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In 1912, WP Higgins, working from his base in Athenry, went to Cork city to meet Henry Ford to ask him for the Ford dealership. It marked the start of a great business partnership between a business legend and Higgins Garage.

The development of a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence for Down GAA, a project being spearheaded by their County Board Chairperson and Killoe native John De...

Baronness Helena Kennedy will lead the group (John Phillips/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law. The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misog...

The Scottish Government has released details of a taskforce created to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should be a standalone offence under Scots law. Legal, gender and human-rights experts are among those appointed to the group, including human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, lawyer and former criminal investigator Susan Kem and Mona Rishmawi, head of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch in the United Nations human rights commissioners office. The Scotti...

Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law. The Scottish Governments Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors. Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence. Members of the group have...

USDA ARS Washington state apples are ready for shipment. A coalition of farm groups is pushing for a legislative fix after a Supreme Court ruling subjected farms to lawsuits for back overtime pay. A Washington state court ruling has prompted lawyers to file 24 lawsuits for back overtime pay for farmworkers. Dairy and other farm groups in Washington state are seeking protections from lawmakers after a state Supreme Court ruling in November opened the door to lawsuits ag...

There was no crime committed, the police came and quickly went on their way . . . but surely it didnt require the sight of a PSNI uniform for those assembled members of the Down senior football camp to appreciate that, well, "we shouldnt really be here"?

Down GAA chairman John Devaney has launched a staunch defence of his countys track record of adherence to Covid-19 restrictions after controversy erupted over a gathering of senior football squad members on Tuesday night. But the Mourne County chief appeared to accept that the assembly of "around 18 players" - in two separate groups, to receive individual training programmes for the coming weeks – may have been ill-advised. "Okay, they probably shouldn’t have come together like that," Devan...

Andrea McCabe jailed for four years and husband Alan McCabe for three years and six months after police found a gun and ammunition at their home, Anthony Berry Anthony Berry jailed for six years for robbery, attempted robbery, assaulting a police officer, affray and criminal damage. He poured boiling water on police trying to end a siege at his home. Antuanne Elson Antuanne Elson jailed for 32 months for possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He walked into a ba...

Donald Trump and his soon-to-be-former Vice President Mike Pence’s attempt to invalidate Wisconsin’s vote in only Milwaukee and Dane Counties appears to be racially motivated, two of the state’s Supreme Court justice remarked in a brutal Saturday hearing for the lame duck president. Trump’s attorney, James Troupis, had barely begun to address the high court when Justice Jill Karofsky noted that the attack focused on the two counties with the state’s largest number of Black voters. ...