Patrick O'Connell

These are the X-rays that show how Rihanna's former bodyguard Geoff Keating came within millimetres of losing his life – after being blasted in the back of the head with a shotgun in a brazen day-light gun attack.

Enoch Burke's father Sean is likely to be moved from Mountjoy to Castlerea Prison to allow him be closer to his family and newly freed son Enoch for Christmas, sources have said.

A Liverpool-supporting Mountjoy Prison officer has been banned from attending matches for three years and fined Stg£535 (€643) after he pleaded guilty to shouting racist abuse at one of his team's own players.

Wexford woman Paula Lawlor was hospitalised recently following a violent assault, but the main suspect in that attack is not the same man arrested following her death last week.

The family of missing Jojo Dullard have spoken of their agony at spending another Christmas not knowing where she is – just weeks after gardaí concluded a month-long dig for evidence in the case.

THIS is the chief suspect alleged in court to have set the fire that claimed the lives of husband and father Anthony O'Brien and his five-year-old daughter Nadine in Tralee 12 years ago.

The war against the smugglers behind an epidemic of ‘spice’ related overdoses in the Midlands Prison has been won due to the introduction of ‘ion scanners’ and a ban on mail deliveries to prisoners, sources have claimed.

A MAN and woman killed in a hit and run in Blanchardstown on St. Stephen's Day were a husband and wife, the Sunday World has learned.

A MAN and woman killed in a hit and run in Blanchardstown on St. Stephen’s Day were a husband and wife, the Sunday World has learned.

A relative of a man and woman killed in a hit and run in Blanchardstown on St. Stephen's Day has paid an emotional tribute to them.