Murder of Ana Kriegel, Sexual assault (accomplice to aggravated sexual assault)
Appeal withdrawn; conviction upheld; 15 years' detention with review after 8 years
Prison: 180 months
Boy B, now 18, withdrew his appeal against his conviction for the May 2018 murder of 14-year-old Ana Kriegel in Lucan. Originally convicted at age 13 alongside Boy A, he was sentenced to 15 years' detention with a review after 8 years....
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Possession for sale or supply of cannabis
Jailed for 6 and a half years (backdated to October 4, 2021)
Prison: 78 months
John Murphy, a 62-year-old retired Garda Superintendent, was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of cannabis resin worth €259,120 found at his home in Clontarf on September 29, 2021. Murphy...
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Drug driving at Gortinty, Carrick-on-Shannon on May 10, 2021, Speeding at Gortinty, Carrick-on-Shannon on May 10, 2021
Fined €350 and banned from driving for one year
Fine: €350 • Driving ban: 12 months
Karol Zawadski (36) pleaded not guilty to drug driving after being stopped for speeding at Gortinty, Carrick-on-Shannon on May 10, 2021. A roadside oral fluid sample tested positive for cannabis, leading to arrest and a subsequent blood...
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Facilitating the murder of David Byrne, Participating in or contributing to activity intending to or being reckless as to whether such participation or contribution could facilitate the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation
Sentencing hearing ongoing; being assessed for Witness Protection Program
Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor, pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 by making a hotel room available to the Hutch gang. He has made a statement to gardaí...
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Facilitating the murder of David Byrne, Participating in or contributing to activity intending to or being reckless as to whether such participation or contribution could facilitate the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation
Sentencing hearing ongoing; being assessed for Witness Protection Program
Patrick Dowdall (65) pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of David Byrne by booking room 2104 at the Regency Hotel using his credit card on February 4, 2016, and subsequently passing key cards to a known member of the Hutch criminal...
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Murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, Dublin in 2016
Adjourned to next Monday (October 10, 2022) - trial to resume but not expected to begin proper
The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the 2016 murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel was adjourned for one week after the defence indicated that 'very significant additional evidence' had resulted in a fundamental reappraisal of...
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Providing a motor vehicle to a criminal organisation, with knowledge or recklessness as to whether actions could facilitate a serious offence
Adjourned to next Monday (October 10, 2022) - trial to proceed with related defendants
Paul Murphy, 60, is due to stand trial alongside Gerry Hutch and Jason Bonney for providing a motor vehicle to a criminal organisation. The trial was adjourned for one week due to substantial new evidence being served in the related...
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Providing a motor vehicle to a criminal organisation, with knowledge or recklessness as to whether actions could facilitate a serious offence
Adjourned to next Monday (October 10, 2022) - trial to proceed with related defendants
Jason Bonney, 50, is due to stand trial alongside Gerry Hutch and Paul Murphy for providing a motor vehicle to a criminal organisation. The trial was adjourned for one week due to substantial new evidence being served in the related...
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Murder charge (relating to David Byrne death)
Murder charge dismissed; became state witness
Jonathan Dowdall, 44, had his murder charge dismissed after indicating his willingness to become a state witness in the trial of Gerry Hutch and others related to the 2016 death of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.
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Attempted murder (2 counts), Threat to kill police officers, Criminal damage (3 counts), Driving when unfit through drink or drugs, Using a motor vehicle without insurance, Driving while disqualified, Failing to stop after an accident, Failing to remain at the scene of an accident, Failing to report an accident, Failing to provide specimen, Dangerous driving
Remanded in custody to appear on October 24, 2022
Matthew Nolan, 25, from Co. Fermanagh was remanded in custody after being charged with attempted murder and related offences. The incident allegedly occurred when police attended an address in the Tattenabuddagh Lane area near...
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Driving with no insurance, Drink driving, No driving licence, Failing to produce driving licence, Failing to produce insurance
€250 fine on drink driving charge; 3 months suspended for 1 year on no insurance charge; 2 year driving ban for drink driving; 6 year driving ban for no insurance charge
Fine: €250 • Prison: 3 months • Driving ban: 72 months
Callum Taylor, 29, a father-of-three from Ballinaglera, pleaded guilty to driving with no insurance, drink driving, and no driving licence on July 11, 2020 at Acres, Drumshanbo. This was his fourth conviction for driving with no...
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Having no insurance, Having no driving licence, Failure to produce insurance, Failure to produce driving licence
Fined €350 for no insurance and €150 for no driving licence; disqualified from driving for two years
Fine: €500 • Driving ban: 24 months
Corina Short was fined a total of €500 for driving without insurance and a valid driving licence following a minor road traffic collision on September 7, 2021. She failed to produce the required documents within 10 days as promised and...
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Criminal damage to property (glass panel on front door)
Convicted and conditional discharge under Probation Act section 1(2); compensation of €500 paid into court; good behaviour bond for 12 months
Shane McDonnell damaged a glass panel on a front door belonging to John Kearns at a christening party on October 17, 2021, when he had consumed too much alcohol. The defendant paid compensation of €500 into court for the €200 damage, with...
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Driving with no insurance, Failing to produce insurance
Fined €250, no driving ban imposed
Fine: €250
Sebastian Cobala, a 22-year-old Polish national working as an apprentice cabinet maker, was detected driving with no insurance at River Meadow, Dromod on March 12. He pleaded guilty and was fined €250, with no driving ban imposed due to...
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Aggravated burglary (Section 13) - burglary with a knife at 25 Weavers Hall, Longford on June 3, 2022
Returned for trial at Longford Circuit Court on October 4, 2022. Bail conditions maintained. Alibi warning issued.
Barry Keane (39) of Edgeworthstown was sent forward for trial on a charge of aggravated burglary with a knife at 25 Weavers Hall, Longford on June 3, 2022. The Book of Evidence was served on the defendant, and he was released on existing...
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Aggravated burglary (Section 13) - burglary with a knife at 25 Weavers Hall, Longford on June 3, 2022
Returned for trial at Longford Circuit Court on October 4, 2022. Bail conditions maintained. Alibi warning issued.
Donna McDermott (37) of Longford was sent forward for trial on a charge of aggravated burglary with a knife at 25 Weavers Hall, Longford on June 3, 2022. The Book of Evidence was served on the defendant, and she was released on existing...
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Engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour at Palace Crescent, Ardnacassa, Longford on April 4, 2021
Adjourned until after Circuit Court hearing on the aggravated burglary charge
Donna McDermott faces a public order charge of engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour at Palace Crescent, Ardnacassa on April 4, 2021. The matter was adjourned pending the outcome of the Circuit Court proceedings for the aggravated...
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Trespassing at Park Road, Longford (May 12 - June 11, 2022), Handling stolen property at Park Road, Longford (May 12 - June 11, 2022), Theft of chocolate bars worth €4.50 from Dealz Market Square, Longford on May 9, 2022, Possession of cannabis herb at Annaly Park, Longford on January 13, 2021
Adjourned to October 25, 2022 to allow defendant to conclude matters before the Circuit Court
Barry Keane faces multiple charges including trespassing and handling stolen property (a keg of beer) at Park Road, theft of chocolate bars from a market, and cannabis possession. A Garda search of a vacant property at Park Road found a...
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Assault at Penneys retail outlet, Longford Shopping Centre on March 16
Application to lift curfew refused. Curfew (10pm to 8am) remains in place. No change to conditions.
