William O Brien

The connections between Ireland and Ukraine are manifold. Constance Markiewicz’s husband, who ran a stud farm at Zywotówka in central Ukraine, is just(...)

In late December 1877 and early January 1878, the Freeman’s Journal published a series of five articles that are generally acknowledged as the earlies(...)

He was the last high profile victim of the British forces during the War of Independence and 250,000 people lined the streets of Dublin for his funera(...)

A 36-year-old woman who needed to be seen by a gynaecologist after she concealed packets of heroin internally in a box to avoid detection by gardaí ha(...)

A 45-year-old man who broke into the home of an 83-year-old woman in the middle of the night, pretended to be a garda and stole over €2,500 in cash ha(...)

As bullets tore through her thatch on a summer’s day in June 1921, she sat by her open fire smoking her clay pipe, unscathed and unconcerned about the(...)

A 28-year-old man who broke into the home of an 83-year-old woman at night, pretended to be a garda and stole more than €2,500 in cash has been jailed(...)

The company behind the Grace O’Malley Irish whiskey brand is back with a new whiskey that celebrates the 1916 Proclamation. Co Mayo-based Inis Tine (...)

Two men have been remanded in custody after they were charged with a series of burglaries including one where two intruders broke into the home of an (...)

A 30-year-old man has suffered a fractured skull and bleed to the brain after he was attacked by two men armed with a hammer and baseball bat in Cork (...)