Person: Joe Heffernan

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‘Words fail to imagine the horror for family’

A coroner told members of a family yesterday that words really fail to imagine the horror they have been through since the murder of Eoin Ryan nearly five years ago.

UCC’s conferring of Barroso is a disgrace

Sorry state of our poor confused country

RTÉ too quick to drop ‘o’ vowel

Waste of time

Enquiry casts doubts about ourselves

Sinkhole woman's crater escape

A sinkhole swallowed a car travelling down a street in north-west Ohio and briefly trapped the driver, who climbed out after authorities gave her a ladder.

Thu, 04 Jul, 2013

Lead detective in ‘Lying Eyes’ case collapses and dies after jogging

A highly respected Garda detective collapsed and died yesterday at a local sports facility in Co Clare.

Thu, 04 Jul, 2013

Experts needed for banking inquiry

I wrote in Nov 2011 that the Oireachtas Referendum should be put to the people again with clarification re (1) people having recourse to the courts following an investigation, and (2) clarifying what (extreme) circumstances needed to be in place before investigators could enter a person’s home to seek out/remove possible evidence and (3) clarifying what made an issue qualify for being, “in the public interest”.

Thu, 04 Jul, 2013

Farmer gets life for law student’s murder

A farmer was yesterday sentenced to life in prison for murdering a male student who, the accused claimed, had “made a pass” at him.

Thu, 27 Jun, 2013

Clare farmer found guilty of murdering law student

A Co Clare farmer who told gardaí he had killed the devil has been found guilty of murdering a law student from Co Clare.

Wed, 26 Jun, 2013

Accused knew victim was a man - not the devil, court told

A forensic psychiatrist has said that a man accused of murder knew what he was doing was wrong when he killed a student, whom he said was the devil.

Wed, 19 Jun, 2013

Clare murder trial hears student 'suffered sustained and violent assault'

A student whose body was found in a barrel on a Clare farm was the victim of a violent and sustained assault and died of severe, extensive trauma to his head, a court has heard.

Tue, 18 Jun, 2013

Jesus told me I'd be fine, said murder accused

A murder trial has heard that the accused thought he had done the world a service by killing the devil and couldn't understand why he was being detained on suspicion of murder.

Mon, 17 Jun, 2013

Electorate’s clip on the ear

IT seems to me that Eamonn Gilmore was giving the electorate a “clip around the ear” for having the audacity to reject the Oireachtas Referendum. His attitude seemed to be, “now that the referendum is rejected there can be no enquiry into banking practices etc.”

Tue, 08 Nov, 2011