Award-winning newspaper journalist
@IrishSunOnline
Q102 contributor. Popular Features Writer of the Year 2021, overall Justice Media Award winner 2023.
Absolutely chuffed and delighted. congrats to all the other nominees and winners this years, particularly my colleagues at
@IrishSunOnline
and my wing man on these stories
@NewsNeil13
Something a bit wrong about thousands of young Irish girls left devastated that they can't tickets to Taylor Swift this weekend, while scores of Americans arrive to see her for the eight/ninth/tenth time on this tour
#TaylorSwiftErasTourDublin
Ashling Murphy's boyfriend Ryan Casey turns to Jozef Puska and tells him: "When your day of reckoning comes may you be in hell a half hour before God even knows your dead."
#AshlingMurphy
In a local pub in West Dublin last night and a pint of Guinness was €6.10. Barman told me they'll be €6.40 from Wednesday. WTF? How long more do we just roll over and accept this? A pint of San Miguel in Spain last week was €2.60
#ripoffIreland
Ryan told the court how they met, their plans for each other, but described Ireland as "not safe anymore". "How can someone come to his country, get social housing, social welfare, not hold down a job of any description and never contribute to society for 10 years?
#AshlingMurphy
@Sarahfa65761964
The economic boost to Dublin means absolutely nothing to a child sat at home unable to go to the concert while watching someone from the other side of the world being interviewed on television about to see her for the 10th time
8 month wait times for an NCT in Dublin but managed to get one in Athlone on a Saturday in 3 weeks so myself and the other half are turning it into a night away 😂It's not exactly Las Vegas but so what. Something
@Failte_Ireland
and
@TourismIreland
should look at, NCT tourism??
Here's a thread about the treatment I have received from Smiles Dental in Blanchardstown. Unfortunately they don't appear to be on Twitter so can't be tagged but I just want to warn other people from making the mistake of going near them for treatment.
"10 years???", he added. "This is not the country that Ashling and I grew up in and once loved." In a half hour address to packed court, he described Puska as "the lowest of the low, a waste of space", calling her murder "horrific and senseless."
#AshlingMurphy
Mr Justice Hunt says in all his years he doesn't think he's ever heard victim impact evidence "so impactful". He said judges should have a say in minimum sentencing and would consider a whole life order, like they have in the UK, if it was open to him.
#AshlingMurphy
Just to clarify, couldn't care less who goes and who doesn't, who travels where to what gigs - it's travelling when you've already seen her 10 times on this tour. Just an observation but having an opinion is sacrilege on this forum. I will never understand the weirdness of people
In one of the most powerful and emotion-filled victim impact statements the Central Criminal Court has ever witnessed, Ryan described Puska as "pure evil" and someone who should never be let
#AshlingMurphy
@Sarahfa65761964
Not whinging at all. On a personal level I couldn't care who goes and who doesn't go, it's merely a bloody observation. I don't know what point you're making
JD said he visited DG Jerry McCabe's killer Pearse McAuley in prison "2 or 3 times". BG said it was 14 times, "I have the records." JD: "He was involved in SF. It's not a crime to visit someone in prison?" BG: "No, it's not, but it is a crime to lie on oath."
#Regency
#Hutch
A shrine has been set up just inside Durrow National School for Ashling Murphy. The 23-year-old taught first class in the school and left there just an hour before her shocking murder yesterday.
One query I have is that according to today's PAC hearing, RTE paid for a coach-load of guests from Drumcondra to Croke Park for a U2 concert in May, 2019. Now I've done a search and U2 haven't played in Croke Park since July, 2017
#RTE
#Tubridy
@AmyNiFhearghail
They addressed this at the brginning of the show and said they were top of their list to be on but they'vre all gone back to their clubs with games this weekend. Promised they'd be on in a few weeks. So people should get all the facts before going off on one.
I'm still genuinely stunned to be named the overall winner at Justice Media Awards for coverage of the Regency trial. Such a honour for
@IrishSunOnline
and for the art of court reporting. Thinking of my courts mentor Tomas MacRuairi who passed away recently
@maireadprenderg
Well I have made a complaint to the Dental Complaints Resolution Service and will contact the Irish Dental Association. I genuinely feel they should be shut down if this is normal
DCI John Caldwell, the police officer shot in Omagh, gave evidence at Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch's trial in the Special Criminal Court. Thoughts are with his family. Hopefully he makes a speedy recovery
#Regency
I can't begin to imagine the numbers of people who actually fall for and pay out large sums for treatment that they don't need. Shocking. Anyway, spread the word. I'm appalled
Gulty or not guilty, if anyone wants to know why many women don't report being raped, they're getting the perfect answer in Belfast over the past week
#paddyjackson
#stuartolding
The worst and the most disgraceful business practice I have ever come across and just want to warn anyone from even thinking about going to see them. I was told by the dentist who did see me that root canal is their answer to everything
@bradeld123
@SoccerAM
Well they look like heading out of the competition so it'll be back to walking rings around the likes of Strasbourg at the weekend.
Gerrard's closeness to the Byrne family is beyond weird. Ignore the fact that they're a notorious gangland family, but what father to a teenage daughter is as welcoming to the much older chap she's having an intimate relationship, as well as his parents/grandparents/cousins?
