Barry Roche

Barry Roche

Southern Correspondent

Barry Roche is Southern Correspondent of The Irish Times.

‘We’re well used to seeing helicopters’: Knockanore awaits latest billionaire Zuckerberg

Locals expect Facebook founder to keep to himself in west Waterford

Father of one died from stab wound to the body after incident on Cork street, inquest told

Oleksandr Zhyvystkyi moved to Ireland from Ukraine five years ago and worked as a metal fabricator

‘Why should the community of Mallow have to suffer such decay and dilapidation?’

Mallow tops the list of Co Cork towns with most derelict properties, the site of its historical Central Hotel typifying the challenges communities throughout the State face

File sent to DPP on two Sinn Féin politicians facing €200,000 fraud investigation

Detectives forwarded the near 600-page file on investigation into Cork North Central TD Thomas Gould and Cllr Kenneth Collins

Crowds line the streets of Cork to welcome All-Ireland camogie champions home

Team bus arrived in the city to the sound of Tina Turner’s hit Simply the Best

West Cork is a common target for drug smugglers. But the methods used have changed

While ways of bringing contraband into the State and the Continent have changed over the years, the country’s geography has not

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

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