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'A gentleman and a scholar' - Tributes pour in for Kildare paramedic after tragic sudden death

Tributes have poured in for a beloved paramedic following his tragic death yesterday. Ross Murphy was a life saving emergency services officer with the National Ambulance Service (NAS), having previously worked for Lifeline Ambulance. He was from ...

15 May 2024 at 16:49

National News

Legendary former GAA commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh dies in hospital aged 93

Well-known gaelic games commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has passed away at the age of 93 in the Mater hospital in Dublin. Ó Muircheartaigh, hailed as the "voice of Gaelic Games", was born in Dún Síon just outside Dingle, Co Kerry, in 1930 ...

25 Jun 2024 at 12:39

GAA

PICTURES: Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's life in GAA through the years after RTÉ legend's death

USE THE ARROWS OR 'NEXT' TO BROWSE THROUGH THE FULL GALLERY Tributes have flooded in from across the country, as well-known gaelic games commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has passed away at the age of 93 in the Mater hospital in Dublin. Ó ...

25 Jun 2024 at 14:58

National News

'One to tell the grandkids' - Irish firefighter makes quick rescue while engagement ring shopping

An off-duty firefighter has become a local hero after he rescued a person from the River Liffey while out shopping for an engagement ring. In a post on Facebook, Dublin Fire Brigade posted a picture of the firefighter Tom O'Reilly and a ...

10 Apr 2025 at 10:47

National News

COMMENT: Queuing for the Re-turn machine gave me flashbacks of Covid-19

Nearly six months after its introduction, the Re-turn scheme for plastic bottles and drink cans, brought back some unwanted and forgotten memories. Recently, while queuing for the machines at my local supermarket, my mind flashed back ...

22 Jul 2024 at 20:11

Features

Penneys Barbie, Wine O'Clock Barbie, Tinder Barbie... the dolls you won't find under the tree this Christmas

Mattel, makers of 50-something-year-old fashion icon Barbara Millicent Roberts, earlier this year introduced a raft of new body-shapes for their dolls, to counter the pneumatic unreality of the ‘traditional’ blonde bombshell. You can ...

21 Dec 2016 at 16:08

National News

'Join us for the Marty party' - dozens pay out €1,300 for Spanish holiday with Marty Morrissey

Fancy a sunny Spanish holiday? Then join Marty Morrissey for a week of Costa del Sol sunshine in October, Irish travel company Killester travel says. The Irish Daily Mail has revealed that 186 people have paid out over €1,300 to ...

24 May 2024 at 12:31

Life

Kildare heatwave: We've gone from freezing Game of Thrones to sizzling Love Island weather

Cast your mind back just four scant months, and we were all shivering under a blanket of ice and snow here in Kildare. There wasn’t a sliced pan to be had from the north to the south of the county, and people in far-flung parts ...

29 Jun 2018 at 16:33

Features

COMMENT: Commercial rates are rising in Kildare at the wrong time

To paraphrase one of the characters in the movie No Country For Old Men, if this ain't a mess it’ll do till the mess shows up. The changes in the way businesses pay rates has provoked much comment in recent weeks, almost all ...

09 Apr 2017 at 11:00

Local News

COMMENT: Filthy gum is the scourge of our streets in Newbridge and Naas

You can go for quite a while without seeing what is right under your nose. Or toes, in this case. Then, once you’ve opened your eyes to the problem, you encounter it everywhere. I’ve started seeing huge, ugly spackles of ...

01 Apr 2017 at 15:00

Features

COMMENT: The sums must add up on rates and rent for Kildare businesses

When I was slightly younger than I am now, about 50 years ago, a lot of folk tended to call the the school subject of maths by a simpler name — sums. It has been a while now since I heard the word ‘sums’ but I was ...

15 Apr 2017 at 14:00

Features

The scourge of 'get a man in' culture

At some point in the last, I dunno, 100 years, a terrible scourge swept the nation. I should be clear, this particular scourge has benefitted many fine men — allowing them to feed their families, give their wives ...

11 Jun 2017 at 10:00

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