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RELATIVE OF GANGSTER HELD OVER HEALY-RAE ATTACK

A CLOSE relative of a convicted Kinahan gangster is suspected of being the dogwalker who attacked Michael Healy-Rae in Dublin this week. The 51-year-old remained in garda custody yesterday, where he is being quizzed over the assault that left the...

CHARGES CONSIDERED IN DEATH AFTER GARDA STOP

Criminal proceedings are being contemplated in relation to the death of a man in Dublin city centre last year following an interaction with gardaí, an inquest has heard. Paul Butler (51), from St Ignatius Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, died on August 18,...

C HAWK E MOVED TO OPEN JAIL MONTHS INTO SENTENCE

The son of prominent publican Charlie Chawke has been transferred to Shelton Abbey open prison in Co Wicklow, less than two months after being sentenced for a vicious assault. On July 14, Bill Chawke (31) was given a jail term of two years and six...

TWO MORE CHARGED OVER FATAL SHOVEL BRAWL

Two more men have been charged with taking part in a violent brawl in south Dublin that ended with a man suffering fatal blows to the head from a shovel. The pair, accused of brandishing a hatchet and a metal pole, are among five people to be arrested...

TEEN (16) ‘MOWED DOWN OVER DEBT’

A TEEN already before the courts over a separate fatal road incident is among a gang of three suspected of deliberately targeting 16-yearold Bryan Lowe in a hit-and-run incident. Bryan, from Westbury, Corbally, Co Clare, was knocked off his e-bike...

BOUNCY HASSLE

Playing on bouncy castles has been linked to the biggest ever recorded outbreak of a common superbug in Ireland last year. A report has revealed that four children were hospitalised after an outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus – better known as MRSA –...

HUTCH SON ‘HAD GANG ROLE FO 5YEARS’

THE SON of Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch has appeared in court under heavy armed garda escort charged with facilitating the activities of a criminal organisation over a five-year period. Jason Murphy (37), also known as Jason Hutch, of the Paddocks in...

CARRYON CLAMPING

Dublin’s largest local authority is maintaining clamping across the city in its new parking contract, but will also introduce parking enforcement foot patrols for the first time. However, there are some key changes in the new system, with public...

‘VIPER’ IS GRANTED STAY ON CAB’S SALE OF HOUSE

Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley told a High Court judge that the reason he did not have legal representation was because his solicitor died suddenly last Sunday. The veteran gangland criminal has taken proceedings challenging the Criminal Assets Bureau’s...

SOME MIGHT SAY IT’S ARIP-OFF

Ticketmaster has been accused of “misleading” concertgoers over the sale of tickets for last year’s Oasis concerts in Dublin. The company is charged with breaching consumer protection laws following the two sold-out gigs in Croke Park. Ticketmaster...

‘KEEP THAT DREAM IN YOUR HEART’

After her dominant win over French boxer Flora Pili on Saturday night, Katie Taylor had time to reflect on a glittering career “To any little girl or boy out there today, I was no different to them at their age,” she told the Herald during a...

WILLITBEA FAIRYTAYL FINISH FOR KATIE?

Tonight at Croke Park in front of approximately 80,000 fans Katie Taylor will see her dream come true. Her fight against undefeated French opponent Flora Pili is the final chapter in an incredible career. An expected record tv audience will be hoping...

VIPER: ‘DON’T MAKEME HOMELESS’

VETERAN criminal Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley has taken the first step in challenging the Criminal Assets Bureau’s bid to seize and sell his Dublin home. In the High Court, Mr Justice David Nolan refused to grant him an ex-parte stay against Cab’s...

ENNIS KILLING ACCUSEDWIN APPEAL

Two Irishmen found guilty of killing a drug dealer in Amsterdam were not given a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Barry McArdle and Kenneth Brunnell are both serving 13 years after an Amsterdam court found them guilty of...

MAN DIES OF BRAWL INJURIES

A MAN has died from “catastrophic” injuries after he was struck over the head with a shovel during a violent brawl last weekend, a court has heard. Siminic Rostas (24) “succumbed” to injuries he sustained in an altercation at a business park in south...

MAN CHARGED WITH BUSINESSPARK ASSAULT

A construction worker has been charged over a violent brawl in a Dublin business park where groups of men attacked each other with “lethal weapons” and one was left in a critical condition. A court was told the most seriously injured man was struck...

MANFIGHTING FOR LIFE AFTER HORROR BRAWL

A YOUNG man is fighting for hi life in hospital following a violent incident among squatters at a south Dublin industrial park in which weapons were used. Gardaí are investigating if the 24-year-old victim was attacked with a metal pole during the...

GARDAI SCRAP WITH RECKLESS JOYRIDERS

Nearly one in 10 vehicles in the garda fleet have had to be replaced over the past year after a large number were damaged in deliberate ramming incidents. Two patrol cars were badly damaged in ramming incidents in Dublin and Cork in the past fortnight...

CAR JACKER ‘STOLE TAXI WITH DRIVER IN BACK SEAT’

A man carjacked a parked taxi in central Dublin while the driver took a break in the back seat, it is alleged. Mohamed Khalif (31) is accused of stealing the taxi and assaulting the driver, who was forced to abandon the moving car as it drove off from...

