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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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DADCHARGED WITH KNIFING FATHEROFEX
A 22-YEAR-OLD man charged with stabbing his ex-partner’s father during a knife attack in Dublin has been remanded in custody. Father-of-three Moise Iorgu, originally from Romania and formerly of Heath Square, Finglas, had just returned to the country...
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HUTCHANDGO FORROUND2
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has formally registered his candidacy for the Dublin Central by-election next month. Hutch submitted his nomination papers yesterday at Dublin City Council’s offices, it is understood. The 63-year-old, who narrowly lost out on...
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‘Changing preferences’ – marriages fall 7.7pc as couples opt for other ceremonies
couples still want to acknowledge their faith or heritage, while also holding a personal, inclusive and authentic ceremony. Many couples have no faith. We cater for all.” Responding to the CSO figures, David Quinn, a spokesman for the Iona Institute,...
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Messages reveal McGovern’s plan to have ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan killed
Using a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) BlackBerry device, McGovern – known as ‘Knife’ – told an associate: “On my baby’s life I’m not stopping.” He also considered “doing Mink’s daughter”, in reference to a rival criminal, but was concerned it would “bring...
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EX-LEINSTER BOSS GLENNON: I WASMYSTERYTD
Former Fianna Fáil TD Jim Glennon has admitted he was the former TD who wrote a reference for sex offender Daniel Ramamoorthy. The ex-Leinster boss has connections with Ramamoorthy going back over a decade when he worked on the advisory board for his...
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CARTELTELLSTALES FROM DECRYPT
Messages found on decrypted cartel phones are being used by gardaí to track down the hitmen who carried out unsolved feud murders. The technology breakthough, which led to the arrest of cartel boss Daniel Kinahan last week, could link the kingpin and...
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TINDER RAPIST BACK ON STREETS
Tinder rapist Patrick Nevin has been freed from the Midlands Prison. Shortly after 10am yesterday, he walked out the front door and was driven away by support workers. The 44-year-old, a serial sex predator with five convictions for attacking women,...
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COPS SEIZE 100 TORTURE PICS IN KINAHAN GANG RAID
Spanish detectives have seized more than 100 photos showing torture and beatings at a Costa del Sol apartment used by suspected members of a UK gang allied with the Kinahans. The gruesome pictures were discovered at the flat on a residential estate in...
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MAJOR KINAHANGANG ENFORCER HELD IN SPAIN
A key member of the Kinahan organised crime group has been arrested in Spain in a significant setback for the transnational network. Senior sources confirmed that gardaí are aware that the north Dublin man, aged in his 30s, was arrested in the...
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TASER ATTACK WOMAN TELLS JUDGE: ‘GIVE UP YOURAUL SINS’
A woman who tasered one security official and punched another one as they repossessed her home has been taken into custody after she refused to enter a good behaviour bond. Lisa Temple (56) was on Monday given a one-year suspended sentence in Dublin...
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DAN’S QUICK DU-BYE
CARTEL boss Daniel Kinahan’s extradition to Ireland is likely to be fast-tracked by authorities in Dubai and could happen within days. Radha Stirling, CEO of ‘Detained in Dubai’, an expert in contesting Interpol Red Notices in the UAE, said the fact...
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YOU’RE GOING DAN
Cartel boss Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai and faces extradition back to Ireland. Police in the UAE lifted the crime kingpin on Wednesday on behalf of An Garda Síochána who are now in possession of encrypted messages linking Kinahan to...
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COCAINE CREW’S €4M IN SIX WEEKS
COURT TOLD OF GARDA FEARS AS ACCUSED BRIAN GRENDON IS REFUSED BAIL
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LOVE/HATEACTORIS JAILED FOR ROBBERYSPREE
An actor who appeared on RTÉ crime drama series Love/Hate has been jailed for four years for trying to rob a cafe and stealing a till from a shop. Leroy Harris (32) was stopped by gardaí and arrested for his own safety after he was spotted in Dublin...
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FIFTHGARDACHARGED OVERLINKSTO ORGANISED CRIME
A garda inspector accused of unlawfully disclosing confidential information is the fifth officer charged in a probe into organised crime. Brian Roberts (51) appeared in Dublin District Court yesterday, charged in connection with an investigation into...
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CAN’T HUTCH THIS
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been asked to allow a convicted killer, who struck a Ukrainian grandmother while riding his motorbike, to complete a detox programme. Derek Moore (aka ‘Del Boy’ Hutch) was seen speeding and doing wheelies on the...
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BLUES CRUISE
Pep Guardiola believes Arsenal are still the best team in England after Manchester City cut the gap at the top of the Premier League to six points with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. City recovered from a slow first half to...
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DEADBLOCKED
Blockades by farmers and hauliers protesting fuel prices look set to bring chaos into next week after talks at Government Buildings ended without agreement. As the stand-off continues, up to 500 filling stations are running out of petrol and diesel....
