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Sunday World
12-07-2025
- Sunday World
Motorcyclist (60s) dies in crash with tractor in north Dublin
The motorcyclist, a man aged in his 60s, was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. A motorcyclist has died following a collision with a tractor and trailer in north Dublin this morning. The collision occurred on the Old Airport Road, Collinstown Lane at approximately 10.50am. The motorcyclist, a man aged in his 60s, was brought to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital where he has since been pronounced dead. No other injuries were reported. Stock image News in 90 Seconds - Saturday July 12 The road remains closed at this time to facilitate a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Local diversions are in place. Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them. Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area between 10:30am and 11:15am this morning are asked to make this footage available to investigating Gardaí. Anyone with information is asked to contact Santry Garda Station on 01 666 4000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.
The Journal
24-06-2025
- General
- The Journal
Three people hospitalised after fire breaks out at Dublin city premises
THREE PEOPLE WERE brought to hospital after a fire broke out above a Thai massage parlour on Granby Row in Co Dublin this morning. Gardaí confirmed that they had assisted emergency services at the scene at the premises at around 8:15am. Advertisement 'The scene is currently being preserved and the street was closed with local diversions in place,' a statement said. 'Three people were taken to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.' An investigation into the cause of the blaze is ongoing, the spokesperson added. A video of the scene this morning shows thick smoke billowing from the upstairs windows of the building. A driver of a Eurospar vehicle is seen in the video backing the vehicle in front of the scene to help those inside the building, with one man seen jumping from a window to land on the truck. Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
Dublin Live
11-06-2025
- Dublin Live
Mother cries 'my son has gone' at inquest of man killed in Dublin apartment block fall
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A young man suffered fatal injuries in a fall from an apartment block in Dublin less than a week after he had been discharged from a psychiatric hospital and just seconds after talking to gardai, an inquest has heard. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner's Court heard relatives of Hassan Mohammad Osman (21) express concern about the circumstances of the death of the 21-year-old Somalian native including that they had not been informed that he had indicated he was suicidal when he was involuntarily admitted to St Vincent's Hospital in Fairview a month earlier. A postmortem showed Mr Osman died from a blunt force head injury consistent with a fall from a height. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on September 26, 2021 at Hampton Wood Point, Finglas. Mr Osman never regained consciousness and died three days later at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Gardaí had been alerted to the scene by a local resident who had recorded a male standing on a window sill of a 4th floor apartment around 12.20am. Garda Diarmuid Murphy said Mr Osman had come down to the entrance of the apartment block by the time he and a colleague had arrived at the scene. Garda Murphy said the young man appeared slightly confused and incoherent but calm in response to some questions. On the way to the deceased's apartment, Mr Osman said he needed to finish "the game of life" before adding: "I am God. I must die" which Garda Murphy said he found "alarming." Garda Murphy said he followed Mr Osman into his bedroom to check the safety locks of the window after the young man declared he was fine and going to bed. The inquest heard two gardai, Mr Osman's mother and one of his brothers were with him when he got up and left the room. Garda Murphy said he then heard another of the deceased's brothers who was in the kitchen shouting about Mr Osman's fall from the balcony. In reply to questions from the coroner, Cróna Gallagher, he said he had planned to detain the deceased under the Mental Health Act but was checking with his family as they were unaware about him being on the window sill. He accepted that he had been wrong "to assume the worst was over." "As far as we were concerned, he was safe," said Garda Murphy. He told the coroner that gardaí were trained to remain calm in dealing with such cases and to try and de-escalate a situation but he did not believe the training was "sufficient enough." However, Garda Murphy said gardaí "don't operate with perfect knowledge and make the best judgement." A consultant psychiatrist, Prosper Obioha, gave evidence that Mr Osman had been admitted to St Vincent's Hospital for a relapse of paranoid schizophrenia that he had first been diagnosed with in 2018. The inquest heard Ms Osman had mental health issues since he was 15 and also had been treated for substance abuse. Dr Obioha said the deceased had indicated he was suicidal on admission to the hospital on August 24, 2021 but that he subsequently denied having such thoughts during the remainder of his stay. He accepted Mr Osman's family had not been informed about that but he explained there were patient confidentiality issues as well as that it appeared not to be "an ongoing issue." The psychiatrist outlined how Mr Osman was discharged on September 20, 2021 after improvements in his health and on condition that he took his medication and stopped using cannabis. Dr Obioha stressed that the patient was not psychotic at the time of