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Petrol stations are losing over 2.5 million euro a year due to customers driving off without paying. The figure from the Irish Petrol Retailers Association, seen by the Sunday Business Post, works out at 2,500 euro per station. The lobby group says because the issue receives a “limited response” from Gardaí, more people are taking “a chance” to see if they can get away with it.

Wet hot summer. Parts of Ireland are expected to experience temperatures in the high twenties over the coming week, but that's not enough to spare us from some severe bursts of rain. So severe, in fact, that Met Éireann has issued a status yellow weather warning for nine counties: Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal and Longford. Met Éireann warns: "Through today and tonight, falls of heavy rain will give high rainfall totals with reduced visibility and a risk of localised flooding." The warning was issued at 7am on Sunday morning and will remain in effect until 7am on Monday morning (22 July) pending up dates from Met Éireann. There is also a small craft warning

The partner of YouTuber Emily Hartridge, who died in an electric scooter crash in London, has said she was killed while making her way to a fertility clinic scan. The pair had recently moved in together and were trying for a baby before Ms Hartridge, 35, was involved in a fatal collision with a lorry in Battersea, south London, on July 12. Personal trainer Jacob Hazell, 26, told The Sun on Sunday he gave her a kiss on the lips before he left for work at 5am that day. He said: “I am devastated. I got up first to leave home at 5am. I gave her a kiss on the lips. “She was half asleep and mumbled, 'I love you'. I'm so pleased I did that. “She messaged me at 8.24am, joking, 'How about less of the

The plane was headed for Philadelphia. An Aer Lingus flight was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing after a bird flew into one of the engines earlier on Saturday. The Boeing 757-200 aircraft, whose flight number was EI115, took off from Dublin Airport at 1.36pm bound for Philadelphia. However, the plane didn't even make it out of Irish airspace before the bird strike forced it to come back down. In total, the plane was in the sky for less than half an hour. The strike caused a flame-out of the right engine. Nobody was injured in the incident. Aer Lingus typically operates a maximum of one return flight on Saturdays to and from Philadelphia, and the return flight EI114 has been cancelled

How do you top winning your national Open as an amateur? In Shane Lowry's case by winning the Open Championship in front of a raucous sell-out crowd at Royal Portrush. The fact that Lowry is from Offaly in the Republic of Ireland, rather than Northern Ireland, could not have mattered less as the 32-year-old became the fifth Irishman to lift the Claret Jug after Fred Daly, Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy. Clarke, McIlroy and Portrush native Graeme McDowell had carried the hopes of those dreaming of a Northern Irish winner of the first Open staged outside Scotland or England since 1951, although only McDowell made the cut. “Those guys are from here,” Lowry acknowledged after

TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR received dozens of similar emails from members of the public telling him they wouldn't vote for Fine Gael in the recent local and European elections as a result of the Maria Bailey swing fall case, Freedom of Information documents show.  The Dún Laoghaire TD drew criticism in recent months after it emerged on 20 May that she had filed legal proceedings against the Dean Hotel after she fell from a swing at the venue. The hotel denied any negligence, later adding that it was “satisfied with the result” when Bailey withdrew her claim against them.  Bailey had claimed she suffered injuries to her head, lower back and hip in the alleged incident. Speaking last week, Varadkar

IRELAND'S AMBASSADOR TO the UK believes that a poll on a united Ireland would “degrade” attempts to resolve the ongoing impasse over Britain's departure from the EU. Adrian O'Neill told BBC Radio 4′s The Week in Westminster programme that the current priority for the Irish government was to restore the Northern Ireland Executive at Stormont. There has been speculation that Britain leaving the European Union could eventually lead to the unification of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Last year, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said a no-deal Brexit would bring the timeline for a border poll on a united Ireland forward, while a number of public polls have also suggested some support for the idea