Cindy Duignan (37), a single mother, sought to have her 10pm-8am curfew lifted to allow her to bring her children to sports training and to care for her ill father. The court heard arguments that the curfew was harshly punitive. Judge...
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Assault at Penneys retail outlet, Longford Shopping Centre on March 16
Sign-on conditions varied from three days per week to one day per week.
Teresa Dinnegan (35), sister of Cindy Duignan, sought to reduce her sign-on reporting days from three to one per week. Her solicitor argued the reduced reporting requirement was necessary. Judge Owens granted the variation.
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Assault (producing a clawhammer), Violent disorder at St Mel's College (April 12, 2021), Possession of stolen property (shoes worth €370), Possession of cannabis (June 23, 2022), Shouting and roaring at gardaí, Spitting at garda patrol car
5 months prison for violent disorder (consecutive); 4 months prison for Harbour View incident (suspended for 12 months subject to probation supervision). All other charges taken into consideration.
Prison: 9 months
David Nevin, a teenager, pleaded guilty to multiple charges including violent disorder at St Mel's College in April 2021 (part of a seven-person gang attack), possession of stolen shoes, and drug-related offences in June 2022. He had been...
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Driving without insurance, Driving without a driver's licence, Driving with excess cannabis in his system
Adjourned to December 13, 2022 for probation report and further enquiries into insurance status
Christopher Thompson (35) pleaded guilty to driving without insurance, without a driver's licence, and with excess cannabis in his system after being stopped on Mostrim Road, Ballymahon on February 16, 2020. An oral fluid sample tested...
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Breach of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, Entering Five Star Pizza with a knife, Threatening to use unlawful violence
Adjourned to September 20, 2022 for preparation of book of evidence. Defendant signed up-to-date bail bond.
Ben Curry (22) was charged with breach of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act following an incident on May 1, 2022 at Five Star Pizza on Main Street, Longford, where he allegedly entered with a knife and threatened to use unlawful...
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Section 92 breach of the Trademark Act (33 European Arrest Warrants)
Bail refused. Remanded in custody. Adjourned to August 11 for preparation of Book of Evidence. Defendant to appear before Mullingar District Court by video link.
Ismaeil Abdelkhalik (65), a Norwegian and Egyptian citizen living in Birmingham, was arrested at Dublin Airport on 33 European Arrest Warrants relating to counterfeit trademark breaches. The defendant had previously spent two months in...
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Possession of cocaine with intent to supply, Involvement in €8.4M drugs seizure at Abbeyshrule aerodrome
Remanded in custody - bail denied
Tim Gilchrist Jr (54) was arrested in a Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau swoop that resulted in the seizure of €8.4M worth of cocaine at Abbeyshrule aerodrome in Longford. He appeared at a special sitting of Mullingar...
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Possession of cocaine with intent to supply, Involvement in €8.4M drugs seizure at Abbeyshrule aerodrome
Remanded in custody - bail denied
Michal Luczak (41) was arrested in the same Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau operation that seized €8.4M worth of cocaine at Abbeyshrule aerodrome. He appeared at a special sitting of Mullingar District Court on Sunday...
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Possession of cocaine, Possession with intent to supply
Remanded in custody to Mullingar District Court on August 11 via video link
Tim Gilchrist Jr was arrested following a Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau operation at Abbeyshrule Aerodrome, Longford on August 4, 2022. He was charged with possession of cocaine and possession with intent to supply...
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Possession of cocaine, Possession with intent to supply
Bail refused; remanded in custody to Mullingar District Court on August 11 via video link
Michal Luczak was arrested following a Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau operation at Abbeyshrule Aerodrome, Longford on August 4, 2022. He was charged with possession of cocaine and possession with intent to supply. His...
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Committing an affray
Bound to keep the peace for 12 months on own bond of €100
Willie Joyce was charged with committing an affray by threatening to use violence on John Robertson on April 12, 2021 at Farnagh, Longford. He pleaded guilty and agreed to enter a peace bond. He was bound to keep the peace for 12 months...
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Committing an affray
Bound to keep the peace for 12 months on own bond of €100
Helen Joyce was charged with committing an affray by threatening to use violence on John Robertson on April 12, 2021 at Farnagh, Longford. She pleaded guilty and agreed to enter a peace bond. She was bound to keep the peace for 12 months...
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Committing an affray
Bound to keep the peace for 12 months on own bond of €100
Lisa Joyce was charged with committing an affray by threatening to use violence on John Robertson on April 12, 2021 at Farnagh, Longford. She pleaded guilty and agreed to enter a peace bond. She was bound to keep the peace for 12 months...
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Threatening and abusive behaviour, Failing to comply with directions of a Garda, Possession of cocaine
Fined €150 for threatening and abusive behaviour, fined €200 for failing to comply with Garda directions. Cocaine possession charge taken into consideration.
Fine: €350
Joe Stokes (32) of Longford pleaded guilty to two public order offences and cocaine possession. Gardaí responded to reports of suspicious behaviour in Springlawn; when directed to leave the area, Stokes returned and became aggressive and...
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Driving without a driving licence, Driving without insurance
Bound to peace €250, disqualified from driving for 15 years
Driving ban: 180 months
Vincent Johnson (62) was caught driving without a licence or insurance on St Mel's Road, Longford on July 3rd. He was already disqualified from driving for 10 years and has 35 previous convictions, many for road traffic offences. Despite...
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Breach of community service order, Breach of Section 3 of the Non Fatal Offence Against the Person Act
Adjourned to September 6, 2022. Judge warned that failure to attend will result in bench warrant being issued. Defendant has completed 190 hours of 240 hour community service order.
Michael Nevin was brought before the court for breach of a community service order after failing to attend required sessions. The probation officer reported he had not attended any appointments since May 24. Judge Owens adjourned the...
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(File Picture: Mr Jonathan Gill. Photo: Collins) Jonathan Gill, who is wanted in Northern Ireland to face a charge of murdering gangland figure Robbie Lawlor, has challenged his extradition, claiming he will not receive the same...
A veteran church security volunteer was ousted by the Augustinian Order for warning that certain “rogues” were going to try and pass off “fake relics” for sale at its church in Limerick City, a tribunal has been told. The allegation was...
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(Pictured: Sentencing judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Photo: Collins) A Cavan man must serve a six-year prison sentence for trying to murder his father before beginning a life sentence for murdering his mother in attacks of “extreme violence”...
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Jonathan Gill, aged 44, faced a High Court bail hearing in connection with an extradition warrant issued by Northern Irish authorities. He is charged with murder in relation to the death of Robbie Lawlor on 4 April 2020, and with...
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The High Court has ruled that a District Court judge erred in law when he refused to convict thirty-four drivers caught speeding at Clogheen, Monasterevin in County Kildare. In December 2024, Judge Andrew Cody found the facts proven but...
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The High Court has granted a stay on a notice of dismissal against a garda convicted of assaulting his then-wife. Mr Justice Sara Phelan approved the stay, which suspends dismissal proceedings until 14 July. The garda, based in Dublin,...
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A man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father in an attack at their family home in Ballyconnell, County Cavan on 11 January 2025. The 33-year-old defendant wept as...
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A 31-year-old man from Killeshandra, County Cavan, has received a fully suspended two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a Ryanair cabin crew member during a flight to Dublin Airport. Aaron Brady...
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A Polish cage fighter serving a life sentence for the 2014 murder of a 23-year-old man in Co Roscommon has brought proceedings before the Court of Appeal seeking to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice. Leszek Sychulec,...
