Tag Archives: County Tipperary

The High Court has been asked by the State to halt an action for damages brought against it by the widower of Sylvia Roche Kelly, from Sixmilebridge, who was murdered in Limerick seven years ago. The body of Ms Roche Kelly, a mother of two young children, was found lying face down in the bath of a hotel room in December, 2007 after she met her killer while out celebrating her 33rd birthday. She had been violently beaten and strangled. Gerard McGrath (24) Ballywalter, Knockavilla, County Tipperary, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court five years ago to life imprisonment after admitting murdering Ms Roche Kelly at The Clarion Hotel, Limerick, on December 8, 2007. McGrath was on bail at that time on a charge of assaulting a female taxi driver in April 2007. Lorcan Roche Kelly, on behalf of his two children, has sued the State and the Garda Commissioner for damages, alleging his wife’s killer was “free to …

Plans for  a permanent Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat Station in Dromineer will be unveiled at a public meeting in the village on Wednesday. Members of the public will be able to meet architects and engineers who drafted the plans, at a consultation meeting in the Lough Derg Yacht Club from 7pm to 9pm. The current station began operations from the premises of Lough Derg Yacht Club at Dromineer, halfway down the east shore of the lake in North Tipperary. Now that plans for a new permanent station in the village are well underway, it is important that people become engaged with the consultation process. On May 25 last, the Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat Station celebrated its 10th birthday. Over the past 10 years, the lifeboat was launched 240 times, 60 of those at night. Volunteer crews have rescued 340 people and saved the lives of three. Following a rescue on August 13 of this year, the skipper of the vessel wrote …