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On his morning radio programme on Monday 5 September, Irish broadcaster Ryan Tubridy broke down as he tried to discuss the incident. [26] Principal of St. Aidan's Community School in Brookfield , Kevin Shortall, said that the community was struggling to comprehend the tragedy.
Official traffic collision statistics in the Republic of Ireland are compiled by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) using data supplied by the Garda Síochána (police). [1] While related data is collected by other organisations, including the National Roads Authority, local authorities, and the Health Service Executive, these are not factored into RSA statistics. [2]
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
At least 23 serving Gardaí have been killed by individuals or groups associated with the Republican paramilitary groups, [3] this being the most common cause of death apart from accidents. The most recent death was that of Detective Garda Colm Horkan , who was killed in June 2020, becoming the 89th member of the force to die on duty.
Keane Mulready-Woods of Drogheda, County Louth, was an Irish teenager and criminal who disappeared on 12 January 2020, and whose dismembered body was then found in Coolock, County Dublin. More of his remains were found in Drumcondra in a burnt out car the following week.
RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month. Accounts for 2019 showed net assets of over €1 million. [ 2 ]
Death was a mandatory sentence for murder, though it was often commuted. [10] The last public hanging in Ireland was in 1868; after the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 executions were carried out behind prison walls. Irish doctor Samuel Haughton developed the humane "Standard Drop" method of hanging that came into use in 1866.
Mary Boyle was last seen at 3:30pm on 18 March 1977 near her grandparents' rural farm in Cashelard, near Ballyshannon, County Donegal. [4] The family, including Boyle's mother Ann, father Charlie, older brother Paddy and twin sister Ann, had gone to her maternal grandparents' house on St Patrick's Day from their home in Kincasslagh in The Rosses, further up the coast.