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A former accountant has been sentenced to three years and nine months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for laundering nearly €290,000 through his bank account. Cyril Keegan (54), with an address in County Cork, pleaded guilty to three...
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A former accountant pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft and deception offences committed over six weeks in early 2025. Michelle Dillon, aged 59 and homeless, stole a bank card and medical card from an elderly patient...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on May 11th, 2026, a 33-year-old man from West Dublin pleaded guilty to drug possession, money laundering and making threats to kill. Mark Salmon has admitted possessing cocaine valued at €35,280...
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A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment following a serious assault at a refugee accommodation centre in Dublin. The attack occurred on 31 March 2023 at Ballyogan Regional Temporary Rest Centre, when...
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A man from Enniscrone, County Sligo, has lost a religious discrimination claim at the Workplace Relations Commission following his lifetime ban from a yoga studio in Ballina, County Mayo. Peter McKeon had pursued a complaint under the...
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A High Court judge has requested information regarding an allegation that a senior garda photographed a whistleblower and three accompanying individuals inside a courtroom. The Practice Directions and Rules of the Superior Courts prohibit...
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Jonathan Gill, aged 44 and with an address in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in relation to an extradition warrant issued by Belfast Magistrates' Court. Mr Gill is wanted in Northern Ireland to face charges of murder in...
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Jonathan Gill, aged 44, with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in relation to extradition proceedings initiated by authorities in Northern Ireland. Gill is wanted by the PSNI in connection...
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Jonathan Gill, aged 44 and with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in connection with an extradition application by Northern Irish authorities. Gill is wanted by the PSNI in relation to the...
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A Dutch national's application to stand as an independent surety for a man awaiting trial on drugs conspiracy charges has been rejected by the Special Criminal Court. The court heard that Sadaf Piroozram (52) offered to lodge €30,000 for...
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A 32-year-old man from Ballyconnell, County Cavan, has pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder before the Central Criminal Court. Danny Heyneman admitted to the murder of Annie Heyneman at a family home in Kilnavart on January 11,...
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A service station operator in Charlestown, County Mayo, has been ordered to pay €1,250 in compensation to a former employee following a determination by the Workplace Relations Commission. Eve Kilcoyne, who worked as a cash office worker...
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A former Defence Forces captain has failed in a claim against Donegal County Council at the Workplace Relations Commission regarding his starting salary. Daniel McChrystal, who held the rank of captain, took a position as an economic...
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Jonathan Gill, with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in connection with extradition proceedings sought by authorities in Northern Ireland. The 44-year-old is wanted by the PSNI in...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Andrew Cash Senior, aged 58, of Whitechurch Heights, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, was sentenced to two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to providing false information to Irish Passport Services. His...
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A 19-year-old man from Tallaght has been sentenced to two years in custody following two high-speed pursuits by gardaí within four months, including an incident in which his vehicle overturned on the M50. Josh Killeen pleaded guilty at...
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Two men have been jailed for a combined nine years following the discovery of cannabis grow houses in Co Galway. Aloyzas Bukantus, 45, of Church Street, Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, pleaded guilty at Galway Circuit Criminal Court to...
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A 44-year-old man from Clontarf, Dublin appeared before the High Court in connection with extradition proceedings relating to a 2020 murder in Belfast. Jonathan Gill is wanted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to face prosecution...
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A County Donegal hair salon supplier has been ordered to pay €106,000 to a former salesman following a Workplace Relations Commission ruling that found age and disability discrimination. Damien O'Doherty, who had worked for FM Salon...
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A 31-year-old man from Killeshandra, County Cavan, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a Ryanair cabin crew member during a flight to Dublin Airport. The assault occurred approximately 40 minutes before...
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A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in Co Donegal has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital following a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity in relation to the death of his grandfather. Derek Mulligan received the order...
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A 49-year-old man charged with the murder of former senior Sinn Féin official Denis Donaldson has been remanded in custody by the Special Criminal Court until June. Antoin Duffy, of Braade, Kincasslagh, County Donegal, appeared via video...
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A 49-year-old man extradited from Scotland has been charged at the Special Criminal Court with the murder of Denis Donaldson, a former Provisional IRA member and senior Sinn Féin official who was shot dead in County Donegal in 2006....
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A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in County Donegal has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity following a majority jury verdict at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant was charged with killing his 78-year-old...
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A 39-year-old man from Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his grandfather at the Central Criminal Court. Derek Mulligan is accused of causing fatal injuries to Derek Burns, aged 78, at Carrickcoyle on 19...
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A 24-year-old Galway athlete has been remanded in custody following his guilty plea to drug possession charges at Galway Circuit Criminal Court. Richard Kamson, of Straith Fhada, Doughiska, admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis with...
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Derek Mulligan, aged 39, of Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 78-year-old grandfather, Derek Burns, at Carrickcoyle on December 19th, 2023. The Central Criminal...
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A 39-year-old man from Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 78-year-old grandfather at Carrickcoyle on 19 December 2023. The Central Criminal Court jury heard that the accused...
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A qualified accountant from Shrule, County Mayo, has been sentenced to two years in custody at Galway Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to stealing €1.4m from his employer KPMG. David Craddock, aged 42, admitted ten sample...
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A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his grandfather, Derek Burns, aged 78, who died on 19 December 2023 following an assault at the family home. The...
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A woman who worked at a marina in Fahan, County Donegal for over two decades has been awarded €20,000 for disability discrimination by the Workplace Relations Commission. Nancy Doherty, who had been the sole full-time coordinator at...
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Stephen Silver has appealed his conviction for the murder of Garda Colm Horkan, shot eleven times with his own service weapon in Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020. Silver's legal team contends that psychiatric evidence...
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A 39-year-old self-employed carpenter from Cavan has been disqualified from driving for two years following a conviction for drink driving. Eduard Hupalov was stopped by gardaí on Belgard Road, Dublin 24, on 25 February 2024, after...
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Patrick Rea, a 55-year-old currently serving a life sentence for murder, has been convicted and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and indecent assault of his cousin in Longford between 1986 and 1989. The offences...
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A jury has been discharged in the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of murdering a 58-year-old at a housing unit on Tone Street in Ballina, County Mayo in October 2024. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused pleaded not guilty...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld extradition orders against two men wanted in Northern Ireland for offences connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and Seamus...
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A 23-year-old man from Ballina has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following a violent incident outside St Mary's Secondary School in April 2021. Taylor Moran admitted attacking another youth with a claw hammer during a brawl...
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A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary conditions. The 40-year-old father received an 18-month custodial sentence,...
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A man has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court following the death of his flatmate at an apartment on Tone Street, Ballina, County Mayo in October 2024. The prosecution alleges the deceased died from severe injuries...
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A witness has denied observing the deceased wielding a metal pole against the man accused of his murder during an altercation at a Ballina apartment. Declan Forde gave evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Liam O'Leary,...
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A woman residing at a Peter McVerry Trust housing unit on Tone Street, Ballina, has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court describing how she and her son fled the apartment after the accused man forced his way inside and made...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard opening arguments in the murder trial of Liam O'Leary (33), who denies killing 58-year-old John Casserly at a Peter McVerry Trust housing unit on Tone Street, Ballina, County Mayo, between 23...
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A 33-year-old man has entered a not guilty plea to murder at the Central Criminal Court. Liam O'Leary, formerly of Kiltimagh, is charged with the murder of John Casserly, aged 59, at Tone House on Tone Street in Ballina, County Mayo,...
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A 23-year-old Carlow woman may avoid imprisonment through community service following her guilty plea to money laundering charges at Carlow Circuit Criminal Court. Dion Timmons of Graiguecullen admitted to handling proceeds of crime when...
