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WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents Jimmy and Anne Choy in their bedrooms.
Anne Choy would be pronounced dead later that morning at Good Samaritan Hospital, but as a headline in the next day’s
Kerry accounts for up to 25% of the Air Ambulance service call-outs.
The life-saving service went live in July 2019 and provides time critical emergency care and transport for people in the county and beyond.
The Irish Community Rapid Response (ICRR), a charity dedicated to pre-hospital care, is running the service in co-operation with the HSE National Ambulance Service.
Key relationship manager with the ICRR, Karen O’Sullivan says the service is particularly beneficial to people in rural areas of the county:
BROCKTON The controversy began with a lawsuit from a disgruntled former employee.
Veteran prosecutor John Bradley sued the Plymouth County district attorney’s office for wrongful termination, alleging his former bosses retaliated against him after he stopped volunteering time and money to District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s reelection campaigns.
The litigation lasted years, generating testimony from former prosecutors and troves of internal documents that offered an unprecedented window into the politics inside the DA’s office, the arm of state government that turns arrests into criminal convictions in Brockton and 26 towns in Plymouth County.
Among the documents entered into the public record were Bradley’s emails thousands of them at the former prosecutor’s own request. And while Bradley won a settlement of $250,000, the emails, which contained scores of inappropriate remarks about defendants he and his colleagues sent to prison, set off a series of unintended
A total of four men have been arrested by Gardaí investigating the circumstances of the death of a Doneraile man found unresponsive at a Killarney hotel during last summer.
Darragh Sheehan (26) was found unconscious on the ground outside the Gleneagle Hotel on the Muckross Road in Killarney on August 29 last.
Despite desperate efforts to resuscitate Mr Sheehan, he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The first two arrests by Gardaí investigating the case took place on Tuesday morning when two men were taken into custody.
One man is aged in his 40s and the other is aged in his 50s.