The Herald
LUCKYTOBE ALIVEAFTER BEINGSHOT INTHEFACE
A YOUNG man is “lucky not to have been killed” after he was shot in the face in the early hours of yesterday morning. A garda investigation is under way into the shooting, which happened shortly after 3am in the Dunlo area of Ballinasloe, Co...
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WIFE-BEATING GARDA’SBIDTO COACHGIRLS
DISGRACED garda Trevor Bolger applied to help out with an underage girls’ soccer team while awaiting his court case for a brutal assault on his former wife. The detective, who is contesting dismissal from An Garda Siochana arising from his conviction,...
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KINAHAN: ‘I’M ALREADY GOING DAN FOR LIFE’
Cartel boss Daniel Kinahan believes he has already been given a life sentence by Irish authorities as he awaits extradition from Dubai on gangland charges. In a phone interview from his Dubai jail cell, the mobster (49) told the Anything Goes podcast...
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CHORUS OF GRIEF
Musicians and fans came together in Dublin last night to pay a poignant tribute to Oscar-winning singer Glen Hansard (56). A huge crowd of music-lovers, shocked by the Frames frontman’s sudden death in a motorcycle accident early on Wednesday, sought...
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‘MAY YOU RESTIN THE PEACE YOU GAVE TO SO MANY’
Bono has described Glen Hansard as the “most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun” as tributes poured in following his tragic death. The U2 singer said Hansard was “a smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous...
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GARDAI FEAR PENSIONER WAS MURDERED AND BODY MOVED
Detectives probing the disappearance and feared murder of a pensioner in Dublin are investigating if he was stabbed to death in an apartment before his body was moved to a secret location. Gardaí were continuing to question a young male over the...
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MAN’S BODY MAYHAVE TRAVELLED 200KM IN BIN
GARDAÍ are investigating if a bin found with a homeless man’s body in a Dublin recycling centre was transported over 200km from Cork. The body of Andrew Haire (35) was found at the Greyhound facility in Clondalkin on Friday night, with detectives...
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DUBLINER ‘HID BOMB IN COLLINS BARRACKS’
THIS is the Dublin museum employee who allegedly hid a bomb in Collins Barracks before handing it over to be transported to the North. Simon O’Donovan was brought before the Special Criminal Court on Saturday night over the seizure of a bomb found in...
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GARDAÍ FOIL SUSPECTED IRA CAR BOMB ATTACK
A 25-year-old law student has been granted bail after appearing before court charged with possession of explosives. Isobella Perrie Sullivan (left), of Abbeylands Park, Clane in Co Kildare, appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court in...
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HOW NEW BOSS ONCE TURNED DOWN REDS
The story is a cracker. It involves a scouting trip, a proposal that finishes with a letter and, in a room on the seventh floor of the Park Hyatt Hotel in downtown Chicago, this is the first chance to get Andoni Iraola to provide his firsthand...
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SISTER KILLER GUILTY OF STAB MURDER
A man serving the suspended part of his sentence for manslaughter of his sister has been found guilty of knifing another man to death. Derek Boyd (31) claimed he had not intended to harm Mark Carroll (34) when he swung a knife at him in Boyd’s Finglas...
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MASS STAB SUSPECT ‘RAMBLING ABOUT GOD’
The man suspected of stabbing a woman before mass in a Waterford church was spotted “incoherently rambling about God” in the area in the days leading up to yesterday’s attack. Gardaí were last night continuing to question the man, who is in his 30s,...
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GARDA EQUIPMENT STOLEN IN CITY CENTRE ATTACK
A former boxer has been arrested on suspicion of attacking two gardaí and stealing their baton and garda radio during an assault in Dublin city centre. An investigation is under way into the incident which happened on the South Quays near Temple Bar...
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SKERRIES RAMMING ATTACK SUSPECT WAS OUT ON BAIL
A criminal on bail facing serious gun charges is the chief suspect for driving a car into a group of teenagers in north Co Dublin over the weekend. Two teenage girls and a boy, all aged 18, were hospitalised after a car was driven into the group in...
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GRACE SUSPECT FACES SIX MORE CHARGES
The young man accused of driving a scrambler that crashed into and fatally injured Grace Lynch has had further charges brought against him. Keith Lee (18), who was already charged with dangerous driving causing Ms Lynch’s death is now also accused of...
