Two children, a man, and a woman have died following a house fire in the Birchwood estate in Kilcohan, Waterford city, in the early hours of Tuesday 13 October 2026. Two other children were removed from the scene and are receiving hospital treatment for critical injuries. Emergency services were alerted shortly after 5am (Waterford Fire Service received the call at 5.13am) to a two-storey house on Birch Avenue. Firefighters from local stations arrived to find a well-developed

Five teenagers died early on Sunday morning after the stolen BMW they were travelling in crashed head-on into a family car while driving the wrong way down the M9 motorway in County Kildare, Ireland. The group, aged between 15 and 18, had reportedly been involved in a fortnight-long spree of break-ins and car thefts that left local communities on edge. The collision occurred around 3am on 16 August 2026 near Moone, between junctions 3 and 4 on the northbound carriageway. The