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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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STOLEN CAR SPED ACROSSGREENAS CHILDRENPLAYED
A man who drove through two green areas where children were playing in an attempt to evade gardaí went on to drive the wrong way down a motorway, a court has been told. CJ Losty (then 18) was yesterday jailed for leading gardaí on a reckless...
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‘DEMONIC’
The family of mother-of-two Daena Walsh (27), who was stabbed and then partially dismembered by her partner, have described his actions as “demonic” and “evil”. Adam Corcoran (31) was jailed for life for the murder of Ms Walsh in their flat in...
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4MOREYEARSFOR ‘SEXUALPREDATOR’ PRINCIPAL
A former Dublin school principal described by a judge as “a sexual predator” who abused young boys in their “formative years” has been jailed for four years. Patrick Harte (84) was employed as a teacher at Sancta Maria Christian Brothers school on...
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LUCKYDIPGANGBEHIND SPATEOFHIGH-END MOTORBIKETHEFTS
Members of the Lucky Dip gang are using devices that bypass the immobiliser on targeted vehicles. In a recent garda operation, in which four suspected teenage gang members were arrested, officers seized the internet-bought device that can be plugged...
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KINAHAN GANG STALKEDVICTIM WITHGPSTRACKER
Senior Kinahan gang figure Sean McGovern has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing the activities of a crime gang to carry out the murder of Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan as well as a failed hit on James ‘Mago’ Gately. McGovern (below),...
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€5M COCAINE HAUL LINKED TO ‘THE FAMILY’
A SEIZURE of €5.25 million worth of cocaine in Co Monaghan is being linked to the besieged west Dublin drug mob known as ‘The Family’. The seizure was made on Friday after gardaí stopped several vehicles and searched a business premises as part of...
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BACK TO RED SQUARE ONE FOR KINAHANS
The Kinahan crime family abandoned secret plans to flee their hideout in Dubai “at the last minute” after securing a safe sanctuary in Russia. The Herald understands that Christy Kinahan Sr and his two sons, Daniel and Christy Jr, obtained Russian...
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MANGUILTYOF BEATING DRUNK FRIENDTODEATH
A scaffolder who meted out a “volley of violence” on a defenceless “drunken bowsie” in response to his mother being insulted was found guilty of murder by a Central Criminal Court jury yesterday. It was the State’s case that Juris Kokenbergs died...
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KINAHAN PALJAILED FOR DRUG POSSESSION
A one-time friend of gangland criminal Christy Kinahan is getting older and is no longer involved in that life, a court was told this week. Noel Boylan (51) was found with over €4,000 worth of drugs after gardaí raided his house in west...
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NEWPAIROF SMACKSFOR PRISONER
Officers at Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison knew things were not as they seam-ed when they rumbled €6,000 worth of heroin stitched into a pair of jeans. The trousers had been dropped to the prison for an inmate but eagle-eyed staff detected the contraband...
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PRIEST LOSES €50K TO LOAVES AND PHISHING SCAM
A parish priest had nearly €50,000 stolen from his personal bank account in a scam after he tried to pay a connection fee for broadband through online banking. In a call to the presbytery, the priest was instructed to pay the €5 “line upgrade” fee...
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WOMENJAILED FORKNIFING GRANINFACE
Three women wept in court as they were jailed for knifing a grandmother in the face and beating her with sticks. Christina McCarthy (61), was left with permanent facial scarring after being set upon by the group of women in the bedroom of her home, at...
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FAMILIESLOCKEDOUTOF NEWHOMES INWATERROW
A developer behind a Swords housing estate has accused Uisce Éireann of being “unreasonable” and responsible for delays preventing dozens of people from moving into their new homes. Sandra McCormack, her partner Darren Graydon, and their daughter...
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PENSIONER (79) GETS TEN YEARS FOR RAPE OF TEEN GIRL
A 79-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years for raping a teenage girl in her own bed over 30 years ago. Michael Sinnott was aged 47 when he entered the house and raped the 15-year-old girl while her parents were away for the morning. Mr Justice...
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KILLER DRIVER HITSGARDA WITHDIRTBIKE
A killer driver and known associate of a Kinahan cartel gunman is being quizzed over an incident in which a garda was knocked down and injured by a high-powered electric dirt bike. The patrolling officer spotted the e-scrambler being ridden on green...
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GANGSTERS KISS THEIR ASSETS GOODBYE
The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) recouped over €1m for the Exchequer in just 48 hours this week, by selling off properties linked to criminals in Dublin, Limerick and Waterford. The seized houses included a four-bed gaff at Ratoath Road, Cabra that...
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RENTS COULD INCREASE 25 PC—SAYS CITY’S BIGGEST LANDLORD
Ireland’s largest landlord has told investors the radical rent reforms coming into play at the weekend will see its rental income shoot up. Ires Reit said the controversial changes which come into effect this Sunday, could lead to a rise of up to 25pc...
