Five teenagers died early on Sunday morning after the stolen BMW they were travelling in crashed head-on into a family car while driving the wrong way down the M9 motorway in County Kildare, Ireland. The group, aged between 15 and 18, had reportedly been involved in a fortnight-long spree of break-ins and car thefts that left local communities on edge. The collision occurred around 3am on 16 August 2026 near Moone, between junctions 3 and 4 on the northbound carriageway. The

Intelligence officials have warned that the New IRA, a dissident republican group, is preparing a campaign of violent intimidation aimed at driving migrants out of Ireland. The claims, first reported by the Mail on Sunday and amplified by GB News, raise concerns of potential spillover effects across the border into the United Kingdom. According to sources briefed on the matter, the group has two primary objectives: advancing Irish unification and removing migrants from the is