Tommy Barker on a country home that has engrossing tales to tell of changing political times and family ties.

A judicial inquiry has found that the initial decision by the Garda Ombudsman to launch a criminal investigation into Sergeant Michael Galvin, who subsequently took his own life, was “mistaken”.

A series of mistaken judgements, legal uncertainties, communication errors, and procedural confusion all preceded the suicide of a sergeant, husband, and father, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The Department of Justice is examining possible “legal issues” in an inquiry report into how the Garda Ombudsman handled its investigation of a sergeant, who took his life before he could be informed that he had been cleared.

An auctioneering firm has been found guilty of an offence under the Litter Pollution Act for having a poster at a crossroads.

Gardaí responding to the scene of a double fatal shooting in Kildare were greeted by scenes of chaos, an inquest has heard.

On the subject of protecting the Memory of Michael Collins I wholeheartedly agree with the comments by Michael Galvin (Irish Examiner, September 1) regarding the false assertions made by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald at Beal na Bláth.

The protracted Garda Ombudsman investigation into a complaint by Ian Bailey of garda wrongdoing is expected to be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the coming months.

The train has been and gone, and now the ‘Express’ need to get a riverside home here by the Argideen River near Timoleague will be to beat a planning deadline.

A Supreme Court judge is to conduct an official inquiry into how the Garda Ombudsman investigated a garda sergeant, who took his life a week after being questioned.

Events in Donegal led to the establishment of the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission and, by tragic irony, it is issues in that county that have now put the same body under investigation.

The solicitor for Sergeant Michael Galvin, who killed himself while under investigation by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, said he tried to assure the father of three that he had no case to answer.

Heartfelt tributes were paid to the late Ballyshannon-based Sergeant Michael Galvin yesterday, on a day when Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan paid a private visit to boost morale in the shell-shocked station.

The garda sergeant who last week died by apparent suicide in a Donegal garda station had told his wife he was facing up to five years in prison after being questioned by Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigators.

The Garda Representatives Association say they are "dismayed" that GSOC is regarded as an appropriate agency to investigate the death of Sergeant Michael Galvin.

DESPITE calls from family and fellow gardaí for a judicial inquiry into the death of Garda Sergeant Michael Galvin — who appears to have taken his own life at a Garda station in Co Donegal a week ago — the Garda Ombudsman Commission is pressing ahead with its own investigation into the tragedy in which the commission is apparently linked. 

Middle-ranking gardaí have called on the Taoiseach to set up a judicial inquiry into how the Garda Ombudsman conducted an investigation into a sergeant who took his own life last week.

Concerns have been raised about the quality of training at Templemore during the Celtic Tiger years, says Cormac O’Keeffe.

On spreading out the Irish Examiner supplement on our family breakfast table on Saturday, I was taken aback at the use of certain words in Aida Austin’s much-awaited column.

THE word ‘breathtaking’ can be taken in several ways when talking of coastal sites: they can be stunning to look at, and even more so to look out from, but it can also mean so exposed and so windy that it’s hard to catch a breath.

Two separate boating tragedies that claimed the lives of three men on a single day last August could have been avoided if proper precautions had been taken.

BLARNEY, CORK €325,000

Former rectory comes with swimming pool and apartments, writes Tommy Barker

A body has been recovered in the water off West Cork this afternoon.

Funerals will be held today for two men who died when their fishing boat sank off the coast of Co Clare on Monday.

The two fishermen who died side-by-side when their fishing boat mysteriously sank earlier this week will be buried following separate funerals today.

Three men involved in the search for two missing fishermen in Co Clare had a lucky escape after their boat capsized in rough seas and only one of their life jackets inflated.

The bodies of two fishermen were recovered from the sea in Co Clare yesterday after their boat mysteriously sank on Monday evening.

There were global family ties at a weekend gathering where an extended clan celebrated the anniversary of their shared ancestors’ wedding almost 150 years earlier.

IN east London, the heart of the 2012 Olympics, the ‘big build’, which started in 2006, has transformed a dilapidated area into a world-class urban park complete with new infrastructure.

A FARM for sale at Kilcolman, Kinsale, may be a good test of the new year market in this tillage farming area — especially after neighbouring land made strong prices in 2010.

MICHAEL Galvin (Letters, July 15) states that “the Anglo-Irish Treaty proved its validity and its relevance is still appreciated today by, among others, Dev’s grandson, Eamon Ó Cuiv”.

MICHAEL Galvin (Letters, July 15) states that Judy Peddle (Letters, July 12) does no service to historical truth regarding the case of Arthur Griffith and dual monarchy.

THE For Sale sign has gone up, bang on time, for Primrose Hill, a west Cork coastal property putting out its wares, as real primroses make their spring presence shown.

HURLING was in short supply on a football weekend at Croke Park but the brilliance of Keith Raymond did the small game’s stock no harm as Sligo claimed Nicky Rackard Cup honours.

THERE’S something about a long, rhododendren driveway — the sense of anticipation — the glory of age.

A FORTY acre holding at Kilcondy, Crookstown has a superb position just off the main Cork to Killarney road, and may be of interest to hobby farming bidders.

THERE’S a theme song for those buying at Bandon’s Mill Race scheme — it goes “we’re here, because weir here, because.....”

COVERED in blossoming wisteria, St Anne’s is just off the main Clonakilty Road in Bandon town, but you’d never think it.

A STAGGERING 50% of children have decayed teeth by the age of 12, a new survey has found.

Tipperary 1-12 Limerick 0-6

ST SENANS, Kilkee (Clare) and Cahir (Tipperary) come head-to-head tomorrow at Cahir to decide An Ghaeltacht’s opponents in the Munster Club SFC final.

Bishopstown 4-14