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A north African doctor has been jailed for 10 years for the rape, coercive control and assault of his wife over a three-year period. The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges of assault causing...
The High Court has rejected arguments against the extradition of Jonathan Gill to Northern Ireland to face a charge that he murdered Robbie Lawlor as part of a feud involving gangs in Dublin,...
By Declan Brennan and Eimear Dodd The trial of a garda accused of raping his wife and cruelty towards two of his daughters has reached closing stages. The 48-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to...
A serial criminal had just been released from prison for his role in the killing of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara in 2012 when he set fire to a car and robbed a Halfords outlet last year, a court has...
Sligo man Barry Young has appeared in court on foot of an arrest warrant from Northern Ireland, where he is wanted to face prosecution for the murder of gangland figure Robbie Lawlor six years ago....
(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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
A "high risk" child rapist who was sentenced to 15 years will be returned to jail after he was found in the company of three teenage boys in breach of his release conditions. In 2008, the late Mr...
(File Picture: Stephen ‘Rossi’ Walsh. Photo: Collins) A notorious child rapist has failed in a "confused" bid to have an attempt by the State to amend his post-release supervision conditions...
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,...
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...
by Paul Neilan A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend on church grounds almost 21 years ago had "simply no basis" for claiming that the Court of Criminal Appeal had overturned his mandatory life...
by Paul Neilan Convicted murderer Raymond Donovan, who strangled his former girlfriend to death on the grounds of a church, has launched a High Court bid seeking his release from prison, claiming...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Eimear Dodd A man who demanded money from his ex-partner's parents, threatening them that their house “would go up like a Christmas tree”, has been jailed. Conor Stewart (31) of Kilcross Court,...
A man who played a “vital” role in a money laundering scheme and separately obtained €15,000 in a social welfare fraud has been jailed for four years. Danny Cirstea (27) of Cuffe Street, Dublin 2,...
A man has been convicted and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for serious sexual offences against his sister. Kyle Jinks, aged 31, of Slievemore, Ballytivnan, County...
Margaret Doran (36), from Kimmage in Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of a false registration certificate for a caravan on 15 October 2019 at the Ranch House in...
A former scrapyard worker has given evidence at the Workplace Relations Commission regarding an incident at Hammond Lane Metal Company's Clondalkin facility in December 2023. The woman alleged that...
The High Court has granted permission to a Sligo man to challenge the State's decision to cease his social welfare benefits. Juma Palani sought leave to judicially review determinations made earlier...
Juma Palani, from Sligo, has initiated High Court proceedings to challenge the State's decision to withdraw his jobseeker's and disability allowances. Mr Palani is seeking to overturn determinations...
A 67-year-old Sligo bed-and-breakfast proprietor has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment, with the final eighteen months suspended, following his conviction for rape. The man, who...
(File Picture: Shane Ward. Photo: Collins) An uninsured rider who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with life-changing injuries, is to have his driving...
The Court of Appeal has resentenced a serial burglar to five years imprisonment after finding his original sentence inadequate. Wayne O'Callaghan, aged 35, of Brooklodge Grove, Glanmire, Cork, had...
A 24-year-old man from Co Sligo is to be extradited to Scotland following a reassessment of his case by the High Court. The respondent faces charges in Glasgow Sheriff Court relating to an alleged...
A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and sexual abuse of two girls during the 1990s and 2000s. The man pleaded guilty to...
The Workplace Relations Commission has determined that compensation paid under the State's Brexit scrappage scheme does not satisfy statutory redundancy obligations. Seven migrant fishermen employed...
The Central Criminal Court has ordered an arrest warrant after a man who attempted to murder his wife 12 years ago allegedly breached the terms of his release by trying to contact his victim. Lounes...
A 59-year-old man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to twelve counts including rape, oral rape, and sexual assault committed against two victims over separate periods. The charges...
Seven Ghanaian fishermen have brought claims before the Workplace Relations Commission alleging they are entitled to statutory redundancy payments in addition to compensation received under a vessel...
The High Court has ruled that Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank is entitled to take possession of a rural property in Ballinfull, County Sligo, following the death of its owner in 2008. The deceased...
A teenager from Sligo pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting his eight-year-old cousin and recording the incident on St Stephen's Day 2021. The boy, who was 14 at the...
Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank sought possession of a rural property in Ballinfull, County Sligo, valued at €180,000, following the death of its owner in July 2008. The deceased had borrowed €60,000...
At the Central Criminal Court on 23 October 2023, Yousef Palani, aged 23, from Markievicz Heights in Sligo, was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for the murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael...
Yousef Palani, aged 23, appeared at the Central Criminal Court for sentencing following guilty pleas to two murders in Sligo in April 2022. Palani admitted to the murder of Aidan Moffitt on 10 April...
A 23-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to two counts of murder and one count of causing serious harm. Yousef Palani, of Markievicz Heights, admitted to the...
A man with an address in County Louth has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for operating as a fraudulent child psychologist across public and private healthcare sectors in Ireland. The...
A man with 86 previous convictions, including for domestic violence, has had his custodial sentence doubled following a Court of Appeal ruling. Jason Doyle (28) of Tower Hill, Ballymote, County...
A 22-year-old man charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in Sligo has changed his senior counsel ahead of trial. The accused appeared via video link from Castlerea...
A man granted refugee status in Ireland despite a prior UK sexual assault conviction has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape of one woman and the...
A High Court judge has refused to extradite a man to Scotland on humanitarian grounds, citing severe prison overcrowding and inadequate mental health provision. Mr Justice Paul McDermott found that...
A 22-year-old man charged with two murders and an attempted murder in Sligo has received a psychiatric assessment, the Central Criminal Court heard this week. Yousef Palani, of Markievicz Heights,...
A woman from Sligo has succeeded in her Supreme Court appeal against a mortgage lender's attempt to restore repossession proceedings on her family home. Noreen Stafford challenged a High Court...
A 37-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a criminal organisation. Barry Young, with an address in Cranmore, Co Sligo, admitted to the charge...
At the Central Criminal Court, Martin Doyle, aged 53, of Esker, Knock, County Mayo, was convicted following trial of two counts of rape and 25 counts of sexual assault. The offences comprised the...
A 26-year-old man from Sligo has received an concurrent 18-month prison sentence following his guilty plea to threatening a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison. Paul Darcy of Calry Court, Stephen...
A car parts manufacturer in Sligo Town has been ordered to pay €10,000 to a worker with an anxiety disorder following a discrimination finding by the Workplace Relations Commission. The adjudicating...
A convicted murderer will not be permitted to introduce a new ground of appeal in a bid to overturn his conviction for killing a father of four, whose body was tied up with cable and dumped in the...
(File Picture: Stephen Rossi' Walsh. Photo: Collins) Notorious criminal and child rapist Stephen Rossi' Walsh has had his conviction for indecent assault overturned after successfully arguing that...
A 22-year-old man from Sligo has been scheduled to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court in November 2023 on charges relating to two deaths and an attempted murder in the town. Yousef Palani is...
Gerard Hutch's defence team have raised concerns at the Special Criminal Court about whether gardaí deployed a tracker device on a vehicle belonging to former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall...
Simon McGinley has failed in his second attempt to overturn his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal. McGinley, aged 38, was convicted in April 2014 of murdering Eugene Gillespie, a retired...
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a series of offences including dangerous driving, burglary, and criminal damage. Paul...
A 37-year-old man charged with directing a criminal organisation will face trial before the non-jury Special Criminal Court following a successful application by the State. The accused was first...
An environmental group's challenge to a major State capital investment plan has opened before the Supreme Court. Friends of the Irish Environment brought the appeal against the €165 billion Project...
A cinema projectionist in Sligo has failed in his unfair dismissal claim following his sack in 2020. Joseph Callaghan, who worked at an Omniplex cinema since 1992, was dismissed after the wrong film...
