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# tragedy - Wednesday 11 May, 2016
Derry player scores for his hometown club weeks after losing family members in Buncrana tragedy
Josh Daniels came of the bench to make a telling contribution.
# tragedy - Friday 29 April, 2016
Refugee (23) dies after setting himself on fire in 'political protest'
The man set himself alight on in an apparent protest over Australia’s strict asylum seeker policies.
# tragedy - Monday 25 April, 2016
Investigation after Tyrone farmer dies in bull attack
The deceased has been named locally as Nigel Murray.
# tragedy - Thursday 21 April, 2016
Fire on Carrickmines halting site started in the kitchen, says report
Five of those killed were asleep in the unit where the fire broke out.
# tragedy - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
Family of Martin O'Rourke will visit Sheriff St after funeral to thank locals for support
The 24-year-old was gunned down in Dublin’s north inner city last Thursday in a case of mistaken identity.
# tragedy - Wednesday 13 April, 2016
Minister for Sport on MMA tragedy: 'I saw this coming'
Michael Ring says he has had “grave concerns” about the sport for a long time.
# tragedy - Tuesday 12 April, 2016
Conor McGregor: 'It is easy for those on the outside to criticise our way of living'
The Irish MMA star was speaking in reaction to the death of Portuguese fighter Joao Carvalho.
Charlie Ward's father: 'He didn't go out to kill anyone'
A Portuguese fighter was hospitalised and later died following his TKO loss at Saturday’s Total Extreme Fighting MMA event in Dublin.
# tragedy - Monday 28 March, 2016
Father and son drown in stream as they visit relatives for Easter eggs
Sean ‘Curly’ Sweeney and his three-year-old son died yesterday afternoon in Ashington.
# tragedy - Saturday 26 March, 2016
“This could have happened to anybody” – Locals raise €90,000 for bereaved family of slipway tragedy
Michelle Black and Martin McGranaghan have raised a huge sum between them in an effort to help in any way they can.
# tragedy - Thursday 24 March, 2016
Zebra leads police on chase across golf course before drowning in a water trap
Police were attempting to capture the animal alive when it tragically collapsed in the pool.
# tragedy - Wednesday 23 March, 2016
Woman found dead in walk-in freezer at US hotel
A search for the woman began when she didn’t return home after her shift at the hotel.
# tragedy - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
Family who died in Buncrana tragedy brought home to Derry
The funerals will take place on Thursday afternoon.
“The town is cursed” – Buncrana residents numbed by horrific tragedy on their doorstep
The deaths of five members of the one family in the Donegal seaside town on Sunday evening has shocked the tight-knit local community to its core.
Photos show happy family before Buncrana tragedy
Five people perished in the tragedy last night.
# tragedy - Monday 21 March, 2016
'Save my baby': Buncrana father went back into car to try to rescue his family
Davitt Walsh recalls how Seán McGrotty handed his baby daughter to him before tragedy struck.
‘The most palpable grief’: Desolation as five victims from one family named
The mother of the young boys killed is “inconsolable and totally bereft”.
“I don’t know how I’m going to cope with it”: Witness describes horror of Buncrana pier tragedy
Francis Crawford was first on the scene and talked to the driver of the car.
# tragedy - Sunday 20 March, 2016
“I wrote from anger”: This hard-hitting Irish book is about tattoos and tragedy
We spoke to the author, Deirdre Sullivan.
# tragedy - Friday 18 March, 2016
Body recovered after car goes into water at Howth harbour
The Coast Guard was alerted by a member of the public.
# tragedy - Sunday 13 March, 2016
Doctor referred Germanwings co-pilot to psychiatric clinic two weeks before crash
French investigators have agreed that Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed Flight 9525.
Twin boys (2) drown after falling into garden pool
The brothers were rushed to hospital but later died.
# tragedy - Sunday 6 March, 2016
Woman dies while travelling with children in single vehicle crash last night
The crash happened at about 11.30 last night in Limerick.
# tragedy - Saturday 27 February, 2016
‘It’s a terrible tragedy’: Five dead in apparent family murder-suicide
A 12-year-old girl survived the carnage.
British tourists killed in Vietnam were ‘sucked down by waterfall’
Aid workers recovered the bodies of the three tourists yesterday.
# tragedy - Friday 26 February, 2016
Three British tourists found dead after climbing waterfalls in Vietnam
It is not yet known how they died.
# tragedy - Wednesday 24 February, 2016
Three people missing “highly unlikely to be alive” after UK power station explosion
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
23 confirmed dead as passenger plane crashes on Nepal mountain
The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after taking off.
# tragedy - Tuesday 23 February, 2016
Teenage boy drowns after falling into river
The incident happened shortly after 4pm this afternoon.
# tragedy - Tuesday 16 February, 2016
Player kills referee for red card in Argentina
Cesar Flores, 48, was refereeing a match between local youth teams.
# tragedy - Monday 8 February, 2016
Twin brothers killed in Canadian bobsled accident
The teenagers used their own toboggans on the track after hours at the Canada Olympic Park.
# tragedy - Friday 5 February, 2016
Man dies after boat taken from boat club capsizes on River Shannon
The incident happened yesterday morning.
# tragedy - Thursday 4 February, 2016
‘My Brendan was killed by a drunk driver – it left a desperate void in our lives’
Christina Donnelly has been campaigning for stronger road safety laws and sentencing since the death of her son and his friend in 2009.
# tragedy - Tuesday 2 February, 2016
Bodies of woman and two children found at house near Leeds
Police were called to the house this morning after concerns were raised for the occupants.
# tragedy - Friday 22 January, 2016
Seventeen children among dead as boats capsize off Greece
Two boats are reported to have sank off the Greek coast, leaving at least 42 migrants dead.
# tragedy - Wednesday 20 January, 2016
Australia refuses to recognise British couple’s marriage after man dies on honeymoon
Marco and David Bulmer-Rizzi were married in London last year.
# tragedy - Friday 15 January, 2016
French drug trial: 90 people involved in tests that left one person brain-dead
Media reports said the drug was a cannabis-based painkiller, but this was denied by the health ministry.
# tragedy - Thursday 7 January, 2016
Watch: Operation Transformation leader tells story of teenage son’s sudden death
“The impact of that, no-one gives you a manual for it or no-one can understand it unless it has happened to them.”
# tragedy - Friday 1 January, 2016
Stray bullets and firecrackers leave hundreds injured after Philippine New Year celebration
A lone firework also started a fire in one of the shantytowns in Manila, the country’s capital, leaving 3,000 people homeless.
# tragedy - Thursday 31 December, 2015
Memories of Clogh Road Bridge railway accident as five victims honoured
The devastating crash happened on 31 December 1975.
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