Irish Daily Star
4 in court on mosque bombing plot raps
FOUR men have appeared in court charged over an alleged “violent right-wing extremist” plot to target a mosque. Garrett Pollock (35), Karolis Peckauskas (38), Charles Flynn (35) and Darren Gorman (33) all appeared before a sitting of Portlaoise...
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THAT’S A SKIT MUCH SHAME ON OUR PARADE
A ST Patrick’s Day parade float that portrayed the ‘Epstein Files’ has sparked outrage after featuring apparent enactments of sexual assault. The float, which featured in a number of parades in Co Mayo on Tuesday afternoon, has been branded...
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THE LONG DUBAI
DANIEL Kinahan’s right-hand man has pleaded guilty to directing a crime gang in relation to the 2016 feud murder of Noel Kirwan. It also emerged that Sean McGovern — who was extradited from Dubai last year — and ‘Mr Nobody’ Declan Brady were tracking...
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Brit navy ‘to set sail for our waters’
A NEW defence agreement between the UK and Ireland could see British ships “responding to an issue” in Irish waters. Defence Minister Helen McEntee announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two nations at yesterday’s UK-Ireland...
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IT’S ARCTIC GUINNESS THE DAY ARTHUR TOMORROW
THE secrets that led to a perfect pint of Guinness have been stored forever in a ‘Doomsday Vault’ to prevent its history being lost in an apocalypse. A cache of vital files has been placed into the ‘World Archive’ on the remote Norwegian island of...
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Olympic champion Ronnie Delany dies at 91
GOLD MEDAL: Ronnie FOND tributes were paid last night to Irish Olympic legend Ronnie Delany, who has passed away at the age of 91. The iconic athlete — who won a gold medal in the 1500m at the 1956 Summer Olympics (left) — was beloved as a...
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Nappy birthday
JP McMANUS landed a 208/1 double on his birthday at the Cheltenham Festival yesterday – but could not win the Champion Hurdle for a 10th time. The Limerick billionaire took his tally of winners at the meeting to 86 following the successes of Saratoga...
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HERE COMES TREBLE
RACE READY: Star man Derek Foley at Dublin Airport with departing racing fans — including Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary — who hope Willie Mullins (inset) will batter the bookies today with a sensational 33/1 treble on the first day of Cheltenham
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SKAGGY TROUSERS
EAGLE-EYED prison officers nabbed €6,000 of heroin sewn into a pair of jeans. The drugs were found in a check of clothes handed in for a prisoner at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin.
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HUGS & NEAR-MISSES IT’S GREAT DUBAI HOME
FAMILIES were reunited amid joyous scenes last night in Dublin as the second plane to come from Dubai since the USA and Israel launched their blitz on Iran landed safely. Dubai has been hit by missiles and it has also been impacted by widespread...
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MIDDLE EAST AFLAME AS FIRST IRISH HOME
RELENTLESS ATTACKS: Iranian warship is sunk by a US submarine and (right) survivors in Tehran after an airstrike by US/Israeli forces
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DEATH FROM ABOVE
DUBAI IN FLAMES AS IRISH RESCUE FLIGHTS PLANNED - PAGES 4,5,6&7
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WELCOME TO HELL
AN IRISH family who only landed in Dubai on Friday for a holiday are now hiding underground as Iranian missiles rain down following Donald Trump’s attack. Some 22,000 Irish people are in the wartorn region — with experts warning that we will be hit...
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2 TEENS KILLED IN ROAD HORROR
TWO teenagers were killed in a road crash in the early hours of yesterday morning. Emergency services rushed to the scene of the collision near Ballina in Co Mayo shortly after 4.15am. Two of the car’s occupants, named locally as Cian Farrell, 18,...
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6yrs for gun dad who held family in grip of terror
A MONSTER who falsely imprisoned his family as he stood over them while holding a shotgun has been jailed for six and a half years. Paul Briscoe, 52, with an address at Piperstown, Drogheda, Co Louth was convicted by a jury of six of eight charges...
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FORMER ROYAL ‘IN DONEGAL’ IT’S FERGIE TIME
VILE: Epstein and disgraced ex-prince Andrew FORMER royal Sarah Ferguson is ducking the global media glare around her ex-husband Andrew by taking time out in Ireland. The former pal of evil paedo Jeffrey Epstein is believed to be at a luxury hotel in...
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FARMER MURDER CHARGE
THE former US soldier charged with the murder of farmer Michael Gaine said nothing as he appeared in court yesterday. Michael Kelley (54) sat silently in the dock of Tralee District Court in Co Kerry, almost a year on from the disappearance of Mr...
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DAWN SWOOP
DENIES ANY INVOLVEMENT: Michael Kelley was living on Mr Gaine’s land at the time that he disappeared
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Couple to pay Nikita compo
THE High Court is set to assess damages owed to Nikita Hand (left) by her former neighbours Samantha O’Reilly and Steven Cummins after they failed to respond to her claim of them abusing court processes.
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‘MY BABY WAS LEFT TO DIE ALONE’
THE mother of a teenager killed in a hit-and-run has said her “heart will never be the same again”. Mia Lily Keogh O’Keeffe (16) tragically lost her life in Navan, Co Meath, on Saturday night. She was the seventh person to have been killed on the...