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A High Court judge has underlined the significant role of media transparency following the Workplace Relations Commission's decision to exclude reporters from a hearing concerning a detective superintendent's protected disclosures about...
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A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has told the Workplace Relations Commission that he was pressured to reinstate a suspended employee and later faced interference in a recruitment process, allegedly involving a senator....
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A delivery driver has been sentenced to five months in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court after pleading guilty to careless driving causing the death of a seventy-six-year-old woman in Westport. Maureen Hopkins died following a collision...
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A detective superintendent at the Garda National Technical Bureau has secured an expedited High Court hearing to challenge a decision by the Workplace Relations Commission to exclude media from his case. Det Supt Brian O'Reilly is seeking...
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A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland is pursuing claims of unfair dismissal and breach of protected disclosures at the Workplace Relations Commission. Francis O'Donnell's case, heard over two days, centres on his departure...
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A 56-year-old Brazilian man has been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a sexual assault at Dublin Airport in August 2025. Rogerio Afonso pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Terminal 1, where he...
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A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has alleged he was subjected to intimidation and threats by the organisation's then-chairman following his decision to suspend the chairman's brother. Francis O'Donnell, who led the...
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A man has been jailed for ten years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for supervising a drug trafficking operation. Tomasz Zdechlikiewicz, aged 38 of Clongriffin, was found guilty of possessing 36 kilogrammes of...
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A 79-year-old man from Mullingar, County Westmeath, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to eight counts of indecent assault against his younger sister between 1962 and...
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Eight healthcare workers from Zimbabwe have been awarded €30,420 each by the Workplace Relations Commission following a finding that Unity Healthcare Services Ltd failed to pay their wages over a six-month period. The adjudicator...
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A jury at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court has returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in respect of an aeronautical engineer charged with damaging telecommunications infrastructure across Mayo and Galway. Adrian Behan, aged...
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A 23-year-old woman from Carlow has pleaded guilty to money laundering following her involvement in a significant social welfare fraud originating in Letterkenny, Donegal. The accused was approached whilst at college and persuaded to...
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A man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 33 offences alleged to have occurred at telecommunications and utility sites across Mayo and Galway between September and October 2023. Adrian Behan, aged 44, of...
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A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder. Joseph Richards, aged 35 and from Lanesborough Square in Finglas, was convicted in connection with the death of...
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A 40-year-old man from Castlerea, County Roscommon, has withdrawn an appeal against his 15-month custodial sentence imposed for a series of thefts from retail outlets. Owen Maughan was convicted in the District Court of twelve theft...
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A man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his younger sister over seven years has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal in Dublin. Kyle Jinks, aged 32, of Slievemore, Ballytivnan, County Sligo, was found guilty at the...
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A 70-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the systematic sexual abuse of five of his children over two decades at various addresses in County Sligo. Noel Farrell of Rathedmond Estate,...
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A Knockmore man has been sentenced to four years in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court for offences including the savage mauling of a woman by his unmuzzled dog. David Barrett, aged 41, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an...
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A 72-year-old man from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has had his eight-year prison sentence reduced to six and a half years following a successful appeal at the Court of Appeal. The man pleaded guilty to fifteen counts of indecent...
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Alan Vial and Nikita Burns, who were convicted in March 2025 of murdering Robert Robin Wilkin at Sliabh Liag in County Donegal, have been granted a hearing date for their conviction appeals. Vial, aged 39, of Drumanoo Head, Killybegs, and...
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A 47-year-old man from Swinford has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an incident in which he struck his brother with a shovel at their home in Cloongullaune on 27 July 2022. The victim was rendered unconscious and...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard closing arguments in a case arising from the fatal stabbing of a man in Dublin in June 2024. Joseph Lawlor, aged 39, of Hampton Wood Road in Finglas, Dublin 11, has pleaded not guilty...
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A Donegal man has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment following his conviction for sexually assaulting a woman in his home in December 2020. The 32-year-old, from Lisminton, Ballintra, pleaded guilty to the offence at the Central...
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A 45-year-old man was fatally shot at his home in Ballymun, Dublin, on 5 October 2018 after answering his patio door. Joseph Richards, with an address at Lanesborough Square in Finglas, Dublin, was originally charged with murder but...
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A 25-year-old man from Donegal has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to the defilement of a teenager. The man, who cannot be identified to protect the victim's privacy,...
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A man from Killygordon in Donegal has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, with the final six months suspended, following his conviction at the Central Criminal Court for a series of sexual offences. Eunan Merritt, aged 56, was found...
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Two men have been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for their roles in transporting and disposing of the remains of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. Stephen Carberry, aged 48, and Glen Bride, aged...
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A man arrested during a garda raid on a Dublin apartment in November 2022 has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. David Thomas, aged 42, of Glenties Drive, Finglas, pleaded guilty to...
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A 32-year-old man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to four offences including cocaine possession with intent to supply and making threats to kill, following the withdrawal of more serious charges. Mark Salmon, originally...
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A 61-year-old man from Ballina in County Mayo has been sentenced to 11 and a half years imprisonment for sexually abusing five girls over nearly two decades. David Langdon pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Court to seven sample counts...
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A man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to offences arising from the fatal shooting of Noel Campion in Limerick city in April 2007. Darragh Quinlivan, aged 42 and...
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A man has been jailed for two years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following an assault on an Irish Rail inspector aboard a Dublin to Sligo train at Connolly Station. Gerry Nevin (32), of Mostrim Road, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, pleaded...
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The High Court has refused the State's application for leave to appeal a decision declining to extradite a convicted sex offender to Northern Ireland. Mr Justice Patrick McGrath ruled that the case was exceptional, finding it would be...
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A Dutch teacher who sold his house to secure bail for a compatriot accused of drug smuggling appeared before the Special Criminal Court. Ali Ghasemi Mazidi, aged 50 and resident in the Netherlands, faces charges of conspiracy to import...
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Nathan Walsh and Lee Cunningham, both aged 29, have pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an assault on a man in Dublin City Centre on 23 May 2023. Walsh, of Ballyshannon Road, Beaumont, admitted theft...
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A 32-year-old man from Ballyconnell in County Cavan is to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin in April on charges relating to alleged incidents at a family home in Kilnavart. The accused is charged with murder and...
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A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has found that a 61-year-old Tesco worker was unfairly dismissed following the loss of a €20 note at a Castlebar store in 2023. Declan Kavanagh was suspended in October 2023 pending...
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A man has been sentenced to thirteen years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and burglary of an elderly neighbour in Edgeworthstown, County Longford. Shane Kelly, aged thirty-six and of no fixed abode, pleaded...
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A man from Belmullet, County Mayo has failed in a discrimination claim brought before the Workplace Relations Commission following a meeting about employment with the Erris Chamber of Commerce in April 2025. James Monaghan alleged that...
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A man from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for a sustained campaign of domestic violence against his former partner spanning seven years. Mark White, aged 54, pleaded...
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Glen Bride, a 32-year-old with 86 previous convictions, appeared before the Special Criminal Court for his role in the disposal of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. The court heard that Bride drove a stolen vehicle containing the...
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A 42-year-old man originally from Limerick City has pleaded guilty to participation in an organised criminal group and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life in connection with the fatal shooting of Noel Campion on April 26,...
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A suspended Roscommon solicitor has been formally censured by the High Court following a misconduct finding relating to a 2006 Mayo land transaction. Declan O'Callaghan successfully appealed three allegations but the court upheld one...
