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CavanCentral Criminal Court2026-06-02

'A shocking, shocking tragedy': man must first serve six-year term for trying to murder father before starting life sentence for murdering mother, judge rules

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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...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCentral Criminal Court2026-05-19

'We never expected him to be grateful. But we never expected murder': man apologies to family for murdering mother and trying to murder father

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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....

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCourt of Appeal2026-01-13

Kevin Lunney kidnappers lose conviction appeals

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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...

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CavanCentral Criminal Court2025-11-12

Ruth Lawrence: What the jury didn't hear

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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...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanSpecial Criminal Court2024-04-10

Pair admit to assisting the IRA

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Two men from County Cavan have pleaded guilty to assisting the IRA at the Special Criminal Court. Desmond Smith, aged 64, of Kilnavara Crescent, and Stephen Hamill, aged 51, of Willow Ridge,...

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CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2022-10-17

Man jailed for having 117 stolen bicycles

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A man from Cavan has been sentenced to two years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing 117 stolen bicycles valued at approximately €50,000. Dinas Bimbiras, aged 47, of Maple...

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CavanSpecial Criminal Court2021-12-20

Lunney kidnappers get combined 70 years

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Three men have been sentenced following their conviction for the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September...

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CavanSpecial Criminal Court2021-11-08

First Lunney accused found guilty

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A man in his forties has been convicted by the Special Criminal Court of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. The accused, who cannot be...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanSpecial Criminal Court2021-10-21

Verdict in Lunney trial delayed

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The Special Criminal Court has postponed delivery of its verdicts in the case of four men charged with abducting and torturing Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. The three-judge...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanSpecial Criminal Court2021-06-21

Lunney trial court views CCTV footage

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The Special Criminal Court examined CCTV footage on Monday as part of the trial relating to the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, in September 2019....

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CavanSpecial Criminal Court2020-12-07

Bid to halt Lunney trial fails

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Four men accused of falsing imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had a pre-trial application to adjourn their case rejected at the Special Criminal Court....

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CavanCentral Criminal Court2020-10-14

Aaron Brady sentenced to 40 years

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Aaron Brady has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in January 2013. Brady, aged twenty-nine and from New Road...

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CavanHigh Court2020-09-07

Kevin Lunney accused challenges non-jury trial

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A Dublin man charged in connection with an incident involving Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has initiated High Court proceedings challenging the Director of Public Prosecutions'...

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CavanCourt of Appeal2020-05-18

Child rapist to appeal 20-year sentence

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A man has been granted a Court of Appeal date to challenge his 20-year prison sentence for the serial sexual abuse of children in Cavan and Monaghan. The 53-year-old pleaded guilty in December 2016...

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CavanCentral Criminal Court2019-11-11

On the run abuser caught and sent to jail

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A man convicted of sexually assaulting a young child has been remanded in custody at the Central Criminal Court following his apprehension. The 24-year-old was found guilty on all fourteen counts of...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanHigh Court2019-05-27

Keg bomb prisoner seeks early release

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William Burns, held at Loughan House Open Centre in Co Cavan, has challenged the Minister for Justice's refusal to grant him enhanced remission from his prison sentence. Burns was convicted by the...

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CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2019-02-01

Tiger kidnapper gets 18 years

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A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has been sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment following his conviction on multiple charges related to a tiger kidnapping at a post office in north Dublin....

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-11-05

Tiger kidnap trial hears of car crash

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A witness has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of a man charged in connection with a €90,000 tiger kidnapping that occurred in September 2014. The witness described...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCentral Criminal Court2018-02-14

Jury deliberating in staged suicide trial

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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberating in the trial of a 34-year-old Latvian woman charged with impeding the prosecution of her boyfriend in connection with a death at...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-01-16

Jury discharged in child minder's third trial

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A jury has been discharged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the retrial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of Drumgola Wood, Cavan town,...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2017-07-24

Jail for serial phone thief

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A 28-year-old man from Tallaght has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to stealing five iPhones from Three mobile phone stores across the...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanHigh Court2017-02-21

High Court grants €2.37m freezing order

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The High Court has granted a Mareva injunction freezing assets valued at €2.37 million belonging to a County Galway man, following allegations that he provided false evidence during examination...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2016-12-06

Convicted killer threatened witness in case

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Michael Kinsella, aged 24, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after admitting he intimidated a witness in a criminal investigation. Kinsella, formerly of...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCentral Criminal Court2016-06-14

Uncle who raped his niece is jailed

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A man from Cavan has received a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence following his conviction for the rape of his teenage niece in the mid-1990s. The Central Criminal Court heard that the offences...

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CavanSpecial Criminal Court2015-12-17

"Slab" Murphy guilty of tax evasion

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Thomas Murphy, aged 66, from Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, County Louth, has been found guilty of nine counts of tax evasion at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. The three-judge court determined...

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CavanDublin Circuit Criminal Court2015-06-23

Closing speeches in childminder trial

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Closing speeches have been heard in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, County Cavan, has pleaded not...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanHigh Court2014-06-30

Paris Bakery wound up

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The High Court has wound up Paris Bakery and Pastry Ltd, the Moore Street establishment that closed in May following a worker sit-in over unpaid wages. Mr Justice Brian Cregan appointed Carl Dillon...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCentral Criminal Court2013-12-18

Man convicted of Cavan murder

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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Przemyslaw Trebacz of the murder of Costel Catalin Cretu in Co. Cavan. Trebacz, a 35-year-old Polish national from Killynebber, Cavan, had pleaded...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
CavanCentral Criminal Court2013-11-25

Man denies Cavan murder

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A 35-year-old man from Cavan has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court. Przemyslaw Trebacz, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, denies the murder of Costel Catalin Cretu at Connolly...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report