discharge, while the medication he was prescribed would not have made his situation worse. The deceased's sister, Nima Osman, told the hearing that it was difficult to speak about her brother, whom she described as one of the bravest, strongest people she knew, in the past tense. However, Ms Osman remarked: "His mental health battles became too heavy to carry alone." She told the inquest that her brother loved life but was "trapped in depression and darkness." Ms Osman called for greater awareness about mental health issues because of the "heartbreakingly high" rate of suicide among young men in Ireland. She urged people to be "more cautious, more human and more aware" with people like her brother. In reply to questions from the coroner, Ms Osman said she had not wanted her brother to be left out of hospital but their mother wanted him home. She said her mother and other family members believed Hassan's condition was due to "demons and spiritual stuff" while she was trying to explain he had mental health issues. Ms Osman said Hassan her brother was never suicidal but she became more concerned about his wellbeing when he started experiencing "episodes" when he would hear a female voice telling him to be "a ninja." She told the coroner she could not understand why her brother had not been supervised at all times by gardaí if they had assessed the situation as life-threatening and why he was not arrested in the first place. The inquest heard Hassan, Nima and their mother, Nurrto Abdikadir Ahmed, moved to Ireland from Somalia in 2005. Ms Ahmed told the hearing Hassan was her favourite child and how he had a leg amputated following a shooting incident when he was aged 4. She recalled the family had eaten dinner that evening at 8pm before Hassan had gone back to his bedroom. Later she found him with two gardaí in the apartment when she learnt about concerns when he was seen on the window sill. Ms Ahmed said her son walked out of the bedroom before she heard shouting and realised what had happened "in a blink of an eye." Ms Ahmed said she did not want any sanction on the gardaí involved as it was "beyond their control." "My son has gone and he's not coming back," she observed. An officer with Fiosrú – the Office of the Police Ombudsman, Liam Hickey said an investigation had found no breaches of any regulations by gardaí in the eight minutes they had contact with the deceased. Mr Hickey said there were no specific guidelines governing the situation and it was up to individual gardaí to assess how to deal with what they found. Returning a verdict of self-inflicted death, Dr Gallagher said she could not make a finding of death by suicide as it was unclear that Ms Osman was capable of forming the intent to take his own life given his medical history. The coroner offered her condolences to the deceased's relatives on what she described as "an extremely sad and tragic case." 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Irish Daily Mirror
10-06-2025
- Irish Daily Mirror
'My son is gone' - mum's tears at inquest of son who died after tragic fall
A young man suffered fatal injuries in a fall from an apartment block in Dublin less than a week after he had been discharged from a psychiatric hospital and just seconds after talking to gardai, an inquest has heard. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner's Court heard relatives of Hassan Mohammad Osman (21) express concern about the circumstances of the death of the 21-year-old Somalian native including that they had not been informed that he had indicated he was suicidal when he was involuntarily admitted to St Vincent's Hospital in Fairview a month earlier. A postmortem showed Mr Osman died from a blunt force head injury consistent with a fall from a height. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on September 26, 2021 at Hampton Wood Point, Finglas. Mr Osman never regained consciousness and died three days later at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Gardaí had been alerted to the scene by a local resident who had recorded a male standing on a window sill of a 4th floor apartment around 12.20am. Garda Diarmuid Murphy said Mr Osman had come down to the entrance of the apartment block by the time he and a colleague had arrived at the scene. Garda Murphy said the young man appeared slightly confused and incoherent but calm in response to some questions. On the way to the deceased's apartment, Mr Osman said he needed to finish 'the game of life' before adding: 'I am God. I must die' which Garda Murphy said he found 'alarming.' Garda Murphy said he followed Mr Osman into his bedroom to check the safety locks of the window after the young man declared he was fine and going to bed. The inquest heard two gardai, Mr Osman's mother and one of his brothers were with him when he got up and left the room. Garda Murphy said he then heard another of the deceased's brothers who was in the kitchen shouting about Mr Osman's fall from the balcony. In reply to questions from the coroner, Cróna Gallagher, he said he had planned to detain the deceased under the Mental Health Act but was checking with his family as they were unaware about him being on the window sill. He accepted that he had been wrong 'to assume the worst was over.' 