At the Court of Appeal, John McDonagh, aged 27, of Brookfield, Ballinode, Sligo, had his sentence increased following a knife-point home invasion in Sligo Town in January 2020. McDonagh and a...
A former general manager of the Clayton Hotel in Sligo has been awarded €50,000 in compensation by the Workplace Relations Commission following a finding of unfair dismissal. Fergal Ryan was...
The second challenge in a week against the Minister for Justice over the new statutory parole board system man has been brought by a man serving a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. The...
Three men from County Louth convicted of conspiracy to acquire explosives and weapons for the Real IRA are seeking damages in the High Court for a period of unlawful imprisonment. Fintan O'Farrell...
A 59-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction on charges arising from an incident at his home in April 2015....
A man who served as a Minister of the Eucharist has had his appeal against his sentence dismissed at the Court of Appeal. The applicant, whose identity is protected to safeguard the victim, was...
A man aged 67 has appealed his sentence at the Court of Appeal following conviction for sexually assaulting a victim over a 12-year period beginning when she was ten years old. He was sentenced to...
A 44-year-old Lithuanian man has failed in his appeal against a four-year custodial sentence imposed for managing a cannabis cultivation operation in Ballymote, County Sligo. Danius Gastilavicius...
A woman left paralysed following a high-speed car crash near Ballisodare in 2010 has expressed relief after the Court of Appeal rejected the driver's second attempt to restore his licence. Martin...
A man who was released from prison in 2018 after serving ten years for his role in trying to make a female college student have sex with her male housemates during a violent burglary has had the...
The High Court has set aside certain convictions and suspended sentences imposed on a Department of Agriculture official in relation to animal carcass disposal breaches. Bernard Kilgariff, aged 64,...
Christopher Feeney (58) was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of rape and sexual assault following a trial last September. The offences occurred at his home in Millbrook, Riverside, Sligo...
A woman convicted of causing serious injuries to a cyclist after running her over while driving unaccompanied as a learner driver has been given a suspended sentence. Paulina Galantkiewicz (34) told...
Simon McGinley (38) appeared before the Court of Appeal on 14 October seeking to have his murder conviction quashed on the basis of new psychiatric evidence. McGinley was convicted in April 2014 of...
A manslaughter trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard evidence regarding the character of the deceased man in the case. Ronan Byrne, aged 31, of Lohunda Downs, Clonsilla, Blanchardstown,...
(File Picture: Stephen Rossi' Walsh. Credit: Collins) Notorious Dublin criminal and child rapist Stephen Rossi' Walsh has appealed his conviction for indecent assault, arguing that adverse media...
A man from Sligo has been convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following the unlawful killing of his wife in April 2018. The court heard that Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park,...
A man from Sligo has been found guilty of murdering his wife at the Central Criminal Court. Rafal Karaczyn, aged thirty-five, of Crozon Park in Sligo, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but not guilty...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is continuing deliberations in the trial of a Sligo man charged with murder. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has admitted killing his wife...
At the Central Criminal Court on 17 May 2021, closing speeches were delivered in the trial of a 35-year-old Sligo man charged with murdering his wife in April 2018. The accused has pleaded guilty to...
A man charged with murder at the Central Criminal Court has admitted to strangling his wife following a domestic dispute at their home in Crozon Park, Sligo, between 29 April and 1 May 2018. During...
At the Central Criminal Court, a jury has heard evidence of exchanges between Natalia and Rafal Karaczyn in the months before her death. Text messages and Facebook communications were presented...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard that a woman expressed her desire for independence in text messages to her husband before her death. The deceased, a 30-year-old mother of...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that the accused man described lying beside his wife's body for ten to fifteen minutes after strangling her with his bare hands. Magdalena...
A murder trial opened at the Central Criminal Court on May 6th, 2021, concerning allegations that a Sligo man killed his wife following her return home from another man's house. The accused, aged 35...
A jury of nine women and three men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to hear the trial of a Sligo man charged with murder. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has pleaded...
(File Picture: Barry McGee. Credit: Collins) A convicted rapist who raped and threatened to kill his two Australian victims in 2002 has had additional conditions applied to his post-release...
A judge at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has ordered the forfeiture of €6,700 in cash intercepted at an An Post sorting facility in south Dublin. The package, which arrived from the United States in...
An uninsured rider who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with serious injuries, has been jailed for two years. Shane Ward (24) and his motorcycle ended...
An Algerian man who admitted trying to murder his wife by beating her with a kettlebell after becoming resentful of her independence has claimed that he was misled by his legal team and that gardai...
A man has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court for his role in a violent extortion attack on a Mayo businessman in County Louth in 2017. Anthony Finglas, aged 49, pleaded guilty to demanding...
A Co Down man has pleaded guilty to demanding money with menaces from a Mayo businessman in Omeath, Co Louth, in December 2017. Anthony Finglas, aged 49, appeared before the Special Criminal Court...
A Formula 1 engineer's appeal against a nine-year prison sentence for attacking and falsely imprisoning his elderly landlord has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Stefan Schaufler, aged 53,...
Stefan Schaufler, a 53-year-old engineer formerly employed in Formula 1, has appealed his sentence at the Court of Appeal for an attack on his 81-year-old landlord in Sligo on 20 June 2018....
The High Court has appointed provisional liquidators to two fashion retail companies that operated thirteen Pamela Scott stores across Ireland. Arzac Developments Ltd ran ten stores while Richard...
John Tierney, aged 53, of Rockhouse, Gowna, County Cavan, received a fully suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to dangerous driving causing death. The...
A woman from Riverstown, County Sligo, has had her prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal following a challenge by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The 23-year-old was convicted of...
A teenager was armed with a screwdriver when he broke into a young woman's home while she was in bed and subjected her to a “terrifying” ordeal, a Dublin court has heard. Jamie Nulty, who is now...
(Pictured: Prince Aibangbe. Credit: Collins) A judge has said there is a greater onus on truck drivers to take care at junctions and look out for cyclists and pedestrians as she jailed a truck...
The Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing a sentence imposed on a Louth woman convicted of dangerous driving causing death. Eimear White pleaded guilty at Dundalk Circuit Court to causing the...
(Pictured: Prince Aibangbe. Credit: Collins) A truck driver who broke a red light and caused the death of a 21-year-old pedestrian claimed he was unaware he had hit someone until contacted by his...
A construction worker from Sligo has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for his involvement in a tax fraud scheme at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Martin Stokes, aged 35, pleaded guilty in...
The High Court in Dublin has dismissed an appeal brought by a County Sligo man seeking to overturn a possession order relating to his family home. Keith McNair had appealed a 2016 Circuit Court...
The High Court has approved a €12 million settlement in a case concerning a child who developed bacterial meningitis after being sent home from Sligo General Hospital. The girl, who was ten months...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has been halted after three jurors notified the court they could not attend proceedings. Ms Justice Eileen Creedon discharged the 12-member jury on 18...
At the Central Criminal Court, Ms Justice Eileen Creedon instructed a jury on 12 March 2020 to return on Wednesday to conclude closing speeches in the trial of Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a witness testified that Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo, appeared emotionally distressed in the months preceding his wife's death. The friend...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has viewed video evidence from Ballymote Garda Station in which a man described to detectives how he killed his wife. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, from Crozon Park...
At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard text and Facebook messages exchanged between a Sligo couple in the months preceding the woman's death. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has...
At the Central Criminal Court, a jury has heard evidence from the eighth garda interview with a 34-year-old man charged with the murder of his wife. The accused, from Crozon Park in Ballymote,...
A man has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter following the death of his wife at their home in Crozon Park, Sligo, between 29 April and 1 May 2018. Rafal Karaczyn (34) denied to...
A man on trial for murder told gardaí at Ballymote Garda Station in County Sligo to search for CCTV footage of a six-foot man with red hair, whom he claimed had threatened him with a gun weeks...
