London: Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise claims his family once ruled north Ireland. The 50-year-old actor made the revelation during a late night chat show when discussing his recent discovery that his family owned the majority of Dublin in the ninth century, reported Sun online.
"I found out my ancestors were the rulers of north Ireland," he said.
Cruise was in town to promote his new sci-fi flick 'Oblivion'.
During his stay he was presented with a certificate of Irish heritage by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore after two female fans researched his family lineage as a gift....
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11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2013
The husband of Savita Halappanavar will proceed with an application to the European Court of Human Rights after Irish Health Minister did not agree for a public inquiry into the circumstances leading to her death. ...
06:15 AM, Nov 30, 2012
The Irish government has said it will make a decision before the year-end about the country's tough abortion laws, weeks after Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died after she was refused termination of her pregnancy despite miscarrying. ...
05:12 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Dublin: Ireland ordered a third probe into NRI doctor Savita Halapannavar's tragic death at a Galway hospital earlier this month after her dentist husband Praveen claimed that crucial papers relating to her repeated requests for abortion were missing from the Galway University Hospital's files. Halapannavar was miscarrying and had repeatedly requested her doctors for an abortion, a helpless plea that could not stand up against the firm Catholic traditions of...
09:54 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Ireland: In a rare intervention, the Irish President Michael D Higgins came out in support of the demand of Savita Halappanavar's family for an independent inquiry into her death saying that any investigation 'must meet the needs of the family'. Meanwhile, Savita's husband Praveen Halappanavar told CNN-IBN that her medical report was tampered with. Praveen has been demanding an independent public probe into the circumstances that led to her death....
06:07 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Ireland has dropped three doctors of the Galway University Hospital from the team that will probe death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion. An announcement in this regard was made by Prime Minister Enda Kenny in the Parliament barely within hours of unveiling of a seven-member team to probe the tragic death. Irish media reports say that doctors who...
06:05 AM, Nov 21, 2012
London: The Irish Cabinet will take up a report of an expert group on abortion on Tuesday as thousands of people in Ireland protest the tragic death of an Indian dentist. Irish Health Minister James Reilly has said he will be bringing the report of the expert group to the Cabinet on Tuesday. Savita Halappanavar, 31, died in an Irish hospital in October after doctors refused to terminate her pregnancy...
04:56 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday summoned the Irish ambassador following the uproar over the death of an Indian woman in Ireland after a hospital denied her an abortion. Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar was denied the termination of her pregnancy under the country's anti-abortion law even though her life was in danger. The Indian government took up Savita's death directly and the Indian ambassador in Dublin met...
03:56 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian government took up Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar's death in Ireland directly and the Indian ambassador in Dublin met Irish authorities on Friday after there were protests outside Irish parliament on Thursday. Meanwhile, Ireland has ordered two probes into the incident that took place earlier this week after doctors refused to abort Savita's baby despite a miscarriage. India will, however, not conduct an independent probe of its...
10:35 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Dublin: Four-times champion Tiger Woods, without playing at his best, moved ominously into contention at the Memorial tournament after shooting a two-under-par 70 in Thursday's opening round. The former world number one birdied three of the four par-fives in surprisingly firm and fast-running conditions at a sun-drenched Muirfield Village Golf Club to finish one stroke off the early pace. Australian Aaron Baddeley, South African Rory Sabbatini, Argentina's Andres Romero and...
09:05 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Dublin: Underwater archaeologists in Ireland believe they may have discovered a sunken 16th century Spanish Armada vessel off the north coast. In the course of a dive survey conducted last year, evidence was found that indicated the wreck was possibly part of the 1588 Spanish Armada, Xinhua reported. Between 17 to 24 ships of the Grand Armada were lost near the Irish coast, accounting for about one-third of the fleet's...
12:42 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Berlin: Specialists in high-tech labs tested thousands of vegetables as they hunted for the source of world's deadliest E coli outbreak, but in the end it was old-fashioned detective work that provided the answer: German-grown sprouts. After more than a month of searching, health officials announced on Friday they had determined that sprouts from an organic farm in the northern German village of Bienenbuettel were the source of the outbreak...
01:17 AM, Jun 11, 2011
