by Paul Neilan A former Garda who was found guilty of assaulting a security man during the Strokestown repossession case in in 2018 has had his conviction quashed by the High Court. Kevin Taylor of...
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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...
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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...
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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A 40-year-old man from Castlerea, County Roscommon, has withdrawn an appeal against his 15-month custodial sentence imposed for a series of thefts from retail outlets.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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Three men who were convicted of a vigilante attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon appeared before the Court of Appeal on 4 February to challenge the severity of their...
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Gerard Harrington of Marian Road, Boyle, Co Roscommon, has been unsuccessful in his application to the Supreme Court seeking to appeal his conviction for making a false report to gardaí. Harrington...
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Thomas Collins, aged 59, of The Fair Green, Frenchpark, County Roscommon, has been sentenced to eleven and a half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the sexual abuse of three...
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A 43-year-old cabinet maker from Boyle, Co Roscommon, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to drug offences. Justin McCormack...
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A 43-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to possessing approximately €3.9 million worth of cannabis for sale or supply at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Justin McCormack, originally from Boyle,...
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Three men have had their convictions upheld by the Court of Appeal following a vigilante attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County Roscommon, in December 2018....
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A man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape of his then 15-year-old niece in County Roscommon in November 2017. The 50-year-old defendant, who...
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Three men have appealed their convictions for involvement in a vigilante attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County Roscommon, in December 2018. Martin O'Toole,...
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A woman from County Roscommon has received a four-year prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for money laundering offences connected to proceeds of prostitution. Ivanilce Vailones, aged...
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A Roscommon farmer's appeal against his conviction for making a false statement to gardaí has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Gerard Harrington, of Marian Road, Boyle, was convicted in July...
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A man has been sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for the rape of a teenager in Roscommon. Nicolas Horvath, aged 28 and formerly...
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A Roscommon man convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a teenage girl employed as a babysitter has had his sentence reduced on appeal. Michael King, aged 53 and resident of Warren View, Boyle,...
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A man with over 60 previous convictions has been sentenced to 18 months in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for making a series of hoax phone calls containing serious threats. Thomas...
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A man from Boyle, County Roscommon, has appealed his five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage babysitter over a nine-month period in 2005. Michael King was convicted by...
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The High Court has dismissed an application for an inquiry into the detention of a Mayo farmer convicted in connection with a vigilante attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse near...
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Three men have been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment following their conviction on fifteen charges relating to an armed attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse near...
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A man's conviction for rape and sexual assault has been quashed by the Court of Appeal following concerns about jury impartiality and the handling of evidence at trial. Stephen Lynch, with an...
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Three men have been convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of offences arising from an armed attack on a repossessed farmhouse at Falsk, Strokestown, County Roscommon on 16 December 2018. Martin...
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The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal by the Garda Commissioner challenging the quashing of a search warrant that would have allowed access to a journalist's mobile phone. The...
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The High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement for a 52-year-old man from County Roscommon, enabling him to retain his family home while writing off more than €1.1 million in debt. Mr...
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A man has launched an appeal against his conviction for rape and sexual assault following a trial in the Central Criminal Court. Stephen Lynch, with an address in County Offaly, was convicted in May...
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The High Court has struck out legal proceedings brought by the late Peter Pringle against the State following his death earlier this year. Mr Pringle, who was originally sentenced to death for the...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has convicted three men of participating in a violent attack on a farm property near Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December 2018. Following a 50-day...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of four men accused of participating in a vigilante attack on security personnel at a repossessed farmhouse near...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court is set to begin deliberations in the trial of four men accused of participating in an armed attack on security guards at a repossessed farmhouse near...
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A man accused of participating in a violent attack on security guards at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County Roscommon, has had his defence outlined at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court....
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The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Barry Fergal Jennings, a 57-year-old former priest and Irish Times columnist from Cloonkeerin, Frenchpark, County Roscommon. Jennings had been...
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A Donegal builder accused of participating in an armed attack on security guards at a repossessed farmhouse in County Roscommon has had his prosecution described as fundamentally flawed and...
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Four men have pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an incident at a repossessed farm property near Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December 2018. The...
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Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard closing arguments in the trial of four men charged in connection with a violent attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm near Strokestown, Co Roscommon,...
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A 56-year-old man from Boyle, Co Roscommon has told gardaí that he organised approximately 30 men to travel to a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown on 16 December 2018 to "take back the house...
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A man accused of participating in an attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm in County Roscommon has told gardaí he was asleep at his home on the night in question. Paul Beirne, aged 56,...
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A garda sergeant has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that reasonable force was employed by security personnel during the removal of occupants from a repossessed farm near Strokestown, Co...
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A garda detective has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men charged in connection with an alleged attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm near...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a jury heard that a journalist who filmed burning vehicles during an alleged attack on a repossessed farm near Strokestown, County Roscommon, declined to disclose...
