RIP Fr. Olivier Maire.
Two-year-old still in hospital.
The fatal attack took place last night.
Pleads not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
This week marked the centenary of the killing of Tomás MacCurtáin, Mayor of Cork, who was shot dead by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on March 20th, 1920. MacCurtain had been elected the first Republican Mayor of Cork City, and was assassinated in front of his family in a premeditated attack planned by the RIC with the […]
Jair Bolsonaro’s first year as Brazilian president saw the lowest national murder rate in over a decade, whilst 2019’s decline in the number of murders was also the sharpest since 2007.
In Dostoyevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov asserts that if there is no God, then anything is permitted. Reading what is known so far of the details of the horrific murder of the 17 year-old whose body parts were found in different parts of Dublin this week, we must certainly be conscious that […]
Indian police say they were visiting the scene of a rape and murder with four suspects who unexpectedly tried to grab guns from the officers, causing all four to be shot dead underneath the bridge where the original crime had been committed in the southern city of Hyderabad.
The two teenage boys found guilty of the murder of 14-year old Ana Kriégel last year, have been sentenced. The 15 year-old referred as Boy A has been sentenced to life in detention, with a review of his sentence in 12 years. The other party to Ana’s murder, referred to as Boy B who is […]
Judge Tammy Kemp presided over the Amber Guyger case which made international headlines last week, when the brother of Botham Jean, the man killed by Ms Guyger, made a moving statement of forgiveness in the court.
One of the boys who murdered Ana Kriegel had almost 12000 pornographic images on his devices, many depicting sexual violence. What is porn doing to young minds and when are we going to wake up to the harm being done by 24/7 access to this depraved industry? Ana Kriegel was a beautiful and lively schoolgirl […]