All news by author: Seán McCárthaigh

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Worker sacked after bumping into his boss while on unapproved Portuguese holiday
Gary Maloney has been awarded compensation for loss of earnings as he was unemployed for around five months following his missal from Bill Griffin Motors in Dublin
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Tragedy as toddler dies after falling into paddling pool at childminder's house
Marie Kealy, from Timahoe, County Laois, told an inquest her daughter Hannah was nervous about being back at carer Ann McDonald's house following the childminder's holiday
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Teen takes own life after being drugged and raped on holiday, inquest hears
Julie Crowe, from Ireland, developed a low mood and thoughts of self-harm after being drugged and raped on the Greek island of Zakynthos in August 2019, an inquest heard
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Man learned his husband had drowned when he checked news on holiday in Spain
Andrés Navarro, 25, from Ballybough, drowned after falling into the Royal Canal from the towpath near the bridge in Dublin in the early hours of August 21, 2022
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Boy, 15, died while watching TV with mum who didn't realise he wasn't breathing
Seán Hughes suffered a fatal cardiac arrest brought on by sepsis in 2018, as an inquest into the schoolboy's death heard it “defied logic” that the infection wasn’t present when Seán saw his GP earlier
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Death of 10-day baby 'may have been avoided' if doctors had spotted crucial sign
Christina and Kevin Neiland told an inquest at Dublin District Coroner's Court that failures by hospital staff led to the death of their newborn baby
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Angry local filed over 24,000 complaints about airport in a single year
Dublin Airport operator DAA received the equivalent of 64 complaints a day from a single person - who is thought to live in the north-west Dublin suburb of Ongar - about noise from aircraft