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‘I TRIED TO REVIVE MUM BUT IT WAS TOO LATE’

TRIPLE murder accused Robert O’Connor told gardaí he had “tried to revive” his mother after he fatally stabbed her, but it was “way too late”. The accused described killing his mother Louise (56), dad Mark (54) and younger brother Evan (27), and said...

CARR CRASHAS UNITED FLOP

Bruno Fernandes questioned manager Michael Carrick’s tactics after Manchester United were thrashed by Co mo last night. United’s season sank to a new low as they were humbled 4-1 by the Italian side in the Champions League. It has been a troubled...

WELL WIRTZ THE WAIT FOR POOL

LIVERPOOL 4 VILLARREAL 3 It might have been fitting that, on the night of the watching Ian Rush’s 65th birthday, the goals flowed at Anfield. Yet even as Liverpool celebrated their most prolific ever No 9, it was more about the man in the No 10...

GARDA: ‘M50 ROBBERY GANG WERE CAUGHT RED-HANDED’

Two men arrested after a garda chase on the M50 on Sunday in which they allegedly drove the wrong way down the motorway were “caught i n the act”, a garda has told Dublin District Court. Daniel Brown (22) and Adam White (25), both of Hampton Wood in...

BLACKHORSE KILLING WAS ‘REVENGE ATTACK’

A man found fatally injured on Blackhorse Avenue, D7, in the early hours of yesterday morning may have been targeted in a revenge attack after an altercation last week. The victim was named locally as Jamie Bailey (38), originally from Limerick. He...

ARSON GANG PAID IN DRUGS PLUS €500 CASH

Gardaí believe the gang that launched the arson attack that claimed the lives of four members of a family in Waterford were paid as little as €500 in cash as well as a quantity of drugs. Kim English, Philip English and their sons Callum (12) and...

PAIR HELD OVER FIREBOMB HORROR

DETECTIVES are investigating if the suspected female getaway driver involved in the arson murders of an innocent family used her own car in the attack. The woman was in garda custody last night, along with an alleged male accomplice, who is suspected...

ARSONIST FOR HIRE MAY HAVE CARRIED OUTATTACK

Detectives are investigating whether a criminal “enforcer” was contracted by a local drugs gang to carry out the arson attack that killed four members of an innocent family. Philip and Kim English, as well as their sons Callum (12) and Jayden (9),...

FAMILY KILLED IN BLAZE ‘FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES’

A woman who was murdered along with three members of her family in a petrol bomb attack in Co Waterford was “in fear of her life” and afraid walking her children to school. Tragic couple Philip and Kim English and two of their children – sons Callum...

‘THE MONSTER WHO HAUNTS HER NIGHTMARES’

The mother of a child who suffered a gash in her head after being stabbed in the Parnell Square attack three years ago has described Riad Bouchaker as “the monster” who haunts her daughter’s nightmares. Parents of some of the children injured during...

GANGLAND COKE WAR KICKS OFF WITH WEST DUBLIN MOBS

The alleged theft of a massive haul of cocaine by one gang from another has triggered west Dublin’s latest gangland feud. On one side are associates of convicted drug-trafficker Alan Boggans, while on the other is a notorious Clondalkin-based gang.

FIGHTER BELIEVED HE WAS JESUS AS HE HELD KNIFE TO GRANNY’S NECK

An amateur fighter suffering a drug-induced hallucination that he was Jesus Christ held a butcher’s knife to a terrified grandmother’s neck just five weeks before he killed his own mother, a court has heard. Luke Donnelly (above) was sentenced at the...

I’M SORRY I KILLED MY MOTHER…I’M NOT SORRY FOR MY FATHER AND BROTHER

A man who stabbed three members of his family to death told gardaí: “I’m sorry I killed my mother … I’m not sorry for my father and brother”, a jury has heard. Robert O’Connor (left), is accused of murdering his father Mark, mother Louise and autistic...

MR FLASHY ENFORCER BACK IN THE SADDLE

“Gucci gang” enforcer Scott Capper is back enjoying the high life after serving over two years in prison for a high-speed chase that ended with him fleeing on foot from gardaí “covered in cocaine” and for having a mobile phone in his cell. The violent...

