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Daily Record
09-07-2025
- Daily Record
Gangsters targeted mob boss Mark Richardson's brother and best mate during six-day gun and knife rampage
Dale Richardson, 35, and David Togher, 40, were left with serious injuries after they were ambushed on Edinburgh's Walter Scott Avenue. Gangsters targeted mob boss Mark Richardson's brothe r and best mate during a six-day gun and knife rampage in Edinburgh. Dale Richardson, 35, and David Togher, 40, were left with serious injuries after they were ambushed on the capital's Walter Scott Avenue on June 28, 2023. Both were assaulted to their severe injury after assailants Jordan Demarco and Daryl Loftus, both 33, struck the pair's bodies with an unknown weapon. Just days later, they attempted to target Togher again during a botched break in of a home in Gorebridge. Demarco and Loftus were convicted of a terrifying six-day weapon rampage across Edinburgh, which saw the involvement of firearms, machetes and a sledgehammer. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how the pair reigned terror across the capital and surrounding areas between the dates of June 28 and July 4, 2023. It heard how a home on Bobbies Road in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, was broken into while Loftus was in the possession of a firearm or imitation gun, with the intent to cause the occupier fear. At the same time, Loftus was also in possession of a sledgehammer while Demarco wielded a machete. A set of keys and a vehicle were stolen from the address. The following day, the door of a home on Edinburgh's Niddrie Marischal Crescent was repeatedly struck as Demarco and Loftus attempted to gain entry. Hours later, they repeatedly struck another door on Shanter Way, attempting to cut through it with a circular saw with the intention of assaulting the two occupants. A woman was then threatened with a machete on Gilmerton Dykes Place after a brick was hurled through her window and door kicked down. On July 4, Loftus brandished a knife at a man while threatening him on Edinburgh's Saltire Square. The chaos is understood to have been sparked after an angle grinder and knife were brandished at a man on Granton Medway. Loftus was jailed for more than seven years at the High Court in Edinburgh on April 4. Demarco is due to be sentenced at the same court in August. In 2016, cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson's best pal Togher was caged for nearly six years for a frenzied slashing on drugs baron Sean 'Lugs' McGovern. Togher glided a knife across McGovern's body in front of horrified shoppers in Edinburgh city centre in a sinister revenge attack. The violence took place moments before McGovern, now 41, was due to return to jail from home leave. He had been serving 17 years for a shooting and drug crimes. A Record reporter and photographer witnessed the slashing. They saw bleeding McGovern run after the hitmen as they fled to a waiting Skoda. He then slumped to the ground and was helped into an ambulance with his head, neck and left hand bandaged. Distinctive cycling gear worn by Togher during the attack helped get him caught. He admitted assaulting McGovern to the danger of life. The High Court in Glasgow heard that McGovern had refused to help police. Togher's QC said there had been "historical" bad blood between the men. Lord Turnbull told him: "The victim was a serving prisoner who was obviously an enemy of yours for one reason or another."
Irish Examiner
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Sciath na Scol: Zach Duffy the hero as Togher Boys National School defeat Morning Star
Allianz Sciath na Scol Urban H2 final: Togher Boys National School 3-6 Morning Star 3-4 A late, late show from Zach Duffy earned Togher the spoils in a thrilling encounter with Morning Star at Supervalu Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Duffy moved inside to aid the Togher attack and with time running out, he registered a point to bring his side within one of Morning Star – who had enjoyed success earlier in the second-half. Duffy then grabbed the winner well into added time. His finish high into the net ensured wild celebrations among his teammates and school peers alike. Another to shine for Togher was goalkeeper Kaiden O'Mahony. He stopped countless goal-bound efforts from Morning Star throughout the opening half until Lucas Hogan grabbed a green flag. Togher's Isaac Kenneally and Conor Sheehan were the standouts for Togher in the first 20, helping their side to a two-point lead at half-time. Then came the Morning Star burst. Two rapid-fire Jack English goals, coupled with an Aaron Kelleher long-range point flipped the script. From there, a second Kenneally goal for Togher and another Sheehan placed-ball meant a tight finish was to come. Although Joey O'Neill put his Morning Star side two ahead with five to go, Duffy came up with the necessary goods. Scorers for Togher: Isaac Keanneally (2-0), Conor Sheehan (0-4, 1f, 2 '65). Scorers for Morning Star: Jack English (2-0), Lucas Hogan (1-1), Aaron Kelleher (0-2, 1f), Joey O'Neill (0-1). Togher: Kaiden O'Mahony, Callum O'Callaghan, Mason Gabriel, Kiall Meehan McMahon, Sri Pranith Malla, Zach Duffy, Ruairí Crowe, Peter Blackwell, Jason Desmond, Ricco Khan, Isaac Kenneally, Jamie Hennessy, Alex Kidney O'Connor, Jayden McHale, Conor Sheehan, Josh Sabu, Diego Vasile Paun, Andy Chucks, Emmet Blackwell, Cathal Casey, Kelvin Coleman, Jake McNamara, Nathan Stoica, Noah McSweeney, Dylan Mullins. Morning Star: Evan O'Riordan, Jack English, Evan Coates, Jamie Noonan, Joey O'Neill, Sean Cooper, Aaron Kelleher, Zack Maguire, Lucas Hogan, Bobby Stewart, Alex Manning, Callum Morgan, Kyle Higgins, Max Browne, Adrian Warych-Fernandez, Haidar Khan, Alex Cotter. Referee: Brian Barrett (Douglas).
