Irish Daily Mirror
WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF HER LOVE
MUM of two Danielle O’keane, who suffered a “catastrophic” injury in a rickshaw accident following a Westlife concert, has passed away in hospital. The 37-year-old’s sister-in-law Ashling said last night: “My brother has been robbed of growing old...
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I’D SWAP MY LIFE FOR RORY’S
THE father of a teen killed in an alleged hit-and-run told his son’s funeral he would swap places with him if it meant his son lived. Fifth-year student Rory O’connor, left, died after being struck by a van having spent the day celebrating his 17th...
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TERROR ON HIJACK FLIGHT
A RELIEF pilot helped land an Israel-bound jet after one pilot stabbed the other in the cockpit and allegedly tried to crash the plane. The hero raced forward as the attacker was pinned to the ground. He is said to have pulled the Flydubai Boeing 737...
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DAD & DAUGHTER DIE IN WORK TRAGEDY
The man in his 50s and woman in her 20s, died at Banagher Precast Concrete, Co Offaly, shortly before midday. It’s understood they are from Romania and had been working at the plant for a number of years. Colleagues and the local community were...
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500K homes to get fuel help
FUEL allowance payments, which are set to benefit nearly half a million homes, begin rolling out today as part of a major expansion of the scheme. Fine Gael said it now means a quarter of all homes in the country qualify. Chair of the Oireachtas...
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SCHOOL OF ROCK
U2 MARKED their 50th year by returning to the Dublin school where they formed. As they launched their 16th album yesterday, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr performed a gig for students at Mount Temple Comprehensive.
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PUT ‘EM UNDER PRESSURE
MACKLEMORE is bringing his Free Palestine show to Dublin next month after the fallout of his axing from Ed Sheeran’s tour. The rapper, who will play the 3Arena on October 26, said: “It’s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work...
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TIKTOK MANIACS
TIKTOK has identified 1,600 dangerous driving videos in Ireland since the horrific M9 crash last month. The firm’s Zachary Hecht told the Oireachtas Media Committee that in the first half of this year 42,000 clips of reckless driving activity were...
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SHOW GAZA TO THE WORLD
THE Taoiseach yesterday challenged Israel to prove to the world that it’s not conducting a genocide in Gaza. Supporting Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson in a bitter spat with Tel Aviv soccer, Micheal Martin called for the Palestinian strip to be...
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ED: I FEEL SO ALONE
ED Sheeran’s friends shared their concern after he broke down in tears on stage. The star – who is mired in controversy after support act Macklemore was booted off his tour for voicing pro-palestine views – told fans he had been on the verge of...
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‘YOU’RE IN THE WRONG AREA BUCKO’
A MAN punched TD Michael Healy-rae after shouting, “Ah bucko, you are in the wrong area. Get out of here you f**king snake,” a court heard. Unemployed Anthony Foley, 51, of Rosary Road, Maryland, Dublin 8, appeared before Judge Karen Dowling at Dublin...
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Man arrested over attack on TD in his car
MICHAEL Healy-rae said yesterday he will “not be deterred” from doing his work as he recovers from an assault. A 51-year-old man has been arrested and is suspected of approaching Mr Healy-rae as he sat in his car on Wednesday and punching him. The TD...
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CREEPY COP SPIED ON WOMEN DRIVERS
Shane Flanagan, 41, of Ennis, Co Clare, supplied data on 14 women to a friend, a court heard. He was sentenced to nine months in jail to run consecutively to the seven-year term he received for inciting strangers to rape a female colleague.
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A KICK IN THE ARREARS
STATE-OWNED energy giant ESB Group’s €445.6million half-year profits were slammed as “immoral” during a cost-of-living crisis. Their financial results showed pre-tax profits had jumped from €351.6million during the same period last year. With more...
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THEY KEPT KICKING & BEATING MY SON
A HORRIFIED mum says she wants people to see how a gang of youths brutally attacked her son Joanne Farrell is calling for harsher penalties for violent juvenile offences. Kaiden Percival, 15, from Allenwood in Co Kildare, was on his way to a friend’s...
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WHISKEY IN THE PAR
DONALD Trump presented Shane Lowry with the Irish Open trophy yesterday – and then gave Ireland a parting gift by removing the tariff on Irish whiskey. Before heading back to the US, the president said: “Taoiseach and I talked about it and Shane...
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ORANGE ALERT » Biggest security op in history of State as protesters vow to mark trip
MET EIREANN has issued an Orange warning storm alert for the west of Ireland. It comes as Donald Trump touches down this morning for a controversial visit to Dublin first and then his golf club in Doonbeg, Co Clare later today.