A member of an organised crime group has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court following his guilty plea to firearm offences. Owen Cummins, aged 41, from St...
A garda has testified at the Central Criminal Court that he discovered the body of a woman in a forested area off the Holywell Road near Ballymote, County Sligo, after being directed there by the...
The High Court has ruled that debt-for-equity swaps cannot be approved within personal insolvency arrangements without the explicit consent of the relevant secured creditor. Mr Justice Denis...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a jury heard evidence regarding the movements of a woman on the morning she died. CCTV footage showed the 30-year-old returning to her home in Crozon Park,...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a trial heard evidence on Monday concerning the movements of a 30-year-old woman in the hours before her death. A man gave testimony that he accompanied the...
Natalia Karaczyn's sister has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding CCTV footage she viewed in the hours following her sibling's disappearance in April 2018. Magdalena McMorrow told...
A fresh jury was sworn in at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday following the discharge of a previous panel in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34 and from...
At the Central Criminal Court, the sister of a thirty-year-old woman whose body was discovered near Ballymote in May 2018 gave evidence regarding her brother-in-law's alleged confession. Rafal...
At the Central Criminal Court, the sister of Natalia Karaczyn gave evidence regarding her brother-in-law's account of events surrounding the 30-year-old's death. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon...
A man accused of murdering his wife in Sligo told gardai that he lay down with her for approximately ten minutes after killing her, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of murdering his wife at their home in Crozon Park, Sligo, between April 29th and May 1st, 2018. The...
At the Central Criminal Court, evidence emerged that Aaron Brady was subject to bail conditions and a curfew when Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was fatally shot on 25 January 2013 at Lordship...
A garda discharged his firearm at the Special Criminal Court after fearing for his life and that of a man he was restraining when a jeep was driven towards them at high speed. Owen Cummins, aged 41,...
A man convicted of raping two women at his Sligo apartment has failed in his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Clement Limen, aged 47, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo town, was found...
A Sligo woman has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for staging a crime scene to obstruct the prosecution of her brother, who was convicted of murder the...
A 32-year-old man from Sligo has been convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following his third trial for the offence. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate was found guilty of killing Martin...
A man has been convicted of murdering a Sligo musician following three separate trials. Keith Brady, aged 32, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, was found guilty of the murder of Martin Kivlehan at the...
A man convicted of raping two women in Sligo town has launched an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Clement Limen, aged 47, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo, was found guilty by...
A man accused of murdering a musician in County Sligo has heard prosecution counsel argue that his actions before and after the alleged killing demonstrate deliberate intent, despite claims of...
Keith Brady, aged 32, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, stands charged with murder following the death of a local musician at New Apartments on Holborn Street in August 2015. He has pleaded not guilty to...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a garda inspector has denied allegations that he fabricated evidence against a Sligo man charged with murder. Inspector Patrick Harney testified that Keith...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that blood matching a musician found stabbed to death in his Sligo home was present on two knives recovered from the scene. A forensic scientist...
A 32-year-old man charged with murder at the Central Criminal Court has expressed remorse through his legal counsel. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate, Sligo, pleads not guilty to the murder of...
A judge at the Central Criminal Court has warned jurors at a murder trial not to conduct independent investigations into the case. Mr Justice Alexander Owens addressed the jury hearing the case...
A 32-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo entered a plea of not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of another Sligo man who died in his home in August...
(File Picture: Survivor Ms Sonya Stokes. Credit: Collins) The Court of Appeal has upheld a 15-year prison sentence imposed on a serial abuser who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of his...
By Seán McCárthaigh A Dublin couple who used forged documents to apply for a mortgage because they believed they would never qualify otherwise for a housing loan one have been spared a jail...
A 32-year-old man from Sligo has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering his neighbour at Connolly Street in February 2018. Richard McLaughlin, with an address at The Laurels,...
Patrick McMorrow, aged 51, of Caltragh Crescent, Sligo, has failed in his appeal against a ten-year sentence imposed for a knife attack at the Crozon Inn in October 2016. McMorrow pleaded guilty to...
The part-owner of a horse sold in 2011 has apologised before the High Court to bloodstock sales firm Goffs for posts he made on social media about the company. In a statement read before Ms Justice...
A consultant forensic psychiatrist has testified at the Central Criminal Court that a man accused of murder in Sligo meets the criteria for a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. The...
A 32-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of a 20-year-old in Sligo in February 2018. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused admitted carrying out the...
A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for dangerous driving causing death at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. James Dingle, of Drumcliffe Road, Cabra, Dublin pleaded guilty to...
A 29-year-old Sligo woman has been granted bail by the High Court despite objections from the Director of Public Prosecutions, following an arrest warrant issued against her for alleged breaches of...
A 29-year-old man from Ballysodare in Sligo has received a fully suspended sentence following his conviction at the Special Criminal Court for assisting an unlawful organisation. Damhan McFadden...
A 31-year-old man from County Sligo has been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to three years imprisonment, with the final year suspended for twelve months, following his guilty plea to the...
(File Picture: Mr Yusuf Ali Abdi. Credit: Collins) A man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia 10 years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his infant son, has had his conviction quashed by...
A Sligo woman who pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension of a man for a killing in the town has been granted bail by the High Court pending sentencing. Janice Brady, aged 29, of Maryville...
A man charged with murder in County Sligo will face trial for a third time in November 2019 after his previous trial collapsed at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate in Sligo,...
A 37-year-old man from Caltragh in Sligo has been granted temporary bail over Christmas by the Special Criminal Court pending a verdict in his case. Julian Flohr is charged with membership of an...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has collapsed following broadcast content on RTÉ's Prime Time programme concerning the legal defence of provocation. Ms Justice Carmel Stewart discharged...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is deliberating in the trial of a Sligo man charged with the murder of a musician. Keith Brady, aged 31 and from Cartron Estate in Sligo, is accused of fatally...
A 31-year-old homeless man has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to demanding money with menaces. Brendan Glynn, originally from Sligo, handed a...
A 31-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering Martin Kivlehan, a 59-year-old musician, between 2nd and 3rd August 2015. The accused...
A Sligo man charged with murder at the Central Criminal Court has pleaded not guilty to killing a musician but guilty to manslaughter. Keith Brady, aged 31, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, is accused of...
A 29-year-old man from Ballysodare in County Sligo has pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to assisting an unlawful organisation by transporting a training mortar. Damhan McFadden...
A superintendent has told the Central Criminal Court that he facilitated an unusual meeting between two detained siblings on humanitarian grounds rather than as an investigative strategy. Keith...
A man charged with murder in connection with the death of a Sligo musician has told gardaí that the killing was "a moment of madness" following drug use. Keith Brady, aged 31, of Cartron Estate in...
A 31-year-old man from Sligo town is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering a local musician in August 2015. The accused has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, is charged with the murder of Martin Kivlehan, a musician, at his home on Holborn Street between 2nd and 3rd August 2015. He has pleaded not guilty to murder...
A scenes of crime expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a musician found dead in his Sligo home was likely in a seated or recumbent position when one of two fatal neck wounds was...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence that the death scene of a 59-year-old Sligo man appeared staged to resemble a suicide. Keith Brady, aged 31 and of Cartron Estate in...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is hearing evidence in the trial of a 31-year-old Sligo man charged with murdering Martin Kivlehan in the town during August 2015. Keith Brady, of Cartron...
A 31-year-old man from Sligo has admitted to the killing of Martin Kivlehan but denies the charge of murder. Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate, appeared before the Central Criminal Court where he...
The High Court has appointed a provisional liquidator to Taiga Shtof Ltd, a company based at Laburnum House, Fairgreen Road, Ballymote, County Sligo, which manufactures and distributes premium...