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GUNMANGETS7YEARS FORKILLINGDAD LUREDTODOOR
The shooter in a “meticulously planned” murder of a much-loved and vulnerable victim has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Mr Justice Paul McDermott said it was accepted that Joseph Richards (35) was...
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MMA FIGHTER AND CHEF CHARGED WITH TEMPLE BAR ASSAULT
An MMA fighter and a chef have been refused bail after appearing in court charged with a “ferocious” unprovoked attack in Dublin’s Temple Bar last week. The injured man remains in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital.
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ROGUE DENTIST BRACED FOR SENTENCING
A dentist who admitted to multiple false claims under the Dental Treatment Scheme will be sentenced today for fraud. Jerome Kiely (47), from Ballykisteen, Co Tipperary, made claims that involved inventing treatments, forging signatures and submitting...
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‘Abusestolepartsofus we can never get back’
The children of a man who subjected them to decades of sexual abuse have told how their lives were blighted by their ordeal. Noel Farrell (70) was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the abuse of his son and four daughters. Some of the...
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COWARD’S WAYOUT
Perv swim coach Matthew Coward (34) was released from prison yesterday after serving 27 months for filming young girls as they got changed. The Dubliner skulked out of Arbour Hill with his hood up to avoid waiting photographers.
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CABTOSELLIRATHUG’S HIGHEND SPORTS CARS
Three high-end cars seized from Real IRA thug Nathan Kinsella can be sold off by the Criminal Assets Bureau ahead of a hearing to have the vehicles declared criminal proceeds. The BMW M2, a BMW M3 and an Audi Q7 were described as “very high worth”...
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‘IT’S A MESS OF HIS OWN MAKING’
A US court has granted a temporary stay of 10 working days on the deportation of Irishman Séamus Culleton. Attorney Ogor Okoye of BOS Legal Group said she has not been informed of any deportation, and that she is committed to ensuring Mr Culleton can...
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CRIMINALSWHO DUMPEDTEEN’S BODYPARTSGET 12YEARS
Two criminals who dumped the dismembered body of teenager Keane Mulready -Woods across different parts of Dublin were jailed for a total of 12 years yesterday by the Special Criminal Court. The 17-year-old was murdered by gangland killer Robbie Lawlor...
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‘WE WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT MY SISTER’
The brother of an American woman who was allegedly killed by a Dublin man in Budapest said his family “wants the truth” to come out about how his only sibling died. The man (38), has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mackenzie Michalski (31), in...
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FLOOD, SWEAT ANDTEARS
Residents of The Mayne apartments in Belmayne, north Dublin, yesterday found that their underground car park had been “completely flooded”. Videos and images showed how the basement car park of the apartments had become submerged in a deluge of...
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MANSTRANGLEDDAD ATTOPRESORT WHILE INSANE
A wealthy New Yorker who strangled his father at a five-star midlands resort after the 66-yearold had travelled from the US on a “mission of mercy” to help his son has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. The 12 jurors accepted...
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MONK: I’M READYFOR SECONDACT
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has confirmed he is planning to contest the Dublin Central by-election. He was speaking at Dublin’s Ambassador Theatre yesterday evening with actor Rex Ryan for a publicity event ahead of the opening night of Ryan’s play The...
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MANARRESTED OVER MURDER OFDANIEL
A man has been arrested at Dublin Airport over the killing of Daniel Aruebose, whose remains were found on waste ground last September after more than four years missing. The suspect, who is in his late 20s, was taken into garda custody this evening...
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INNOCENT FAMILY HOMELESS AFTER ARSON ATTACK
An innocent family of six, including a one-year-old baby, were left injured and homeless after being caught up in a suspected arson attack in their Dublin apartment block in the early hours of Sunday. Jordan Wade, his partner Katie Chalk, and their...
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‘GENTLEMAN’ FRANK NEVER CAME HOME
Neighbours of the Dublin man killed in Thursday’s bus crash on North Earl Street feared for his safety as soon as they heard about the tragedy. East Wall resident Frank Daly (85) was known to routinely walk to the city centre for lunch in a cafe close...
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‘LIKE A BOMB GOING OFF’
Witnesses to yesterday’s fatal bus crash on a Dublin city street have told how they thought it was “a bomb going off”. One man was killed and three others seriously injured when the Bus Éireann double-decker careered into the pedestrianised North Earl...
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‘HUTCHGANGARESTILL HEAVILYINVOLVED INDRUGS’-TOPCOP
The Hutch Organised Crime Group are still one of Ireland’s main gangs and remain “heavily involved in drug trafficking” 10 years after the deadly feud began, a senior garda has said. Detective Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland has compared the 2016...
