4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1212+ words) Hugh O’Flaherty who has died aged 88, was a brilliant barrister in his younger years whose...brevity that was reflected in his written judgments. Hugh O’Flaherty was born in January 1938 in Killarney,...(née O’Flaherty) and her husband Christy raised Hugh; the…...

4+ week, 51+ min ago   (447+ words) One of the pleasures of working in the media for the past decade has been the growing ease with which our readers can capture images or experiences and share them with us. Reader submissions – facilitated by Contribly software – are now…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (904+ words) The world’s attention alighted on Ireland this week for two reasons: firstly, it’s August and all other news has gone to its beach house to relax for the rest of the month. And secondly, because Daniel Kinahan, a figure of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (201+ words) A Garda inquiry is under way after the body of a man in his 60s was found in a home in Co Cavan on Saturday. Gardaí are investigating “all of the circumstances” leading to the man’s death in the house in…...

1+ day, 4+ 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…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (459+ words) Solicitor and senior counsel James MacGuill, who acted in a number of successful landmark cases in the Irish and European courts, has died aged 63. During a 40-year legal career MacGuill was involved in several significant cases, including Ireland’s first ever…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (294+ words) Jason Hutch, the son of veteran criminal and failed election candidate Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, is being extradited from Lanzarote on the Government jet. Hutch, who has been in custody in Lanzarote for months, was expected to arrive in Dublin…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (453+ words) The release of Alison Chawke four weeks into what was in effect a 12-month sentence for assault has, if nothing else, shone a light on chronic overcrowding in the prison system. Forty-one-year-old Chawke – who assaulted two men at a hotel…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (478+ words) Two tenants whose landlord claimed they “paid nothing” for a Co Meath property for more than a year have been ordered to pay more than €31,000 in rent arrears and parking charges. Victor and Ionela Tanase were also ordered to vacate…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1329+ words) It started last month with a job advertisement on the encrypted messaging app Signal. The account was called Sponge Jobb. A hitman was needed to carry out a murder somewhere in the European Union, wrote the user on August 10th. A…...