Cormac O'Keeffe
Security Correspondent at Irish Examiner
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Neil Michael |Cormac O'Keeffe
The Garda Commissioner has issued a statement to the Garda Representative Association (GRA) saying what he would have wanted to say if he had been invited to attend their annual conference this year. As well as listing all the things he has initiated to improve the conditions of rank-and-file Gardaí — even down to a new baseball cap — Drew Harris also hints that he would still very much like to go to the GRA’s conference in Co Kerry in April.
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Brendan Furlong |Cormac O'Keeffe
A 34-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in Waterford City. Marcus O'Neill, with an address at 15 O'Brien St in Waterford City, appeared before a special sitting of Gorey District Court on Sunday night charged under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act. Detective Sergeant Mick Bourke gave evidence of arrest charge and caution.
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2 months ago |
irishexaminer.com | Imasha Costa |Cormac O'Keeffe
A man has been charged in connection with the discovery of a woman's body in Waterford City on Saturday. The woman, aged in her 40s, was discovered by emergency services in an “unresponsive state” after they entered a house on O’Brien Street. She was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested, understood to be on suspicion of assault. It is understood the man was arrested at the scene. In an update on Sunday evening, gardaí say the man has since been charged.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
irishexaminer.com | Imasha Costa |Cormac O'Keeffe
Two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal attack on William 'Willie' Moorehouse, which happened in Co Wicklow on Sunday. Mr Moorehouse, aged 36, was found by a passerby at about 6pm in a park in Bray. He died after suffering a number of lacerations and blade wounds to his body. On Monday evening, two men, aged in their 20s and 40s, were arrested for serious offences under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, 1994 in the Bray area.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray |Cormac O'Keeffe
The European Commission appears to be on a collision course with the US over social media giants X and Meta, while the Irish regulator is set to engage with the latter on its drastic changes to content moderation policies announced this week. With a Trump presidency looming, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced his platforms would be ending third-party fact-checking on posts in the US and would instead switch to an X-style Community Notes system where users flag content as false or misleading.
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