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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Tom Shiel
A woman whose former husband subjected their young daughter to a litany of sexual abuse, including rape on an almost daily basis, pleaded guilty at a Tuesday sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court to cruelty to a child, contrary to the Children’s Act 1908.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Tom Shiel
A seaside community is “struggling” and “lost for words” following the death in hospital of a 16-year-old student who became ill during a GAA training session. The loss of Christopher (Chris) Gavin, a transition-year student at Rice College, Westport, Co Mayo, was described locally as “like a light extinguished”. In advance of his funeral this weekend, tributes are being paid to the “wonderful student” and GAA minor player.
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1 month ago |
thesun.ie | Tom Shiel
A HARDY Bucks actor died after taking cocaine and a hallucinogenic drug at a stag party in Mayo, an inquest heard. Alan ‘Ali’ Carter, from Kiltimagh in Co Mayo, played DJ Scorpio Lyons on the hit RTE comedy series Hardy Bucks. The actor died aged 37 following a stag party in Westport, Co Mayo, last August. At an inquest into his death on Thursday, a coroner warned that the “danger of combining alcohol and drugs cannot be overestimated”.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Tom Shiel
An actor died after taking cocaine and a hallucinogenic at a stag party, an inquest has heard. Alan ‘Ali’ Carter (37), from Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, appeared as DJ Scorpio Lyons on the RTÉ comedy series Hardy Bucks. At an inquest on Thursday, Dr Eleanor Fitzgerald, coroner for Mayo, recorded a verdict of death by misadventure and warned about the dangers of combining drugs and alcohol.
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1 month ago |
irishmirror.ie | Tom Shiel
“The dangers of combining alcohol and drugs cannot be overestimated”, a coroner warned on Thursday after returning a verdict of misadventure at an inquest into the death of a 37-year-old actor following a stag party in Westport, Co. Mayo, last August. The inquest into the death of Alan ‘Ali’ Carter, of Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo, who made his name as DJ Scorpio Lyons on the RTÉ comedy series, Hardy Bucks, was conducted by the Coroner for Mayo, Dr. Eleanor Fitzgerald.
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