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ENOCH’S UNCLE FACES JAIL OVER €95,000 FRAUDS
An uncle of Enoch Burke, has had his sentencing for a slew of fraud offences adjourned. Vincent Mayock, (79) of Claremorris, Co Mayo pleaded guilty to 11 sample charges of deception last March. MrMayock (below) is a brother of Enoch’s mother, Martina...
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TEEN GIRL AND WOMAN CHARGEDWITH SCARLETT MURDER
A teenage girl and a woman in her 40s have appeared before a Tipperary court charged with the murder of Scarlett Faulkner. Ms Faulkner (29) died on April 13 this year about three weeks after she was found unconscious on the R494 road at Birdhill in...
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SIBLINGS CHAWKE UP JAIL TIME FOR HOTEL ATTACK
The son and daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke have both been jailed for an unprovoked assault on two men in a Limerick hotel. At a hearing in Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Fiona O’Sullivan handed Bill Chawke, of Merrion Street...
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BOYFRIEND OF MURDERED JAMEY IS DETAINED IN JORDAN
The boyfriend of murdered American mother Jamey Carney has been detained in the Middle East, The Her ald understands. Ahmad Al-Saqar is a person of interest to the garda investigation into the murder of Ms Carney (below) who was assaulted and then...
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CAB NABS €15M HAUL FROM GANGSTERS
CAB returned €15m to the Exchequer last year through seizures, property sales and investigations targeting organised crime. Among 18 properties sold were a farmhouse, stables and 7.5-hectare site, including a horse-trotting track, in Bodyke, Co Clare;...
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Pipe bomb ‘exploded in man’s hands at his home’, court hears
A DUBLIN man accused of making a pipe bomb in his home was found seriously injured after the device exploded in his hands, a court has been told. Gardaí found alleged bomb-making equipment in Derek Burke’s house in west Dublin after they arrived at...
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DUBLINER GETS 14 YEARS FOR BRUTAL BUDAPEST MURDER
A Dublin man has been handed a 14-year jail sentence for the murder of US tourist Mackenzie Michalski (below) in Budapest, Hungary. The defendant was told he must serve time in a high-security prison without the possibility of parole. The verdict is...
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RAPE CRISIS‘ DISMAY’ AT AMBASSADOR VISIT TO McGREGOR PUB
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre have said they are “dismayed” by a visit to Conor McGregor’s pub by the US ambassador. Diplomat Edward Walsh posed with McGregor’s UFC belt inside the Black Forge pub in Crumlin last Sunday.
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MOTHER MAY HAVE BEEN BEATEN TO DEATH
Gardaí fear a US woman found dead with head injuries at her home was the victim of a brutal assault. The body of Jamey Noel Carney was discovered in the bedroom of her rented home at Homeland, off the Muckross Road in Killarney, yesterday...
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BEATEN TO DEATH AFTER SOCIALISING WITH KILLERS
A MAN murdered in west Dublin on Friday knew his killers and had been socialising with them earlier in the night. Gardaí believe a dispute broke out at the social gathering and may have led to the “savage” attack. The victim, named locally as Anthony...
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LURED TO HIS DEATH
DETECTIVES are investigating if the murder of a 39-year-old man in an affluent area of the capital is linked to a simmering criminal feud that has been ongoing in south Co Dublin for a number of years. The victim, named locally as Mark Cullen, met his...
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SERVING IRISH SOLDIER SNARED IN PAEDO STING
A member of the Defence Forces has been placed on leave after he admitted sexual communications with children while on duty - as he was confronted in a paedophile hunter sting. Video of the 47-year-old (left) being confronted in a Dublin park was...
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GARDA’S FACE ‘SAVAGED’ BY DOG
A JUDGE has ordered that a gardener’s dog be put down after it lunged over a gate and “savaged” a garda’s face during a drug search in Dublin. Adam Caulfield (27), of Primrose Grove, Darndale, was convicted of one charg ef ollowing a contested hearing...
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KNIFE MANIAC HOUSED ON SAME WING AS ASHLING KILLER
The man who attempted to murder three children and assault a care worker in the Parnell Square attack has been housed on the same prison wing that Ashling Murphy’s killer was held on while he was on remand. Riad Bouchaker (52) has been kept in the D2...
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BUNGLINGROBBERLEFT HISPHONEAT BOOKIES RAID
A robber who dropped his phone during a failed bookies raid, and later that day dropped €200 he took from a supermarket has been jailed for five years. Michael Geoghegan (43), from Ormond View, Swords Manor, was identified from CCTV footage of the...