A man who murdered his infant son 17 years ago is seeking to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice on grounds that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in recent years. Yusuf Ali...
A Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for possessing a 9mm Beretta handgun and silencer. Andrew O'Keeffe, aged 29, from Drumcliff Road, Cabra...
A Dublin man pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possessing a 9mm Beretta handgun and silencer following an armed garda operation in September 2017. Andrew O'Keeffe, aged 29, from...
A homeless man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to demanding money with menaces following an incident at a store in Clontarf on 16 July 2017. Brendan Glynn, aged 31 and originally...
A Limerick man jailed for life 15 years ago has lost an appeal against his conviction for murder. Gerard Hayes (53), with a last address at Deercourt, John Carew Park, in Limerick, had pleaded not...
A convicted rapist who was jailed three years ago for failing to notify gardaí of his change of address has been imprisoned again for the same offence. Gerard Creighton (49), formerly of Cashel Road...
(File Picture: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) A man who wrote letters apparently bragging about his involvement in the murder of Melanie McCarthy McNamara has had his conviction for murdering...
A 28-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to unlawful possession of a firearm and silencer. Andrew O'Keeffe, with an address on Drumcliff Road in Cabra West, Dublin...
A 39-year-old nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering her mother on Christmas Eve has lost an appeal against her conviction. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by...
A man from Castlebar, County Mayo, has failed in his appeal against a murder conviction at the Court of Appeal. The 25-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2014 for the death of...
A forensic examination of computers and mobile devices used by senior gardaí has uncovered no evidence supporting allegations made by former press officer Superintendent David Taylor that he was...
(File Picture: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) Letters written by a man apparently bragging about his involvement in the murder of innocent 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara were not reliable...
A dispute between a financial fund and a court-appointed receiver against the owners of residential properties across multiple counties has been admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court list at...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he assaulted and forced into the refuse chute of an apartment building, where he got snagged and died, is facing a retrial following a successful appeal....
A wind-farm developer operating in County Sligo has obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing a quarrying company from pursuing a winding-up petition against it. Ms Justice Caroline...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he assaulted and forced into the refuse chute of an apartment building, where he got snagged and died, has had his conviction quashed over the jury's visit...
A former Gaelic football coach from Cloonloo, County Sligo, has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal following convictions for indecent assaults on young boys. Ronan McCormack, aged 75, was...
A man serving a life sentence for the 2011 murder of his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo, has lodged an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Celyn Eadon was convicted in February...
A 39-year-old nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering her mother on Christmas Eve must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against her conviction. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old...
A former Mayor of Sligo and his wife have obtained a High Court injunction preventing a fund-appointed receiver from taking possession of two residential properties they own in Temple Street, Sligo....
A Sligo man has been convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment following a trial at the Central Criminal Court. Clement Limen, aged 45, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo town, was...
A dissident republican leader has been jailed for eleven and a half years by the Special Criminal Court following his conviction of directing the activities of an unlawful organisation. Seamus...
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...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo is to stand trial for murder at the Central Criminal Court in November 2018 following the discharge of a jury that could not reach a verdict. Keith Brady of Cartron...
A Dublin man given a 20-year sentence for the attempted murder of his lifelong friend, in a case that "might as well have appeared in the Love/Hate script", has withdrawn his appeal against sentence...
(Pictured: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) The Court of Appeal has been told that a man serving life for the murder of Melanie McCarthy McNamara is suffering from a “psychiatric illness”. Daniel...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in a murder trial. Keith Brady, aged 30, of Cartron Estate, Sligo had pleaded not guilty to murder but...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is to resume deliberations on Monday in the trial of Keith Brady, aged 30 of Cartron Estate, Sligo. Mr Brady has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is to consider whether a 30-year-old man from Sligo was too intoxicated to form the intention to murder when he inflicted fatal stab wounds to the neck of a...
Keith Brady, aged 30, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Martin 'Matt' Kivlehan, aged 59, at New Apartments on Holborn Street, Sligo on...
A 30-year-old man accused of murdering a Sligo musician told gardai he stabbed the victim in the neck but could not recall his motive, the Central Criminal Court heard today. Keith Brady of Cartron...
At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that the accused claimed he had been treated unfairly and denied involvement in a fatal stabbing. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate, Sligo has pleaded...
A brother and sister arrested during a murder investigation were permitted to meet while in garda custody at Sligo Garda Station, the Central Criminal Court heard. The meeting, described as highly...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that a Sligo man told gardai he was deeply sorry for the death of a 59-year-old and would sacrifice his own life if he could. Keith Brady, aged 30,...
A 30-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man at New Apartments on Holborn Street,...
At the Central Criminal Court, the Deputy State Pathologist gave evidence in the murder trial of a 30-year-old Sligo man accused of fatally stabbing a musician in his home. Dr Michael Curtis...
Seamus McGrane, aged 63, of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth, has been remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Special Criminal Court on 7 December. McGrane was convicted last month of...
A musician found dead in his Sligo home with a knife on his chest and stab wounds to his neck was remembered as a "gentleman who wouldn't hurt a fly" as a murder trial heard evidence at the Central...
A 33-year-old woman from Sligo has pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension of a man suspected of involvement in a killing in the town. Janice Brady, of Maryville Hostel in Finisklin, appeared...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 59-year-old bachelor at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady of Cartron...
A 75-year-old farmer from Cloonloo, County Sligo, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment following his conviction for indecently assaulting two young boys during the 1970s. At Dublin Circuit...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he put in the refuse chute of an apartment complex has brought an appeal against his conviction arguing that the jury “ought not to have” visited the chute...
A man from County Louth has pleaded not guilty to directing the activities of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army between April and May 2015. The Special Criminal Court...
(Pictured: Defendant Mr Peter Herbert speaking outside court today. Credit: Collins) Charges against ten of the 11 Jobstown water charge have been formally dropped. Cheers broke out and air horns...
A former GAA coach's conviction for sexually abusing five boys has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Ronan McCormack, aged 75, from Cuppanagh, Cloonloo, Co Sligo, was found guilty at Sligo Circuit...
A 21-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, following his conviction for assault at the Central Criminal Court. The man was acquitted of...
Brian Kenna was part of a Provisional IRA gang that was confronted for the only time in the 30 year history of the northern “troubles” by armed uniformed gardai during a foiled bank robbery in...
Notorious Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh has been refused an enlargement of time to appeal convictions for rape and defilement of a child. Walsh (69), formerly of...
A man convicted in Sligo District Court of being in charge of an intoxicated vehicle has lost his appeal against the validity of his arrest. The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction on a case...
A 29-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo has been sent forward for trial on a charge of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady is accused of the death of Martin Kivlehan, aged 59,...
Two men from County Sligo have been sent forward for trial at the Special Criminal Court on charges of membership of an unlawful organisation. Damhan McFadden, aged 27, of Kilmacowen, Ballysodare,...
The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 31-year-old man from Sligo to the United Kingdom to face trial on charges of blackmail, conspiracy to commit blackmail, and possession of criminal...
A woman has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to the alleged trafficking of a young Nigerian woman into Ireland for the purposes of prostitution. Joy Imasogie, aged...
A man jailed for the regular abuse of his younger sister, from when he was aged 14 until 20, has had an appeal against the severity of his sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The 39-year-old...
A man, who raped a woman in her apartment after she invited him in for drinks with friends, has had his eight year jail term cut to five on appeal. Hungarian national Tamas Vecernyes (29) with a...
A father-of-two jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’, has lost a conviction appeal. John Hannigan (48) of...
Simon McGinley, aged 32 from Connaughton Road Car Park in Sligo, has had his appeals against conviction and sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. McGinley was convicted of the murder of Eugene...
A settlement agreement between former Fine Gael TD John Perry, his wife Marie and Danske Bank concerning a €2.47m judgment has broken down, the Commercial Court heard. The couple had consented to...
