCC since the very beginning, and partnering with Ireland's leading tech and gaming retailer allows us to deliver an even bigger and better experience for our attendees!" Big name guests signing at Comic Con include Frank Miller, Jamie Campbell Bower, John De Lance, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ross Marquand, Tina Carrere and Mark Rolston. For updates, follow Currys on Instagram and TikTok for sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes content during Dublin Comic Con 2025.
Extra.ie
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
In Pics: Burger lovers battle it out in epic Eddie Rocket's eating challenge
Burgers and big appetites took over Dublin's South Anne Street over the weekend. Four food fanatics took on the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. A roaring crowd gathered to cheer on the lads as they battled it out to eat the supersized burger in the quickest time. The crowd at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland The Supersized Supernova is topped with four Irish smashed beef patties, American cheese, pickles, onions and Eddie Rocket's signature Smash Sauce. Rory Finlay demolished the competition (and his burger!) in two minutes and 20 seconds. Finlay powered through the Supersonic Supernova to be crowned as the winner and walked away with a cheque for €3,000. Rory Finlay celebrates winning the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland He wasn't the only one having all the fun as onlookers soaked up the electric atmosphere. Guests couldn't resist posing with the iconic Eddie Buick outside the restaurant. A contestant plays Spin The Wheel at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland A special Spin The Wheel game also saw attendees walk away with merchandise, free hamburgers and gift cards. Izabela Chudzicka at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland Lawson Mpame, Rob Wye, Lauren Weldon and Emmanuel Chikarakara at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland Sarah McGovern with her daughter Robyn at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland Caitriona O'Connor at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland Cathy O'Connor at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland Emmanuel Chikarakara at the Eddie Rocket's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition. Pic: Conor Ó Mearáin/Photocall Ireland
Irish Post
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Post
New Belfast, new voices and fiction that outruns the past
BELFAST is a divided city. That is the most conspicuous fact about it. Walls separate Protestant and Catholic working class areas and tourists come to see these walls and even to write messages on them. The Catholics are the Irish and the Protestants British. That's the simple version. And among tourists and foreign journalists, sympathies generally lie with the Catholic community whose story seems to fit with the larger story of nations breaking free from colonisers, Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium. Protestant and unionist culture and political campaigning tends to attract derision. The pro-British unionist parties are more conservative, more inclined towards moralistic social policies and, with Irish culture being more coherent and larger now than anything specifically British, unionism is defensive and hurting. Author Glenn Pstterson (Pic: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland) But what is a Protestant? Many of those who grew up outside the large Catholic culture thought of themselves as British in a way that did not assert a native, Northern Irish, Protestant wariness of Irishness. They were not members of marching orders or even of churches. They tended to get counted in among the general Protestant population. Back in the early 1970s we used to fear that the little Catholic enclave of Short Strand, on the predominantly Protestant eastern side of the Lagan, might be overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of Protestants who surrounded them. It was always a myth. Short Strand was indeed attacked several times on a small scale from neighbouring streets. The worst it suffered, however, was from an IRA bomb which exploded in transit, destroying two houses and killing eight people. This was presented as a loyalist/Protestant attack and only fessed up to by the IRA years later. I became aware of the difficulty of categorising the non-assertive 'Protestant', the ones we called Protestants but who didn't use that word about themselves, when interviewing the writer Glenn Patterson. Glenn grew up down the road from me, on the other side of the Finaghy railway bridge, in the area I was careful to avoid after the Troubles started. For a time my home estate was barricaded against people from there. A view of Belfast City and River Lagan (Pic: Tourism Ireland) Glenn writes wonderful novels about life in Northern Ireland. My favourite is Number 5, an imagined history of a house. He also writes non-fiction, his latest being an account of the IRA's raid on the Northern Bank in 2004, at that time the biggest bank robbery in British history. There was a prejudice in the Irish air that the best writers were Catholics who, being native Irish (another prejudice) had their roots in the same cultural soil as Seamus Heaney and Frank O'Connor. Somehow great Protestants like Sean O'Casey and WB Yeats got overlooked in this theory. But I was given the task of interviewing Glenn to tease out what a Protestant writer was and I got nowhere in that line of enquiry. He was doing what he would have been doing, thinking thoughts he would have been thinking, if he had grown up in Halifax or Hull. He wasn't asserting Britishness. He was just living it and seeing more to Belfast than the division, though that too. I think some Belfast writers like Jo Zebedee and RB Kelly are attracted to fantasy and SciFi to explore familiar issues without