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The 2023 Dublin riot took place on the evening of 23 November 2023 in Dublin, Ireland and involved multiple incidents of vandalism, arson, and looting in the city centre as well as assaults on Gardaí (Irish police) and members of the public. [ 5] Gardaí described the riot as the most violent in modern Dublin history, far surpassing the 2006 ...
Kinahan Organised Crime Group. The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world. [ 30][ 31][ 32] It is also established in the UK, Spain, and the United Arab ...
Irish Magdalene Laundry, c. early 1900s. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [ 1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in ...
One of the most widely known cases of sexual abuse in Ireland involved Brendan Smyth, who, between 1945 and 1989, sexually abused and assaulted 20 children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and the United States. [11] The investigation of the Smyth case was allegedly obstructed by the Norbertine Order.
Ireland's Vanishing Triangle[ 1][ 2][ 3] is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsolved as well. [ 4] All of the cases appeared to share some ...
The blatant wealth of Ireland's brothel-keepers in the 1990s was such that the media began to take more interest. [7] Section 23 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 [42] prohibited the advertising of brothels and prostitution and in 1999 the Censorship of Publications Board banned In Dublin magazine from carrying escort ...
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Ireland. May 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024. ^ Rosemary Forde (20 May 2024). "Cleviston Haynes is Barbados' first resident Ambassador To Ireland". Loop Barbados News. Retrieved 6 June 2024. ^ "Luxembourg diplomatic and consular missions".
The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a militant organisation based in Ireland active from 1881 to 1883. Founded as splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, [ 1] the group had a more radical agenda, and was formed with an intent to target those who implemented English policies in Ireland. [ 2]