A father-of-two jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’, must wait to hear the outcome of his appeal against...
A serial sex offender, who opened a sweet shop under an alias where he employed young children, has had his life sentence for abusing an 11-year-old boy reduced by the Court of Appeal. The...
Two men from County Sligo have been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court following their arrest in Co Leitrim during an operation targeting dissident republican activity. Damhan McFadden, aged...
Two men from County Sligo have been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Damhan McFadden, aged 27, of Kilmacowen, Ballysodare, and Julian...
A convicted murder who claimed he accidentally shot the man he blamed for his brother's suicide has lost an appeal against conviction. Michael Collins (34), with an address at Upper Kilmona,...
The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said “'yes'” in response to a question from...
A double murderer whose detention and interrogation went “beyond the pale”, according to his lawyers, has lost an appeal against conviction. Gary Howard (28), of Emerald Street in Dublin's North...
A man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final year suspended for three years, at the Central Criminal Court for the sexual abuse of his daughter over a decade-long period. The...
A 62-year-old man jailed for sexually abusing two young female members of his family must wait to hear the outcome of his sentence appeal. The Dublin man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons,...
Two men convicted of historical sexual abuse have brought appeals against their convictions to the Court of Appeal. Francis McLoughlin, aged 66, of Mahanagh, Cloonloo, Co Sligo, was found guilty of...
A man in his fifties appeared before the Central Criminal Court in relation to serious sexual offences committed against his daughter over a decade-long period at the family farm in County Sligo....
A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon five years ago, has moved to appeal his conviction. Romanian national Ciprian Grozavu (42), with a last address at Bridge House, Sean...
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...
A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner has today pleaded guilty to her manslaughter. In March 2007 Kieran Lynch (49) was sentenced to life in...
A Dublin man who fatally stabbed his cousin with a flick knife the deceased had just received as a present was entitled to credit for staying at the scene and administering CPR, the Court of Appeal...
The Court of Appeal heard submissions today regarding an appeal against conviction brought by a Ballymun man sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to steal from a...
By Conor Gallagher and Isabel Hayes A convicted killer who robbed a post office while armed with an axe has been sentenced to four years, with the final 18 months suspended. Kenneth Wilson (46) of...
A convicted murder who claimed he accidentally shot the man he blamed for his brother's suicide and poisoning of his father's dogs has moved to appeal his conviction. Michael Collins (34), with an...
A 40-year-old man from Dublin who has since relocated to Sligo received a suspended sentence at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting his niece over two decades ago. The defendant...
A man jailed for seven years for raping a woman in her home four years ago was “wise” to withdraw his appeal this morning, according to the Court of Appeal. Lovemore Dube (28), with addresses in...
A man with intellectual disabilities who was charged with rape but found unfit to be tried must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against that finding. The 40-year-old man, who cannot be...
A Wicklow man jailed for life for the murder of a French musician and juggler in Bray seven years ago has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed. Declan Sheridan (29), of Sugarloaf View, Sea...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that prior consensual sexual contact does not permit subsequent forced intercourse. The trial concerns a 22-year-old Donegal man charged with rape...
The Supreme Court has granted leave to appeal in McDonagh v Sunday World, a significant defamation case concerning the limits of jury verdicts and media freedom. The proceedings arose from a 1999...
In Ireland you hear the term “miscarriage of justice” and it probably conjures up images of Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon in the movie In the Name of the Father, tearing at his shirt, railing at...
(File Picture: Timothy Rattigan. Photo: Collins) A man jailed for life for the shooting of a 65-year-old grandmother in Tallaght 12 years ago, has lost an application to have his conviction declared...
A man jailed for the “prolonged and intensive” sexual assault of his teenaged step-daughter, who grew up believing he was her father, has had his 10 year prison sentence reduced to seven on appeal....
A 28-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to seven and a half years' imprisonment following his guilty plea to sexually assaulting his young cousin while babysitting. The offence occurred...
A man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making a false report concerning explosives at an Intel facility in County Kildare on January 13th, 2015. The defendant, aged 20 and from...
A convicted killer and armed robber, who is due to be sentenced for robbery of a post office while armed with an axe, has told a court that this will be “the last of his offending behaviour.”...
A man jailed for the shooting of Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght four years ago has had his 20-year jail term cut to 17-and-a-half years on appeal. Keith Hall (26), of Kilmartin Drive,...
A man jailed for life for firing 10 bullets into his victim in Dublin in 2010 has lost an appeal against his conviction for murder. Jonathan Douglas (30), aka Yuka, of O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin,...
A man who lured two girls away from a children's birthday party and told them he would cut their parents' throats before repeatedly raping them has had an appeal against sentence dismissed. The...
A Cork man jailed for life last year for the murder of a mother-of-three in her home, which he then set on fire, has won an appeal against conviction now faces a possible retrial. Darren Murphy...
A prosecution witness told the Central Criminal Court that she wrote to the late Mr Justice Paul Carney claiming a convicted killer had pressured her into making false allegations against the...
A man jailed for the shooting of Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght four years ago has moved to appeal his 20 years sentence for manslaughter. Keith Hall (26), of Kilmartin Drive, Tallaght, had...
A two-time murderer given two life sentences in separate Central Criminal Court trials has had the second of his two convictions confirmed by the Court of Appeal. Gary Campion (31), last of Pineview...
A man who lured two girls away from a children's birthday party and told them he would cut their parents' throats before repeatedly raping them has moved to appeal his life sentence. The 32-year-old...
Two men who took part in an attempted “predatory gang rape” of a woman in a van with a mattress in the back have had their jail terms cut on appeal. The two men aged 22 and 24, who cannot be...
An Algerian man jailed for attempting to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle-bell has had his jail term cut by one year on appeal. Lounes Ouachek (45), of St Dominic's...
A Cork man jailed for life last year for the murder of a mother-of-three in her home, which he then set on fire, has moved to appeal his conviction. Darren Murphy (38), of Dan Desmond Villas,...
A Carlow born former US Marine jailed for sexually abusing and attempting to rape his niece has had his 12 year prison sentence reduced to 10 on appeal. Eamonn McCall (42), with an address on North...
A man jailed for life for firing 10 bullets into his victim in Dublin in 2010 has moved to appeal his conviction for murder. Jonathan Douglas (30), aka Yuka, of O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin, had...
Two men jailed for the attempted rape of a woman in a van, which had a mattress in the back, after she got separated from friends on a night out, have lost appeals against their convictions. The two...
(Pictured: Ms Aoife Maguire. Photo: Collins) Several changes were made to the name and address details on the account of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on the bank's internal...
A man jailed for life ten years ago has had a bid to have his murder conviction declared a miscarriage of justice based on a recent Supreme Court decision dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Frank...
A victim of child rape has avoided jail for the molestation of his five year old niece who would sleep in his bed because of her fear of ghosts. The 21-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named to...
The Court of Appeal has been asked to hold that a man jailed for a “brutal” double murder in 2010 was entitled to have his solicitor present during garda interviews. Gary Howard (27), of Emerald...
A 57-year-old man with a history of paramilitary activity has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal following his conviction for sexually abusing two young girls in Donegal. The Court of Appeal...
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...
(The Hon. Mr Justice Paul Carney pictured at the Four Courts today. Photo: Collins) Ireland has a “better and more independent class” of judge now than when he started out in criminal law some 50...
The President of the High Court has rejected applications by three men imprisoned for drug possession offences, who sought release following a Court of Appeal decision that struck down provisions of...
A man who had sex with a 15 year old girl at a party has been jailed for two years at the Central Criminal Court. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty...
By Declan Conlon A man who had sex with a 15 year old girl at a party will be sentenced later this week at the Central Criminal Court. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the...
The High Court has granted bail to a Dublin man charged with murdering a teenager, who was in State care, more than five years ago. Trevor Noone, with an address at Whitestown Avenue, Blanchardstown...