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Swim perv walks free
VILE: Matthew Coward, who filmed girls as they changed, leaving prison yesterday; (inset) at a previous court appearance
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DáIL THE WORLD’S A STAGE... SHAMLET
THE new play about Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been slammed as “a party political broadcast” and a cheeky coup ahead of the veteran crime boss’s latest Dail bid. And it comes as Hutch crumpled a can in the face of our reporter after being asked what...
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DIG FOR ‘LARRY VICTIM’
GARDAI fear Larry Murphy killed a woman and secretly buried her on this isolated stretch of land in rural Co Wicklow. Acting on a tip-off, the officers probing the convicted rapist have been given what they judge to be credible information about a...
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KILLED ON HER WAY TO WORK
A NURSE killed in a hit-and-run while driving to work was a “dedicated carer” who “always had a quiet smile for you”. Aine O’Reilly, in her 30s, died when her car was struck by a driver, who then fled the scene, in Limerick. Gardai are investigating...
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Ban United
MANCHESTER United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe has sort of apologised for saying the UK has been “colonised” by migrants. But the FA could still ban the Monaco-based billionaire from Old Trafford.
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Game, sett & match to Pat
BROADCASTER Pat Kenny has left developers between a brock and a hard place after he and his beloved badgers won a legal action against the building of a nursing home near his garden. After a long-running battle, permission was refused for a planned...
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SILENCE OF THE DAMNED
GHISLAINE Maxwell is seen on camera for the first time in years inside her cushy Texas prison refusing to help her victims as US lawmakers quizzed her about Jeffrey Epstein. Her refusal to speak came as politicians disclosed that the late financier...
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MORE BOMBSHELLS GARDAI EPSTEIN FEARS
GARDAI are re-assessing disturbing claims made in the Epstein Files that a young female was taken “to Ireland for politicians and notable men.” The news comes as the UK’s PM Keir Starmer is on the brink over his support for Peter Mandelson — while...
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Rain against the machine... again
HOMEOWNERS who have already been hit by flooding were warned again last night to take major precautions as strong rainfall and winds battered the east of the country. There was significant travel disruption across the capital yesterday with flooded...
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THEY HAVEN’T GUN AWAY YOU KNOW
THE Hutch crime gang that carried out the Regency attack on their Kinahan rivals is still actively involved in the distribution of drugs here — and a top target for the force, Gardai say. On the 10th anniversary of the audacious attack today,...
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WE HAD TO GET GUNS ON THE GROUND
ONE of the most senior investigators in the Regency attack and subsequent deadly feud today tells about the “madness” in the aftermath of the audacious gang murder 10 years ago this week. Former Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan recalled how...
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HIT TEAM WON’T BE CAUGHT
THE Hutch gang that gunned down David Byrne at the Regency Airport Hotel will probably never be caught, Garda sources believe. Ten years on from the audacious daylight attack at the Dublin hotel, none of the six-strong hit team has been convicted -...
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NOT OUT OF FLOODS YET SANDBAGS AT DAWN
FLOOD Minister Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has warned: “There’s a lot more rain coming — and it’s coming fast.” The Minister sounded the alarm as he toured floodravaged communities yesterday and vowed there would be “no limit” on sandbags available to protect...
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‘MAMMA MIA’ HOW CAN I ARREST YOU
AN ITALIAN man shouted out ‘Mamma Mia!’ when told a bag he went to claim at Dublin Airport was stuffed with cannabis. Alfonso Turano (41) had arrived into Ireland the day before the suitcase, which contained some 14.7kg of cannabis worth €294,000. He...
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Landlords can set own rents
LANDLORDS will be expected to self-assess whether rents they set truly reflect market rates under the Government’s rental reforms. Housing Minister James Browne secured Cabinet approval yesterday for a new Residential Tenancies Bill which will...
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MY BABY DIDN’T HAVE TO DIE
THE mother of a teenage girl killed by a scrambler bike has called for justice, as she pledged: “I’m not going to let my baby die in vain.” Grace Lynch (16) suffered catastrophic injuries while crossing a road in Finglas, North Dublin, on...
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SUPER GAA PULLOUT Kingdom break Rossie hearts
KERRY .............. 2-18 ROSCOMMON...1-20
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BRUSHTED
A PRISON officer got more than he bargained for when he searched the toilets of a courts complex. These photos show a large stash of drugs hidden inside a toilet brush holder at a courthouse in Chancery Street in Dublin on Wednesday. The warder, who...
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GROUP OF CHILDREN QUIZZED SEX ATTACK ‘BY SIX BOYS’
GARDAI have arrested a group of young boys over an alleged gang sex attack on a teen girl, it has emerged. We have also learned that investigators also believe at least one of the boys filmed the alleged attack on his mobile phone – with the footage...
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DON’S GONE TO ICELAND
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump repeatedly confused Greenland with Iceland in a rambling speech that attacked his European allies at Davos yesterday. his speech with a barrage of anti-European insults, he later said he wouldn’t invade Greenland and then...