I reckon if JD told a white lie to his mother as a child, Brendan Grehan will somehow expose it. Today will his fifth day giving evidence and fourth day under cross-examination
#Regency
#Hutch
Got an e-mail a few days ago alleging that the firework thrower last Saturday was really an undercover Garda sent in there to purposely fire on Gardai to give officers a reason to take out their batons on protestors. That’s the level of dangerous misinformation we’re dealing with
High Court in Dublin have ruled that 2017 Supreme Novices winner Labaik was purchased with the Procreeds of Crime. Trainer Gordon Elliott is free to race the horse but it remains the property of CAB
That's three high profile murder cases - John Gilligan, Alan Wilson and Gerry Hutch - which used State witnesses and ALL three resulted in a not guilty verdict. Maybe it's time the State and the Gardai looked at how the WPP is operated
#Hutch
#Regency
First of all they tried to get me to commit to very expensive dental treatment that I clearly don't need. They took a deposit from and then they cancelled the appointment anyway at their end, telling me I've to wait 4 weeks for my money back.
After 13 weeks, over 50 days, 10 hours of audio, 400 hours of CCTV, 1 star witness, today is the final day of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's murder trial. The 3 judges will retire after closing speeches for Bonney and Murphy. It's expected they'll take a few weeks
#Hutch
#Regency
DS O'Toole said that Dowdall was an innocent party, wasn't part of a criminal organisation and they believed he had no idea Regency room was to be used by a murder team. Why then did he plead guilty to a Section 72 and why was he ever charged with Byrne's murder?
#Regency
#Hutchg
Had the pleasure of working closely with Ben Dunne on his weekly consumer column in the Irish Sun. I could tell many stories about his generosity and selflessness he insisted wasn't publicised. Larger than life, always interesting and NEVER dull. RIP
#BenDunne
She told me that I don't need root canal at all and it's unlikely I needed the tooth out. The likely cause of the pain was an infection, possibly accentuated by having the cavity jabbed by the Smiles dentist.
The significance of the High Court ruling in the FBD case is that it will not only ensure thousands of pubs what they're entitled to, but every small business without the resources to take on their insurers should reap the rewards. A great day for small and family business
BREAKING: The Gardai have announced a full review in to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The Serious Crime Review Team will carry out the review and the make their recommendations to the local investigation team. Gardai continue to appeal for information on the murder
Some lad from Limerick goes on holidays for two weeks, lobs the gob on some 'bird' from England and arrives back at Shannon Airport to the kind of welcome returning World Cup heroes or World Champion boxers could only dream of. Have I got that right?
#loveisland
I won’t make the Hutch trial so unfortunately no live tweets from me today. But you’ll get great coverage of the trial any day from fantastic reporters such as
@AliORiordan
@MDoyler
@11SchillRob
@eoinreynolds
to name but a few.
@RoyCurtis68
The word legend is thrown around too loosely these days. In the case of Graeme Woods it couldn’t be more apt. The most infectious person who touched everyone luckily enough to ever meet him.
Former KK hurling great DJ Carey has appeared in court charged with 21 counts of fraud and forgery, including fraudulently claiming he had cancer to dupe alleged victims into handing over money.
Gerry Hutch told Jonathan Dowdall that he waa against murder. In recordings plqyed to the Special Criminal Court, he told the former SF councillor "There has to be another way, there has to be another way of punishing people. The heartbreak it leaves behind "
#Hutch
#Regency
Pleased to see the reaction this has received. It seems to have really struck a nerve (pardon the pun) with many people. If anyone is willing to speak to me about their bad experiences with Smiles, or any others, for a newspaper article, my DMs are open
#journorequest
All records of a tracker deployed on Jonathan Dowdall's car when he and Gerry Hutch travelled to NI have been destroyed during this Prosecution, Hutch's lawyer Brendan Grehan SC has told the Special Criminal Court
Honoured to have won a Certificate of Merit award at the Justice Media Awards for a series of articles on the landmark case between Irish pubs and FBD Insurance. Thank you the
@LawSocIreland
and congratulations to all the other winners
The court has resumed for the day and JD is back in the jury box to continue his evidence. BG is returning to the recoding of his interview on May 18, 2016
#Regency
#Hutch
Thanks to Shark for having us down to meet his superstar Hewick. Fingers crossed it dries out for him before next Friday.
#Cheltenham
#GoldCup
@jhanlonracing
This morning I was getting ready to phone Smiles to ask for an explanation when I got a text from them cancelling the appointment at their end and to ring to reschedule. Thank God the pain had gone because I could have been counting down the minutes to that extraction
Daniel Kane lived next door to me in the years when all this abuse took place. The level of violence I heard coming from that apartment was truly terrifying. I can recall on one occasion where he stood on his balcony in the middle of the day and hurled..
#theguards
@virginmedia
A little plothole from
#Kin
last night. Nikki would never be charged with conspiracy to commit murder because you need at two or more people for a conspiracy charge, you can't conspire with yourself. Solicitation or facilitating would have been more likely
#JustSaying
@JoanCollinsTD
A case in the High Court last year heard that a family rejected one home because it was on a corner and turned down another because the back garden wasn’t big enough. I don’t have a garden because a two-bed apartment is all I could afford when i bought
BREAKING: A 50-year-old male will appear before Dublin District Court at 2pm, charged in relation to a serious incident at Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 on the 23rd November 2023, Gardai have just announced.
About two weeks ago I went to them with a serious discomfort caused by a large cavity in one of my molar teeth. I went to them mainly because they are local and just wanted it seen to.
BREAKING: Paul Murphy has been jailed for 9 years and Jason Bonney for 8 and a half years after being found guilty of driving two of the getaway cars used in the Regency Hotel murder of Kinahan cartel member David Byrne
Jozef Puska, 31, from Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, has been charged with Ashling Murphy’s murder. This was him arriving in court. He was loudly jeered and heckled by a large crowd as he was brought into court and then again when he was put in the Garda van after the case
No chances being taken in the CCJ this morning. A young uniformed garda is asking all uniforned gardai for ID - just in case like.
#regency
#dowdalls
#hutch