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A man convicted of sexually abusing three of his siblings has appealed his eight-year sentence as disproportionate. Gerry Harte, aged 72, of Tullynacrunat North, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of indecent...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on January 19th, Elizabeth Mulready, mother of Keane Mulready-Woods, delivered a victim impact statement describing the "cruelty and inhumanity" of her son's murder. The 17-year-old was killed in...
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A man from Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment following his conviction for rape at the Central Criminal Court. Dilzar Hamad, aged 40, was found guilty by jury in March 2025 of raping a...
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A man who travelled to Dublin City Centre armed with a knife and determined to attack a stranger has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court. Darragh Quigley, aged 26, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder...
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A garda has received a suspended three-month sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting his then-wife, a fellow member of An Garda Síochána, in County Mayo in October 2012. Trevor Bolger (48), previously attached to Ballymun...
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Two Slovak nationals have been convicted and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court following a sexual assault on two teenage girls on a disused railway line in County Mayo in March 2023. Rudolf Makula, aged 30, of Gleann Ard,...
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A 33-year-old man convicted of defiling a child at his home has been granted bail pending his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal in Dublin. The man, whose identity is protected to safeguard the complainant, was convicted by...
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A 34-year-old man from Finglas has admitted to conspiring to murder a Dublin father-of-two who was fatally shot at his home in 2018. Joseph Richards, with an address at Lanesborough Square, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to...
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Christopher O'Neill has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to the manslaughter of Martin Lynn on 30 July 2023. The 31-year-old punched Mr Lynn once to the head in an...
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A woman from Kingscourt, Co Cavan, has been convicted and fined €750 following an assault at a concert venue in Dublin. Sarah Callan, aged 37, pleaded guilty at Dún Laoghaire District Court to a Section 2 assault that occurred on 20 June...
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Three men convicted of the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had their conviction appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte, Alan O'Brien, and Darren Redmond, all from East Wall, Dublin,...
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A man from Belmullet, County Mayo, has brought a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission alleging gender discrimination and breaches of the Employment Equality Act 1998 during a meeting with the Erris Chamber of Commerce in April...
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A man convicted of raping a woman as she slept beside her boyfriend and newborn baby in County Donegal has failed in his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Shaun O'Donnell, aged 35, was sentenced to eight years'...
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A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several...
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A young man from Donegal has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, with the final eighteen months suspended for one year, following his conviction for oral rape. Jason McLaughlin of Cashel, Gleneely pleaded guilty to the...
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A man from Castlefinn, County Donegal has been sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for rape. Kevin McGovern, aged 28, was found guilty by jury of one count of rape...
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A garda with severe asthma has brought complaints of disability discrimination, harassment and victimisation before the Workplace Relations Commission, alleging he was ordered to return to frontline duties at Longford Garda Station during...
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James McMahon, aged 31, of Riversdale Road, Clondalkin, has been sentenced to six years and nine months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, with the final two years suspended. McMahon pleaded guilty to stealing six vehicles...
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A man from County Donegal has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to sexual assault charges. The defendant, now aged 41, pleaded guilty in October to four sample counts of...
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At Castlebar Circuit Court, two parents have admitted to multiple counts of child cruelty following an investigation into the abuse of their six children. The case emerged after two teenagers walked into a garda station in the west of...
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A man has been remanded in custody pending sentence at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to the attempted murder of a grandmother in Dublin city centre on November 16, 2023. The victim, originally from the north and...
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A paramedic in Letterkenny has secured an award of €32,000 for racial discrimination from the Workplace Relations Commission following her dismissal over an incident at a petrol station. The EMT was fired for gross misconduct after...
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The Court of Appeal has ruled that a Riverstown man's drugs sentence was unduly lenient, yet he will serve no additional time in custody. James Murphy, aged 66, was convicted in 2021 of participating in a joint enterprise to supply...
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A man convicted of assaulting, raping and coercively controlling his partner over a six-week period has had his appeal against conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Dean Ward, aged 38, formerly of County Wexford, was sentenced to...
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A hospital clerical worker at Mayo University Hospital has been awarded €58,681.60 by the Workplace Relations Commission following a constructive dismissal complaint. The adjudicator found that the hospital's grievance management process...
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A 29-year-old woman from Coolaney, Sligo, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to making a false criminal complaint at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Nicole Chambers alleged that a male prison officer had...
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A teenager has been awarded €700,000 by the High Court following the HSE's admission of liability for failures in ante-natal care at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar during 2009. The girl, now aged sixteen, sued the health authority...
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A firefighter employed part-time with Cavan County Fire Service has been awarded €15,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission following a successful complaint of penalisation under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. Cian...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Ruth Lawrence of murdering Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor between April and May 2014. Justice Tony Hunt handed down two concurrent life sentences on Monday, backdated to October 2022....
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A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to assisting an offender in the movement and disposal of body parts belonging to Keane Mulready-Woods, a teenager murdered in Drogheda in January 2020. Stephen Carberry, aged...
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Glen Bride, aged 32 of Mount Olive Park, Kilbarrick, Dublin 5, has pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to assisting in the movement and disposal of body parts belonging to murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. The charge...
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A man convicted of sexually assaulting his younger cousin over a four-year period has had his conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal and will face retrial. The 29-year-old, who cannot be identified to protect the complainant, was...
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Sean McDonald, aged 62, of Tawneymachugh, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to 11 representative counts of rape and sexual assault of a...
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A 27-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in laundering proceeds from invoice redirection scams. Adeleke Adelani pleaded guilty to...
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An 89-year-old man from Rockfield, Knock, Claremorris, Co Mayo, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for historical sexual abuse of a young child. Pat Salmon pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual...
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A 37-year-old man from Castlefin, County Donegal, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court for the rape of an 18-year-old woman at an address in Convoy on 14 January 2018. Desmond Leitch was found guilty...
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Eight care workers from Zimbabwe have testified before the Workplace Relations Commission regarding allegations of unpaid wages and financial exploitation linked to their recruitment by Unity Healthcare Services Ltd. The workers,...
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A High Court judge has upheld a disciplinary tribunal finding of professional misconduct against suspended Roscommon solicitor Declan O'Callaghan concerning his handling of a 2006 Mayo land transfer. Mr Justice Micheál O'Higgins upheld...
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An eighty-nine-year-old man from Rockfield, Knock, County Mayo has pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault against a young child in the mid-1990s. The Central Criminal Court heard that the offences occurred at his home between...
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At Dublin's Central Criminal Court, a trial has heard evidence concerning the disappearances of Eoin O'Connor and Anthony Keegan, who went missing from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan on 22 April 2014. Eoin, a 32-year-old drug dealer, sent a...
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A key witness in the trial of Ruth Lawrence at the Central Criminal Court suffered a heart attack requiring hospitalisation during proceedings, creating significant complications for the case. The witness, who had provided crucial...
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A 32-year-old man from Ballintra, County Donegal has been remanded in custody pending sentencing after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a woman while she slept at his home on Main Street, Ballintra on 13 December 2020. The case was...
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A farmer from Dunmore, County Galway, has obtained High Court permission to challenge the residential zoning of his lands under the Residential Zoned Land Tax. Michael Knightly is seeking to quash the zoning decision imposed by Galway...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions of Jason Bonney, aged 55, and Paul Murphy, aged 64, who were found guilty of acting as getaway drivers during the 2016 Regency Hotel attack in Dublin, in which Kinahan Cartel member David...
