Barry Roche

Barry Roche

Southern Correspondent

Barry Roche is Southern Correspondent with The Irish Times.

Gardaí from the Cork City Divisional Drugs Squad backed up by local gardaí stopped and searched a taxi in Ballyfeard near Carrigaline at about 4.30pm and found 25 kilos of cannabis resin with a street value of ¤150,000.
Two held over €150,000 drugs seizure in Cork

Officers believe the 25 kilos of cannabis resin had come from Dublin

Marius Lubys, husband of Jolanta Lubiene and father of Enrika. Photograph: Domnick Walsh/Eye Focus
Garda search phone and online records of murdered woman in hunt for killer

Locals set up special fund to help family pay for return of bodies to Lithuania

Gardaí examine the garden outside the house in Killorglin, Co Kerry, where the bodies of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter, Enrika, were found. Gardaí are understood to be hopeful that the killer may have left fingerprint or DNA evidence in the house in the course of the attack. Photograph: Domnick Walsh/Eye Focus
Gardaí say it is likely Kerry murder victims knew killer

Inquiry formally upgraded to double murder investigation following postmortem results

The bodies of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika were found by gardaí at about 8.30pm on Sunday in their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry. Photograph: Domnick Walsh
Double murder inquiry started in Kerry

Mother and daughter found dead in Killorglin house

The bodies of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika were found by gardaí at about 8.30pm on Sunday in their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry. Photograph: Domnick Walsh
Gardaí to begin murder inquiry after deaths of mother (27) and daughter (8) in Kerry

Postmortems confirm victims died violent deaths after attack in their Killorglin home

Jolanta Lubiene (27) and her daughter, Enrika who were found dead in a house in Co Kerry. Photograph: Domnick Walsh
Gardaí poised to begin murder inquiry following Kerry deaths

Remains of woman (27) and girl (8) discovered in housing estate outside Killorglin

According to a GSOC report, the behaviour of a small number of unnamed gardaí in the case led to issues in both the investigation and the trial which GSOC believes should be considered by relevant parties including the Garda Commissioner.
GSOC criticises lack of garda help in case

Small number of gardaí reluctant to give information at trial of colleagues in 2011

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Cork businessman backs crowdsourced funding as support for small businesses

Loan request for retail kiosk quickly oversubscribed

Crowds gather for the funerals of Kenny, Paul and Shane Bolger at Crooke church, Co Waterford today. Photograph: Mary Browne
Three Bolger fishermen brothers buried in Co Waterford

Seamen being forced to take more risks to earn a living, 1,000-strong church crowd told

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