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3 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Jacqui Browne, a disability activist and thalidomide survivor, has died at the age of 63. Ms Browne, who was from Co Kerry, died peacefully at her home on Monday “surrounded by her loving family” and a palliative care team. Ms Browne, who was born in November 1961, is predeceased by her parents Donal and Jean, and her brother-in-law Jean Paul Baro. She is survived by her siblings, nieces and nephews, and wider family. In her death notice, her family said they are “heartbroken” by her passing.
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1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Gardaí have arrested a man and two juveniles in Kildare in connection with criminal damage at Castletown House. The three males were arrested on Friday morning by gardaí attached to Kildare North. The arrests took place following a search operation at a number of residential properties in Kildare. The three arrests relate to a number of separate incidents of criminal damage at Castletown House between April 22nd to May 4th, 2025.
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1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Ryan Tubridy has announced his engagement to his partner, Dr Clare Kambamettu, a clinical psychologist. The former RTÉ presenter and Late Late Show host confirmed the news on his radio show, which is broadcast on Virgin Radio in the UK and on Q102 in Ireland, on Tuesday. “I’m very, very, very, very, very happy to confirm that I did indeed get engaged to my partner Clare on Thursday evening in the west of Ireland,” he told his listeners.
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1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
The laughter and shouts of children playing filled the air outside Trinity Primary School in Tuam, Co Galway, during break time on Monday morning. Further along the Dublin Road, just a short walk away, there is a very different playground. Under this site, it is believed that hundreds of children could be buried in a mass grave. Mother and baby homes now seem a world away but, not that long ago, they were to be found in towns across the country.
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1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Preparatory work will begin on Monday at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, in advance of a long-awaited excavation due to start in mid-July. The excavation will take place 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless revealed that 796 children died at the institution, which was run by the Bon Secours religious order between 1925-1961. A lack of burial records indicated the children could be buried on the site.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
A man in his 20s was arrested after gardaí seized drugs with an estimated value of €119,000 in west Dublin on Friday. Gardaí from the Dublin Crime Response Team carried out a search in Finglas as part of a continuing operation targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs. During the course of the search gardaí seized cannabis herb valued at €114,940, cocaine with an estimated value of €3,010, and ketamine valued at €1,500.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Household electricity bills could increase by €83 per year to pay for an “essential” upgrade of the country’s power system, the chief executive of the Electricity Association of Ireland (EAI) has said. Dara Lynott said ESB Networks estimates it will need between €10 billion and €13.4 billion to upgrade the system over the next five years. ESB Networks has asked the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to approve a price increase in order to facilitate this.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
A man who died while sleeping rough last year believed he would be placed on the social housing list quicker if he stayed on the streets instead of a hostel, his father has told his inquest. The body of Stephen “Clarkey” Clarke (41) was found in a tent outside a former church on St Andrew’s Street in Dublin city centre in the early hours of January 9th, 2024. Mr Clarke was originally from Meath but had been living in Dublin for some time.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
Some people attempting to book a driving test have had to wait over an hour to log in to the Road Safety Authority (RSA) website amid “particularly high levels of traffic”. When attempting to access the site in recent days, users have been notified they are in a queue “due to exceptional demand”. In some cases, people have been told their estimated wait time is more than an hour. One person who attempted to log in to the site described the wait time as “ridiculous”.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | Orla Ryan |Órla Ryan
It was an incongruous sight on a sunny, quiet Sunday spring morning: a red van, crumpled at the front, jutting out on to a normally busy road in suburban south Dublin that had been closed by gardaí. The force of the impact with the old Norway Maple had crushed the front of the van on the driver’s side; bark had been ripped from the tree. The damage to both van and tree gave an indication of how fast the vehicle had been travelling, in a 50km/h speed limit zone.