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A garda superintendent has firmly rejected suggestions that policing failures contributed to a violent incident at a repossessed house near Strokestown, County Roscommon, in December 2018. At Dublin...
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A security guard gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a violent attack at a repossessed property in Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December 2018. The witness described being...
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A 58-year-old man from County Mayo has told gardaí he was not present at a December 2018 incident at a repossessed farm near Strokestown, County Roscommon, and denied seeing a firearm at the scene....
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Stephen Silver, aged 46 and a resident of Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years at the Central Criminal Court following his...
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A 44-year-old builder from County Donegal is on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of participating in an armed attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm near Strokestown,...
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Martin O'Toole, aged 58, of Stripe, Irishtown, Claremorris, County Mayo, stands trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges including false imprisonment, assault causing harm, aggravated...
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Four men accused of participating in an armed attack on security personnel at a rural property near Strokestown have pleaded not guilty to 17 charges each at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The...
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A trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court concerning an alleged assault during an eviction has heard evidence from gardaí regarding search operations conducted in December 2018. Four men from...
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Four men have pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an assault at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County Roscommon on December 16, 2018. Patrick...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the trial heard that a social media video alleging Northern Irish "mercenaries" were responsible for an eviction circulated two days before an armed attack on a...
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A veterinary surgeon has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men charged in connection with an alleged attack on a rural property near Strokestown, County Roscommon....
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Fire brigade officers gave evidence on day 13 of the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court concerning an incident at a property near Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December 2018. Peter...
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A man with a Roscommon address has been sentenced following a burglary in Dublin over a decade ago. Tomasz Bebenek, aged 34, of Harbour Road, Tarmonbarry, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal...
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A security guard gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court regarding an attack on a repossessed farm at Falsk, near Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December 2018. The witness told the...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a trial has heard that Michael McGann, whose Roscommon farm at Falsk was repossessed by KBC Bank in December 2018, held approximately 170 acres of additional land...
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A security guard has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men accused of an assault on a rural Roscommon property in December 2018. Michael Kane told the jury he was...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder following a retrial. Silver, aged 46, a mechanic from Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, was convicted of fatally...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Stephen Silver of the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan in Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020. Silver, a 46-year-old motorcycle...
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A security guard giving evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has described being attacked during a repossession at a rural property near Strokestown, County Roscommon. The witness told the...
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The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver continues deliberations in the case concerning the death of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on June 17, 2020. Mr...
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Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard testimony on 13 March 2023 in the trial of four men charged in connection with an attack on a repossessed farm near Strokestown, County Roscommon. The managing...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of Stephen Silver, charged with the murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. Mr Silver,...
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At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel Dominic McGinn SC argued during closing submissions that Stephen Silver's shooting of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020...
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Stephen Silver, aged 46 of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. Mr...
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A consultant psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on June 17,...
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At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a murder trial heard evidence concerning Stephen Silver's mental state in the hours before the fatal shooting of Garda Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a psychiatrist gave evidence that Stephen Silver displayed behaviour indicative of mental illness during garda interviews following the fatal shooting of Garda Colm...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has viewed bodycam footage from an eviction at a property near Strokestown, County Roscommon, recorded five days before an alleged violent assault. The...
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A security guard testifying at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in a trial arising from the December 2018 Strokestown eviction told the court this week that he had previously served with the Ulster...
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A psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding the mental health history of Stephen Silver, aged 46, of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, who is charged with the murder of...
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Four men are standing trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 53 charges arising from an alleged attack on security personnel during a property repossession at Strokestown, County Roscommon, in...
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A forensic psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver, accused of murdering Garda Horkan in Castlerea, County Roscommon, in June 2020, previously experienced psychotic...
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A publican in Arigna, County Roscommon, has been ordered to pay €3,000 compensation to Bernard Ward following a determination by the Workplace Relations Commission that he unlawfully cancelled a...
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Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard in Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan at...
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A security guard has given evidence to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court regarding an alleged assault at a rural property in Roscommon on 16 December 2018. The witness, who owns a security company,...
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Stephen Silver (46) of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon,...
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A 35-year-old man from Baldoyle who was found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity has been assessed as not requiring inpatient care at the Central Mental Hospital. The Central...
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Four men have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of involvement in a sustained and brutal attack on security personnel at a repossessed property near Strokestown, County...
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Stephen Silver (46), from Aughavard in Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. He...
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Stephen Silver (46), from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020. Mr...
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Stephen Silver, aged 46 from Aughavard in Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan on June 17th, 2020 at Castlerea, County...
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A Central Criminal Court jury has heard garda interview footage in which Stephen Silver, charged with the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020,...
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Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. He has...
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Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan on 17 June 2020 at...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a witness testified that Stephen Silver (46), of Aughavard, Foxford, Co Mayo, appeared "looking crazy" following the fatal shooting of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea,...
