Barry Roche

Barry Roche

Southern Correspondent

Barry Roche is Southern Correspondent of The Irish Times.

Bessborough researcher urges purchase of site and inquest into deaths of women and babies

We still don’t know where 19 mothers and 859 infants associated with Bessborough were buried, Conall Ó Fatharta says

Man (35) found guilty of murdering his partner Gillian Curran in Waterford

Marcus O’Neill will be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin in October

Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish

Hotel fined €10,000 in connection with discharge from a pump house handling sewage into river on its estate

Homeless man found dead in Dublin waste depot was friends with pair who died in Grand Canal

Andrew Haire (35) remembered as ‘lovely’ and ‘quiet’ by homeless service providers who knew him

Gillian Curran’s blood alcohol level not a contributory factor in her death, trial hears

Woman (47) was found unresponsive at the house of her partner Marcus O’Neill in Waterford in 2025

Gillian Curran’s pattern of injuries were more consistent with assault, murder trial hears

Marcus O’Neill has denied murder of his partner at his home in Waterford last year

Man remanded in custody over knife attack on woman in Co Waterford church

Niall Cummins (36) of the Willows, Clarinwood, Tramore, appears in court charged over serious assault

Man (30s) to appear in court charged in connection with Tramore church incident

Woman (50s) seriously injured after assault in Co Waterford

State should target EU support to cover cost of keeping drug-smuggling ship, says Cork TD

MV Matthew sold for $1 after almost €17m spent on maintenance since law enforcement agencies seized vessel

State urged to buy former Bessborough mother and baby home lands to create memorial park

Planning permission has been granted for more than 100 apartments on Cork site

Bill Kenneally victim: ‘He said if I told anyone, he had the pictures to show I enjoyed it’

A chance discovery that his childhood abuser still had access to boys led Jason Clancy to make a decision that would lead to justice but also a personally difficult journey

MV Matthew departs Cork having cost State €16m in berthing, crew and maintenance fees

Vessel was boarded by Army Rangers in 2023 in operation that led to seizure of €157m worth of cocaine

Jamey Carney’s move to Ireland was ‘the best decision she ever made’, funeral hears

Mourners told 43-year-old mother-of-one enjoyed special relationship with her daughter Michaela

Gardaí consider visiting Jordan to interview person of interest in Jamey Carney murder case

Taoiseach urges social media companies to remove ‘horrific’ material related to killing of American woman

Jamey Carney murder: Gardaí believe man arrested in Jordan is victim’s boyfriend

Ahmed Al Saqar, believed to be from Jordan and prime suspect in woman’s murder, fled Ireland immediately after Kerry killing

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