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A 26-year-old man from north Dublin has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to attempted murder. Darragh Quigley of Carndonagh Road, Donaghmede, admitted the charge relating to an incident on Chatham Row, Dublin 2 on November 16,...
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A Cavan man previously imprisoned for handling 117 stolen bicycles has received a suspended sentence for money laundering linked to the same offence. Dinas Bimbiras, aged 50, of Maple Drive, Drumgola Wood, Cavan, pleaded guilty at Dublin...
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A man from County Monaghan has been sentenced to four years imprisonment following his conviction for sexual assault. James Rafferty, aged 21 and from Gola, Scotstown, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a...
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A Castlebar man has pleaded guilty to three thefts totalling over €34,000 from a Lidl supermarket in Westport during the Christmas and New Year period of 2023. Mantas Kerusauska, aged 39, admitted to stealing €11,250 on Christmas Eve,...
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Two men have been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court following a serious assault arising from a feud between Traveller families in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Michael Nevin, aged 41, of Grange Heights, Mullingar, was sentenced to ten...
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A ballet teacher from County Galway has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, following his conviction for sexually assaulting two young girls at a dance school in County Mayo. Leighton Morrison, aged...
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A 22-year-old UK national has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for importing cannabis from Thailand destined for Donegal. Jamie Kearns of Coventry entered signed pleas to possession of...
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A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the final year suspended, following a violent assault at a petrol station in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in January 2023. Tommy Sweeney, aged 23, of Castlepark, Ballybane, pleaded...
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A ballet teacher from County Galway has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with twelve months suspended, following his conviction for the sexual abuse of two young girls during dance classes in County Mayo. Leighton Morrison,...
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A 40-year-old woman from Ballina in County Mayo has pleaded guilty to possessing €62,000 worth of cannabis herb for sale or supply. Bernadette Muldoon, of St Patrick's estate, admitted the offence relating to drugs found at a different...
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A man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for sexual offences against a woman in County Mayo. Jorge Paris, aged 62 and resident in Dublin, pleaded guilty to three...
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A man has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for two counts of animal cruelty connected to protests against asylum seeker accommodation at Thornton Hall in north Dublin. In June 2024, security...
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A man has admitted careless driving causing the death of a woman in her 70s at a supermarket car park in County Mayo last year. The incident occurred on June 6, 2024, at Supervalu in Westport, when a lorry struck the pedestrian in the...
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A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the violent robbery of an off-duty garda in the Camden Road area on 22 January 2024. Evan Ward of Navan Road, Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to...
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A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has ordered a Cavan takeaway business to pay €154,828 in compensation to a Chinese national for serious employment rights violations sustained over two years. The worker, employed at Lam's...
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A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for sexually abusing his eight-year-old cousin in County Sligo over a decade ago. The defendant pleaded guilty to five counts of oral rape...
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A former garda has been remanded for sentencing assessment following his guilty plea to assaulting his then wife, also a member of An Garda Síochána, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Trevor Bolger, aged 48, previously stationed at...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard that drug dealer Eoin O'Connor sent a text message on April 22, 2014, stating "have to go to country… if anything happens to me" before he and Anthony Keegan disappeared. Ruth Lawrence (45),...
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A witness at the Central Criminal Court has testified that a fire was burning at a house in Mountnugent, County Meath, the day after two men went missing in April 2014. Vytautis Bitaris told the court he was present at Patricks Cottage on...
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A Mayo man received a suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court on 17 October for harassment spanning over a year. Brendan Rowland, aged 30, pleaded guilty to sending 14 malicious greeting cards to a couple in Swinford...
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A 70-year-old farmer from County Mayo has received a suspended sentence of seven months following his guilty plea to careless driving causing death. Martin Cullina was sentenced at Castlebar Circuit Court on Thursday after the three-car...
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A man who struck and fatally injured a young pedestrian at a crossing in Ballina, County Mayo, has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court. James Moyles, aged thirty-three, died on February twentieth, two...
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A key witness has told the Central Criminal Court that he feared Ruth Lawrence, who is accused of murdering two men in April or May 2014. The 45-year-old from Mountnugent in Co Meath has pleaded not guilty to killing Anthony Keegan and...
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A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that Ruth Lawrence, the accused in a double murder trial, admitted to shooting drug dealer Eoin O'Connor but said the killing "went wrong" and her boyfriend "took over". Stacey Symes testified...
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A man from Enniscrone has brought a complaint before the Workplace Relations Commission alleging religious discrimination after being issued a lifetime ban from a yoga studio in Ballina. Peter McKeon enrolled at Roots Wellness in...
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A man suffered life-threatening injuries when stabbed multiple times during an assault on Austin Friars Street in Mullingar on August 2nd, 2024, arising from an ongoing feud between Traveller families. The Central Criminal Court heard...
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A retired Deputy State Pathologist has testified at the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man whose remains were discovered on an island in Lough Sheelin, County Cavan, died from two gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Dr Michael...
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Two men sought by United Kingdom authorities on charges connected to a 1975 RUC shooting have argued before the Court of Appeal that decades-long delays in pursuing their extradition amount to an abuse of process. John Edward McNicholl,...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a dog handler has testified in the double murder trial of Ruth Lawrence that his specially trained German Shepherd gave an indication at a tarpaulin-covered area on Inchicup Island in Lough Sheelin, where...
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Three men have been sentenced to a combined 43 years imprisonment following their guilty pleas to manslaughter in connection with the death of a pensioner in Co Sligo. At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott imposed...
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At the Central Criminal Court, families of two men missing since 2014 provided testimony in the murder trial of Ruth Lawrence. The 45-year-old, from Mountnugent in County Meath, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Anthony Keegan and...
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A 34-year-old man has received a two-year suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to assault causing harm and possession of a weapon. The incident occurred at Cloonishlawn, Ballina, on 21 November...
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Three men with a combined 106 previous convictions pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Tom Niland at the Central Criminal Court on Monday. John Irving (31) of Foxford, Co Mayo; Francis Harman (58) of Ballina, Co Mayo; and John Clarke...
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A Mayo woman seriously injured when struck by a Bus Éireann van in Ballina last May has expressed no ill-feeling towards the driver. At Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court on Friday, the court heard that Ann Bourke was briefly trapped...
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An intensive care nurse at Mayo General Hospital has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Court for forging prescriptions to obtain painkillers. Sinéad Donohoe, aged 42, of Scrigg, Ballyhaunis, pleaded guilty to two...
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A man from Castlerea in County Roscommon has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following what the judge described as a remarkable turnaround in his life. Ernest Ashman, aged 39, pleaded guilty to...
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A woman accused of murdering two men inquired about borrowing a boat on Lough Sheelin the day before the deceased were last seen alive, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Ruth Lawrence, 45, of Patricks Cottage, Ross, Mountnugent, Co...
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Ruth Lawrence, a Dublin woman with an address in County Meath, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of two men whose bodies were discovered on Inchicup Island in Lough Sheelin in May 2014. The island straddles the borders of Meath,...
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Jordan Domican, aged 24, of Collinstown Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin, has been sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty to two counts of facilitating a criminal organisation between...
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A 45-year-old woman with an address in County Meath has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor, alleged to have occurred at an...
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A man caught transporting nearly €500,000 worth of cannabis has been sentenced to three years and three months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Conor Delaney, formerly of Dublin 15, pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis...
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A garda with severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder has lodged complaints of disability discrimination, harassment and victimisation against the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána and the Minister for Justice at the...
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A salesman from the Travelling Community has won compensation of €7,500 at the Workplace Relations Commission following findings of workplace discrimination at a Longford manufacturing firm. The worker left his position in the sales...