A Dublin man has received a 12 year sentence with the final two suspended for the repeated rape of his partner’s then 11-year-old daughter in her Galway home. Henry Crowe (57), of Blackditch Road,...
A 39-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering a fellow Nigerian native on the main street of a North Dublin town in 2013. Jooda Akanbi, of Ashton Avenue, Applewood, Swords in Dublin was...
(Photo: Collins) Lawyers for the man charged with murdering journalist Tom O’Gorman have said insanity will be an issue in the case, which will be short as a result. Saverio Bellante (35) is accused...
A convicted rapist has been jailed for failing to notify gardai of his change of address and for an attempted robbery on a bookmakers. Gerard Creighton (49) went into the shop in Dublin city centre...
A date has been set for the trial of a Co Offaly GP who is accused of the murder of her 11-year-old daughter at their family home. Dr Bernadette Scully (57), of Emvale, in Bachelor’s Walk,...
A Dublin man imprisoned for three years following his admission to possessing over 5,000 ecstasy tablets has secured a High Court inquiry into the lawfulness of his continued detention. Keith...
A man has avoided a jail term for assaulting and robbing his ex-girlfriend in Kildare last year. Earlier the victim, who can’t be named to protect her child’s identity, appealed to Judge James...
A man jailed for neglecting his children has failed in an appeal his conviction for raping one of them, an offence for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The 46-year-old man, who cannot...
(File Picture: Gary Campion) Limerick man Gary Campion's appeal against his conviction for the murder of Frank Ryan in Moyross nine years ago resumes in the Court of Appeal tomorrow. Campion has...
(Pictured: Gary Campion. Photo: Collins) A man with "joined eyebrows" was spotted near the scene of a fatal shooting, a distinguishing feature jurors were able to observe on a murder accused prior...
(File Picture: Collins) Gary Campion has moved to appeal separate convictions for the murders in Limerick of bouncer Brian Fitzgerald outside his home and Frank Ryan who was shot dead by a passenger...
The trial of Mark Nash at the Central Criminal Court resumed following legal argument on this date. Nash, aged 42, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering two women in sheltered accommodation...
A Dublin man will be sentenced next month for the repeated rape of his partner’s then 11-year-old daughter in her Galway home. Henry Crowe (57) of Blackditch Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty at the...
(Pictured: Sonya Stokes speaking to media outside court today. Photo: Collins) by Declan Brennan and Sonya McClean A man who was jailed in the early 1970s for indecently assaulting a young girl has...
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...
By Angela Mullin A Pakistani native has been sentenced to two years for impersonating a member of the gardaí and demanding money from a woman working as an escort. Bilal Idrees (24), with a former...
A man who was jailed in the early 1970s for indecently assaulting a young girl will be sentenced next week for raping his seven-year-old niece a decade later. The 61-year-old Limerick man, who...
By Declan Brennan and Sonya McLean A Clare resident who began sexually abusing his Limerick niece from the age of six has been jailed for 15 years at the Central Criminal Court. The 48-year-old man,...
By Aodhan O'Faolain A judge has ruled the detention in solitary confinement for almost a year of the man serving a life sentence for the murder of teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara at Wheatfield...
A Kildare woman has appealed to a judge not to jail her ex-partner for assaulting and robbing her because she believes he has turned his life around. The woman, who can’t be named to protect her...
A Clare resident who began sexually abusing his Limerick niece from the age of six will be sentenced next week at the Central Criminal Court. The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal...
A man jailed for life for the murder of Gareth Brosnan-Grant in Limerick seven years ago has lost an appeal against conviction. Greg Crawford (27), last of St Munchin's Street, St Mary's Park,...
A Kerry man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to eleven counts of indecent assault in the early 70s. The trial of the 74-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is...
A Dublin man has been convicted of manslaughter but acquitted of murder following a five-day trial at the Central Criminal Court. Kevin Moran, aged 30, was charged with the murder of archaeologist...
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...
(Photo: Collins) A Romanian man has lost an appeal against his conviction for murdering his ex-girlfriend in a Sandyford hotel room five years ago. Mihalache Marian (53), with a last address in...
(Photo: Collins) Lawyers for wife-killer Joe O'Reilly have applied to the Central Criminal Court for inspection facilities pending his appeal against conviction for murder. In July 2007 O'Reilly was...
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...
by Aodhan O'Faolain The man serving a life sentence for murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara has brought a High Court challenge against the 23 hour per day lock up regime he is subjected to...
by Alison O'Riordan A life sentence has been handed down to a 36-year-old "bare knuckle boxer" for murdering his wife in an assault that lasted "one hour and twenty minutes" in their home in Dundalk...
A man who was jailed for six years for neglecting his children is seeking to appeal a separate conviction for raping one of them, an offence for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The...
A man jailed for life has applied to have his conviction for murder overturned in the Court of Appeal. Greg Crawford (27), of St Munchin's Street, St Mary's Park, Limerick, pleaded not guilty to...
A soccer player who broke an opponent’s nose after he head-butted him in an off the ball incident has avoided a jail term. Padraig Seery (27), a player with Walkinstown side Castle Celtic, was...
A man jailed for raping a woman in Cork four years ago has failed to have his conviction declared perverse. George Arundel (27), of Shannonlawn, Mayfield, Cork City, pleaded not guilty to attempted...
A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago. John Prendiville (49) of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at the Central...
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...
(Photo: Collins) Patrick O'Brien has been sentenced to 12 years in prison with the final three suspended for raping his daughter Fiona Doyle following a finding by the Court of Appeal that his...
A convicted murderer has brought an appeal against conviction on grounds that gardaí “harvested” evidence from him after telling his solicitor he was in custody on foot of a separate matter. John...
A motorist who killed another in a “road rage homicide” has had his prison sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. Karl Donohoe (33), of Fisherman's Wharf, Ringsend, Dublin 4, pleaded guilty to the...
(Pictured: Flowers left by friends at Castle Road, Dundalk. Photo: Collins) The man who killed 18-year-old Niall Dorr in a prolonged and "vicious" assault in Dundalk four years ago has had his...
A convicted sex offender will be sentenced next week for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago. John Prendiville (49) of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at the Central...
(Pictured: Mr Graham Dwyer (41). Photo: Collins) A 41-year man has pleaded not guilty to murdering Elaine O'Hara in South Dublin more than two years ago and will go on trial tomorrow. Graham Dwyer,...
(Photo: Collins) An Ill and infirm Patrick O'Brien, who subjected his daughter Fiona Doyle to "shocking torture" over a number of years, cannot be treated as a person for whom a prison sentence...
A Westmeath man has pleaded guilty to the false imprisonment and attempted rape of a woman last year. The 27-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of the victim, pleaded guilty...
A Connaught man who raped two mentally impaired brothers, his neighbours, has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 25-year-old man, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty to two...
A Dublin man who was given a ten year jail term for killing a father-of-three by savagely beating him with a hurley stick in a road-rage incident must wait to hear the outcome of his appeal against...
(Pictured: Patrick O'Brien (75) Photo: Collins) The prison sentence imposed on the father of well known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was "unduly lenient" the Court of Appeal has found. Patrick O'Brien...
A date has been set for the trial of a 41-year-old woman charged with murdering her former partner in his South Dublin home. Mercy Peters, originally from Sierra Leone, is charged with murdering...
(Pictured: The footbridge on St Dominic’s Road, Tallaght. Photo: Collins) A date has been set for the trial of seven Dubliners charged with murdering 20-year-old Dale Creighton in Tallaght on New...
A Letterkenny chiropractor has had his sentence for burglary reduced on appeal. Kevin Ginty, aged 47, pleaded guilty to burgling the home of a woman with whom he had been in a relationship. He was...
