12+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1681+ words) On the evening of Tuesday June 9th, Michael was at home with his family when a brick came through the livingroom window, shattering the glass of their terraced home in east Belfast and just missing his three-year-old son. “My child was…...

12+ hour, 36+ min ago   (557+ words) Soft toys, illuminations, large-scale floral tributes and “highly conspicuous materials” will be banned from roadside memorials to crash victims under a new policy covering much of south Dublin. Shrines and monuments to those killed in collisions have for decades been…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago   (180+ words) In late summer, a criminal using the name “SpongeJob” posted a wanted ad on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service. He was looking for a hitman to travel to Cyprus to kill two men, twins from the UK. Everything would be…...

12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (484+ words) A lack of suitable placements for “exceptionally vulnerable” children in care was the “dominant issue” in more than a sixth of cases before the courts examined in a new report. The ongoing placements crisis – which has meant Tusla’s increasing dependence…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (363+ words) Two Co Galway women have appeared in court over alleged public-order offences on the seventh green at Trump Doonbeg golf course as US president Donald Trump’s Marine One helicopter was in the air preparing to land on Saturday afternoon. At…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (632+ words) A woman who told a court her husband chased her through their home with a machete “screaming that he would kill me” has secured an interim barring order against him. She also told Dublin District Family Court that the man…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (645+ words) A priest told the funeral of a teenager killed in a hit-and-run in Co Clare that parents and grandparents in Ireland are “full of fear” of the society their children and grandchildren are growing up in. Fr Richard Davern was…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (534+ words) Dozens of criminal legal aid cases were adjourned at a midlands district court on Thursday due to the withdrawal of services by criminal solicitors involved in the legal aid payment dispute. At Mullingar District Court, Judge Patricia Cronin adjourned the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (135+ words) Gardaí have released a second man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Dún Laoghaire in July. The man aged in his 40s was arrested on Thursday as part of the Garda investigation into the death of Mark Cullen (39). Cullen…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (462+ words) A doctor who was jailed for sexual assault in Britain in August was the subject of a complaint alleging sexual harassment of a younger colleague in Dublin 20 years ago. Muhammad Iqbal (64), of Julianstown, Co Meath, was jailed last month for…...