Irish Times
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Ian O'Riordan: Do we need to protect the limits of women's distance running?
These are refreshing and fast-changing times for women's sport, and one Irish athlete swiftly making a name for herself is Niamh Allen. Her outright victory in the Midleton five-mile road race in Cork on Thursday evening, beating all the women and men, was exceptional on several counts, possibly causing some confusion in the prize-giving ceremony afterwards. Allen has already been breaking boundaries in Irish women's distance running, ever since returning from two years in Australia last April. Just three months after giving birth to her first child, Lily, she finished second in the National Cross-Country Championships in November, with that winning her first big international vest. She followed that with a victory in the National 10km road race in March, her 31:44 the fastest Irish women's time recorded on Irish soil. Recently turned 30, Allen now runs with Leevale AC, and Thursday's Midleton race consisted largely of Cork runners, with the usual mixed-race start. In magnificent running conditions, over the latter stages, Allen broke clear of the field, winning by 22 seconds in 25:31, comfortably the best of the 340 finishers, 204 men, and 136 women. Leevale club-mate Michael Walsh was second in 25:53, thus the top men's finisher, ahead of another Leevale runner Donal Coakly, third in 26:24. READ MORE The second-best women's finisher was Siobhán Hoare from Togher, who ran 30:19, and even if Allen's overall victory among the women and men is only a tiny outlier, she is unquestionably an Irish athlete to watch over the next few years. Right now, it seems, there are no limits on her potential. European Cross Country Championships, Antalya, Turkey, December 2024: Niamh Allen in the women's senior race. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho While Allen's victory also pokes gentle fun at the idea of what women can achieve, it doesn't in any way alter the need, as I see it, to protect the entirely separate women's category. The English FA were the latest sporting body to address that this week, banning all transgender women from the women's game from the beginning of next month. This follows last month's UK supreme court ruling that the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex. World Athletics has made its stance clear, and other sporting bodies have followed. It also comes at a time when the marketing people at Nike have dreamed up another idea to test the limits of distance running, this time focusing on the women's mile world record. Inspired in part by a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science in February, which suggested Faith Kipyegon from Kenya could feasibly run a 3:59.37 mile as soon as this summer, they've set up the sub-four record attempt at the Stade Charléty in Paris on June 26th. This will also mean improving Kipyegon's world record of 4:07.64, set in 2023, a time no other woman has come within almost five seconds of, but this won't be your normal, or indeed legal, record attempt. Kipyegon will benefit from reduced aerodynamic drag on the track thanks to improved drafting off male pacemakers, who will be substituted at the halfway point, and will also be racing in whatever new Nike super-spike is being worked on behind closed doors, and therefore not yet legal either. We all appreciate that Kipyegon is arguably the best women's middle-distance runner of all time, certainly the best I've seen. She's the three-time Olympic 1,500m champion, unbeaten at the distance in four years, and at age 31, and mother to a six-year-old daughter, is showing no signs of slowing down. It took 34 years of small steps for the women's mile time to improve by almost eight seconds, to that 4:07.64, and now Faith Kipyegon hopes to do the same in one giant leap. Photograph: Getty Images In the first Diamond League meeting of the season in Xiamen, China last Saturday, she opened with a 1,000m race, clocking a terrific 2:29.21 – just missing the world record of 2:28.98 set by Russia's Svetlana Masterkova back in 1996. If Kipyegon could somehow have managed to keep going at that 2:29.21 pace for another 609m (to complete the mile distance) she'd have clocked a 4:00.08 mile, still just short of sub-four. But it simply does not work that way: in reality, Kipyegon will need to improve by two seconds per lap, or almost eight seconds overall, compared with the 4:07.64 mile she ran in Monaco in July 2023. It took 34 years of small steps