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SIT DOWN WITH ME AND SAY SORRY
RAPE survivor Fiona Doyle has slammed Michael O’leary’s rant yesterday in which he called rival airlines “rapists”. Speaking of her “anger at his abuse of that word”, she called for the Ryanair boss to apologise and meet her “to listen, understand and...
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THIS JUST WON’T WASH ANYMORE
THE days of women “making the tea and washing the jerseys in GAA” are over, the Equality Minister said yesterday. Norma Foley was speaking after Mary Mcaleese stood down as the chairperson of the organisation’s Integration Committee, which is...
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DON’T MENTION THE WAR
TAOISEACH Micheal Martin has warned that diesel prices rising above two euro per litre will become the “new norm”. Mr Martin said the State-established energy expert group has advised that prices could rise and stay above the €2 mark. Speaking at the...
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MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU
DONALD Trump revealed his bizarre Space Force uniform yesterday as final preparations were being made for his visit to Ireland this week. With a huge security operation getting underway, four US military helicopters were seen flying over Dublin and...
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HIT & RUN BOY ‘FOLLOWED’
A TEENAGER killed in a hit-and-run texted an associate to say he believed he was being followed before he was struck, we can reveal. Bryan Lowe, 16, who was riding an e-bike, was found on the side of the L3050 at Cottage Cross near Cloonlara in Co...
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2 GREAT PULLOUTS
1 4 7 9 11 12 14 16 17 High-pitched signal (4) Official authority (4) Supreme Personality of the Godhead (7) Mo (3) Patriarch in Genesis (5) Receptacle (3) Has laid (anag) (7) Luton’s county (abbr) Gingiva (4) 2 3 5 6 8 10 11 13 15 DOWN Decoy...
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TRAGIC HANNAH WAS ‘FULL OF JOY’
THE Irish teenager killed in a car crash in Iceland in the early hours of Monday was “full of joy” the night she died. Hannah Jane Large, 18, was among three people killed in the tragedy on the Krysuvikurvegur route near Hafnarfjordur. Her mum Sam...
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MAN ADMITS COVENEY BOMB HOAX
A LOYALIST yesterday admitted to charges over a bomb hoax in Belfast targeting ex-foreign minister Simon Coveney. Darren James Service, 45, of Ballysillan Road in north Belfast, entered guilty pleas to hijacking a van and placing an article causing a...
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EU will back new mission to Lebanon..
IRELAND is “absolutely” among EU member states willing to contribute to a European mission in Lebanon. A senior EU diplomat has said that more than 10 member states have expressed an interest in contributing to a new mission in Lebanon after the...
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KATIE FIGHT WILL BE GREATEST NIGHT
BOXING promoter Eddie Hearn believes Katie Taylor’s fight with Flora Pili at Croke Park on Saturday will be one of the greatest nights in the history of boxing. The Bray Bomber will call time on her career in front of 80,000 fans at GAA HQ. Hearn...
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‘TEEN WORKER BROKE A FAN’S JAW AT MUSIC FEST’
AN Electric Picnic worker has been charged with assaulting a punter at the festival. Sources tell us the alleged victim suffered a suspected broken jaw and a serious cut to the eye in the incident in the early hours of Saturday. Gardai on duty at the...
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FACE OF HOT TUB TRAGEDY MUM
THIS is the Irish mother found dead with her husband while on a family holiday in Spain. Thomasina Tobin, 51, right, originally from Co Monaghan, and her New Zealander husband Patrick were discovered in a jacuzzi at their holiday home near Valencia...
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NEARLY 400 people have been killed and 1,300 were last night missing – including two Irish nationals – following the deadly flash flooding in Nepal.
RESCUE Man carried to safety by soldiers A “tsunami from the sky” battered the Tibet border region following a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning. Efforts to locate those still missing, of whom 644 are tourists, have been complicated by the...
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MARGO: I PRAYED FOR A MIRACLE
IRISH country star Margo O’donnell knew her pal Dolly Parton was sick and “prayed for a miracle”. The Donegal singer had a friendship for over three decades with the music legend, who died on Tuesday aged 80 after a short cancer battle. Speaking on...
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COUPLE’S MURDER SUICIDE HORROR
THE man suspected of murdering his Brazilian wife was found dead hours after she was killed. Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa, 33, was stabbed to death at her home in Limerick city on Friday morning. Gardai then launched a murder investigation and manhunt...
