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Sunday World
26-05-2025
- Sunday World
Family dog killed and two people injured as Dublin gang firebombs wrong house
Two hospitalised after blunder by feuding thugs Two people were hospitalised and a family dog killed after reckless criminals firebombed the wrong house as part of an escalating Dublin feud. The innocent family's home was targeted in an early morning attack in Ballyfermot, causing extensive damage. Detectives believe it was carried out as part of a worsening city feud involving a young drug dealer and junior associates of mobster Brian Rattigan. There has been a spate of assaults and petrol bombings in recent weeks while one property was also shot up last year. Brian Rattigan is not suspected by gardaí of any direct involvement in the gang feud which is believed to be connected to the petrol bombing An investigation is under way into the latest incident which happened at around 2.30am last Wednesday. Emergency services including Dublin Fire Brigade, paramedics and gardaí were alerted and two people taken to hospital as a precaution. Extensive damage was caused by a suspected petrol bomb and the family dog was killed. The lads who were sent out to petrol bomb their target clearly got the wrong house The residents who live at the property have no involvement in criminality and gardaí are satisfied the perpetrators targeted the wrong home. A source said: 'This is a decent family who have absolutely no involvement in what has been going on. The lads who were sent out to petrol bomb their target clearly got the wrong house. 'It shows the calibre of people involved in this feuding and how easily completely innocent people can get caught up in this'. No arrests have been made. Stock photo News in 90 Seconds - May 26th 2025 A Garda spokesperson confirmed that an investigation into the incident of criminal damage by fire is under way. The Sunday World previously revealed how a partner of one of the feuding criminals was also warned by her boyfriend's rivals that she would be burnt out of her home. A drug dealer in his 20s is centrally involved in the dispute and was the victim of a violent attack Her partner, a drug dealer aged in his 20s, is centrally involved in the dispute and was the victim of a violent attack in the city centre recently. He was beaten over the head with weapons and also stabbed while receiving a bad slash wound to his face. His family home was also shot at in May of last year while his home and car were smashed up days before the assault on him. Days after that attack a series of co-ordinated petrol bomb attacks linked to the dispute were carried out in Drimnagh and Kildare. Gardaí believe two brothers, who are in their early 20s and junior associates of convicted killer Rattigan, are leading the feud against the young drug dealer. Rattigan led a gang involved in the deadly Crumlin/Drimnagh feud They were previously part of the same drugs gang but last year fell out in a row over drugs as well as a personal dispute over a woman. Rattigan led a gang involved in the deadly Crumlin/Drimnagh feud which claimed more than a dozen lives in the 2000s. He has served lengthy jail terms for drug offences and manslaughter. The mobster is not suspected of playing any direct role in the feud but gardaí believe he still has a key role in criminality in the area.
New European
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
This role will win Tamsin Greig a best actress Olivier award
In theatre and in our world generally, there is a visceral horror of silence that now seems to be more pronounced than ever. Given what's happening around us, maybe we just don't want too much time to dwell upon things. Even some of my oldest friends, it so happens, have started to babble inanities over lunches and dinners. Lindsay Posner, the director of what might be called a radically traditional revival of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, understands, however, that silence can be used to devastating effect, certainly on a stage. He allows his audience quite a few moments of silence to contemplate the full horror of Hester Collyer's life after she made an unsuccessful bid to end it in the opening scene. Hester has broken up with her dull but decent husband,played by Nicholas Farrell, and is living with a feckless but charismatic young drunkard (Hadley Fraser). As their relationship inevitably disintegrates, she has to understand how she needs to focus on a point in her life that's 'beyond hope,' which is to say come to terms with reality. There is nothing terribly special about Hester – all of us know people like her and some may well see aspects of themselves in her character – and that's what makes the piece so powerful. Rattigan was almost certainly writing about his own troubled private life in the piece – in a more repressive time, he had to make the principals heterosexual, but, as a gay man, he knew the sense of despair about love and loss were just the same – and this is what gives the piece its punch. Tamsin Greig as Hester heads an exceptionally strong ensemble cast – I'll put money on her for best actress in the next Olivier awards – but Fraser, who I remember as a musical star in his younger days, is her equal on stage, capturing very well the inner turmoil of her youthful boyfriend. Farrell is on customarily great form, too, and Finbar Lynch, as a seedy, disbarred doctor tending to Hester, turns out to be a fine old scene-stealer. Posner directs with due reverence to Rattigan and it succeeds as a production precisely because of this, and, of course, the great acting. We've playwrights like Rattigan to thank for helping to make generation of theatre-goers emotionally literate, and it's pleasing, after seeing James Dacre's excellent double bill of his plays Table Number Seven and The Browning Version down in Chichester, to now see the old boy making a comeback in the West End.
Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Deep Blue Sea review — Tamsin Greig is terrific, but often inaudible
There are great things in Terence Rattigan's masterpiece about a woman in postwar London who leaves her husband for an unsuitable but exciting ex-RAF man. I just wish we could hear them better. This revival, much praised at the tiny Ustinov theatre in Bath, has virtues aplenty but it hasn't scaled up fully now it is in the grander Theatre Royal Haymarket. So sometimes you think Tamsin Greig is giving a wondrous central turn as a woman paying a stiff price for pursuing passion. And sometimes you long for her to speak up a bit. • Read more theatre reviews, guides and interviews Even in row G of the stalls I was struggling to catch everything, especially for the first of the three acts,
Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Give Terence Rattigan his own West End theatre, stage stars say
The vilification of one of Britain's greatest 20th-century playwrights, who fell out of fashion following the rise of the 'angry young men', needs to be redressed by naming a West End playhouse after him, acting luminaries have said. A Sir Terence Rattigan theatre would give the playwright the recognition he deserves for his influential works and go some way to correcting the wrongs inflicted on him, they said. David Suchet, who starred in Rattigan's Man and Boy 20 years ago, said the writer, who died in 1977 aged 66, had been 'hugely influential on British theatre', adding that he had been upset at learning of his mistreatment. Rattigan's earlier plays including 1942's Flare Path, The Winslow Boy in 1946 and The Deep Blue Sea
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Yahoo
Man indicted for shooting three DC police officers in 2024, authorities say
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A man accused of shooting Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers in 2024 was indicted Wednesday, according to the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia. Stephen Rattigan, also known as Julius James, 49, of Washington, D.C., was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and faces the following charges: Assault with intent to kill while armed Six counts of assault on a police officer while armed Three counts of assault with significant bodily injury while armed 15 counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence Endangerment with a firearm Five counts of unlawful possession of a firearm Four counts of possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device Cruelty to animals. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Man accused of shooting 3 DC police officers serving arrest warrant for animal cruelty makes first court appearance Court documents say on the morning of Feb. 14, 2024, six officers attempted to arrest Rattigan on animal cruelty charges in the 5000 block of Hanna Place SE. Police say the officers repeatedly announced they were there to arrest him, but he did not answer. Officers saw Rattigan inside the home and began speaking to him, requesting that he open the door. Court documents allege Rattigan did not comply, so officers used tools to enter the home. Rattigan then began firing several shots through the front door, striking three officers and prompting an hours-long standoff with MPD negotiators. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: 14 dogs rescued from Southeast DC house find new homes Court documents claim that at one point during the standoff, Rattigan was upset that he wasn't getting cigarettes fast enough, so he fired an additional three shots through the front door. After several hours, Rattigan surrendered and was arrested. According to court documents, a search warrant was executed for the home where 31 dogs, three handguns, two AR-style rifles, two full drum magazines, and additional large-capacity magazines were found. The USAO stated Rattigan faces a mandatory minimum of five years for each count of assault with intent to kill while armed, each count of assault on a police officer while armed and each count of assault with significant bodily injury while armed. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
