
Garreth MacNamee
Senior News Reporter at Irish Daily Mail
Deputy News Editor/Senior News Reporter @IrishDailyMail Interested in crime, social affairs and scandalous behaviour. Threema ID: 3UTJ6TTE #COYBIG
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1 week ago |
extra.ie | Garreth MacNamee
A National school was put in lockdown yesterday morning after it emerged a ‘disturbed’ man who threatened to kill children was in the area. The man, arrested yesterday afternoon, had made graphic threats to Irish children, saying he was going to target them because Irish people had ‘p*ssed me off’. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW The video, which was circulated online earlier this week, showed a man lying on a bed addressing the camera. He said: ‘Irish, I’m coming on top of you now.
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1 week ago |
extra.ie | Garreth MacNamee
Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has apologised to the family of the late Shane O’Farrell, who died in a hit-and-run at the hands of a man who should have been in prison. Mr O’Callaghan, in giving the apology in the Dáil yesterday, said a review of the nation’s bail laws is now being carried out to make sure something of this nature never happens again.
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1 week ago |
extra.ie | Garreth MacNamee
A new tip-off to gardaí led to an upgrade to a murder investigation of the nearly 30-year disappearance of Fiona Pender, with a new dig for her suspected remains starting yesterday. Ms Pender was seven months pregnant when she disappeared from her flat on Church Street in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, on Friday, August 23, 1996. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW Since then, gardaí have interviewed hundreds of people and arrested five in connection with her disappearance.
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2 weeks ago |
irishcentral.com | Garreth MacNamee
Finding the murder weapon involved in the gruesome death of farmer Michael Gaine may be the only way to solve the mystery of his killing, senior sources have told Extra.ie. The discovery of body parts released from a slurry tank resulted in the arrest of a man who was well-known to Mr. Gaine. However, that man has since been released without charge, and the investigation remains ongoing.
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2 weeks ago |
extra.ie | Garreth MacNamee
Hundreds of post offices across the country are facing closure if emergency funding is not issued, it has been warned. A significant new report by the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) found that Ireland’s network urgently requires a strategic investment of € 15 million per year over five years to secure essential community services.
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Such sad news. Aodhán was known across every newsroom in the country, someone whose name equated to trust and professionalism. To pass at such a young age is so very sad. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Tributes have been paid to legal journalist Aodhan O'Faolain, who reported on High Court, Appeal Court and Supreme Court cases for almost all national news organisations and who has died at the age of 50 https://t.co/mg4J8GojP1

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Really interesting piece here by @janeematthews Chimes, frightfully so, with so many friends trying to buy right now. At least there’s a new €430k a year “czar” to sort it all out! https://t.co/9tBaceRdiJ