In a joint operation with itself, the Garda Bilocation Unit has carried out simultaneous arrests of Ivor Callely in Dublin and Cork. Supt Peadar Pio, joint head of the unit [...]

You expect your celebrity chef to be good at what he does, but Anthony Worral Thompson isn't even a very good thief. What did he take?  A loaf of bread. [...]

There was a time when Planet Ireland orbited its own smug, self-satisfied star, held on course by a mysterious force known as certainty.  That was an era when Irish missionaries [...]

Twenty-seven men had their names published today by the Irish Times after being convicted of soliciting sex for money. By contrast, no men had their names published for successfully negotiating [...]

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Another shooting in Dublin.  Cherry Orchard this time.  No end to these killings. Not much talk about it in the blogosphere, but wait until some random knacker kills another one [...]

I went to see the Shane Geoghegan exhibition in Limerick City Hall.  It's truly astonishing.  Somewhere in the middle of that throng is a thing I made myself  in a [...]

Shane Geoghegan was shot dead by a criminal who mistook him for somebody else. His death united Limerick, a city sick and tired of lowlife scumbags, just like every other [...]

I didn't know the man who was murdered recently in our town, but people say he was a decent individual. One way or another, he didn't deserve to be murdered. [...]

They locked them up. They beat them. They starved them. They used their labour for a profit. And in the end, they denied everything, just like their kind always does. [...]