for the women's mile time to improve by almost eight seconds, to that 4:07.64, and now Kipyegon hopes to do the same in one giant leap. In that same race in Monaco, incidentally, Ciara Mageean broke the Irish women's mile record when running 4:14.58 – the previous mark of 4:17.26 had stood to Sonia O'Sullivan since 1994. Nike are calling it Breaking4, a sort of sequel to their Breaking2 project, which in 2019 enabled another Kenyan, Eliud Kipchoge, to eclipse the two-hour barrier in the men's marathon, running 1:59:40 – only again that didn't count for record purposes due to the rotation of pacemakers and other such gimmicks. In a publicity statement for Breaking4, Nike said: 'How do you make the impossible possible? You start by calling your moon shot, and as moonshots go, Faith Kipyegon's is as audacious as they come.' For Kipyegon, the mile-record attempt is also about inspiring women runners everywhere: 'I want this attempt to say to women, 'you can dream and make your dreams valid',' she said. 'This is the way to go as women, to push boundaries and dream big.' It's coming up on 71 years since Roger Bannister became the first man to run a sub-four-minute mile, his 3:59.4, on May 6th, 1954, also considered by many to be an impossible task at the time. Once that barrier was broken, many more soon followed. Or as Bannister said, 'Après moi, le déluge.' Perhaps that's part of Nike's thinking: that if the men have been doing it for more than 70 years, why not the women now, too? But the sub-four mile is one of the last great frontiers of women's running for good reason, and it would be silly and even reckless to suggest it can be broken anytime soon, if at all. All such records should only be allowed to progress organically, albeit with whatever technological advances are permitted. Otherwise, the boundaries will be pushed beyond what can be achieved under normal circumstances. And what might that encourage, more athletes resorting to doping perhaps? Sometimes these limits, as with women's sport, need careful protection.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Yahoo
Attending the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown? Here's what to know
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Northeast Ohio will be seeing green all weekend in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, leading up to the annual parade in downtown Cleveland. 'Biggest single day event in the downtown Cleveland,' parade committee executive director John Togher said. 'They said we're one of the top five parades in the whole country.' The parade steps off just past 1 p.m. at 18th Street and Superior Avenue. The weather is projecting to be fair, around the mid-40s on Monday, with low chances of rain or snow. Togher said the parade lineup will bring plenty of excitement, but those planning to attend should arrive early because parking is limited due to road closures on Superior and Payne avenues. 'The RTA has $5 all-day passes,' Togher said. 'Their parking lots are free to park there and take the rapid, or the buses downtown. But parking will be a premium downtown like it always is.' Your 2025 Cleveland-area fish fry guide For increased safety, jersey barriers will be added along the route to prevent cars from driving up on the sidewalk. This is after the terrorist attack in New Orleans earlier this year. 'We see other cities and some of the challenges they face, and we learn from those,' Cleveland Division of Police Sergeant Freddy Diaz said. Diaz said dozens of officers will be staffing the parade to ensure safety, but it's very important for parents to keep a close eye on their children, especially if they're young. He said if you get separated, look for someone in uniform. 'If a child is misplaced or displaced, the family is able to be reunified at the Terminal Tower with their kids,' Diaz said. Diaz suggested taking a photo of your child before the parade can help accurately describe their clothing if there is a separation. Myles Garrett speaks for first time since extension; thinks Browns are in a better place While the parade is family friendly, many people will be drinking this weekend, in typical celebration of St. Patrick's Day. 'Drink responsibly,' Diaz said. 'If you're drinking, make sure you have a designated driver. Today's world you have Ubers, we have RTA, different modes of public transportation. So, there's really no reason to be driving while impaired.' The city of Cleveland also issued guidance for the parade on Monday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