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VICTIM BRANDED ‘RAT’ FEARED BEING MURDERED
Five Dublin criminals with over 120 previous convictions carried out a prolonged attack on a man by branding him ‘Rat’ with a hot iron, waterboarding him and running over him with an electric bike. Three brothers Jason, Brandon and Devon Hennessy are...
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‘I’LL FIGHT TO GET JUSTICE FOR KEN’
THE heartbroken father of a man who was murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains is calling for clarity as to why a file on the case has yet to be sent to the Department of Public Prosecution. The body of Brian Fetherston’s son Kenneth was found on...
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MANWAS STABBED TODEATH‘IN VIOLENTRAGE’
DETECTIVES are waiting to question a woman over the suspected murder of a man in what has been described as a “violent rage”. The 57-year-old victim suffered multiple stab wounds to his back and stomach in the early hours of Saturday morning in the...
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TEACHER’S SIX-YEAR RELATIONSHIP WITHPUPIL
A FEMALE secondary school teacher who said she had a “one-night stand” with a past pupil has admitted she has been in a six-year “loving relationship” with him and lied about it to an inquiry. The teacher yesterday accepted she “deliberately deceived”...
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‘YOUSTABBEDME INTHEARTERY, YOU F**KING EEJIT’
A Dublin father who suffered a fatal knife wound to his neck, told the man who had inflicted the injury: “You stabbed me in the artery, you f**king eejit,” a murder trial has heard. The jury in the trial of Joseph Lawlor (39) were yesterday shown CCTV...
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GETAWAYCARKEYFROM BOTCHED HIT ‘VANISHED’
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a car key that is suspected of belonging to a vehicle that was burnt out in a botched gangland hit in Dublin almost five years ago. This week at the Central Criminal Court Stephen Mulvey (34) and Jamie Berry (30),...
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GRACEDEATHSUSPECT ‘SPED THROUGH RED LIGHT’
A scrambler rider drove his bike “at speed” through a red light at a pedestrian crossing when he crashed into a teenage girl and fatally injured her, it is alleged. Grace Lynch (16) was seriously injured in the incident last Sunday afternoon. She...
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‘SEEING GRACE TAKE LASTB REATH WAS SO PAINFUL’
THE mother of a teenager killed in a scrambler crash in north Dublin has pledged to “fight” to get scrambler bikes and e-scooters off the streets. Grace Lynch (16, right) died after an incident on the Ratoath Road in Finglas on Sunday afternoon. Over...
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GIRLKILLEDIN SCRAMBLER HORROR
A TEENAGE girl who was struck by a scrambler bike in north Dublin yesterday died in hospital last night. It is understood the girl was walking on the Ratoath Road in Finglas, Dublin 11, at around 2.20pm yesterday when the crash happened. A green...
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‘LOOK HOW MUCHOFHIS EAR I’VE GOT’
Two men who assaulted a couple on a Dublin street, leaving a man with part of his ear bitten off, have been jailed. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that while Ciaran Whelan (35) and Robert Costello (35) fought with their victim on the ground,...
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SNAPCHATVIDEOOF SEXATTACKSENTTO TEENVICTIM
Suspects in the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl later sent her video footage of the incident on Snapchat. Five teenage boys were arrested on Tuesday in relation to the alleged sex attack at a location near Dublin city centre around 12 months...
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LARRY’SKILLER COUSIN BACK ONTHESTREETS
Rapist and killer David Lawler, a cousin of rape beast Larry Murphy, walked free from prison yesterday morning after 30 years behind bars. Former telephone technician Lawler (60) was released from Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison after serving a life...
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NKENCHOWAS ‘HEARINGVOICES’ BEFORE SHOOTING
George Nkencho’s sister Grateful told the inquest into his shooting yesterday that her brother was “hearing voices” before he was fatally wounded by gardaí outside their family home in west Dublin five years ago. Two gardaí who first confronted Mr...
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ONE STEP FORWARD TWOSTEPS BURKE
Enoch Burke faces a return to prison today after again breaching a court order restraining him from going to Wilson’s Hospital School. Despite being warned off by Mr Justice Brian Cregan after his release from Mountjoy on Wednesday, Mr Burke showed up...
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NKENCHOATTACK HADWORKER ‘FEARING FORMYLIFE’
A MAN put supermarket staff in fear of their lives after threatening them with a knife shortly before he was fatally shot by gardaí in west Dublin five years ago, an inquest has heard. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard evidence from...
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PUB BARRING LED TO THUGS TORCHING 8 CARS
DETECTIVES are investigating if associates of missing drugs baron Sean Dunne ordered an arson attack in which eight cars were set alight in a pub car park. Sources have revealed the attack happened after a criminal closely linked to Dunne – who went...
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