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Alan Harte, aged 43, is serving a 30-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court for the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at a yard in Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019. At the...
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A man convicted of raping a guest at his bed-and-breakfast in County Sligo has failed in an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Thomas Wymbs, aged 68, was proprietor of Atlantic Haven B&B near Mount Temple when the...
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A 63-year-old former Defence Forces member has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for five counts of sexual assault committed against a child in Cavan between September 2007 and June 2010. Mr Justice...
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A coordinated operation involving gardaí across the south coast has dismantled a suspected drug-smuggling conspiracy, the Special Criminal Court heard. In March last year, ten men were arrested following operations in the villages of...
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Sean Cullen, aged 22, of Hope Avenue, East Wall, Dublin 3, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of criminal damage and one count of common assault. The charges related to incidents at the Fairview DART Depot on 25...
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A man has pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Tom Niland at the Central Criminal Court, five days into his trial. John Irving, aged 31, of Shanwar, Foxford, County Mayo, changed his plea on the morning of July 17th. He is the third...
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A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to criminal damage and assault following incidents at Irish Rail facilities in Dublin. Sean Cullen, of East Wall, Dublin 3, admitted two counts of criminal damage and one count of common assault under...
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A man convicted of rape at the Central Criminal Court has appealed his conviction before the Court of Appeal on grounds relating to the trial judge's handling of prosecution submissions and expert evidence. Thomas Wymbs, aged 68, was...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has viewed CCTV footage documenting movements in County Sligo and Mayo on January 18, 2022, the date of an alleged assault on 73-year-old Tom Niland at his home near Skreen. A garda detective presented...
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A pensioner was so severely beaten during an alleged home invasion that neighbours did not recognise him as he walked along the road covered in blood with swollen eyes, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Witnesses described the victim...
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A retired garda sergeant from Donegal has been granted High Court permission to seek judicial review of An Garda Síochána's handling of his application to restore a Gaeltacht allowance. Paul Wallace, formerly stationed in Letterkerry,...
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A 27-year-old Galway man with alleged connections to organised crime boss Barry Young has had his sentence for money laundering reduced on appeal. At the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Michael MacGrath found that the original five-year...
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A Donegal man has lost his appeal against conviction for raping and sexually assaulting his daughter during her childhood. The Court of Appeal dismissed the challenge on 14 July, with Mr Justice Michael MacGrath ruling that evidence of...
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Mark McAnaw, aged 53 and previously of Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to an additional ten months in custody following a breach of suspended sentence conditions at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. McAnaw pleaded guilty last...
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A Brazilian man has received a three-year suspended sentence following an assault outside a Westport nightclub that left his victim requiring extensive dental treatment. Joao Hermino Sousa Correia, aged 23, of Middletown, Manulla,...
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A 49-year-old man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death following a fatal collision in Ballina last year. The defendant appeared before Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to the death of a 33-year-old man...
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A man has been convicted of defiling a child under 17 at his home in County Mayo six years ago. The accused, whose identity is protected to safeguard the complainant, pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was acquitted of a separate count...
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A trial has commenced at the Central Criminal Court concerning charges against John Irving of Shanwar, Foxford, County Mayo. The prosecution alleges that Mr Irving, along with Francis Harman of Ballina and John Clarke of Ballina, broke...
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A man now aged 22 pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court to possessing child sexual abuse material discovered on his mother's laptop in County Mayo on 6 June 2018. He was 15 when gardaí found the illegal content after he...
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A jury of eight women and four men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to hear the trial of a 31-year-old man accused of the unlawful killing of Tom Niland, a 74-year-old from Doonflynn, Skreen, County Sligo. The accused, John...
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A Spanish national has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to conspiracy to smuggle controlled drugs valued in excess of €13,000 into Ireland. Juan Antonio Gallardo Barroso, aged 56, admitted the charge relating to an alleged...
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A 33-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and defilement of a child following an incident in County Mayo in July 2020. The trial, heard this week at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court, was told the complainant was 16 years...
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A man from the Glenties area of Donegal has been sentenced to a total of 15.5 years in prison following his conviction at the Central Criminal Court for facilitating a gangland shooting in Dublin. Patrick Fitzgerald, aged 48, was...
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A 42-year-old Ballinrobe woman has admitted assaulting two gardaí at Claremorris Garda Station during an incident in June 2022. Rosemary Sweeney, of Bridge Street, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing harm at Castlebar Circuit...
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A Ballina man has been sentenced to one year and four months in prison for stabbing another man with a broken beer bottle during an altercation in the town four years ago. Stephen Lawrence, aged 23, of Cloonishlawn pleaded guilty to...
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A man aged 33 has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a staff party in County Mayo in July 2020. The trial is taking place at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court before Judge Eoin Garavan and an all-male...
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Gerry Norman, a 24-year-old abattoir worker from Ballina, Co Mayo, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment with the final two years suspended at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to...
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A bilingual barrister assisted proceedings at the Special Criminal Court today after an interpreter experienced difficulty during his first court appearance. The Spanish-language interpreter, who has worked in hospital settings but not...
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A 46-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment following a deliberate fire at a house in Shankill, Dublin in December 2024. Jason Flynn of Longford House, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, pleaded guilty to arson at the address on...
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A man from Castlebar has pleaded guilty to sharing intimate images of a woman without her consent on two separate occasions. Daniel Humphreys, aged 38 and residing on McHale Road, admitted the offences at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court,...
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Bernard McDonagh, aged 30, of Gortnafolla, Turlough, Castlebar, has affirmed guilty pleas to five charges at Castlebar Circuit Court. The charges arise from incidents on November 11 last year at various locations in Castlebar. McDonagh...
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A 33-year-old man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and child defilement at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court. He denies sexually assaulting a female at a county address between 14 and 15 July 2020, and...
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A migrant worker has vowed to appeal after the Workplace Relations Commission dismissed his discrimination complaint against the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the Local Authority Home Loan Scheme. Aloke...
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A worker at Arranmore Island co-operative in County Donegal has failed in a constructive dismissal claim before the Workplace Relations Commission. Fiona Glynn alleged she was forced to resign following a public remark by the...
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A 27-year-old man from County Galway has brought an appeal against his five-year sentence for money laundering, contending the term was disproportionate. Brian Cummins, Balgaddy Road, Tuam, pleaded guilty to money laundering contrary to...
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Alan Vial and Nikita Burns, convicted of murdering Robert Wilkin near Sliabh Liag in County Donegal, have been denied legal aid for a third senior barrister to represent them in their Court of Appeal bid to overturn their convictions. Mr...
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A garda detective has pleaded guilty to assaulting his then-wife in County Mayo in October 2012. Trevor Bolger, aged 48 and formerly attached to Ballymun Garda Station, was convicted of the assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The...
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At the Workplace Relations Commission, Atlantic Technological University has been ordered to pay an assistant lecturer €1,640.88 following a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991. The university had offered Ian Thornton a €15.25...
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A man with previous convictions for rape and kidnapping has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for harassing three female journalists. Mark McAnaw, formerly of Letterkenny, County Donegal, pleaded...
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Two men in their 70s have been granted leave to appeal their extradition to Northern Ireland on charges connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. At the High Court, Mr Justice Patrick McGrath ruled that while authorities had...
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At the Central Criminal Court on 3 June 2025, Nigel Canavan, aged 39, with an address at Erris Gardens, Crossmolina, County Mayo, was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for the murder of his mother Angela Canavan at her home in St...
