A hospital porter has described the moment he found the bodies of two murdered schoolgirls in a woodland den 32 years ago. Kevin Rowland was just 18 when he joined the search for missing Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway. He told jurors his first words on making the grim discovery were: “Shit, I think we’ve […]

A 12-day-old baby girl died after contracting the common cold sore virus in hospital days after birth. Baby Eibhlín Wills acquired the infection in the first five days of her life, an inquest into her death heard. Blood tests showed no sign of the infection three days after birth but the infection was present in […]

Orphaned at two years of age, married at 21 and widowed less than 20 years later, Elizabeth O’Kelly was fondly remembered for her “tennis parties and splendid teas”. As of today, she will be remembered for a level of generosity that is rarely or ever seen. She was 93 when she died in December 2016. […]

A convicted Dublin sex offender who was jailed for groping two teenage concert-goers on a Luas will be sentenced next year for acts of gross indecency with a mentally impaired male. John Daly (58) served a partially suspended four year sentence for sexually assaulting two teenage girls on their way to a Rihanna concert by […]

An 80-year-old man who tried to prevent a heroin addict from stealing a Church collection box was subjected to a horrific attack including having his eye gouged, being kicked in the groin and then had his glasses stamped on. The assault by David O’Donovan (41) on the pensioner only ended when a Polish woman attending […]

Comedian Stephen Fry has spoken for the first time since last week’s vote on blasphemy, which saw an overwhelming majority vote to remove the current legislation. Some 951,650 people voted ‘yes’ in the referendum that featured alongside the Presidential Election last week, which will see the crime of blasphemy removed from the constitution. While no-one […]

William Sitwell, a food critic and writer, made the comments in an email to a freelance writer after she pitched him a series of vegan recipes. Selene Nelson told Buzzfeed her pitch was met with a response from the editor which said: “How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. “Ways to trap […]

There will be no space for additional passengers to travel on peak train services around Dublin in less than three years unless dozens of additional carriages are in service. A massive surge in demand has led to overcrowding on busy morning and evening commuter routes, and Irish Rail says it has to order new fleet […]

Here, Pam, from Brighton, tells Sky News about her autistic son Tony, 41, who has lived away from his family for more than 17 years. Tony was a happy-go-lucky boy growing up. He went everywhere with us, and of course his autism was hard to cope with, but we had a lot of fun. It […]