Stardust vigil: ‘The many friendships made over the years among families will live on’The nightclub on the Kilmore Road no longer exists and the site is now a retail and office parkSat Feb 10 2024 - 17:25
Stardust inquests: Last of 190 witnesses gives evidence ahead of closing submissionsDublin Fire Brigade chief tells inquest of concerns over fire certification processWed Feb 07 2024 - 20:25
Almost a quarter of six year olds have their own smartphone, survey findsMajority of parents concerned about online safety of their children, CyberSafeKids findsTue Feb 06 2024 - 06:00
Varadkar and Sunak to visit Belfast in wake of restored powersharing at StormontTaoiseach and UK prime minister to hold bilateral talks while in Northern IrelandSun Feb 04 2024 - 18:05
Mary Lou McDonald expects vote on Irish unity ‘this decade’Ms McDonald’s comments echo earlier remarks from Michelle O’Neill, who said we are entering a ‘decade of opportunity’Sun Feb 04 2024 - 14:29
Carpet tiles and obstructions at exits contributed to loss of life in Stardust, court hearsFire engineer highlights breaches of bylaws and planning regulations during conversion of food factory into nightclubThu Feb 01 2024 - 20:46
Stardust inquests: 16 bylaws breached by management at nightclub, coroners court hearsA lack of fire drills and staff training, as well as the obstruction of emergency exits were among breaches that amounted to noncompliance with all but ten of the 26 applicable bylaws, fire engineer tells inquestsWed Jan 31 2024 - 20:20
Too many people are ‘voyeurs’ to injustice and poverty, rather than challenging it - President HigginsPresident delivers keynote address at celebration of 50-year careers of Social Justice Ireland co-founders Fr Seán Healy and Sr Brigid ReynoldsWed Jan 31 2024 - 19:50
Stardust fire could have started unnoticed in hot press, coroner’s court hearsInvestigator asked if fire could develop in hot press without being smelled, heard, seen or felt by staff working in the main bar at the timeTue Jan 30 2024 - 20:25
Only ‘likely’ cause of Stardust fire was hot press electrical fault, Dublin coroner’s court hearsFire investigator Dr Will Hutchinson says low ceilings and carpet tiles on walls also contributed to blazeMon Jan 29 2024 - 19:04
No evidence of arson at Stardust fire, inquests hearDr Will Hutchinson says clear evidence that fire started in hot press and spread to roof spaceThu Jan 25 2024 - 19:14
Stardust inquests: Fire would have spread ‘much slower’ if walls not lined with carpet tiles, expert saysForensic scientist tells coroner attempts to contain 1981 nightclub blaze with fire extinguishers caused it to spread furtherWed Jan 24 2024 - 19:40
Electrical fault in hot press or deliberate fire were most ‘probable’ causes at Stardust, inquests told Dr Will Hutchinson, a forensic scientist and fire investigator, said it was ‘possible’ that the fire started in the area of tiered seating known as the west alcove or in a hot-press in the main barTue Jan 23 2024 - 18:53
Medically supervised drug injection facility to open in DublinMerchant’s Quay Ireland says location will be safer, and will remove some open drug use and litter from streetsTue Jan 23 2024 - 06:00
Fire experts to examine if electrical fault caused blaze in StardustForensic scientist says several emergency exits were ‘not open’ during early stages of fire, in which 48 young people were killedMon Jan 22 2024 - 21:34
Depaul charity hopes to reopen homeless hostel hit by fatal explosion within daysDublin city facility was closed after an improvised device is believed to have exploded under a resident’s bedSun Jan 21 2024 - 15:24
Investigators believe improvised explosive device caused blast at Dublin homeless hostelVictim, believed to be an eastern European man in his 30s, was staying at Depaul centre on Little Britain Street in the city centreFri Jan 19 2024 - 12:37
‘I am no saint, but I don’t think I deserve to die like this’: How are Dublin’s rough sleepers managing in cold weather?Despite provision of extra beds as part of an extreme weather emergency protocol, many of the capital’s homeless cannot or will not take themThu Jan 18 2024 - 19:15
Stardust: Identifying remains of those killed in fire ‘unbearable’ in many cases, says coronerDr Myra Cullinane made comments during conclusion of forensic evidence at inquest into deaths of 48 people in 1981 nightclub blazeWed Jan 17 2024 - 18:13
Stardust inquests: Two siblings died from noxious fumes and heat, court hearsCauses of death given for 12 of the 48 who died in the Stardust fire in Artane in February 1981Tue Jan 16 2024 - 20:22
Delay in fleeing Stardust saw people lose consciousness and increased ‘risk of death’Forensic pathologist agrees descriptions of people ‘lying down’ and ‘giving up’ during nightclub blaze were consistent with inhaling toxic gasesFri Jan 12 2024 - 19:34
Man who died while sleeping rough on Dublin street identifiedPostmortem to be held on body of man believed to have been an Irish national aged in his 40sFri Jan 12 2024 - 14:13
Stardust inquests hear original postmortems did not adequately consider falling oxygen levels in fireDistressing details were again heard, including of one victim who survived for almost a week before her life-support was turned offThu Jan 11 2024 - 18:40
Bill Kenneally inquiry: Waterford basketball club say gardaí never raised concerns with themFormer secretary of Waterford Vikings said they would not have allowed convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally stay on as a ‘key member’ if they had been approachedThu Jan 11 2024 - 13:48
Fumes and ‘rapidly lethal’ heat significant causes of Stardust deaths, inquests hearJury begins hearing postmortem findings from 1981 along with findings from forensic pathologistsWed Jan 10 2024 - 21:38