HAPPY FAMILIES BUDGET2027

PERSONAL TAX CREDITS UP BY €250 PER WORKER MONTHLY CAP OF €550 ON CHILDCARE FEES €10 INCREASE IN WEEKLY SOCIAL WELFARE RATES HIGHERTAX BAND UP TO €46,500 MINIMUM WAGE UP 79c PER HOUR

WOULD-BE MOSQUE BOMBERS PLANNED MORE ATTACKS

A group styling itself the “Irish Defence Army” planned to smash the windows of a mosque and fire pipe bombs inside to make a “public statement”, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.

KINAHAN ‘WILL FIGHT CHARGES’

DANIEL Kinahan is expected to appear before the Special Criminal Court today charged with directing a criminal organisation. Kinahan is likely to appear before the non-jury court via video link, having previously indicated that he would attend in...

MCGREGOR PAL TO TAKE CASE AFTER LOSING JOB

Conor McGregor’s co-defendant in a civil rape trial has threatened to take his former employer to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after the company “terminated” his job. James Lawrence, who was sued alongside McGregor for rape by Nikita Hand...

BALCONY FALL WOMAN DIES OF INJURIES

A WOMAN who was rushed to hospital after falling from a balcony in north Dublin has died in hospital. Kathleen Carey (30s) was discovered seriously injured outside an apartment on Main Street in Belmayne, Dublin 13, on Monday afternoon and was...

GANGSTER IS QUIZZED OVER GUN MURDER

A 49-YEAR-OLD criminal who is on remand in prison on drugs charges has been arrested over the gangland murder of a former associate who was shot dead 20 years ago. The double-murder suspect was arrested in Wheatfield Prison by detectives who...

FATHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED IN WORK ACCIDENT

A father and daughter who were killed in a workplace incident in Co Offaly yesterday have been named locally as Denisa Mihaela and Ioan Chinez. The pair, who were originally from Romania, were pronounced dead at the scene of the incident at Banagher...

FACE OF MAN CHARGED WITH HIT ON ROBBIE LAWLOR

Our exclusive picture shows the face of the Dublin man charged with the murder of gangster Robbie Lawlor in 2020. Police claimed Paul Drew, (41) was involved in the assassination in north Belfast more than six years ago based on information within the...

PIPE-BOMB LINK TOINLAFACTION EXTORTING DEALERS

Detectives have arrested a suspected pipe bomb store man linked to an INLA faction involved in taxing and extorting drug dealers along the Border. A major garda investigation is continuing into the activities of the Dundalk-based gang after a weapons...

YOUNGGUNS2

Detectives are investigating if an “extremely volatile” young criminal is behind two gun attacks 24 hours apart on a rival in Dublin. The 38-year-old target of the shootings escaped unharmed on both occasions in the south of the city this week. Armed...

KINAHAN GANGSTER IN ‘MAGO PLOT’ WALKING FREE

Veteran gangster Stephen Fowler is back on the streets having served his time for his role in a plot to murder Hutch-gang figure James ‘Mago’ Gately. The 68-year-old convicted drugdealer is one of seven people found guilty of taking part in the...

GANG’S MOBILE COKELAB REVEALED

A MOBILE drug laboratory used to extract cocaine concealed in wooden sheets was discovered by gardaí during an operation against transatlantic gangs. Gardaí and Revenue seized almost 100kg of cocaine in searches linked to Operation Atlas Nexus,...

BLASTPROOF VAN PLANTO MOVE DAN

PRISON officers are currently being selected for training on the Irish Prison Service’s new blast-proof van – bought to transfer cartel boss Daniel Kinahan to and from the Special Criminal Court. Sources said the 85km trip transferring 49-yearold...

‘BUCKO, YOU’RE IN THE WRONG AREA’

A DOG walker carried out a “violent, unprovoked and politically motivated” attack on TD Michael Healy-Rae as he sat in his car on a Dublin street, it is alleged. A court was told Anthony Foley (51) punched the politician in the face after a tirade of...

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...