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HELP US BRING TRAGIC JADY HOME
A FUNDRAISER has been launched to help bring the body of Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa back home to Brazil. Jady, who was in her 30s, was found with fatal injuries in an apartment block on Cecil Street in Limerick on Friday morning. The Gofundme said:...
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KILLER MOLLY TO BE MUM
JASON Corbett’s children have recalled the harm they suffered as it emerged their dad’s killer ex is pregnant. Sarah Corbett Lynch said she and brother Jack were “abused and manipulated” by Molly Martens.
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ALL TOK NO ACTION
TIKTOK has delivered a “slap in the face to the Irish public” after snubbing TD questions over joyriding teens’ videos being streamed on its platform. Labour’s Alan Kelly, right, hit out at the social media giant after it declined a Dail committee...
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‘YOUR LOVE & SUPPORT MEANS SO MUCH’
A FUNDRAISER set up for the innocent victims of Sunday’s M9 crash has raised more than €485k. Sisters Niamh and Alma Kinsella and Ella Hendricken sustained catastrophic injuries when their car was hit by joyriders in Co Kildare. Last night, a...
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PRAY FOR THEM
THESE are the three sisters badly injured when a car driven by joyriders on the wrong side of the M9 smashed into them. Niamh and Alma Kinsella are fighting for their lives while Ella Hendricken has serious injuries. Fr Thomas Little said: “The...
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‘LETHAL WEAPON’
THE Justice Minister is to propose a specific offence of driving in the wrong direction on a motorway. Jim O’callaghan spoke out after five teenagers were killed when the car they were in crashed while driving on the wrong side of the M9. Joey...
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5 KILLED IN MOTORWAY MADNESS
FIVE teenagers killed in a 3am crash yesterday were driving on the wrong side of the motorway. All five were wearing balaclavas in the BMW which collided head on with a family’s car on the M9 in Co Kildare. Local Sinn Fein TD Shonagh Ni Raghallaigh...
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INMATE KILLED IN HIS CELL
A PRISONER has died after he had his neck cut in his own cell. Drug dealer Brendan Gahan, 39, was assaulted in Wheatfield Prison, Dublin, at around 10pm on Thursday – eight months after being jailed. Gahan, from Tallaght, suffered a single wound...
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DAN’S JAIL PODCAST KO’D
PODCASTER James English won’t be allowed to visit Daniel Kinahan in jail due to a pending domestic violence case. He was hoping to chat to the accused mob boss in Portlaoise after an earlier invite. A source said: “He hasn’t a hope in hell.”
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HOSPITAL CAR FEES MUST BE PARKED
HOSPITAL parking is a “charge on being sick” and needs to be abolished, Sinn Fein has said. The party’s health spokesman David Cullinane said the amount of income being generated has “increased dramatically”. He revealed figures provided by the HSE...
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‘THERE ARE NO WORDS’
Captain of the 1992 All-ireland winning Donegal team Anthony Molloy said: “It’s hard to find words to say. “We are in total shock and disbelief and there is a dark cloud hanging over Donegal.”
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DONEGAL GAA HERO KILLED IN CRASH
The star – who played for Donegal until 1996 – died yesterday after the car in which he was travelling collided with a van in Co Cavan. The crash took place on the N3 at Drummallaght shortly before 2pm. Mr Mchugh, who was in his 60s, was pronounced...
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HOME ALONE
BY PAUL HEALY & DANIEL Kinahan was in maximum security Portlaoise Prison with a landing to himself last night after his return to Ireland from Dubai. A ring of steel surrounded his arrival at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel yesterday on the...
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KINAHAN’S BLOODY SUNDAY
THE Government jet is to take off for Dubai this morning to bring Daniel Kinahan back to Ireland. The cartel boss, 49, will land in Dublin tomorrow afternoon and then be transported to the Special Criminal Court to face charges over the bloody...
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DUMP TRUMP
TWO survivors of sexual abuse called on Ireland’s leaders to reconsider any engagements with US President Donald Trump on his visit next month. Sophie Brady and Hazel Behan said they are disappointed that the red carpet will be rolled out for Trump,...
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SHE DIED DOING WHAT SHE LOVED
THE family of a 16-year-old girl who died suddenly during a GAA match said she died doing what she loved. Aoibheann Clarke took ill in a ladies shield final in Wexford on Tuesday night and tragically died.
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SCHOOL FEES HIT NEW HIGH
FAMILIES are facing a doublewhammy as a back-to-school cash crisis and soaring college fees threaten to push household budgets over the edge. Alarming figures reveal that more than half of all parents are dreading the cost of the September return to...
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