Murder

15:39, 24 NOV 2025

Kerry man guilty of murdering his mother by strangling her to death at her home - jury rejects mental illness claim

The jury accepted the prosecution's case that the cause of 55-year-old Billy Burns killing his mother Miriam Burns was not mental illness but his "long-term abuse of drugs and alcohol"

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Man jailed for life over 'most brutal' murder of his brother after family funeral

A jury convicted Fergus O'Connor of murder, rejecting his claim of self-defence

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Family of teen butchered with axe make 18th anniversary appeal for information

Jeffrey Hannan, 19, was murdered by a man at a bonfire near his home in November 2007

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Billy Burns trial: Jury to continue deliberations as Kerry man pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to mother's murder

The jury panel of eight men and four women have so far spent three hours and 47 minutes over two days considering their verdict.

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Bride-to-be's horrific death killed and stuffed into wall days before wedding

Annie Le was a student at Yale University and was on track to earn a doctorate from a prestigious Ivy League institution that went on to become a school for some of the most successful scientists

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Media tycoon's horror kidnap and death after being buried alive in tiny box

Stephen Small was a media mogul in his own right but that didn't stop him from being kidnapped and buried alive in a 6ft box in a horrifying case that has now seen his captor released

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Man charged with murder of mother and assault of father in Cork incident

David Gallagher, with an address at Shrewsbury Downs, Ballinlough, Cork city appeared before Cork District Court this afternoon

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Special Michael Gaine documentary reveals suspect's hideout and features solicitor's exclusive interview

Our Shattered Lives Podcast special is available on the Irish Mirror's YouTube channel now

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Revealed: Secret campsite hideout of Michael Gaine murder suspect Michael Kelley as he launches foul-mouthed rant

Exclusive: The Irish Mirror tracked down the mysterious woodland hideout of US native Michael Kelley just outside of a 1,000 acre farm owned by Michael Gaine

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Evil message left by hitman after dismembering teen in revenge killing

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: We revisit the brutal case of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods

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Dying mother's haunting final words landed man who burned her to death in jail

Judy Malinowski was a beloved daughter and mother-of-two who tragically died at the hands of her abusive ex-boyfriend Michael Slager in a brutal and horrific way

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Jury discharged in Cork murder trial

Following legal arguments today, Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford discharged the jury of nine men and three women

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Billy Burns trial: Mother was told she'd have to let son 'go' - but 'didn't want to hear it'

Helen O'Leary called her 75-year-old sister Miriam Burns, who died from her injuries inflicted by her son Billy Burns at her home in Killarney three years ago, 'a saint'

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Girl, 13, inflicted more than 140 knife wounds on victim, murder trial told

Jurors were told the teenager had conducted online research before the killing

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Woman, 75, had injuries consistent with strangulation and suffocation, her son's trial hears

Billy Burns has pleaded not guilty to his mother's murder by reason of insanity

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Irish teen's haunting final message to his mum before he was tortured and hacked to death

Keane Mulready-Woods was just 17 when he was lured to a house in Drogheda, County Louth, by gang member Robbie Lawlor

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Ruth Lawrence's neighbours thought she'd be last person in the world capable of murder

Dubliner Lawrence, 46, was found guilty by a jury during the week of the double murder of Eoin O’Connor, 32, and his friend Anthony Keegan, 33, on April 22, 2014

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'I’m a historian and there's one man who suffered most gruesome death ever’

Historian Alexander Meddings has spent years studying the most gruesome deaths in history - and he believes there is one that stands out above all others

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Serial killer's horrifying statement to police after butchering more than 100 women

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Known as the 'Sunday Morning Slasher', this serial killer murdered more than 100 women in the 1970s and 1980s before he was eventually caught and confessed to 13 of the murders

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Dad drowned his own three children on Father's Day after chilling one word threat

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Robert Farquharson was found guilty of three counts of murder after he drove his three sons into a dam on Father's Day in 2005, with the boys' mother saying he had a 'love-hate relationship' with them

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Cannibal butchered pal and ate brain with butter in sick 'voodoo ritual'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Peter Bryan turned a quiet London flat into a house of horrors

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'I survived alone at sea on raft aged 11 so I could ID my family's brutal killer'

Terry Jo Duperrault was the sole survivor of the Bluebelle massacre

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Twisted murderer killed then decapitated her friend with horror explanation

Jemma Mitchell, 37, bludgeoned 67-year-old widow Mee Kuen Chong at her house in Wembley using a weapon that fractured her skull. She then decapitated her victim before putting the remains into a blue suitcase

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Daughter killed parents and lived with corpses in home-made mausoleum for four years

Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years after admitting to the murders of her parents, John and Lois McCullough

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