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SMUGGLERS JAILED Three Irishmen among four people-smugglers jailed after 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in back of lorry in Essex Dan Keane Updated: 22 Jan 2021, 17:25 Dan Keane Invalid Date, THREE Irishmen are among four people-smugglers jailed for a combined 78 years after 39 Vietnamese migrants were smuggled into the UK and suffered an "excruciating" death in the back of a lorry. The victims, Vietnamese men, women and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain when they agreed to pay up to £13,000 a head for a "VIP" smuggling service. The lorry was found with 39 bodies in afte...

Juvenile arrested in connection with vicious attack where woman was robbed and stabbed in neck in Dublin Updated: 22 Jan 2021, 13:20 A JUVENILE has been arrested in connection with a vicious attack and robbery of a woman in Dublin. The victim, 48, was on her way home when she was allegedly targeted by a youth on a bike close to the CHQ building in the city centre around 9.30pm on Wednesday night. 2 2 The arrested juvenile is currently detained at Store Street Garda stationCredit: Alamy Gardai in Store Street were investigating the serious assault that occurred on the pedestrian walkway, betwe...

Baby Kady However, Kady was pipped to the post by Brodie McWilliams Brown who was born at the National Maternity Hospital at just four seconds after midnight. His mother Jennifer McWilliams, from Sallynoggin in Dublin, says she had no idea her baby would be among the first of 2021. "I had no clue until I had been induced that he would be one of the first,” she said. "We didn't actually think that he was going to be the first." There were also births at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise at four minutes past midnight. Download the Sunday World app Now download the free app for all t...

Two Dublin gunmen have been jailed in separate organised crime cases today at the Special Criminal Court. Forty-year-old Trevor Byrne, from Cappagh Road in Finglas who previously pointed a gun at gardaí, was sent to prison for  nine years. Bernard Fogarty, 32, from Hole in the Wall Road, Donaghmede, who the court heard is "heavily involved in organised crime", was jailed for five years. Mr Justice Tony Hunt said the court cannot ignore the damage done by gun crime. The Head of the Garda's Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, Detective Chief Superintendent Angela Willis, said the convictions wi...

Gardai seize €30,000 worth of cocaine and arrest one man following traffic stop on Slowdown Day Updated: 12 Dec 2020, 15:41 GARDAI have seized €30,000 worth of cocaine and arrested one man following a traffic stop carried out as part of Operation Slowdown yesterday. National Slowdown Day was held over a 24-hour period between 7am on December 11 to 7am this morning. 2 2 They arrested one manCredit: An Garda Siochana Gardai attached to Newtownmountkennedy Roads Policing Unit stopped a car on the N11 at Drummin Delgany in Wicklow. A search of the vehicle was carried out and a substantial am...