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GARDAÍ have renewed a missing person’s appeal for an 84-year-old Galway woman who was last seen on Saturday. Teresa Tannian was last seen at her home in Kilina at around 7pm on May 25. She is described as approximately 5’2″ in height, of slim build, with short white hair. Teresa Tannian has been missing since Saturday Officers have urged anyone with information as to her … [Read more...] about Renewed appeal over 84-year-old Galway woman missing since Saturday

THREE men have been sentenced over a kidnapping which saw a man taken from his home, driven across the Irish border and attacked with a crossbow in a five-hour ordeal. On October 3, 2020 PSNI officers received a call from Gardai that a man had been abducted in Donegal, bundled into a vehicle and driven across the border. Officers located the vehicle outside a property in the … [Read more...] about Three men sentenced over ‘horrific’ cross-border kidnapping ordeal

A FARMER has avoided an immediate spell behind bars after his cattle trampled a man to death and left his wife paralysed. Martin Howard Mitchell was given a six-month custodial sentence, which was suspended for 12 months following the incident on a farm in Netherton, Wakefield. Michael Holmes, 57, had been walking on a public footpath with his wife Teresa and their dogs on … [Read more...] about Farmer avoids jail after man killed and wife paralysed in trampling attack by cattle

DRUGS with an estimated street value of £100k were seized in a joint operation by the PSNI and the UK Border Force. Detectives from the PSNI’s Organised Crime Unit, working in partnership with Border Force officers, seized the suspected Class A and Class B drugs and made an arrest this week. “The drugs, detected during an initial seizure carried out in conjunction with our … [Read more...] about Cocaine, MDMA and ketamine worth £100k seized in joint operation in Belfast

TRIBUTES have been paid to a man who died following an alleged attack in Kerry earlier this week. Gerard Kennelly was found dead in the rural village of Knockanure on the evening of Sunday, May 26. In a statement confirming his death, his family said he died “tragically” and would be “sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his heartbroken family”. Mr Kennelly, 44, who hailed … [Read more...] about Tributes paid ahead of funeral for dad who died in alleged Kerry assault