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Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of capital murder in connection with the death of Garda...
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Stephen Silver, aged 46, of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan. The trial heard that Garda Horkan was...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a garda has given evidence describing the fatal shooting of his colleague Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. Stephen Silver, aged 46,...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a garda recounted attending to her colleague Garda Colm Horkan after he was fatally shot at Castlerea, Co Roscommon on 17 June 2020. Garda Helen Gillen described...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a Brazilian woman gave evidence that she was required to engage in sexual relations with one of the accused and her husband on multiple occasions. Testifying via...
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The Central Criminal Court heard evidence on Thursday that Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old mechanic from Foxford in County Mayo, was shouting in a Castlerea street on the night Garda Colm...
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A man has been found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity following a trial at the Central Criminal Court. The jury returned the special verdict in the case of Neil O'Dowd, who was...
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A jury has been discharged in the trial of Stephen Silver at the Central Criminal Court following difficulty raised by one juror. Mr Silver, aged 46, a motorbike mechanic from Aughavard in Foxford,...
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A 35-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of a pub manager in Baldoyle has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. The accused is alleged to have stabbed...
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At the Central Criminal Court, Stephen Silver, aged 46, a motorbike mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, pleaded not guilty to the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan on June 17, 2020, at Castlerea,...
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A 35-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of his former employer at a public house in Baldoyle has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. The accused is...
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A jury of six men and six women has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a man charged with the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan. Stephen Silver, aged 46, of Aughavard,...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a defence barrister has proposed that a Brazilian woman alleging she was trafficked to work as a prostitute was in fact already a sex worker who chose to come to...
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Two women have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to the alleged trafficking of Brazilian nationals for sexual exploitation across rural Irish towns. Natalia Nogueira...
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A man has been sentenced to three years in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a road incident in Lucan that endangered innocent bystanders. Martin Mongan, aged 47, was convicted by...
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A man from Co Roscommon has had his prison sentence reduced by two years following an appeal at the Court of Appeal. The 76-year-old was convicted in June 2021 of sexually assaulting his partner's...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Stephen Silver concerning the death of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June...
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The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, a motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has been instructed that majority verdicts are now permissible at the Central Criminal Court. Mr...
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The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, continued deliberations at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday. Mr Silver stands...
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At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott has instructed the jury in the trial of Stephen Silver to apply common sense when evaluating conflicting psychiatric evidence regarding the...
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At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel for Stephen Silver argued it would be unsafe to convict him of the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan, citing evidence of mental disorder at the...
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At the Central Criminal Court, counsel for Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, has questioned whether the prosecution has adequately proven the deceased was a member of...
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Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan on 17 June 2020 in...
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Two men have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their roles in a violent robbery at a hotel in Swords in November 2019. Ioan Galben, aged 40, and Samuel Pop, aged 28, both pleaded...
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A man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan gave inconsistent accounts of the shooting in the immediate aftermath and during garda interviews, a prosecution barrister told the Central...
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The Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, heard closing arguments are immencing. A prosecution psychiatrist told the jury that Mr Silver,...
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A man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan became severely mentally unwell the day before the shooting and his sister planned to have him admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the Central...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a consultant psychiatrist has disputed evidence that a murder accused's responsibility was diminished due to mental illness. Professor Harry Kennedy told Stephen...
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A man imprisoned for dangerous driving that caused serious injury to two cyclists has successfully challenged his dismissal from Irish Rail at the Workplace Relations Commission. Muiris Flynn, aged...
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A consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that a man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan was suffering from bipolar affective disorder that substantially reduced his...
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A consultant psychiatrist told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver's behaviour following the fatal shooting of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020...
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Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020....
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Stephen Silver, aged 46, a motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding the death of Detective Garda Colm Horkan on 17 June...
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Detective Garda Colm Horkan, who was fatally shot two years prior, had assisted in admitting the man accused of his murder to a psychiatric unit in 2003, the Central Criminal Court heard on 25...
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A psychiatrist assessed Stephen Silver, the accused in Detective Garda Colm Horkan's murder, hours after the shooting at Castlerea Garda Station in County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. Dr Will...
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Stephen Silver, aged 46, a motorbike mechanic from Aughavim, Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan. The incident occurred on...
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Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavain, Foxford, County Mayo, appeared before the Central Criminal Court where a video recording of his first garda interview was presented....
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At the Central Criminal Court, a general practitioner testified that Stephen Silver appeared disconnected from reality in the hours following the fatal shooting of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at...
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A witness told the Central Criminal Court murder trial that he heard the accused man say "If I didn't kill him, he would have killed me" at the scene in Castlerea, County Roscommon. Marcus Silvera,...
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Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavale near Foxford in County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan on June 17th, 2020 in Castlerea,...