Identity of rough sleeper who died in Dublin city remains unknown to authorities Gardaí were alerted about a man’s body on St Andrew’s Street early on Tuesday by a homeless organisationWed Jan 10 2024 - 17:32
Quality of postmortems on Stardust fire victims ‘very variable’, coroner toldPathologist says failure to record where bodies found makes it impossible to make ‘any meaningful’ statement on how blaze affected individualsTue Jan 09 2024 - 18:38
‘It is really stressing me’: woman raising toddler in cold, mouldy apartment seeks a way outAndhile Ndhlovu took a small apartment in Palmerstown when pregnant. Then things started to go wrongTue Jan 09 2024 - 06:00
Child maintenance payments could be collected by Revenue as part of shake-upWide-ranging changes outlined in report from Minister for Justice come after many years of lobbying by advocates for one-parent families and childrenMon Jan 08 2024 - 00:01
Cold weather plan: Low temperatures trigger emergency response for rough sleepersWith temperatures expected to remain as low as zero degrees at night for the rest of the week the Dublin Region Homeless Executive confirmed it has triggered its ‘extreme weather emergency protocol’Sun Jan 07 2024 - 21:00
Mother of two boys with life-limiting conditions ‘frustrated’ and ‘stressed’ over housing delayJamie Rogerson’s sons, aged 4 and 2, remain stuck in unsafe housing as Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council decide whether to approve ‘medical priority’ transferSat Jan 06 2024 - 07:00
Rotunda Hospital welcomes first newborn of 2024 — Arlo Robert Emmet Baby Robert arrives at four minutes past midnight to parents Nicole and Robert Emmet from Ashbourne, Co MeathMon Jan 01 2024 - 15:35
Group of over 30 Traveller children call to see President at Áras an UachtaráinThomas Connors (13), who lost five members of his family including his parents in a fire in their Co Dublin halting site in 2015, was among the groupThu Dec 21 2023 - 20:20
Dublin riots: Gardaí ‘surprised’ at speed disinformation spread online before disorder, says HarrisGardaí were ‘very aware of tensions’ in Dublin since reopening of the Dáil, commissioner tells CrimecallTue Dec 19 2023 - 06:28
Mother of apprentice plumber murdered in 2006 appeals for witnesses to come forwardAnthony Campbell’s mother tells RTÉ's Crimecall programme ‘I haven’t completed my job until I get him justice’Mon Dec 18 2023 - 23:42
Former member of Garda Reserve pleads guilty to sample counts of rape, sexual assault and gross indecencyThe offences took place over the course of a number of years, starting when the victim was a 14-year-old boyMon Dec 18 2023 - 21:12
Gardaí appeal for witnesses after fatal crash in GalwayPeople also asked to come forward about separate incident in DonegalMon Dec 18 2023 - 18:35
Irishwoman whose weather forecast changed D-Day landing date dies aged 100In 2021 she was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for her role in the warMon Dec 18 2023 - 00:41
Gardaí investigating alleged assault in Waterford that left two men with serious injuriesVictims, both in their 40s, were taken to University Hospital Waterford from a residence on High Street in the city following incidentSun Dec 17 2023 - 22:13
Stardust year in review: Harrowing accounts of a night that will live long in the collective Dublin memory‘I had to breathe and it was like tyres. It was hot and there was substance to it. It was like ash’Fri Dec 15 2023 - 18:04
Footage of Stardust fire aftermath, including clips of smouldering bodies, shown at inquestScenes, filmed by RTÉ but never broadcast and described as ‘very difficult’ but ‘important’ by coroner, were viewed by the 13-person juryThu Dec 14 2023 - 16:47
Person who tried to sneak into Stardust says four of six exits at the nightclub were locked Witness tells inquests that people were trying to break small glass panels in the front door ‘to get some air in’ as the foyer filled with ‘thick smoke’Wed Dec 13 2023 - 17:00
Over 3,000 queue at Capuchin centre in Dublin for Christmas food vouchersFamilies, including schoolchildren, began queueing just after 4am for vouchersWed Dec 13 2023 - 09:55
Stardust inquests will not hear full evidence of two witnesses while third cannot be locatedEvidence ‘part heard’ from two significant witnesses who cannot or will not return to finishTue Dec 12 2023 - 19:55
Gardaí found no evidence to suggest Stardust fire was ‘malicious’, inquest hearsDublin Coroner’s Court hears of exhaustive efforts to establish cause of blaze that killed 48Mon Dec 11 2023 - 17:48
Stardust fire: 19 ambulances needed to bring remains of victims to morgue, inquest hearsFormer Garda inspector on duty on the night of the disaster tells Dublin coroner’s court about steps taken to preserve scene and implementation of capital’s major accident planFri Dec 08 2023 - 22:00
Stardust fireman ‘often wonders what type of person’ he would have been had he not attended at blazeNoel Keegan, who was 30 on night of blaze, found bodies ‘burnt to a cinder’Thu Dec 07 2023 - 16:26
Stardust inquests: Temperature and speed at which fire engulfed nightclub ‘not normal’Fire officer tells inquest the fire was an ‘accelerated’ blaze and ‘there was something in that building that contributed to the fast spread’Wed Dec 06 2023 - 18:38
Stardust inquiry: Fireman says some victims were just ‘steps’ from safety ‘I found two more bodies together. They were lying beside each other and they looked like they were holding hands,’ court hearsTue Dec 05 2023 - 19:45
Flu vaccine: HSE warns of seasonal virus spread as nasal vaccine offered to all children aged 2-17 HSE expects virus to start circulating more widely in coming weeksMon Dec 04 2023 - 00:01
