A group representing the families of murder and manslaughter victims has called on the Government to bring about changes that would mean killers are not eligible for parole until their minimum sentence has been served.

The mother of two boys murdered by their father says she wants convicted killers to wait longer for parole.

Kathleen Chada, the mother of two boys killed by their father, is calling for the implementation of the Parole Bill which would change the length of time at which a prisoner serving a life sentence can appeal for parole from seven years to 12 years.

“I get up at 7.30am every morning and work down on the family farm and I keep going until ten at night, no problem.”

Families across the country are being urged to have a conversation about organ donation during Organ Donor Week.

Sometimes you have to write it down in a type of list format to make the point, even to yourself. 

A mother whose children were killed by her husband is campaigning for a tougher parole process.

Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

The conversation with Ronan McCarthy is almost four minutes old when the performance of Ruairí Deane is brought up.

A good wine collection is invaluable when trying to keep up good relations with the neighbours, you know.

Peadar Healy regretted Cork’s inability to convert goal opportunities and bemoaned second-half injuries and yet couldn’t but marvel at Kerry’s strengths.

CORK’s inter-county contingent appear to have emerged unscathed from a weekend of Cork SFC action, which saw a return from injury for midfielder Aidan Walsh.

Wherever else the Cork footballers may fall down this summer, fitness won’t be an issue.

One of the smallest GAA communities in the country has double reason for celebration after two of their players made their senior inter-county debut on Sunday.

Ciara McDonnell on how a window becomes a wonderland

Esther Tomkins is a clinical nurse specialist, Migraine Clinic, Beaumont Hospital.

"It is time to be our own heroes, and believe that this small beautiful Atlantic island can be everything we dream it can be."

Ruairí McKiernan, a campaigner, writer and founder of SpunOut.ie, has released a video today outlining his vision for the country’s future, entitled ’A New Ireland Rising’.

Fermanagh 1-17 Laois 0-10: Fermanagh boosted their prospects of staying in Division 2, with Tomás Corrigan scoring a brilliant match-winning haul of 1-11 to push Laois further into relegation danger.

He didn’t see the full seventy minutes, but it’s hard to believe he saw any game time at all when you consider his season.

Limavady native Ruairí Connolly was involved in a rather unusual bus journey yesterday evening, as he travelled to Derry.

Fear of losing has been replaced by air of expectation in Fermanagh, and Dom Corrigan says it makes a refreshing change.

A senior Fianna Fáil TD has slammed sick taunts aimed at party leader Micheál Martin, which said two of his children who died tragically would want him to vote no in today’s marriage referendum.

Ruairí McSorley, who shot to internet fame in January with his reaction to a

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Armagh 0-16 Fermanagh 0-11: It may ‘only’ have been the Division Three Allianz league final, but Armagh showed enough in Croke Park on Saturday night to suggest they have the tools to become a team worth fearing again.

WHEN Donncha O Dulaing says goodbye to the listeners of his RTÉ Radio 1 programme, Failte Isteach, tomorrow week (Saturday, April 25), he won’t consider it the end of his 51-year career with the national broadcaster.

The Foodie Forum incorporating the Gastronomy West Symposium (Tuesday, February 3) at GMIT, in Galway, may be just three years old but already comports itself with a swagger befitting its rapidly-growing status as one of the country’s premier food events.

His name is Ruairí McSorley (amazing) and he's brilliant.

That Derry ’frostbit’ lad went on TV last night to discuss his internet fame

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Actors playing distraught relatives helped test emergency services to the limit during the first major Child Rescue Ireland (CRI) alert exercise in the Cork region.

What was expected to be a fiercely contested clash between two clubs that have been regular participants in the Leinster club championship surprisingly proved a one-sided encounter as Rhode overwhelmed Moorefield.

A suicidal father who had taken the lives of his two sons was stopped from hanging himself by a motorist who forcefully struck him on the side of the head.

The latest review to consider student fees — set up by Ruairi Quinn weeks before leaving Government — was a political delaying tactic, the former minister’s top policy adviser confirmed.

Kathleen Chada has said she feels the presence of her murdered boys, Eoghan and Ruairi, with her, particularly in her own home.

Kathleen Chada says she feels blessed to have been the mother of her two sons.

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"How do I live with the knowledge of their last moments? How scared they must have been. Did they cry for me? Did they scream? Did they know what was happening?

"Sanj did not have to bury his children, I did. I stood by that graveside as two white coffins with my whole life in them were laid side by side — big boys now but always my babies."