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A garda witness testified at the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver, aged 46, a mechanic from Aughavard in Foxford, County Mayo, displayed a "smirk" while verbally confronting him as he...
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A member of An Garda Síochána gave emotional testimony at the Central Criminal Court today describing the moment she witnessed a gunman fire multiple shots at her colleague Detective Garda Colm...
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A witness living near Castlerea, County Roscommon heard "roaring and shouting" and observed erratic behaviour in the minutes before Detective Garda Colm Horkan was fatally shot on June 17th, 2020,...
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Stephen Silver, aged 46, a motorcycle mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020. He has...
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A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo. Mr Silver pleaded not guilty to the murder of...
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal concerning journalistic privilege and police search powers, marking the first time the court will address the interaction between criminal...
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An 85-year-old retired Garda from Strokestown, County Roscommon has withdrawn his High Court appeal against a destruction order for his Jack Russell terrier, Kim. The dog bit a woman on the...
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A former priest and Irish Times columnist has been sentenced to four years imprisonment following conviction for multiple sexual assaults on a schoolboy in the late 1990s. Barry Fergal Jennings,...
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Stephen Silver, aged 45, of Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, is charged with the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan on Main Street, Castlerea, County Roscommon on 17 June 2020. The charge alleges...
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The Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence imposed on a man convicted of making threats to kill gardai at Castlerea, County Roscommon. Enda Gavigan, aged 37 of Doorty, was arrested on 10 October...
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A man has appealed his six-year sentence imposed in June 2020 for threatening to kill gardai at Castlerea garda station in County Roscommon. The appellant pleaded guilty to criminal damage,...
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A man from County Roscommon has received a fully suspended sentence following his conviction for possessing cocaine worth over €34,000. Conor Costello was stopped by gardaí on November 22nd, 2018,...
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An environmental group has successfully resolved a High Court challenge to a County Roscommon flood relief scheme. Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) brought judicial review proceedings against...
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A 32-year-old electrician from Geevagh, County Sligo, has claimed unfair dismissal from Iarnród Éireann after his contract was terminated while he was serving a prison sentence. Muiris Flynn was...
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A High Court action concerning a flood relief scheme in Roscommon will not proceed to full hearing until after Easter. The Friends of the Irish Environment group has brought judicial review...
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The High Court has granted Friends of the Irish Environment permission to pursue judicial review proceedings challenging Roscommon County Council's approval of a flood relief scheme. The council is...
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The High Court has dismissed an application by Friends of the Irish Environment alleging that Roscommon County Council breached a court order regarding a proposed flood relief scheme. Mr Justice...
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The High Court will deliver a ruling this week on whether Roscommon County Council has breached a court order relating to a proposed flood relief scheme. The Friends of the Irish Environment brought...
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The High Court heard submissions on whether Roscommon County Council has breached a settlement agreement relating to a flood relief scheme involving a pipeline between Lough Funshinagh and Lough...
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An environmental group has brought contempt of court proceedings against Roscommon County Council in the High Court, claiming the local authority breached a settlement agreement regarding a flood...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Osborn Irabor for careless driving causing the death of cyclist Mary White on November 17, 2014. Irabor, aged 60 from French Park, Tyrrelstown,...
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A man has been convicted and sentenced following the shooting of a garda during a raid on a Dublin property in December 2017. Charles Moore, aged 48, of Barnwell Drive, Ballymun, was found guilty on...
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A 75-year-old man from Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment following his conviction at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting and orally raping...
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A man has been sentenced to eight years and nine months imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for the rape of his then partner's teenage sister. Stephen Lynch, with an...
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Samuel Pop, aged 27, from Charnwood Court, Clonsilla, Dublin, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment following a conviction for false imprisonment and robbery at the Clayton Hotel, Dublin 4,...
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Two men imprisoned for contempt of court in connection with interference at a disputed farm in County Roscommon have been released from custody. Michael Anthony McGann, who owned the property at...
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Two men imprisoned for interfering with a bank's lawful repossession of a farm in Strokestown, County Roscommon, have sought their release from custody. Michael Anthony McGann and Kevin Taylor, a...
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A 44-year-old man charged with the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan has been scheduled for trial at the Central Criminal Court in June 2022. Stephen Silver of Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo is...
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A 32-year-old office manager from Kiltoom, County Roscommon, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for theft from her employer's social club and use of a...
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Two men imprisoned by the High Court for interfering with KBC Bank's repossession of a farm at Falsk, Strokestown, County Roscommon will remain in custody after declining to purge their contempt of...
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A bus driver has appealed his conviction for careless driving causing death, challenging the trial judge's instructions to the jury on legal terminology. Osborn Irabor, aged 60 of French Park,...
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A woman from Kiltoom, County Roscommon, has pleaded guilty to theft and forgery offences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Nicola Henry, aged 32, admitted forging colleagues' signatures on 37...
