1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (300+ words) Two men who are accused of raping an imprisoning a woman in Galway city last month at Ceannt Railway station car-park, have applied to the High Court seeking bail, with one defendant saying he wanted to see his wife. The…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (513+ words) Katie Taylor rocked Dublin when she entered Croke Park to end her career in front of 83,000 roaring fans last Saturday. “I don’t think there’s another country in the world that would sell 80,000 tickets for a female athlete,” she said after…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (348+ words) 7 September, is the anniversary of the death of Liam O’Flaherty in 1984 Liam O’Flaherty is occasionally cited by Irish socialists as one of their own. His early membership of the Communist Party of Ireland, (he was editor of its newspaper Workers…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (111+ words) Crack surge sparks daily disorder on Dublin’s Merchant’s Quay gript.ie A sharp rise in crack cocaine use is transforming the streets around Merchant’s Quay, with frontline staff warning that the drug’s volatility is spilling into the public realm. Crack…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (173+ words) Author and Commentator. Matt has published a number of books including histories of the republican movement and of the Communist Party of Ireland. He is currently working on a number of other books; his latest one is a novel entitled…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (91+ words) Gript A 24-year-old man, Siminic Rostas, who sustained “catastrophic injuries” in a large-scale violent confrontation in south Co Dublin at the weekend, has succumbed to his injuries and died, a court has heard. Kevin Rostas (21), a father of one, of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (95+ words) Gardaí to refer first-time drug possession to health services Gript Eligible first-time drug offenders will now be referred to health services instead of facing immediate criminal charges, in what has been described as an “important shift” in policing policy. In…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (509+ words) Cork father of five, Barry Daly, who was 44 when he was murdered in the early hours of Sunday 12 October last year outside his home at Rockview Terrace in Doneraile, was described by a judge today as an exceptional person who…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (91+ words) Gript Two critical landmark-moments last week passed almost without comment, apart from by Matt Treacy in these pages. One was the official news: yes, Ireland’s population had reached 5.5 million. The other was the utter non-debate within Fingal County Council over…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (879+ words) I was in a shop yesterday afternoon when I heard an RTÉ bulletin about the murder of Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa. I gasped when I heard that her husband, the suspect, had taken his own life. I immediately thought of…...