A man with an interest in magic has had his jail term for sexual assault involving production of a knife in “bizarre circumstances" reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 29-year-old man, who cannot be...
A man who committed “outrageous” offences of rape and false imprisonment against a woman separated from her friends at a hen party, has had an application to review his sentence rejected by the...
A Clare man who sexually assaulted his younger cousin over a three year period and raped her has had his six year jail term reduced to four by the Court of Appeal. The 27-year-old man from Co Clare,...
by Fiona Ferguson & Nicola Donnelly A Limerick teenager who sexually abused his younger step sister while babysitting her has been sentenced to eight years in prison with the final three years...
A Mayo man has failed in his appeal against a six-year prison sentence imposed for dangerous driving that caused serious injury to his front seat passenger, though the Court of Appeal has reduced...
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...
A Dublin man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife he had bought him as a present has had his prison sentenced reduced by three years by the Court of Appeal. Shane Millea (29), with a...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Paul Carney) A High Court judge has told members of a jury in a rape trial that he was brought back in from hospital to direct them. At the Central Criminal Court, sitting in...
A Sligo man has received a five-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of heroin worth over €100,000 with intent to supply. Anthony Fitzpatrick, aged 22 and resident...
A Limerick teenager who sexually abused his younger step sister while babysitting her will be sentenced next month. The 19-year-old man, who cannot be identified to protect the girl’s identity,...
An Albanian man, who was sent to prison for impeding a garda murder investigation, has had his sentence reduced by the new Court of Appeal. In the first criminal case heard by the new Court of...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has acquitted a Galway man charged with raping a woman in Sligo in December 2010. The man had pleaded not guilty to the allegation. During a four-day trial, the...
A young man who was himself raped and sexually assaulted along with his teenage brother has pleaded guilty to molesting his niece. The 21-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named to protect the...
A 23-year-old man has denied murdering a man and harming four other people near his north Dublin home two years ago. David Brannock of St Joseph’s Way, Ballymun was arraigned before the Central...
A 40-year-old has been convicted of murdering a Polish man in Co. Clare last year. Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court, Ennis had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Piotr...
The new Court of Appeal will hear an application from prosecutors that the sentence handed down to the father of well known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient. Patrick O'Brien (74) had...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Paul Carney) A judge has told the jury in the trial of man accused of murder, that alcohol is not a defence to criminal responsibility. Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court,...
A man originally from Sligo has failed in his bid to have his conviction appeal heard by the Supreme Court following an attack on his former partner in Dublin in 2009. Fergal McNulty was convicted...
The trial of man who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him, has heard that the accused “would be known to drink a lot.” Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court,...
A 36-year-old Cork man who sexually abused his younger sister during their childhood and teens has been given a five year sentence. The man, who cannot be named at this stage for legal reasons, was...
(Pictured: Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis) A man who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him told gardai that he “just went berserk”. Michael Maughan...
A paramedic has told the trial of a 40-year-old, who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him, that he saw the deceased being kicked in the head. Michael Maughan...
A 26-year-old man born in Sligo pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to trespassing with intent to commit an offence at an ESB substation on the Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin on 3 November...
A 36-year-old nurse has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by...
A Dublin man who was twice convicted of the same murder and successfully appealed the first count must wait to hear whether his second appeal can be taken to the Supreme Court. Warren Dumbrell (40)...
The barrister for a nurse who killed her mother on Christmas Eve has said she did not have the intent necessary for murder because she was so intoxicated. Caroline Biggs SC was giving her closing...
A murder trial prosecutor has told a jury that ‘most people who commit murder are ordinary people like you and me’. Pauline Walley SC was giving her closing speech in the trial of a 36-year-old...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 40-year-old accused of murdering a man in Co. Clare last year. Michael Maughan of Stone Court, Ennis pleaded not guilty to...
(Pictured: Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis) The trial of a nurse charged with murdering her mother in their Dublin home has heard that the 55-year-old died of blunt force trauma to the...
A murder trial jury has seen photographs of the body of a woman killed by her daughter on Christmas Eve four years ago. The Central Criminal Court was hearing from a garda photographer in the trial...
A jury has been shown the bloodstained glass bottle with which a nurse is understood to have killed her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago. The Central Criminal Court was hearing from a forensic...
The charred passport of a woman killed by her daughter was found in their rubbish bin after the Christmas Eve attack, a jury has heard. A detective gave the evidence to the Central Criminal Court in...
A nurse charged with murdering her mother on Christmas Eve told gardai that she hit her over the head with a glass bottle because the deceased had been trying to separate her from her husband. Greta...
The trial of a 36-year-old nurse, charged with murdering her mother, has heard that the deceased thought that her daughter was not a good parent and threatened to take her child away. Greta Dudko...
A 36-year-old nurse has gone on trial, charged with murdering her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago by hitting her over the head with a bottle. Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in...
A 44-year-old man from County Carlow has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his two young sons in County Mayo in July 2013. Sanjeev Chada pleaded...
A 36-year-old woman has admitted killing her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago, but has denied her murder. Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in Dublin is charged with murdering...
by Aodhan O'Faolain A MAN convicted of forcing a young woman to have sex with him by threatening her with punishment from the IRA has launched a High Court action seeking his early release from...
A 30-year-old charged with murdering a man in Tallaght five years ago has been refused bail at the Central Criminal Court. 27-year-old Seamus (Shay) O'Byrne was shot in the driveway of a house in...
Six individuals convicted of bombing offences in England during the late 1990s and early 2000s have been released from Portlaoise Prison following High Court challenges to their detention. The men,...
The Central Criminal Court has heard there is six months of CCTV footage in the case of murder accused Graham Dwyer. Mr Dwyer, a south Dublin architect, is the man charged with murdering Dublin...
A 44-year-old Algerian man who attempted to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle bell has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with three suspended. Lounes Ouachek of St...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Frank Clarke, who delivered the written judgement of the CCA today) A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an...
A 44-year-old Algerian man who attempted to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle bell is to be sentenced later. Lounes Ouachek of St Dominic’s Terrace, Tallaght pleaded...
The trial of the man charged with murdering teenager Marioara Rostas six years ago will open tomorrow (Wednesday), after a fresh jury was sworn in. Alan Wilson (35) of New Street Gardens in Dublin...
A 65-year-old woman has been sentenced to 18 months for helping her husband’s killer dispose of his body in Co. Westmeath almost thirty years ago. But Vera McGrath of Volvenstown, Fordstown, Navan,...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has been remanded to the Central Mental Hospital following his acquittal on a charge of murder at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant had...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has been acquitted of murdering his 70-year-old father at their home in May 2012 on grounds of insanity. The Central Criminal Court heard that the...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 65-year-old woman will be sentenced next week for materially assisting the killer of her husband by disposing of evidence almost thirty years ago. Vera McGrath of Volvenstown,...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman he'd been “an item” with for three months. Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork had pleaded...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A man accused of murdering his girlfriend and setting fire to her home allegedly watched from above like Nero as the house burned with her in it, a jury heard before beginning its...
A barrister for a Cork man charged with murdering the woman he said he loved has suggested that gardai had ‘a discussion’ with him before the recorder was turned on in his final interview. Darren...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack presents as “vastly better” than two years ago, the Court of Criminal Appeal...
A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his wife in Dublin almost two years ago. Lounes Ouachek of St Dominic’s Terrace, Tallaght was charged with the attempted murder of...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to murdering his elderly father by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. John Biggins of Ballynalty, Cross,...
A 65-year-old woman has admitted to being an accessory after the fact to her husband’s manslaughter at their Westmeath home almost 30 years ago. Vera McGrath of Volvenstown, Fordstown, Navan, Co...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A murder trial has heard that text messages between the deceased and a man accused of her murder were of good nature in the hours before her body was found. Darren Murphy (37) of...