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A 38-year-old Romanian man has been sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an aggravated burglary targeting two women working as escorts....
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Three men remain in custody at Mountjoy Prison following a High Court ruling that they must stay detained indefinitely until they comply with orders to vacate a farm in Falsk, Strokestown, County...
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Three men remain imprisoned in Mountjoy following their refusal to comply with High Court orders at a hearing last week. Michael Anthony McGann, Colm Granahan and Kevin Taylor were found in contempt...
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A man from Ballina, County Mayo, has been committed to Mountjoy Prison by Justice Leonie Reynolds after declining to provide undertakings to stay away from a property at Falsk, Strokestown, County...
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A man from Geevagh, County Sligo, has been given until the end of this year to pay a €20,000 fine following an appeal decision at the Court of Appeal. Muiris Flynn pleaded guilty to dangerous...
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Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds of the High Court has ordered the arrest of any person found in occupation of a farm at Falsk, Strokestown in County Roscommon. The order was made against three named...
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The High Court in Dublin has heard that a farm at Falsk, Strokestown in County Roscommon remains occupied in breach of court orders granted to KBC Bank. The property has been at the centre of...
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A High Court judge has warned that any person occupying a farm at Falsk, Strokestown, Co Roscommon after 6pm on Sunday is likely to face imprisonment for contempt of court. Ms Justice Leonie...
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The Court of Appeal has imposed a €20,000 fine on a man convicted of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm after he collided with two cyclists while significantly over the legal alcohol...
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A 31-year-old man from Geevagh, County Sligo has had his sentence referred for review by the Court of Appeal after being convicted of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm, drink driving and...
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The High Court has dismissed an application by a Roscommon woman to pursue proceedings against the former operator of the National Lottery over alleged negligent advice relating to a €3.3 million...
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A High Court judge has ordered an inquiry into the detention of a 33-year-old Chilean student held in the Dochas Centre at Mountjoy Prison. Ms Estefany Carolina Alquinta Gonzalez arrived in Dublin...
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A woman from County Roscommon is seeking High Court permission to pursue a negligence claim against the former National Lottery operator, An Post National Lottery Company, over alleged advice given...
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Mark Nash, who is serving life sentences for murders committed in Roscommon and Dublin, has failed in a bid for damages at the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg court found Nash's...
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Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds has directed gardai to arrest three siblings at the centre of a protracted property dispute in Co Roscommon and bring them before the High Court. Michael Anthony, David...
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The High Court has granted KBC Bank permission to pursue proceedings that could result in the imprisonment of three siblings for alleged non-compliance with a court order to vacate their family home...
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KBC bank has moved to seek committal orders against three siblings from near Strokestown, County Roscommon, over alleged non-compliance with a High Court direction to vacate their family farm. The...
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A man convicted of defrauding 143 investors through a bogus forestry scheme has received an additional two years in prison following a Court of Appeal ruling. Garret Hevey, aged 43, operated Arden...
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Alan Craughwell (35) of Athlone, Co Westmeath, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm following a collision with a nurse on December 24, 2017 at Taghmaconnell, Co Roscommon....
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A family in Co Roscommon has been ordered by the High Court to vacate their home near Strokestown within one month. Mr Justice Senan Allen ruled on Friday that KBC bank is entitled to an injunction...
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Two men were jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 29 July 2019 following their convictions for defrauding over 140 foreign investors of approximately €5.5 million through Arden Forestry...
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The High Court application by KBC Bank to evict a family from their home near Strokestown in County Roscommon will be heard on 10 October. Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds rejected a request by David...
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A High Court application by KBC bank for an injunction requiring three siblings to vacate their family home near Strokestown in County Roscommon will not be heard before the end of the current legal...
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Two men have been jailed for six years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their admission of involvement in transporting cocaine valued at €350,000. Arvydas Steponkus, aged 45, of...
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KBC bank has sought an expedited hearing of its High Court application for an injunction requiring three siblings to vacate their home near Strokestown, County Roscommon. The bank seeks an order for...
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Two secondary school teachers from Roscommon Town have initiated High Court judicial review proceedings challenging their redeployment. Aisling McTiernan and Aimee Costello, who have each taught at...
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Two Dublin men pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges relating to a fraudulent forestry investment scheme. Between January 2014 and mid-2016, Garret Hevey and David Peile induced...
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A farmer from near Strokestown in County Roscommon has initiated High Court proceedings against KBC Bank and several related parties following an attempted eviction of his family home in December...
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A man convicted of rape has initiated High Court proceedings challenging the Director of Public Prosecutions over an alleged delay in reviewing a decision not to prosecute prison officers for...
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A man has been sentenced to eight years in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend in County Roscommon. Gerard Mooney, aged thirty-nine and formerly of...
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A Dublin man has been remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend in County Roscommon. Gerard Mooney,...