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Patrick Fitzgerald (48), with an address in Glenties, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to facilitating a criminal organisation between November 11 and 18, 2021. The court heard that Fitzgerald, known as 'Mr Fishy', purchased...
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The High Court heard an application today concerning a public order conviction against Jemima Burke, a management consultant, who was convicted at Ballina District Court in June following an incident at an inquest in Swinford, County...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted a 39-year-old man of murdering his mother at her home in Sligo on May 1, 2023. The man had pleaded not guilty and claimed he acted in self-defence during an alleged attack. He also...
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A former football manager and League of Ireland player has been sentenced to 13.5 years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following conviction on three drugs offences. Andrew Noonan, aged 45, of Redhills Park, Ellistown,...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court will resume deliberations tomorrow in the trial of Nigel Canavan, aged 39, who denies murdering his mother. The accused, with an address in Crossmolina, County Mayo, is charged with the death of Angela...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard closing arguments on Wednesday concerning the death of Angela Canavan, aged fifty-eight, at her home in St John's Terrace, Sligo on May 1st, 2023. The accused, Nigel Canavan, aged...
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A 39-year-old man has testified at the Central Criminal Court that his mother died during a struggle in which he was defending himself from her attack. Nigel Canavan, from Crossmolina, County Mayo, is charged with the murder of Angela...
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A 70-year-old man has been jailed for two years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to five counts of indecent assault committed during the 1980s. The offences occurred when the defendant was a scout leader with the...
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A Court of Appeal review heard today that proceedings in the appeal of Stephen Silver against his murder conviction have stalled over access to psychiatric disclosure from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Silver, aged 48, a motorbike...
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A man accused of murdering his mother at her home in County Sligo in May 2023 told gardaí during interviews that he delayed contacting emergency services for approximately 20 minutes after discovering her body. Nigel Canavan, aged 39, of...
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A pathologist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding the death of a 58-year-old woman from County Sligo in May 2023. State Pathologist Dr SallyAnne Collis told the trial of Nigel Canavan, aged 39 and with an address in...
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A man from Buncrana in County Donegal has appealed his conviction for the rape and sexual assault of his daughter during her childhood. The Court of Appeal heard the case on 8 May 2025. The appellant was found guilty in June 2023 at the...
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A 48-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to facilitating a criminal organisation at the Central Criminal Court. Patrick Fitzgerald, with an address in Finglas, admitted to participating in activities intended to facilitate serious...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a detective told jurors that Nigel Canavan appeared nervous and evasive when questioned hours after his mother's death in Sligo on May 1, 2023. Detective Garda James Conneely met the 39-year-old accused...
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A former Donegal GAA player will not serve additional prison time following an unsuccessful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Court of Appeal. Kevin McMenamin, aged 43, from Letterkenny, was convicted of dangerous...
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A man convicted of raping, assaulting and coercively controlling a woman over a six-week period has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal, arguing his trial was prejudiced by inadmissible evidence. Dean Ward, aged 38, was found...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that Nigel Canavan told his then-wife his mother "went a bit mad" and struck herself with a knife before her death. Mr Canavan, aged 39, of Erris Gardens, Crossmolina, County Mayo, has...
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a serving member of An Garda Síochána and his partner against a High Court order requiring them to vacate a property in Co Cavan. The couple had occupied the house at Lock Eala, Loch Gowna...
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A trial has commenced at the Central Criminal Court concerning the death of a woman in her Sligo home. The State alleges that Nigel Canavan, aged 39, of Erris Gardens in County Mayo, strangled his mother, Angela Canavan, aged 58, on 1 May...
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A chef employed at restaurants in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan has lodged multiple employment rights complaints at the Workplace Relations Commission against a businessman and his limited company. The worker, a Chinese national, alleges...
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A jury comprising ten women and two men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 39-year-old man from Crossmolina, County Mayo, who denies murdering his mother in Sligo. Nigel Canavan pleaded not guilty to the...
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A 42-year-old Donegal man with 33 previous convictions, including multiple road traffic offences, appeared before the Court of Appeal on 29 April regarding his sentence for dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm. Kevin McMenamin,...
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A man accused of conspiring to steal vehicles with garda killer Aaron Brady has been refused bail ahead of his retrial at the Special Criminal Court. James Flynn, aged 43, with an address in Newry, County Down, faced objections from...
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A detective inspector has outlined concerns about potential witness intimidation in proceedings against James Flynn at the Special Criminal Court. Det Inspector Mark Phillips detailed incidents during Aaron Brady's murder trial for the...
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The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by four commercial fishermen who contended that the State owed them a duty of care when permitting access to mussel seed fishing zones. The plaintiffs, including Gerard Kelly of Greencastle, County...
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A man from Achill has been sentenced to eight years in prison following his conviction for manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court. Dean Caffrey (38) of Beaucort, Achill Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, was found guilty by majority jury...
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PJ Sweeney of Ramelton, County Donegal has lost an appeal against his 15-year prison sentence imposed for his role in a vigilante attack on security workers at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County Roscommon in December 2018....
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A Nigerian woman has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to making false statements to gardaí. The 34-year-old woman arrived at Store Street Garda Station in October 2019...
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A woman who was raped at eighteen has welcomed the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a seven-year custodial sentence imposed on her attacker. The complainant, who waived anonymity, told the court that a 22-month delay in determining...
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A former part-time administrator with Inland Fisheries Ireland has lost a constructive dismissal claim at the Workplace Relations Commission. Joanna Canney, who worked for the agency for fifteen years on a €31,000-annual salary, resigned...
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The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a 67-year-old man from Arva, County Cavan, against an extradition order to Northern Ireland. James Donegan is wanted to stand trial for the murder of Joseph James Porter, a member of the...
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A 54-year-old Brazilian man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction on multiple charges related to operating a brothel network across rural Ireland. Ilamar Rodrigues Ribeiro...
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A 60-year-old truck driver from Belturbet, County Cavan, has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment following his conviction for drug trafficking. Gerard Doran pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of...
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At the Central Criminal Court, the sister of Sean McCarthy addressed the court during the sentencing hearing of Dean Caffrey, who was convicted of her brother's manslaughter. Nicole McCarthy stated she remained "baffled" at how Caffrey...
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Two men have been assigned a trial date at the Special Criminal Court in connection with the disposal of body parts of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. Stephen Carberry, aged 47, of Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4, and Glen Bride, aged...
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Kevin Braney, aged 49, is appealing his conviction for the murder of Peter Butterly at the Special Criminal Court. The appeal, heard before a three-judge panel, centres on two main issues: the lawfulness of surveillance authorisation and...
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Two men in their seventies will be extradited to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer, the High Court has ruled. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and...
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A man identified by gardaí as leader of the so-called New IRA is appealing his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal, with his legal team arguing the conviction was unsafe. Kevin Braney (49) was found guilty by the Special Criminal...
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A Brazilian man has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to operating a network of brothels across rural Ireland using falsified documents and landlord deception. Ilamar Rodrigues Ribeiro, aged 54, rented ten properties under a...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to pursue a third trial against a financial services manager accused of involvement in an alleged €61 million fraud conspiracy at Custom House Capital. Ciara Kelleher, aged 53 and...
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The Court of Appeal heard submissions on whether to uphold convictions against three men jailed for the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Sean Guerin SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, argued...
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The High Court has granted a second stay on Workplace Relations Commission proceedings within a fortnight, following an application by Vincent Maughan of Crossmolina, County Mayo. Mr Maughan, a former retained firefighter with Mayo County...
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