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‘DEVASTATED AND HEARTBROKEN’
Family members have flown to Spain to be by the side of the sole survivor of a devastating crash. Amy McCullagh, her brotherin-law Mark McCullagh and his partner Michaela Newcombe, who were all from Co Westmeath, died when their car plunged 100ft into...
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‘I CAN’T ACCEPT WHAT I SEE IN MIRROR’
A 22-year-old woman has been left with facial scars after she was slashed during an alleged attack on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. Rahma Mohamud Abdi was walking along the street in the capital at around 7pm on Friday, June 5, when a woman approached...
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KINAHANKINGPIN FACES EXTRADITION OVER FIREARM PLOT
Senior Kinahan cartel thug Peter ‘Peadar’ Keating has appeared in court over a UK extradition warrant. Keating (45) is wanted to serve a sentence for his role in a botched guns and ammo plot wit h Thoma s ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh.
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‘I’LL NEVER RECOVER THE SIGHT IN MY EYE’
A publican who was blinded in one eye in an attack outside his premises has said the consequences will last for the rest of his life. Gerard O’Connor (64) was attacked by Patrick O’Brien (30) at the family-run Kildrought Lounge in Celbridge, on June...
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STAB ACCUSED ‘WAITED FOR THE SMALLEST CHILDREN’
Riad Bouchaker “went for the smallest children he could find” when he is alleged to have attempted to murder two five-year-olds and a six-yearold in Dublin. Det Gda Gary Moran suggested that Mr Bouchaker demonstrated “restraint and patience” as he...
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LIVING WITH TOURETTE SYNDROME
When Margaret Lowndes brought her two sons, Eliot (8) and Noah (12), to the cinema recently, they unwittingly become the focus of attention. Noah was making vomiting noises throughout the movie and attracted the disapproval of another family. “They...
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ENTER BANDMAN
Three American brothers who came to Ireland for Metallica’s Dublin concert were arrested when they were caught with counterfeit wristbands for the event’s “snake pit” VIP area. Stephen (23), and twins Joseph and Michael Paronyan (21), from Florida,...
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TRIO ‘FACING LIFE SENTENCES’ FOR MACHETE ATTACK
A father and two sons arrested over a horror machete attack in which a 14-year-old was repeatedly slashed as she shielded her infant nephew are facing multiple life sentences if convicted2, a bail hearing was told on Friday. Bernard Joyce (55) and his...
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‘HERSKINWAS GREY,ITHOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD’
The trial of a man accused of attempting to murder three children on Parnell Square has been told of heroic efforts to save one victim’s life. Dr Michael Boyle told how the girl was “grey” when he came upon the scene and he could not find a pulse at...
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‘WOULD THEY EVEN TAKE HIM IN HELL?’
Survivors of paedophile Bill Kenneally (75) have spoken of how the beast’s death behind bars has brought closure to their abuse ordeal. Victim Jason Clancy said he was glad Kenneally had lived to see the findings of the inquiry into his abuses over...
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HIGH-END SHOPS ASKED TO ‘SNITCH’ ON PUNTERS
Luxury retailers will be encouraged to share information on high-spending customers suspected to be involved in money laundering, under new measures aimed at cracking down on financial crime. Shops selling designer clothes, luxury handbags, watches...
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‘HE HAD TO BE PUT DOWN, I GAVE HIM A DIG IN THE JAW’
An “extraordinarily brave” man has described how he ran towards Riad Bouchaker and gave him a “dig in the jaw” as he said the defendant appeared to be in a position to kill or seriously injure a group of children. Warren Donoghue said he “had to put...
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DEALER GETS 10 YEARS FOR ‘JUNKIE RAPE’ THREAT
A drug dealer who told a mother that he would get “junkies” to rape her son if she failed to repay his €157,000 debt during a campaign of intimidation has been jailed for 10 years. The Special Criminal Court sentenced Mark ‘Fishy’ Salmon (33), of...
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CARTEL MAN’S HOME IN RENT SCAM
PROPERTY scammers are using jailed Kinahan cartel man Sean McGovern’s former address in a €700-a-month con. The derelict property at 219 Kildare Road, Crumlin, is being advertised on property site ‘Rentola.ie’ for let to ‘females only.’ The three-bed...
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SOCCER STAR’S BROTHER ‘ABDUCTED AND KILLED’
The disappearance and suspected murder of a former Irish soccer star’s brother was reported to police in the Marbella area of Spain by a female associate of his on Wednesday. Sources said gardaí are working on the theory that the man (37), who had...