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A bus driver from Dublin has been convicted of careless driving causing death following a collision with a cyclist on Burlington Road in November 2014. Osborn Irabor, aged fifty-eight, had pleaded...
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Roscommon farmer against injunctions preventing him from placing animals on lands subject to sale proceedings. Eugene Costello of Taughmaconnell,...
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The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Roscommon man wanted in the United Kingdom for involvement in a £5 million tax fraud. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 50 and resident at Cloughbeirne,...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has found Osborn Irabor, a Dublin Bus driver aged 58 from Tyrrelstown, Dublin, guilty of careless driving causing the death of cyclist Mary White on November...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a forensic collision investigator gave evidence that at least three Dublin Bus vehicles were observed cutting the corner at a junction where a fatal collision...
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Osborn Irabor, a Dublin Bus driver aged 58 from Tyrrelstown, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to careless driving causing the death of cyclist Mary White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The...
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A County Roscommon farmer has been jailed for three weeks for contempt of a High Court order at the High Court in Dublin. Mr Justice Michael Twomey imposed the sentence on Eugene Costello for...
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A man from County Kildare has lost an appeal against his refusal to withdraw a guilty plea to theft and criminal damage charges at Roscommon Circuit Criminal Court. Conor Judge, aged 31, was...
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A High Court judge has referred an extradition case to the Court of Justice of the European Union to determine how Brexit will affect the transfer of suspects to the United Kingdom. The man,...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld the murder conviction of Mark Nash for the killings of two women in Grangegorman, Dublin, in 1997. A three-judge panel, led by Mr Justice Alan Mahon, dismissed all...
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An Irish truck driver from County Roscommon has successfully challenged a €1.5 million tax penalty demand issued by Greek authorities through the Irish Revenue Commissioners. Eamonn Donnellan, of...
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The European Court of Justice has delivered a significant preliminary ruling favouring a Roscommon truck driver in his challenge against a €1.5 million tax demand from Greek authorities. Eamonn...
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The High Court has reserved judgement on the State's application to dismiss a damages claim brought by Peter Pringle, whose murder conviction was overturned in 1995 after he served nearly fifteen...
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The State has sought dismissal of a damages claim brought by a man whose murder conviction was quashed after he spent nearly fifteen years in prison. The High Court heard that the applicant was...
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The Court of Appeal in Dublin has upheld murder convictions against two men in the death of a 23-year-old in June 2014. Leszek Sychulec, aged 35, from Drinan, Ballymahon, County Longford, and...
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The High Court adjourned several extradition cases involving UK warrants on 15 January pending a Supreme Court decision on whether Brexit creates obstacles to surrendering individuals to Britain....
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The Court of Appeal has reserved judgement in the appeal of Mark Nash against his 2015 conviction for two murders in Grangegorman, Dublin, committed in March 1997. Nash, originally from England with...
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A 77-year-old man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his daughter has failed in his appeal against a 12-year prison sentence imposed in 2011. The Court of Appeal dismissed the challenge on...
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The Court of Appeal hearing into Mark Nash's conviction for the 1997 Grangegorman murders in Dublin will conclude in December. Nash, aged 44, was found guilty in 2015 of murdering two women whose...
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Mark Nash is appealing his 2015 conviction for the murder of two women whose bodies were discovered in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman twenty years earlier. Nash was found guilty at the...
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A man convicted of two murders in Dublin two decades ago has initiated an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. The defendant was found guilty in 2015 of the killings, which occurred...
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The High Court has rejected an application for leave to appeal against the extradition of a Roscommon man wanted in the United Kingdom in connection with a tax fraud investigation. Thomas Joseph...
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A 71-year-old UK citizen with an address in County Roscommon has been ordered to be surrendered to British authorities to face charges of assisting in the rape of her daughter approximately 40 years...
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A Roscommon businessman facing extradition to Britain over a £5 million tax fraud has had his case reserved for judgement in the High Court. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, was convicted in his...
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A construction company director from Roscommon faces uncertainty over his extradition to the United Kingdom, the High Court heard on 4 July 2017. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, was convicted in...
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A construction company director from Roscommon facing extradition to the United Kingdom over a £5 million tax fraud will argue before the Court of Appeal that Brexit prevents his removal from the...
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Mark Nash is to appeal one of his murder convictions in the Court of Appeal. Nash was convicted in 2015 of murdering two women whose bodies were discovered in sheltered accommodation in Dublin in...
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A senior nursing executive with the HSE has successfully appealed against her temporary re-assignment to a non-clinical role. The Court of Appeal found that the HSE breached the employment contract...
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A 70-year-old man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment, with the balance suspended from June, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for criminal damage. The defendant pleaded guilty to...
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A construction company director from Roscommon has secured a four-week postponement of his extradition to the United Kingdom on humanitarian grounds. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, is wanted in...