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‘I will not go away, I will not give up’
THE brother of murdered Jennifer Poole will tell TDs and Senators today that a domestic abuse register must not allow offenders to be removed from it after three years. In 2021, the mum-of-two was stabbed to death in her Dublin home by her former...
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IT’S NOT ENOUGH
THE family of a man who died in a onepunch attack have launched a petition to demand that his killer’s sentence be increased. Christopher O’Neill was last week jailed for six years for killing innocent Martin Lynn — but with standard remission, he...
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RTE money chief’s exit ‘big loss’
THE resignation of Mari Hurley as RTE’s chief financial officer is a “big loss”, the Media Minister has said. RTE confirmed she would leave the role in the spring, completing a tenure of 18 months. Ms Hurley was appointed in the summer of 2024 after...
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Loo beauty,
GOLDEN Girl Jessie Buckley woke up her parents in the early hours of yesterday with a tearful video call to say she’d won a Golden Globe. The 36-year-old, who is now a favourite for Oscar glory, also revealed how she almost missed hearing she won for...
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‘Pilloried’ vid comes back to haunt Browne
A CONTROVERSIAL social media video that Minister James Browne claimed had nothing to do with his department was co-scripted by an agency under his remit and approved by Department of Housing officials prior to publication, internal emails reveal. The...
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LITTLE OISIN ‘KILLED BY HIS DAD’
GARDAI suspect that this little boy was violently murdered by his father — who then took his own life. Oisin O’Reilly (11) was found at a house in Clondalkin, Dublin, yesterday morning — after the body of his father Wayne O’Reilly (48) was discovered.
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€33BN tax take really is the business
THE country’s windfall from corporation tax soared to almost €33billion last year – one third of all the money made by the State. The figure is a 17.2% increase on 2024 and drove the total tax collected to €105.7bn, an 8.6% rise. And with gross...
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MURDERED AFTER TRAD SESSION IN PUB
A BELOVED businessman was stabbed to death in a horrific incident in the early hours of yesterday. Stephen McCahill (65) the coproprietor of the Corner House pub in Ardara, Co Donegal, was killed at his home at 3am after a trad music session in his...
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FIRST ROAD VICTIMS OF NEW YEAR
7pm on Saturday, while Brian Cronin (37) died on the same night in a single-vehicle crash in Co Kerry. A man in his 80s also lost his life in a one-vehicle collision in Co Antrim.
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Oz New Year’s Eve swim tragedy
AN IRISH backpacker has drowned while swimming off a popular beach in Australia. The male victim, who was aged 35, lost his life early on New Year’s Eve. He died while swimming off Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Islands in Queensland in the north...
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‘HELP TRACK TADGH KILLERS’
GARDAI have released photos of the getaway car used by the men who firebombed a house, killing a boy and his grandaunt. Tadgh Farrell, 4, and Mary Holt died on December 6 and Gardai are searching for anyone who may have caught the vehicle on CCTV.
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AUDREY: AMY KEPT ME ALIVE
THE mother of teen Amy Fitzpatrick — missing in Spain since 2008 — says her fight for answers kept her going as she fought back from serious liver disease that left her in a coma for 10 days and nearly cost her her life.
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‘KEEP A CANDLE LIT FOR THOMAS’EIGHT
THE family and friends of a teenager killed in a horror tractor crash have been urged to “keep a candle lit today in his memory”. Sixteen-year-old Thomas (TJ) Chambers, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was fatally injured in the collision at...
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SUPER SOCCER PULLOUT Pat’s all folks!
YOU’LL NEVER WALK OUT ALONE All of football will be with Diogo Jota’s sons today as they walk out as mascots for clash between his former clubs, Liverpool & Wolves
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‘KEVIN WAS LIKE FAMILY’
MISSED: Garda Kevin Flatley died after being hit by motorbike in May; (inset) Supt Stephen McCauley
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WOMAN FREED IN DANIEL PROBE
THIS is the moment a woman walked free yesterday from a Garda station – after being grilled for almost 24 hours over the death of little Daniel Aruebose. The woman, who is in her 20s, declined to comment to The Star after being arrested on suspicion...
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WITH A THOUSANDPAGES MEMORIES
ICONIC Driving Home For Christmas singer Chris Rea has died aged 74 after a short illness — just days before December 25. The tragedy also comes shortly after Chris referenced his famous festive hit in his final Instagram post — showing a driver...
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IT’S A CUFF JOB...
FIVE trainee Gardai have been sacked for handcuffing another rookie and leaving him under a running shower — in what has been described as ‘a prank gone wrong’. It’s understood the incident occurred at the Garda Training College in Templemore, Co...
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‘THREE MINUTES OF MADNESS’
A WOMAN has been jailed for six months for sending “sickening” messages to Tanaiste Simon Harris which she told a court had occurred during “three minutes of madness”. Sandra Barry (40) branded Mr Harris a “murderer” and said “I hope somebody does...
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SCHOOL’S ROLL CALL
A CASH-STRAPPED local school has seen a surge in donations after a request for each child to bring their own toilet roll and towel highlighted a wider financial crisis. The principal at Darver NS in Co. Louth thanked donors but said: “In reality, what...
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