‘IFELTLIKE IWASINlife-altering HELL’

A MOTHER-of-two “felt like she was in hell” when she became “engulfed in flames” after a man set her alight on her doorstep, a court has been told. The High Court heard Alexis Campion (44) was left with “horrendous”, burns after her attacker asked...

BALEBA MAY BE UNITED SAVIOUR

‘HE’S A MAGNIFICENT COACH’

The most damaging criticism in football comes when you compare the Premier League with Sunday League. You don’t expect those at the highest level to make the mistakes you would associate with those who trundle about on a weekend. But Liverpool left...

SMILE!YOU’REGOING TOBEONCCTV

Security camera numbers are set to soar across Ireland as new technology is employed to target everything from speeding to anti-social behaviour and illegal dumping. New camera designs, which are more easily compliant with GDPR regulations, are set to...

‘FAMILIES ARE LEFT TO CARRY THE GRIEF’

Funerals for three of the five teenage boys killed in the M9 head-on collision took place in Athy, Carlow and Limerick yesterday. At the mass for Alex McCarthy (17), Fr Tom Little told mourners of the “deep sense of sadness” felt in the wake of the...

GARDA RING OF STEEL FOR M9 CRASH FUNERALS

Gardaí will have a ‘strong presence’ at the funerals today for two teens killed in Sunday’s head-on M9 collision. The Public Order Unit is expected to be deployed as Joey Carthy (15) and Alex McCarthy (17) are laid to rest in Athy and Carlow. Officers...

ROVERS’ LAST CHANCE SALOON

From a position of authority to a perception of vulnerability. It’s been a strange month for all involved with Shamrock Rovers. Pressure has crept up out of nowhere, the hard-earned high-rank seeding within Uefa’s path for champions creating the belief...

LEADER OF M9 GANG OUT ON BAIL AT TME OF KILLER CRASH

The 17-year-old who was considered the main player in the gang involved in the horrific crash on the M9 was on bail and banned from leaving his county. Kamil Pustkowski was well known to gardaí across the country, and was not supposed to leave...

‘YOU’LL END UP IN JAIL OR IN A GRAVE’

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan is considering a new criminal offence for wrong-way motorway driving. It comes as the five teenage boys killed in Sunday’s horrific head-on collision on the M9 in Kildare were named. Joey Carthy (15); Jack Kennedy (17);...

‘LUCKY DIP’ GANG MEMBERS AMONG 5 DEAD IN M9 CARNAGE

Five teenagers, including some members of the so-called Lucky Dip gang, were killed when their suspected stolen car sped the wrong way down the M9 motorway and ploughed head-on into another vehicle. Three women and a sevenyear-old boy who were...

CELL DEATH PRISONER STABBED IN BACK OF HEAD

Investigations are under way into the violent death of an inmate at Wheatfield Prison on Thursday night. Brendan Gahan (39), from Tallaght, was serving a sentence for possession of drugs for sale or supply. Sources said prison officers responded to a...

RHAS HOUR

Michael Carrick believes Manchester United can push for the title but has underlined the urgent need for signings. The United head coach has taken heart from his squad’s promising preparations for the new campaign and, speaking at their summer base in...

ALISON CHAWKE WALKS FREE FROM JAIL

The daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke was released from prison yesterday, just weeks after being jailed for a serious assault. Alison Chawke, from Goatstown, Dublin, was jailed alongside her brother, Bill, for assaulting John McHugh and...

‘I DON’T BLAME THE CHILDREN IN M50 CRASH’

The mother of a young driver who was injured when his car was hit by another vehicle being driven the wrong way on the M50 has said “someone has to face the consequences” over the incident. Sarah-Jane Fox’s son, Craig (22), was the sole occupant of...

LUCKY DIP GANG LINK TO STOLEN M50 CRASH CAR

Gardaí believe a stolen car that was involved in a head-on crash while driving the wrong way on the M50 early on Sunday contained juvenile members of the ‘Lucky Dip’ gang. The Toyota Vitz, which contained eight young males from Dublin, had been stolen...

KINAHAN IN THE DOCK

DANIEL Kinahan has appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation. The alleged organised crime boss was brought before the non-jury court yesterday evening ami d an unprecedented...

PAIN AND POWER IN SUMMER OF SAM

1. Hooter to heaven The wonder is, how did Croke Park’s 16-year protection of the pitch from post All-Ireland final invasion survive the one potential invasion to trigger the old plan B? That hooter, to bring the All-Ireland final to a conclusion,...

ACCUSED‘ DUMPED GUN THAT BOY(11) FOUND AND FIRED’

A man who allegedly brandished a handgun outside a Dublin garda station, before a young boy later fired it in the area, has been sent forward for trial. Cloverhill District Court was yesterday told that Josh Larkin (21) had produced a handgun in the...

MAN BLASTED IN FRONT OF WIFE AS HE SAT OUTSIDE HOME

Gardaí are hunting for a gunman who shot a 45-yearold man in front of his wife as they sat in a van outside their Dublin home on Tuesday night. Detectives do not believe the victim was the intended target of the Clondalkin gun attack and are probing...

FOREVER YOUNG

GLEN Hansard began his final journey as a live performance of ‘Forever Young’ by Bob Dylan reverberated around the walls of St Patrick’s Cathedral as Dublin bid farewell to one of its favourite sons. U2 frontman Bono read a poem based on the lyrics of...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

‘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...

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.

‘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...

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...

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...

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,...