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The High Court has dismissed an application by a businessman seeking injunctions to regain control of a golf course property in County Wicklow from a court-appointed receiver. Ms Justice Caroline...
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A 26-year-old man from Roscommon has pleaded guilty to his role in a violent robbery on Arran Quay in Dublin in June 2014. Patrick Conroy, with 156 previous convictions, was one of four men who...
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A 70-year-old man with a significant criminal history appeared before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with criminal damage. The defendant pleaded guilty to throwing a keg against a jewellery...
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The Court of Appeal in Dublin today dismissed an application by a 77-year-old Roscommon man to extend the time within which he could appeal his convictions for sexual abuse and rape. The man, a...
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A man convicted of robbing a 90-year-old pensioner in Castlerea, Co Roscommon has had his prison sentence upheld by the Court of Appeal. Mark Sweeney, aged 33, of Cloonkeen, Castlerea, pleaded...
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A five-judge Supreme Court heard an application by convicted serial killer Mark Nash seeking damages over delays in his prosecution for murders in Dublin. Nash is serving a life sentence following...
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A man from Clare has appealed an 18-year prison sentence imposed for the sexual abuse of a child over a three-year period. The 26-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at...
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The State withdrew a murder charge against a 22-year-old man at the Central Criminal Court following several days of legal argument. Matthew Gralton, from Mt Prospect, County Roscommon, had pleaded...
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Ross Allen (25) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Christy Daly, aged 47, at Bog Lane, Kilbride, Clara, County Offaly between 29 December 2013 and 7 January 2014. His co-accused Matthew Gralton...
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Evidence has been heard at the Central Criminal Court in relation to a driving licence found in the name of a witness in a murder trial. Tomas Strugacz testified that his Polish driving licence went...
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A witness has testified at the Central Criminal Court that he observed two men remove a 23-year-old from a vehicle, assault him for approximately 15 minutes, and subsequently drag him towards the...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning the death of a 23-year-old man recovered from the Shannon in June 2014. The deceased's mother described viewing her son's...
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At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, the State pathologist gave evidence that a man found dead in a drain in Clara, County Offaly was probably beaten before being shot multiple times....
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At the Central Criminal Court, the son of a deceased man gave evidence regarding his final hours with his father on December 29, 2013. Matthew Gralton, aged 22, from Mt Prospect in County Roscommon,...
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A witness told the Central Criminal Court that Christy Daly, aged 47, expressed concern about men in dark clothing loitering near his home on the day he went missing. Gary Gonoude gave evidence at...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a prosecution barrister opened the trial of two men accused of murdering a 47-year-old man in Co Offaly in late 2013. The court heard that the alleged killing occurred...
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A 29-year-old man from Roscommon has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital following his acquittal on grounds of insanity for the 2011 stabbing death of his mother. The Central Criminal...
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A 29-year-old man from Roscommon has been found not guilty of murdering his mother by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. Paul Henry was charged with killing Ann Henry at Abbeystown,...
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A man from Roscommon has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his mother by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. Paul Henry, aged 29, is charged with stabbing Ann Henry to death at...
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A forensic psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that a 29-year-old Roscommon man lacked the capacity to form intent when he stabbed his mother to death due to mental disorder. Paul...
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A Roscommon man pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court on 15 February 2016. Paul Henry, aged 29, is charged with stabbing his mother Ann Henry...
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The Sunday World has been fined €75,000 for contempt of court following pre-trial coverage of a serial killer's case. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed the penalty at the Central Criminal Court on...
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A High Court judge has dismissed an action by senior HSE executive Helen Earley challenging her temporary reassignment during investigations into mental health services in County Roscommon. Mr...
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Judge Desmond Hogan of the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court retired today after fifteen years on the bench. The Athlone-based judge's final sitting was marked by tributes from members of the judiciary,...
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Michelle Conroy, aged 47, of Arch Court, Roscommon Town, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder arising from an incident on Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin on 27 December...
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A High Court action brought by an Eamonn Donnellan from County Roscommon against the Revenue Commissioners over a €1.5 million tax penalty demand from Greek authorities has been referred to the...
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A trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin has heard evidence concerning banking transactions linked to a man named Thomas Murphy with an address in County Louth. The accused, aged 66 and from...
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The trial of a man charged with tax evasion has heard evidence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin concerning significant cattle trading and agricultural grants. A former manager of Roscommon...
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A 35-year-old man from Roscommon has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal following his conviction for sexual offences against a child. He had pleaded guilty at Roscommon Circuit Criminal Court...
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A senior HSE executive has secured a High Court injunction preventing her transfer to an alternative role. Mr Justice Isabel Kennedy granted the orders sought by Ms Helen Earley, Area Director of...