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MCGREGOR LEG BREAK DOPING CLAIMS
MMA fighter Conor McGregor used “powerful, banned drugs” after breaking his leg in a 2021 fight, a new report has claimed. An investigation by the New York Times alleges that the Dubliner took “performance-enhancing” substances during recovery from...
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‘WAS IT REALLY WORTH IT, SEAN?’
THE SON of a man murdered during the Hutch-Kinahan feud has said the “complete disregard for human life and the devastation left behind is something we will carry with us forever”. The son of innocent grandfather Noel Kirwan (62), Kristopher, also...
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CRIMINAL FOUND DEAD IN CELL‘ BOASTED HE’D SHOT CANARY’
A criminal who died in garda custody on Saturday was chief suspect in the 2022 gangland murder of Gary ‘The Canary’ Carey, after he openly bragged about carrying out the hit. Lee McDonnell (left) was found unresponsive in his cell at Cherry Orchard...
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STABBING VICTIM ‘RELENTLESSLY PURSUED’ BY 14 MEN
A student led a 14-man “pack” that “relentlessly pursued” nightclub promoter Qayyum Balogun (21) before he was stabbed to death in Dublin city centre, it is alleged. According to gardaí, Joshua Brodericks (25) “instigated” the pursuit of Mr Balogun,...
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€15,OOO CANNABIS ISLOSTINTHE POST...OFFICE
A joint investigation is under way after €15,000 worth of illegal drugs “went missing” from a secure area of An Post parcel hub in Dublin. It is understood that the massive cannabis haul had been intercepted in the postal system and was placed in a...
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SUSPECT‘BRAGGED’ ONLINEAFTER KNIFEKILLING
The chief suspect in the Dublin city centre killing of Qayyum Balogun (21) bragged online about the fatal stabbing just hours later. The man’s girlfriend was one of two people arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender after the brutal knife...
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DROWNING VICTIM’S BROTHER MURDERED
Gardaí are trying to identify who was involved in a brutal attack on a 31-year-old man before he swam across the Liffey in Dublin on Saturday night. Thomas Griffin, of Croftwood Park, Ballyfermot, was pronounced dead at St James’s Hospital on Sunday....
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INNOCENT WOMAN STABBED IN BRAWL THAT LEFT MAN DEAD
A young woman, who was an innocent bystander, was stabbed when she was caught up in a violent brawl that erupted after a rap gig on Grafton Street in Dublin city centre. The row continued onto nearby streets and a young man was stabbed to death on...
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‘I HURT MY CHILD AND I HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT’
A year on from leaving rehab and 18 months after a high-profile court case, DJ Nikki Hayes says motherhood is now the force driving her recovery from addiction and homelessness. Now in recovery, Hayes (above) said being a mother is central to her...
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‘OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN TOAMILLION PIECES’
The family of Dublin schoolgirl Abbie Carmody Pepper, who died in a drowning tragedy, have told how they will never forget her beautiful smile. Abbie’s brother Leon told her funeral service in Ballymun yesterday that the family’s hearts are “broken to...
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MUM STABBED AND THROWN INTO RIVER
A mother of two was stabbed to death and her body was thrown in a river after she was lured from a Connemara Ipas centre, gardaí believe. Gardaí launched a murder probe after the woman, who was reported missing on Wednesday night, was found dead with...
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SCHOOL HALLS ‘WILL BE FILLED WITH BLOOD’
This is the photo that led to multiple schools being shut down across one county and sparked a major garda response. The threat that led to the decision to close several primary schools in Co Carlow yesterday warned of “multiple mass shootings” at the...
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MANSTABBEDTEENAGE GIRLSAFTER HEWASREJECTED
A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attacking teenage twin sisters who were stabbed with a broken glass bottle after rejecting his advances on Dublin’s Dame Street Shando Alfa, a Somali national, of no fixed abode, was charged with assault causing...
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LUCKYDIPGANG ASSOCIATE GETS BEATENWITHBRICK
An associate of the Lucky Dip car theft gang has been hospitalised with serious head injuries after being beaten with a brick during an assault in Dublin. Gardaí are investigating whether the teenager was attacked in response to an alleged attempt to...
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CRACKGANGS MAKEUP TO€100K EACHDAY
CRACK cocaine gangs operating in Dublin’s north inner city are estimated to be making up to €100,000 a day as use of the drug skyrockets amongst addicts who are now openly smoking the drug on streets. The mobs operating on the capital’s streets have...
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LEARNER DRIVER RAN OVER HER GIRLFRIEND
A learner driver who ran over her then-girlfriend during “horseplay”, has been given a two-year suspended sentence. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Lana Dowling, then 19, was moving the car forward while her then-partner was on the bonnet of...
