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Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described the killings as a "tragedy, so awful and heart-breaking." [24] Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he was shocked and appalled as was the entire country at the deaths. [25] On his morning radio programme on Monday 5 September, Irish broadcaster Ryan Tubridy broke down as he tried to discuss the incident. [26]
In the days following Murphy's death, the Garda Síochána (Irish police) questioned 31-year-old Slovak Romani father-of-five Jozef Puška, who was subsequently arrested and charged with her murder. On 9 November 2023, following a three-week trial at Dublin's Central Criminal Court , a jury found Puška guilty by unanimous verdict.
It was the first murder of a tourist in Mauritius, [2] [3] and the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam expressed his sympathy to the Harte and McAreavey families. [4] The two hotel workers who were accused of her murder were tried and declared not-guilty by the Supreme Court of Mauritius: they were acquitted on 12 July 2012. [5] [6]
Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich has accused the Irish president of "politicising" a Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration in Dublin on Sunday. The event marked 80 years since the end of ...
Elaine O'Hara (17 March 1976 – c. 22 August 2012) was an Irish childcare worker who was murdered in August 2012 by architect Graham Dwyer. She was last seen alive at a public park in Shanganagh, Dublin, Ireland, on 22 August. The remains of her body were discovered on Killakee Mountain, south of Dublin, in September 2013. The investigation of ...
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, has said his government would take immediate steps to tighten anti-hate legislation he said was unfit for the social media age. "As a country we need to ...
Caldwell is known in part for investigating high-profile murder incidents, including the murder of Ronan Kerr and the death of Lyra McKee. He has received multiple death threats in the past. [ 5 ] He was 48 years old at the time of the shooting.
Guerin's murder caused outrage, and Taoiseach John Bruton called it "an attack on democracy". [12] The Oireachtas, the Irish parliament, realised the potential of using tax enforcement laws as a means of deterring and punishing criminals. Within a week of her murder, it enacted the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and the Criminal Assets Bureau Act ...