Eamonn Duff

Eamonn Duff

Eamonn Duff is the Sun-Herald senior investigative writer

Police investigate frolicking child

Emma and her grandfather Leo.

Eamonn Duff It wasn't the original plan for Emma and her grandfather Leo to head to Balmoral Beach, but the six-year-old ''water baby'' had set her heart on it.

Church change fails to convert property investors

Dennis Colquitt and his wife Lorraine outside the Viking development in Waterloo.

Eamonn Duff Angry investors have demanded their money back from one of Australia's leading property developers after they purchased luxury apartments in a future complex, only to discover the plans had been...

Fugitive father to turn himself in

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Rebecca Richardson, Eamonn Duff A man charged with the murder of high-ranking outlaw motorcycle gang member Zeljko Mitrovic has been refused bail.

Nightmare week of crime leaves police fed up

 Arthur Katsogiannis

Emma Partridge, Eamonn Duff Police are ''fed up'' with gun saturation in Sydney after one of the worst weeks of crime in NSW history.

Arrest after rampage ends in killings

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Eamonn Duff Blood-curdling screams, shouting and swearing in normally quiet Playford Road, Killarney Vale, alerted residents something was horribly wrong on Friday night.

'This is wrong': man jailed for killing lover after third trial

Philip Leung

Eamonn Duff A Sydney jeweller who has faced three separate trials over the same killing has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail.

Costly re-entry course keeps nurses out of a job

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Eamonn Duff Nurses looking to rejoin the workforce have accused the health hierarchy of holding them to ransom over a re-entry course that costs $10,000 to attend.

'What if something had gone wrong?'

Michelle Trotter and Steven Burden with their five week old daughter, Catie, who was born on their kitchen floor after they were went home from Nepean Hospital in Sydney.15th March 2013Photo: Janie Barrett

Eamonn Duff Two heavily pregnant women were turned away from a western Sydney maternity ward within 48 hours - giving birth in a home and the hospital car park - amid claims by midwives of a sick health system...

Nurses investigated in cult death inquiry

Irene Maendel

Eamonn Duff Health authorities have widened the inquiry into the unreported death of a US holidaymaker on farmland belonging to a religious cult, launching an investigation into two nurses who were allegedly...

Man dies in daylight shooting

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Eamonn Duff A man was killed and another wounded in two shootings in Sydney's west on Saturday.

Mother found safe after week of worry

Missing Sydney woman Belinda Burcham.?
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Eamonn Duff Elaine and Paul Talbert arose at first light on Saturday, hoping the day might finally produce the breakthrough that reunites them with their missing daughter Belinda.

Sifting through the burden of misguided intentions

Anglicare

Eamonn Duff Our charities are struggling more than ever to cope with the donations of a well-meaning but under-educated public.

King's student charged with attempted rape in Scotland

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Eamonn Duff A teenage boy has been charged with attempted rape under the Sexual Offences Act in Scotland and several fellow students have returned to Australia in disgrace after they were chosen to represent...

Pell chooses council for college in crisis

St John's College.

Eamonn Duff A NEW council has been appointed to the trouble-plagued University of Sydney college St John's in the hope of restoring order and ''lasting change''.

Enzo's joy as his brother's killer jailed

Philip Leung and Mario Guzzetti. Photo supplied

Eamonn Duff Enzo Guzzetti sat motionless as a solitary tear fell from his face and the jury's decision sank in. ''I was shocked, very happy, but also a touch sad,'' Mr Guzzetti said of the moment he saw his...

Pratt mistress puts her rivals on notice

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Eamonn Duff THE former mistress of late billionaire Richard Pratt has vowed to give Sydney's brothel barons a run for their money by unveiling her very own five-star parlour in Darlinghurst.

Racing at Randwick more than horse play

Ilustration of Randwick Racecourse redevelopment.

Eamonn Duff THESE are the first glimpses of how the inside of Sydney's Royal Randwick racecourse will look with its new five-level $150 million grandstand.

'Absolutely ridiculous': Hadley denies assault allegation

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Eamonn Duff When Sydney radio host Ray Hadley opened his house to more than 60 students on Friday night, it was always likely to be a boisterous affair.

Teens shot by police after car takes to footpath

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Eamonn Duff A boy and a young man are in hospital after police opened fire at their vehicle at Potts Point in Sydney's east early this morning.

Big Bash cop is boss's son

Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch.

Eamonn Duff ONE of the state's most senior police officers has been forced to step aside from an investigation into the alleged police beating of a cricket fan after it emerged that the officer involved was his...