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Tragedy

This year
2026
Death toll from Swiss New Year bar fire rises to 41 after teen dies
1 Feb
8.0k
4
Adamuz
Final death toll from Spain's rail disaster is 45 after two more bodies found
22 Jan
4.3k
Last year
2025
Italy
Worker dies after medieval tower partly collapses in Rome
4 Nov 2025
11.0k
3
Mazar-i-Sharif
Afghanistan earthquake kills 20, injures over 300
3 Nov 2025
2.4k
engine problems
Plane that skidded off Hong Kong runway made emergency landing in Shannon in 2021
20 Oct 2025
15.6k
13
tennessee
Sixteen dead after blast at US explosives factory
12 Oct 2025
9.6k
tommy connors
Donegal man who died in weather-related incident during Storm Amy is named locally
4 Oct 2025
50.0k
Tallanstown
Three family members killed in Louth home named locally
Parents Mark O’Connor, a disabilities sector manager, and Louise Doherty O’Connor, a qualified nurse, were killed alongside their son Evan (27).
29 Sep 2025
111k
RELATED
Man in his 30s arrested after three adults found dead at a home in Louth this morning
29 Sep 2025
Inquest
Student, 20, died after slipping at the Cliffs of Moher in 2024
26 Sep 2025
25.0k
Joey Forker
Funeral to be held on Thursday for young boy who died in machinery incident in Donegal
24 Aug 2025
60.1k
Donegal
Man in his 60s arrested in connection with Creeslough explosion which killed ten people
23 May 2025
29.1k
Tragedy
Death In The Afternoon: How a young soldier met his fate on the pitch 100 years ago today
At just 22, Hugh O’Doherty had already lived a busy sporting and political life before a collision on the pitch caused his death.
Declan Bogue
30 Apr 2025
2.6k
2
Tragedy
Three US soldiers whose vehicle sank into a Lithuanian bog found dead
31 Mar 2025
23.3k
isle of man fire
Irish legal team for Stardust campaign turn attention to one of Britain's worst fire disasters
4 Mar 2025
10.4k
Donegal
Dáil told Creeslough families ‘re-traumatised’ after permission granted to redevelop site of tragedy
Four men, three women and three children, ranging in age from five to 59, died in the blast that ripped through the Co Donegal village’s Applegreen service station.
20 Feb 2025
12.7k
fishing tragedy
Fisherman dies after injuries on board trawler off the coast of Cork
5 Feb 2025
17.8k
All time
Tragedy
Child 'trampled to death' in asylum seekers' Channel crossing, says French minister
5 Oct 2024
9.5k
Honour
Making sense of tragedy as Madden Raparees seek first-ever Armagh title
5 Oct 2024
2.8k
0
Tragedy
Swiss teenage cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after crash at Worlds
The 42
27 Sep 2024
21.8k
3
Tragedy
Swiss teenage cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after crash at Worlds
27 Sep 2024
2.8k
3
Tragedy
Eight migrants die trying to cross the Channel from France to England
15 Sep 2024
6.9k
people magazine
Singer Mariah Carey announces that her mother and sister died on same day last weekend
27 Aug 2024
38.5k
4
Wicklow
Clodagh Phelan (11) who died in tragedy in Spain is loved “to infinity and beyond” funeral hears
28 Jul 2024
24.4k
Clonmel
'Accidental death' verdict in inquest into deaths of four young people on way to Leaving Cert event
Updated 11 Jul 2024
44.4k
Tragedy
116 people killed in stampede at religious gathering in India
2 Jul 2024
9.5k
9
Tragedy
17-year-old boy dies in workplace accident in Co Cavan
14 Jun 2024
26.9k
Floods
Five dead as southern Germany struggles with far-reaching floods
4 Jun 2024
8.8k
Egypt
At least 10 people killed, including nine children, in Egypt as minibus plunges off ferry into Nile
Updated 21 May 2024
14.9k
Acquitted
Charges dropped against suspects in Mediterranean migrant boat disaster
21 May 2024
4.7k
Donegal
Two men arrested in relation to fatal explosion at Creeslough service station
The explosion killed 10 people in October 2022.
Gardaí said the men (both aged in their 50s) were arrested for alleged offences contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.
Ten people, including three children, were killed in the blast at the Applegreen service station in Creeslough on 7 October, 2022.
22 Mar 2024
50.3k
Anniversary
Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on
Dr Mary McAuliffe
31 Jan 2024
23.2k
43
Tragedy
More than 60 people feared dead after boat sinks off Libya
17 Dec 2023
6.6k
Tragedy
Belgium-Sweden abandoned at half-time after two people shot dead in Brussels
16 Oct 2023
2.9k
0
Disaster
Death toll from Afghanistan earthquakes doubles to more than 2,000 people
8 Oct 2023
9.6k
34
Inquest
Former Stardust doorman denies he was ‘put up to’ telling gardaí he had opened the exits
14 Sep 2023
13.3k
Youghal
Two Ironman participants die during swim in Co Cork
Updated 20 Aug 2023
128k
Tragedy
World Cup teams shocked but safe after deadly Auckland shooting
20 Jul 2023
4.2k
0
Andrew O'Donnell
Parents of teenager who died on Greek holiday say son ‘had so much love to give’
12 Jul 2023
18.9k
4
Resilient
'The guys showed great character' - Murphy proud of his Ireland U20s
7 Jul 2023
13.0k
11
St Michael's College
'We will never forget them': Dublin school holds prayer service for students who died in Greece
5 Jul 2023
16.9k
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