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Mark Nash, convicted of murders committed in County Roscommon in 1997 and sentenced to life imprisonment for further killings in Dublin the following year, has sought High Court intervention after...
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A High Court decision on Mark Nash's application to transfer to Arbour Hill prison was expected on Wednesday, the President of the High Court was informed. Nash, who is serving a life sentence for...
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Mark Nash, a convicted double murderer, has been hospitalised following concerns about his health after ceasing food intake, the High Court was told on Friday. Nash is serving a life sentence...
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A man from County Roscommon has had the suspended portion of his 14-year prison sentence doubled on appeal. The 57-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was convicted in 2010 of 47...
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A retired member of the Defence Forces has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering a woman in Westmeath in February 2011. Jimmy Devaney, aged 66, from Monksland, Athlone,...
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A senior Health Service Executive manager has initiated High Court proceedings challenging her proposed reassignment to an alternative role. Ms Helen Earley, Area Director of Nursing for the...
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A Roscommon man has successfully appealed his acquittal for the murder of his mother by reason of insanity and will face a retrial. The 29-year-old had been acquitted by jury at Castlebar in May...
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A woman has brought a damages action against the State following an incident at Castlerea Prison in County Roscommon in May 2009. The applicant claims she was instructed by a prison officer to...
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Mark Nash has been found guilty of murdering two women at sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman, Dublin, in March 1997. A Central Criminal Court jury returned a unanimous verdict after...
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A Roscommon man has appealed a High Court decision ordering his extradition to the United Kingdom to serve a four-and-a-half year sentence for tax fraud. Thomas O'Connor was convicted at Blackfriars...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has adjourned deliberations in the trial of Mark Nash, who stands accused of murdering two women in 1997. The 42-year-old, with addresses in Dublin, has pleaded...
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At the Central Criminal Court, prosecution counsel Brendan Grehan SC delivered closing arguments in the trial of Mark Nash, accused of murdering two women in March 1997. Nash, with Dublin addresses,...
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A Roscommon man has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting his daughter between 2004 and 2006. The man, aged 59, pleaded guilty to sexual...
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A man aged 59 from Roscommon has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his daughter between July 2004 and July 2006 at the family home. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the offences occurred when...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a Garda Chief Superintendent gave evidence regarding the retrieval of clothing from the Dublin home of Mark Nash, aged 42, who stands accused of murdering two women in...
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A Roscommon man acquitted of his mother's murder by reason of insanity has appealed against the verdict, seeking a retrial on grounds of diminished responsibility. Paul Henry was sent to the Central...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence from a retired detective sergeant regarding the 1997 murders of two women in Grangegorman, Dublin. Mark Nash, aged 42, has pleaded not guilty...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard statements from the former partner of Mark Nash, who is charged with the murder of two women in March 1997. Nash, aged 42, has pleaded not guilty to the...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been presented with a letter of retraction written by Mark Nash, a 42-year-old man from Dublin, who previously gave gardaí a statement admitting...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a retired garda sergeant gave evidence in the trial of Mark Nash, who is accused of murdering two women in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman, Dublin, in 1997....
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The High Court has struck out repossession proceedings brought by Home Funding Corporation Ltd against a couple from Ballinagare, County Roscommon. Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy ruled on Thursday that...
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At the Central Criminal Court, the jury foreman in the trial of Mark Nash, accused of murdering two women in 1997, was excused from duty after disclosing his intention to sit a garda assessment...
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A man from Roscommon has been sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment following a Court of Appeal determination that his original eight-year sentence was manifestly inadequate. The accused had...
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A man from Roscommon has brought an appeal against his acquittal on grounds of insanity for the death of his mother in 2011. The 29-year-old had pleaded not guilty to murder at a Castlebar sitting...
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Mark Nash (42) pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of two women, Sylvia Shields and Mary Callanan, who died between 6 and 7 March 1997. The victims were residing in...
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A 23-year-old man from Mount Prospect in Roscommon has pleaded guilty to manslaughter before the Central Criminal Court. Ray Gralton was arraigned on Monday in connection with the death of a woman...
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A trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard that DNA evidence from two women found dead at sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman in 1997 was discovered on the jacket of Mark Nash, who stands...
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Two men have been convicted and sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their involvement in a series of violent offences. Dylan Smith, aged 22, and Daniel Malone, aged 20, pleaded guilty to...
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The Court of Appeal has determined that an eight-year prison sentence imposed on a Roscommon man convicted of raping his neighbour's daughter was unduly lenient. President of the Court of Appeal Mr...
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A Roscommon landowner has been released from prison after purging contempt of court at the High Court in Dublin. Eugene Costello from Coolfree, Taughmaconnell, Ballinasloe was committed to prison...
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A Roscommon landowner was committed to prison for contempt of court at the High Court in Dublin and subsequently removed by ambulance after collapsing in the courtroom. Mr Justice Brian McGovern...