His wife was in a market nearby at that time. The 21-year-old daughter, who studies in Canada, had returned for holidays.

They had worked hard for years to make a life: “Now it’s over with the death of my dear daughter, wife and mother — in one single blow.”

​An elderly couple missed their appointments for years and when the doctors found out that something was amiss, they were already dead for five...

A teenage mother who murdered her baby by violently shaking her appealed her life sentence, claiming it was “manifestly excessive”.

A teenage mother who murdered her baby by violently shaking her appealed her life sentence, claiming it was “manifestly excessive”.

Aisling Moore and daughter Abbigael (8) from Swinford were killed in a collision with a lorry on Tuesday

The convict was sentenced to two years in prison on count one and life imprisonment on count two.

Mother and daughter in Co Mayo and another man in Westmeath also died in road crashes in recent days

More than five years after security manager Sarel Petrus du Plessis shot and killed an 18-year-old Grade 11 learner he suspected of stealing litchis...

More than five years after security manager Sarel Petrus du Plessis shot and killed an 18-year-old Grade 11 learner he suspected of stealing litchis...