the backdrop of the local sectarian culture. The outstanding example of a recent novel that satirises the Catholic nationalist tradition is Milkman by Anna Burns. It depicts life in a Belfast Catholic community as bizarre and deluded. Milkman won the Booker. Jan Carson similarly questioned her own background in her last novel Raptures, representing life in a rural evangelical culture. We are currently experiencing a remarkably fruitful period in Northern Irish fiction. Wendy Erskine's new novel, Benefactors, unveils social, gender and class divisions in a very familiar Belfast with hardly any reference to sectarianism. It is the story of Misty, a teenage girl who is raped by young men she had imagined were her friends, in circumstances which a policeman describes as not entirely consensual and not entirely non consensual. Misty, we feel, has to be saved from herself as much as from others. Much as Belfast expresses itself geographically and culturally as riven by identity concerns, there is little suggestion of that now in the city's literature. Writers are not taking sides. New work is not in contention with those traditions. It is just writers moving on. A couple of years ago Rosemary Jenkinson wrote an article for Fortnight Magazine accusing fellow writers of being obsessed with the Troubles and proclaiming her determination to be different. She offended so many writers that she was dropped by her publisher, which was an excessive response. She said we (I was included in her scattergun derision) were 'feasting on the dead corpse of the Troubles more than ever' and that we were no more able to move on from the past than were our politicians. But it makes no sense to argue that the violent past and the sectarian divisions should be ignored but there are many writers here who have other things on their minds. See More: Belfast, Northern Ireland, Troubles, Writers
The Irish Sun
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Amazon Fire TV Stick has price slashed as part of Ireland's first-ever Prime Day sale with hundreds of deals
IRELAND'S first-ever Prime Day sale is officially here with hundreds of deals - including the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD for only €26.99. The 4 The deals are only available to people with an Amazon Prime subscription Credit: Photocall Ireland 4 The best deal so far is the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD, which is priced at €26.99 Credit: Amazon 4 And shoppers can also control it with the Alexa Voice Remote Credit: Amazon The deals are only available to people with an Amazon Prime subscription, but there's a free trial available to access the epic deals. Prime members can shop 'Today's Big Deals', which features daily themes curated exclusively for Prime members. It also includes limited time 'New Deal Drop' deals launching at midnight every day throughout the shopping event. And the best deal so far is the Amazon Fire READ MORE IN TECH It features a fast, affordable streaming in Full HD, and shoppers can also control it with the Alexa Voice Remote. And they can also use their voice to easily search and launch shows across multiple platforms. Another Prime Day highlight is the popular Echo Pop smart speaker with It features a full sound that is great for bedrooms and small spaces. Most read in News Tech And you can also ask Alexa to play music, audiobooks and podcasts from your favourite providers. Shoppers can also get the Amazon Kindle (16 GB) for just €85.88. Amazon Prime cancels beloved drama despite show having two-season order and furious fans vow to boycott streamer Ireland Country Manager at Amazon, Ali Dunn said: "We are excited to bring our first dedicated Prime Day to Irish customers, following our launch in March. 'We're celebrating Prime members in Ireland with an extended event packed with incredible savings from popular brands to trending products.' 'Deals on Irish brands will also be available on the Brands of Ireland section of Ali continued: "Prime Day is a celebration of the value we offer to our members year-round, combining value, convenience, and exclusive benefits all in one. "How we shop says a lot about us. I'm excited to see how Irish customers make Prime Day their own and find deals that truly meets their needs and priorities." Customers can join Prime on for just €6.99 per month and enjoy the very best of shopping including fast, free delivery, savings through exclusive deal events, access to popular TV shows, movies, and live sports on Prime Video; free games on Prime Gaming and exclusive offers from partners like Odeon cinemas and SHOPPING HABITS Recent research by HarrisX shows that four in five Irish shoppers feel a sense of satisfaction when getting something they want for less. While 68 per cent say they experience excitement when grabbing deals before a product sells out, 65 per cent prefer extended sales, giving them more time to decide. The research also reveals that 66 per cent of Irish shoppers are more likely to shop with retailers offering membership benefits with free delivery, exclusive discounts, and faster delivery being key motivations. To celebrate Ireland's first-ever Prime Day sale, the Amazon Prime Day Ice-Cream Cart will be in The Wellness Psychologist, Dr. Clodagh Campbell, added: ' first Prime Day isn't just a milestone for Irish shoppers – it's a really interesting reflection of our personalities. "Whether you're a meticulous planner, a thoughtful gifter, a spontaneous deal-seeker, or a value-driven competitive shopper, your approach to shopping says a lot about what you value and how you find joy. "Recognising your shopping persona can help you make the most of the experience – turning Prime Day into something that's not just practical but also personally rewarding." 4 The shopping giant has slashed the price of thousands of items on the brand new website over a 4-day shopping event Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
