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Brian Stack (1935/1936 — 29 September 1984), the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the neck in 1983 by members of the Provisional IRA [1] and died after 18 months in hospital. He was the only officer in the Irish Prison Service to be killed in connection with the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month. Accounts for 2019 showed net assets of over €1 million. [2] Since 2024 it has been owned by The Irish Times Group.
26-year-old Andy Cash pleaded guilty to the murders of his two sisters and brother – Lisa Cash, Christy and Chelsea Cawley – on 7 May 2024 at the Central Criminal Court. He received three terms of life imprisonment, the mandatory sentence. [20]
Criminology professor Ian O'Donnell wrote in 2016 that murderers with commuted death sentences "were released after periods of time that would be considered absurdly short today". [78] In the years 1946–62, 82 murders produced 73 arrests; of these 34 were unfit to plead because of insanity, 7 found guilty but insane , and 18 found guilty and ...
Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY November 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM An American citizen was found dead at an Irish luxury hotel and another American citizen is under arrest, according to Irish police.
25 March – Brian Stack (47), chief prison officer at Portlaoise prison, is shot by the IRA while walking along South Circular Road, shortly after leaving a boxing contest at the National Stadium. He dies in hospital on 29 September 1984.
He had a 1-year-old daughter, according to family members. A missing Pennsylvania man has been found dead, according to police. Brian Posch was last seen on April 5 in Beaver County, according to ...
The Earl of Dudley as Viceroy of Ireland and Grand Master of the Order of St Patrick. The Marquess of Londonderry as Viceroy and Grand Master.. The original regalia of the Grand Master were only slightly more opulent than the insignia of an ordinary member of the order; the king's 1783 ordinance said they were to be "of the same materials and fashion as those of Our Knights, save only those ...