An Irishman is to be sent to jail in Dubai for having sex in the back of a taxi – after his final appeal against the two month sentence was dismissed.

Authorities in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates have been seeking the arrest of kidnapped Irish tycoon Kevin Michael McGeever for over 20 months, The Irish Star revealed yesterday.

Rory McIlroy finished 2012 on top of the world and vowed to repeat the feat next year with a little help from Nike.

Rory McIlroy has ended his 2012 season with another win – and the perfect end to his deal with club makers Titleist.

The father of an Irishman facing jail for a sex romp in Dubai has insisted his son is innocent.

An Irishman has been found guilty and sentenced to three months in prison for committing an indecent act with a British woman in a taxi in Dubai.

Conor McRedmond (28), from Tullamore, County Offaly, could face three years of jail time having been accused of having sex in the back of a taxi with British national, Rebecca Blake.

A 28-year-old man from Tullamore, County Offaly, could face a jail term of three years for the Islamic offenses of being drunk in public and having sex before marriage, in Dubai.

Irish emigrants have been pouring into Dubai with the Irish Embassy seeing a 10 percent rise in the number of Irish citizens moving to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the last year.

Christopher Renehan (38), owner of construction company Sire Contracting, was jailed in Dubai for bad checks. He is now being joined on his hunger strike by 70 other inmates.
 
Last Thursday he was joined by a Belgian property developer who also wants to highlight their position to the world. It’s now expected that another 70 prisoners, being held under the same law, will join them.
 
Renehan has being on hunger strike for more than a week and is becoming increasingly weak.
 
He has, so far, served seven months of a seven year jail term. The prisoners say there more than 500 people behind bars for “bouncing cheques”.
 
The builder from Dublin said that although his cheques did bounce he was also owed $8.6 million (€6.6 million) by the Dubai government for work which his company, Sire Contracting, had already carried out for them. He said without that he has no way to pay the $2.62 million (€2 million) he owes his suppliers.
 
Officials from the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi met with Renehan last Tuesday. He says he will continue to refuse meals until he receives his money from the government.
 
The Sun reported Renehan as saying, “I fully understand the serious implications of this action. I demand that the Dubai government-owned entities pay the dues owed to my company so that we can resettle our debts and repatriate our staff.”
 
Radha Stirling, founder of Detained in Dubai, told IrishCentral that these men are protesting “against bounced cheque and financial crime laws in the UAE”.
 
“It is time the UAE reviewed financial laws as in modern life, they are now being misused and misapplied. Cheques are now being written to cover all aspects of daily life in the UAE (rental agreements, mortgages and business activities).
 
“If a resident is granted a mortgage for example, he writes a cheque to the bank for the entire value of the property. If he defaults of a few payments, the bank has the power to imprison him for three years, per cheque. It is time this practice of criminalizing debt is reviewed and turned into a civil offence, in line with first world standards.”
 
The Dublin builder’s father, living in Swords in north county Dublin, said, “We’re worried sick about him.”

Rory McIlroy will concentrate on his own game as he bids to snatch the title of Europe’s top golfer from Luke Donald when the world’s top two players go head-to head in Dubai this weekend -- provided he can shake off a mystery virus.

Irish golf ace Rory McIlroy is in Dubai this week for the fourth and final leg of the European Tour's Middle East visit.

Irish golfer Graeme McDowell is ready to do battle in the Race to Dubai title.

A team of investigators from the Irish police may be sent to Dubai to investigate the forging of five Irish passports. The passport numbers corresponded with legitimate passports in Ireland.

Members of an Israeli death squad who killed a leading Hamas figure used Irish passports to enter Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where the killing occurred, authorities there say.

• Read Padraig Harrington's blog at PadraigHarrington.com  

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/gossip/Fun-in-the-Dubai-Sun-2662.html http://www.irishcentral.com/gossip/Fun-in-the-Dubai-Sun-2662.html Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:22:51 PDT By: DEBBIE MCGOLDRICK

Hollywood and every other "star" town on the planet must have been empty last Thursday night, as more than 2,000 celebrities headed to Dubai to take part in the freebie party of the year, and possibly the decade, with the opening of the Atlantis Palm Jumeirah, a £1 billion casino resort on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree in the Persian Gulf. READ MORE ]]>