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Inquest into death of NI boy found in storm drain must be heard by jury, says family

An inquest into the death of Noah Donohoe should be heard in front of a jury, a lawyer for the schoolboy’s family has said. The inquest into Noah’s death is scheduled to begin on November 28 and to run for three weeks. The 14-year-old pupil at St ...

27 Apr 2022 at 11:33

Northern Ireland

MPs overturn attempts to remove immunity clause from Troubles legacy Bill

The UK Government has overturned attempts to remove the conditional immunity provision from legislation designed to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The House of Lords had voted to strip out the contentious element which ...

18 Jul 2023 at 18:42

Ricky Hatton found dead at home, inquest told

Sport

Ricky Hatton found hanged at home, inquest told

Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton was found dead at his home by his manager, a coroner’s court heard. The 46-year-old was discovered “unresponsive” by Paul Speak on the morning of Sunday September 14, at the house in Hyde, Greater ...

16 Oct 2025 at 16:18

National News

Coroner seeks witnesses to 1972 Springhill shooting which killed five civilians

A coroner has made a public appeal for witnesses to a shooting incident involving the Army in Belfast 50 years ago, in which five civilians were killed, to come forward. Judge Neil Rafferty said he planned to begin the inquest on ...

07 Sept 2022 at 17:43

Crime and Courts

Limerick inquest hears details of charity motorcyclist's tragic death

AN INQUEST has heard emotional testimony from friends and fellow bikers of the late Aidan Lynam, who died in a road traffic collision in county Clare while he was undertaking a charity motorcycle in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland. ...

05 Dec 2016 at 19:41

National News

Stardust inquests jury considers verdicts over deaths of 48 people

The jury in the Stardust inquests has retired to deliberate on a verdict over the deaths of 48 people in a fire in Dublin in 1981. The inquests began in April last year and have heard evidence from 373 people. The fire in ...

28 Mar 2024 at 16:43

Northern Ireland

Calls for State apology for Stardust families after unlawful killing verdicts

Relatives of some of the 48 people killed in a fire at a Dublin nightclub in 1981 have called for a State apology after a jury returned a verdict that they were unlawfully killed. The jury reached a majority verdict of ...

18 Apr 2024 at 19:12

Local News

Motorcyclist killed in Clare road crash was travelling at high speed before impact

A MOTORIST was travelling at an estimated speed of "at least 155km per hour" moments before he came off his motorbike in a horror crash, a short distance from Bunratty Castle, an inquest has heard. At a sitting of ...

01 Mar 2024 at 17:00

National News

Stardust families criticise ‘undue delays’ for tragedy inquest

Victims’ families have hit out at the “undue delays” being put in the way of an inquest into the Stardust fire tragedy. Forty-eight people died in the Stardust nightclub fire in Dublin on February 14 1981. On ...

23 Feb 2022 at 09:54

Northern Ireland

Attorney General considering five requests for legacy inquests in Troubles cases

Northern Ireland’s Attorney General is considering five requests to hold inquests into Troubles deaths, just weeks before a legal deadline will halt any further legacy cases. Dame Brenda King, the top legal ...

11 Apr 2024 at 16:35

Breaking News

Inquest into pensioner to be reopened after Limerick family's eight-year battle

THE INQUEST into the death of a pensioner is to be reopened for a full-week hearing later this year, following an eight-year battle by his heartbroken family. Michael Daly Snr, of Lee Estate, died aged 66 ...

04 Mar 2020 at 22:00

Northern Ireland

Irish government ‘was reluctant’ to acknowledge border role in Kingsmill attack

There appeared to be “some reluctance on the part of the Irish State” in the wake of the Kingsmill attack to acknowledge the role of the border in the massacre, a coroner has said. Delivering his ...

12 Apr 2024 at 18:39

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