'As far as we were concerned, he was safe,' said Garda Murphy. He told the coroner that gardaí were trained to remain calm in dealing with such cases and to try and de-escalate a situation but he did not believe the training was 'sufficient enough.' However, Garda Murphy said gardaí 'don't operate with perfect knowledge and make the best judgement.' A consultant psychiatrist, Prosper Obioha, gave evidence that Mr Osman had been admitted to St Vincent's Hospital for a relapse of paranoid schizophrenia that he had first been diagnosed with in 2018. The inquest heard Ms Osman had mental health issues since he was 15 and also had been treated for substance abuse. Dr Obioha said the deceased had indicated he was suicidal on admission to the hospital on August 24, 2021 but that he subsequently denied having such thoughts during the remainder of his stay. He accepted Mr Osman's family had not been informed about that but he explained there were patient confidentiality issues as well as that it appeared not to be 'an ongoing issue.' The psychiatrist outlined how Mr Osman was discharged on September 20, 2021 after improvements in his health and on condition that he took his medication and stopped using cannabis. Dr Obioha stressed that the patient was not psychotic at the time of discharge, while the medication he was prescribed would not have made his situation worse. The deceased's sister, Nima Osman, told the hearing that it was difficult to speak about her brother, whom she described as one of the bravest, strongest people she knew, in the past tense. However, Ms Osman remarked: 'His mental health battles became too heavy to carry alone.' She told the inquest that her brother loved life but was 'trapped in depression and darkness.' Ms Osman called for greater awareness about mental health issues because of the 'heartbreakingly high' rate of suicide among young men in Ireland. She urged people to be 'more cautious, more human and more aware' with people like her brother. In reply to questions from the coroner, Ms Osman said she had not wanted her brother to be left out of hospital but their mother wanted him home. She said her mother and other family members believed Hassan's condition was due to 'demons and spiritual stuff' while she was trying to explain he had mental health issues. Ms Osman said Hassan her brother was never suicidal but she became more concerned about his wellbeing when he started experiencing 'episodes' when he would hear a female voice telling him to be 'a ninja.' She told the coroner she could not understand why her brother had not been supervised at all times by gardaí if they had assessed the situation as life-threatening and why he was not arrested in the first place. The inquest heard Hassan, Nima and their mother, Nurrto Abdikadir Ahmed, moved to Ireland from Somalia in 2005. Ms Ahmed told the hearing Hassan was her favourite child and how he had a leg amputated following a shooting incident when he was aged 4. She recalled the family had eaten dinner that evening at 8pm before Hassan had gone back to his bedroom. Later she found him with two gardaí in the apartment when she learnt about concerns when he was seen on the window sill. Ms Ahmed said her son walked out of the bedroom before she heard shouting and realised what had happened 'in a blink of an eye.' Ms Ahmed said she did not want any sanction on the gardaí involved as it was 'beyond their control.' 'My son has gone and he's not coming back,' she observed. An officer with Fiosrú – the Office of the Police Ombudsman, Liam Hickey said an investigation had found no breaches of any regulations by gardaí in the eight minutes they had contact with the deceased. Mr Hickey said there were no specific guidelines governing the situation and it was up to individual gardaí to assess how to deal with what they found. Returning a verdict of self-inflicted death, Dr Gallagher said she could not make a finding of death by suicide as it was unclear that Ms Osman was capable of forming the intent to take his own life given his medical history. The coroner offered her condolences to the deceased's relatives on what she described as 'an extremely sad and tragic case.' In the case of an emergency, or if you or someone you know is at risk of suicide or self-harm, dial 999/112.
USA Today
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Marilyn Monroe is that you? Watch as a sea of blonde lookalikes hit the water
Marilyn Monroe is that you? Watch as a sea of blonde lookalikes hit the water 'What an amazing morning with nearly 200 Marilyns taking to the water in Donabate all for women's cancer care in the Mater. Darlings, you're all superstars!!' the Mater Hospital Foundation said. Marilyn Monroe(s) of all shapes and sizes recently showed up and showed out for a good cause. Nearly 200 women — all dressed like the blonde bombshell and Hollywood icon — took a quick dip in Balcarrick Beach in Donabate, a suburb of Dublin, to raise awareness and funds for women's cancer care on May 25. The charity swim event, hosted by the Mater Hospital Foundation, raised over €33,000, or $37,000, during this year's Marilyn's Mater Paddle, the most swinging, glamorous and glitzy event of the summer. The foundation is the official charity supporting the work of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin. The goal of the second annual Marilyn's Mater Paddle was to provide "urgent funding where it's needed most in our hospital so we can speed up cancer diagnosis, enhance treatments and provide world-class care to the women from all over Ireland who come through our doors,' the foundation told Storyful. Video shows Marilyn Monroe lookalikes hit the water in Ireland Marilyn Monroe lookalikes swam at an Irish beach for charity The Mater Hospital Foundation hosted a Marilyn Monroe lookalike event at an Irish beach. The event was held to raise funds for women's cancer care. Video footage captured the moment the women took off towards the surf, running to the water with red-and-white beach balls in hand. Some of the women were seen looping arms with one another as they rushed towards the water. "What an amazing morning with nearly 200 Marilyns taking to the water in Donabate all for women's cancer care in the Mater. Darlings, you're all superstars!!" the foundation said in an Instagram post. "Thank you to everyone who participated and all who supported!"
