Mrs Roche said: 'it was just 1.15am. The noise was like an explosion. I jumped up in bed not knowing what had happened, but thinking the water tank had burst. Then we switched on the light and saw a huge lump of ice just beside the bed. At the same time we heard an aeroplane overhead and saw the hole in the roof and the dressing table all smashed up."

Dublin Evening Mail 14 January 1907 RAHENY Petty Sessions. A boy named Richard Martin, aged about 15 years, was prosecuted for having on the evening of 3 January, stolen a bicycle lamp, valued at 9s 6d, the property of Mr Cecil Barcroft, secretary of the Golf Club, Dollymount. Mrs Eliza Keenan, 2 Brian Boru Street, Clontarf who had taken the boy as a nurse child from the North Dublin Guardians, was summoned under the Youthful Offenders Act for having failed to keep him under proper control. Mr Barcroft, in reply to Inspector Stuart said that he had left his bicycle and the lamp outside the premises of the Dublin Golf Club on Thursday evening 3rd inst. When he came out again the lamp was missing, and he reported the matter to the police. The lamp was handed to him on the 4th inst by his wife, who said a boy had brought it to the house. Sergeant Casserly who arrested the boy said the latter admitted the offence. Mrs Keenan said Martin was a good boy until about 12 months ago, when he began to stay out at night. The chairman said the boy had been allowed to get into a bad way, but the magistrates had decided to dismiss the case against Mrs Keenan. Martin would be sent to Glencree Reformatory for four years and seven months, when he would be 19 years of age.

Freeman's Journal 13 January 1857 CORONER'S Inquests.

Death By Intemperance. Mr Hyndman held another inquest yesterday, at No 3 Church-lane, on the body of a middle-aged woman named Bridget Doolan, who died suddenly on the street on Saturday evening last. It appeared that the deceased was of most intemperate habits, and had been complaining of an attack of dropsy for some time previous to her death; she had been drinking freely during last week and used to imagine that a black cat was in the room with her where she slept. She went out with a female acquaintance of hers on Saturday evening, and, while proceeding along the street, she fell to the ground and never spoke afterwards. Dr Porter stated that he had examined the body of the deceased, and could not find the slightest trace of dropsy, and gave it as his opinion that the deceased came by her death from delirium tremens. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.