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PROTEST IS PULLING OUR PINTS
The continuing blockade of Dublin city centre by farmers and hauliers has resulted in more than petrol pumps running dry, the beer pumps are at risk, too. City barmen have told The Herald that they are “down to the last keg” as the fuel protest...
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GRIDLOCKINCITY COULD DRAG ON FOR DAYS
Hauliers, farmers and contractors protesting against the soaring cost of fuel are continuing to cause major disruption in the capital by refusing to move their vehicles after parking up. “The problem is, we can’t afford to go home,” James Geoghegan,...
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SISTERS(18)BOTTLED AFTERREJECTING MAN’SADVANCES
Two teenage twin sisters were stabbed with a broken glass bottle after rejecting “prolonged” advances from a man on Dublin’s Dame Street on Saturday, a court has heard. Shando Alfa, a 27-year-old Somali national of no fixed abode is charged with...
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‘ITHOUGHT OFSUICIDE EVERYDAY’
A father says he thought about ending his life “every single day” while working for just €1.61 an hour at a Louth restaurant. Vasantkumar Barot (42), who was awarded €79,214 by the Workplace Relations Commission, said he felt trapped after selling his...
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‘GILLWAS KEYPART OFLAWLOR MURDER’
A DUBLIN man has appeared in court accused of the gun murder of gangland criminal Robbie Lawlor in Belfast six years ago. Jonathan Gill (44) was arrested in Dublin on Thursday and brought before the High Court yesterday morning, where his extradition...
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‘MRBIG’ARRESTED OVERLAWLOR GUN MURDER
The gang boss known as ‘Mr Big’ was dramatically arrested in Dublin yesterday and faces extradition to Northern Ireland over the murder of gangland enforcer Robbie Lawlor. Lawlor, right, who murdered teenager Keane Mulready Woods, was shot dead on a...
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GRACE’S PARENTS BLAST GARDA BAN IN SCRAMBLER PURSUIT
The parents of Dublin schoolgirl Grace Lynch who was killed by a scrambler in Finglas said there is no point having a new law banning the bikes if the gardai aren’t allowed do their job and pursue reckless riders. “It’s all good that the ban is in...
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PAIR IN COURT OVER JAIL ‘DRONE DRUG DELIVERY’
Two Dublin men accused of using a drone to fly more than €6,000 worth of drugs into Cloverhill Prison have been granted bail. Craig Doyle (25) of the Paddocks Way, Adamstown, Lucan, and 30-year-old Adam Aspel, with an address at Corkagh Grange Way,...
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COUNCILWORKERS TARGETED WITH PIPE BOMBS
Council staff in the estate management department have had pipe bombs attached to their cars and homes when addressing cases of antisocial behaviour in Dublin. In a presentation to Dublin City Council this week, Mike Clarke of the estate management...
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EX-PRO FOOTBALLER CAUGHTOFFSIDE IN COKE BUST
A former professional soccer player was employed as a “conduit” between criminal organisations that imported over €40m worth of cocaine into Ireland. Miljan Koprivica (left) was one of seven men jailed last week over the successful importation of...
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‘I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL’
The mother of a man who was choked to death and dumped in a quarry has told her son’s killer: “I hope you rot in hell.” Yesterday, as he was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of Steven Ring, Christopher Judge (42) was told by...
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COME ON YOU BOYS IN GRIEF
Ireland fans were left heartbroken last night after coming within touching distance of their World Cup dream. Despite heroics by talisman Troy Parrott, the Boys in Green crashed out of their play-off game, losing 4-3 to Czechia on penalties.
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BRUTALTORTURE GANG JAILED FOR BRANDINGATTACK
Five members of a Dublin criminal gang have been jailed for a total of 34 years for torturing a man who was waterboarded and had the word ‘rat’ branded on his head and torso with a hot iron poker. The victim Barry Moore thought he was “about to be...
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EX-ASSOCIATEOF MRFLASHYIN ARSONARREST
A gangland enforcer previously suspected of killing a man is being questioned over the attempted murder of an innocent woman who was set on fire at her west Dublin home. Over 100 gardaí were involved in a search and arrest operation yesterday as part...
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JIHADISTGUILTYPLEA TOARSONAND STABBING GARDA
An Islamic State supporter who stabbed a garda four days after setting fire to Conor McGregor’s Dublin pub said the attacks were “a message to the Government and a message to McGregor”. The Special Criminal Court also heard that Abdullah Khan, who had...
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KNIFE KILLER HID PHONES IN JAIL CELL
A MAN jailed for nine years after he killed a 20-year-old who stole from his van has been caught three times with phones in jail. Patrick Murphy (38), from Drumcairn Parade, Tallaght, was caught with mobiles in Cloverhill Prison on three separate...
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