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HOW FINAL FANTASY ELUDED LEINSTER
What’s the point in lessons if you don’t learn from them? Leinster approach tomorrow’s Champions Cup final bearing the scars of four heartbreaking losses in the glare that comes with Europe’s biggest club rugby game. Whether it’s Saracens at St James’...
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IT’SBEER,STEER ANDGO... TOPRISON
A young man who maimed his brother in a horrific crash after speeding “like a missile” through a Midlands village has been jailed for two years. Mullingar Circuit Court heard that Gerard Duffy McAndrew (24) had been using cannabis and filmed himself...
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ON-THE-RUNTHUG LEFTGARDA FOR DEAD
A violent repeat offender who was on the run from prison when he attacked an off-duty garda and left him for dead on a Dublin city street has been jailed for nine years. Kevin Murphy (34) carried out the 2024 attack in Temple Bar close to the scene of...
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TWINSKILLEDTHEIR MOTHER’S ABUSIVE PARTNER
Twin brothers killed their mother’s partner by stabbing him eight times and striking him with a blunt object after he became abusive towards her, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday. The court was told that the admission to manslaughter by...
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DUBLIN STUDENT AND GIRLFRIEND KILLED IN THAIROADCRASH
A young Irish man has been killed alongside his girlfriend in a road crash in Thailand. He was named locally as Max Hendrickson, from Cabra, north Dublin. A talented 20-year-old filmmaker, Mr Hendrickson had been studying a BA in film. Mr...
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HOUSEMATES FROMCELL
A tenant sharing a Dublin house with a couple didn’t know his housemates were secretly running an online drugs business. Luckasz Cichocki (44) and his partner Julia Mossakowska (39) were caught with €157,000 in cash and drugs worth €94,000.
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NUN KILLER LET LOOSE ON CITY STREETS
Twisted nun killer Kealen Herron walked free from prison yesterday after spending 24 years behind bars. Evil Herron (45) sexually assaulted and murdered Sister Philomena Lyons (68) in Ballybay, Co Monaghan, on December 15, 2001. It is believed he has...
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BERTIE ACCUSED OF ‘DISGUSTING RACISM’
Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s comments about immigrants have been attacked as “disgusting racism” in the Dáil by Paul Murphy of People Before Profit. He put on record some of Mr Ahern’s taped comments, such as “We can’t be taking in all these people...
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DRUNK MUM HAD KIDS IN CAR AT TIME OF DEATH CRASH
A drunk driver had her two young children with her and an open bottle of wine on the passenger seat when she crashed into and killed “gifted” teacher Michael Lorigan, a court has heard. Judge Francis Comerford imposed a five-year prison term,...
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FRESH PROBE INTO MURDER OF LIAM IN HIS BED
Gardaí investigating the 2009 murder of Liam ‘Blackie’ Murray yesterday began new searches of land in south Dublin. Mr Murray (below) was last seen drinking with friends at the Headline Bar on St Patrick’s Day, 2009. He was found shot dead in his bed...
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ASLIPPERY CUSTOMER
The Irish Prison Service, the Department of Justice, and the Irish Defence Forces have declined to comment on the possible reintroduction of army officers at Portlaoise Prison as part of a security upgrade ahead of Daniel Kinahan’s return. Sources...
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CHEFINJUREDBY SPAGHETTI GETS €74,000 COMPO
A chef who sued over a back injury which he said occurred while mixing a spaghetti sauce has been awarded €74,000 by the High Court. Niall Govers (40) claimed that due to a lack of space he had to mix the sauce in a crouched position in an alcove at...
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THECHAWKE OFSHAME
A son and daughter of prominent publican, Charlie Chawke, who attacked two innocent men at a hotel, have brought “shame” on their family and their family business, barristers for the two siblings told their sentencing hearing today. Mother of three,...
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TEACHER STRUCK OFFFORROMANCE WITHEX-STUDENT
A female secondary school teacher who lied about a longterm relationship with a former Leaving Cert student has been struck off and banned from reapplying to have her name restored to the Register of Teachers for a minimum of five years. The ruling...
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EX-GARDAFACESJAIL OVER FATAL HIT-AND-RUN
An ex-garda who fatally hit a man with his car and failed to remain at the scene has been remanded in custody ahead of his sentencing. Michael Ball has pleaded guilty to two offences relating to a hit-and-run in Drogheda town in the early hours of St...
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