A 37-year-old man accused of murdering a woman he'd been in a three month relationship with told gardaí that a knife was no sooner in his hands than it was in her neck,' a jury has heard. Darren...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man accused of murdering a woman he had been “an item” with for three months, told gardaí he lit her house on fire because he didn't want the kids to find her, a...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man has gone on trial accused of murdering a woman he had been “an item” with for three months. Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Village, Passage West, Co Cork has...
by Aodhan O'Faolain The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a Co Tipperary man's bid to have his appeal against the severity of his eight-year sentence for a violent sexual assault on a teenager...
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man will be sentenced for impeding the prosecution in a murder trial after he was found not guilty last month of murdering his friend. Alan Harte (33) of Clareville Grove,...
A 37-year-old man is due to go on trial tomorrow accused of murdering a woman in Cork last year. Darren Murphy of Passage West, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering Olivia Dunlea (36) at...
by Ruaidhhri Giblin A man who was found not guilty of murdering his father by reason of insanity has been deemed to be suffering from a mental illness and detained further for the purposes of...
A Dublin man has been jailed for eight years for shooting a 51-year-old man in the city last year. Thomas Ryan (32) of McKee Park in Cabra had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Patrick...
A Dublin man, who killed his elderly father with a World War I sword hours after being released from prison, has been found not guilty of his murder by reason of insanity. Both the prosecution and...
Psychiatrists for both sides in a murder trial have testified that the accused was suffering from a mental disorder and met the criteria for an insanity verdict when he stabbed his father to death...
A 31-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial, charged with murdering his elderly father by stabbing him with a 100-year-old bayonet, a family heirloom from World War 1. Edward Boylan Jnr of no fixed...
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man will be sentenced next Monday for the attempted murder of a man in August 2013. Thomas Ryan (32) of McKee Park in Dublin has pleaded guilty to shooting Patrick Charles...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Simon McGinley, aged 30 of Connaughton Road Car Park in Sligo, guilty of the murder of Eugene Gillespie, a 67-year-old retired telecoms broker....
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has suspended deliberations in the trial of a 30-year-old man charged with murdering a pensioner in Sligo. Simon McGinley, of Connaughton Road Car Park, Sligo,...
The trial of a 30-year-old Sligo man accused of murdering a 67-year-old pensioner continued at the Central Criminal Court today. The accused has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted...
At the Central Criminal Court, a 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012....
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter following the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. Simon McGinley, of Connaughton Road, has...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. Simon McGinley of Connaughton Road...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. The trial at the Central Criminal...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. The accused, of Connaughton Road,...
A Dublin man has begun an appeal against his conviction for the murder of his friend who died two years after he was shot in the head. In February 2012 Jonathan Dunne was jailed for life by Mr...
by Anne Sharkey A Cork woman who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her eight-year-old-son has had her sentence hearing adjourned for two weeks. Diane Ward (45) of Harrison Place, Charleville was...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 30-year-old man from Sligo charged with murder. Simon McGinley of Connaughton Road pleaded not guilty to the murder of...
A Cork woman pleaded guilty today to the manslaughter of her eight-year-old-son in 2012. Diane Ward (45) of Harrison Place, Charleville will be sentenced next Monday (24) to allow time for...
by Anne Sharkey A Limerick woman will go on trial this Thursday charged with impeding the apprehension of Jonathan Fitzgerald in 2011. Mary Maloney (45) has pleaded not guilty to impeding...
The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a life sentence imposed on a man convicted of raping four of his daughters over an 18-year period. The three-judge court ruled that the...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack has successfully appealed against the 15-year sentence imposed on him. The man,...
A man originally from Sligo has been unsuccessful in appealing his conviction for a serious assault on his former partner. Fergal McNulty (44) was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in July 2012...
The man charged with murdering Dublin childcare worker Elaine O’Hara has been refused bail by the High Court. Graham Dwyer of (41) of Kerrymount Close in Foxrock is charged with the murder of Ms O’...
A man who received an eight-year sentence for sexually abusing his nephew must wait to learn if his appeal against conviction has been successful. In January 2012 the now 68-year-old man was...
PSNI officers have given evidence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin in the trial of a man charged with withholding information relating to the November 2012 murder of Northern Ireland prison...
A 32-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder another man in the city during the summer. Thomas Ryan of McKee Park in North Dublin was arraigned before the Central Criminal...
A Tipperary father-of-two has been jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’. John Hannigan (46) of River House,...
A jury will begin deliberating on Friday in the trial of a Tipperary man charged with murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches. John Hannigan (46) of River House, New Quay,...
A Tipperary man has told his murder trial that he had nothing to do with killing his friend and that he was ‘just panicking’ when he told gardai he had given him ‘Bruce Lee’ punches. John Hannigan...
A Tipperary man accused of murder told investigating gardaí that he punched his alleged victim like Bruce Lee in the martial arts movie Fists of Fury, a court has heard. In the Central Criminal...
A Tipperary man accused of murder described the scene in which the deceased was assaulted as like a ‘bloodbath’ and ‘horror show’, his trial has heard. A detective was giving evidence of an...
A 47-year-old Waterford man has been given a suspended three-year sentence for attempting to murder his elderly mother in an attempted mercy killing, after the judge ruled that his motivation was...
A date has been set for the trial of south Dublin architect Graham Dwyer who is accused of murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara. Mr Dwyer (41) of Kerrymount Close in Foxrock is charged with the...
A Tipperary murder trial has heard that the deceased had 31 separate fractures to his ribs when the State Pathologist examined his body two years ago. Professor Marie Cassidy was giving evidence...
Gardai have told a murder trial that the accused had grazed knuckles when they arrived at the scene of a suspicious death in Tipperary two years ago. The officers were giving evidence today on the...
A former glass blower has told a murder trial that the accused informed him that he had committed the crime hours after the killing. William O’Riordan (39) was giving evidence today on the opening...
A 47-year-old Waterford man will be sentenced next week for attempting to murder his elderly mother while keeping vigil by her death bed in a nursing home. Veronica (Vera) Vollrath (83) was...
The jury has been discharged in the trial of a 21-year-old accused of murdering a man in north Dublin three years ago after failing to reach a verdict. Michael Kinsella of Swiftbrook Close in...
A 46-year-old Tipperary man has pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in the county two years ago. John Hannigan of River House, New Quay in Clonmel is charged with murdering Anthony Fallon...
(Pictured: Jeffrey Dumbrell (33)) Two Dublin brothers have appealed against their second conviction for murdering a father-of-six in front of his wife and children outside his Dublin home. Warren...
The jury is deliberating in the trial of a 21-year-old accused of murdering a man in north Dublin three years ago. Michael Kinsella of Swiftbrook Close in Tallaght has pleaded not guilty to...
Man guilty to making and selling counterfeit DVDs to be sentenced later A DUBLIN man who pleaded guilty to making and selling counterfeit DVDs has been remanded on continuing bail for facts of the...
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder of a man whose body was found in a wardrobe in 2012. Christopher Jackson was stabbed to death...
A 20-year-old Dublin man has pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in the capital two and a half years ago. Craig O’Halloran of Colepark Road, Ballyfermot is charged with murdering Kevin Kenny...
A Sinn Féin local election candidate from County Sligo has secured a High Court order lifting his indefinite suspension from the party. Edward McCarrick, 33, with an address in Tubbercurry, was...
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar, County Mayo has been sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for the murder of his mother at the Central Criminal Court. The accused had admitted...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court will begin deliberating tomorrow in the case of a Castlebar man charged with murdering his mother. Celyn Eadon of Derrycrieve, Islandeady is accused of killing...
At the Central Criminal Court, three mental health professionals gave conflicting evidence in the murder trial of a man accused of killing his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo. Celyn Eadon, aged 22,...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning a Castlebar man accused of fatally stabbing his mother. The accused, aged 22, of Derrycrieve, Islandeady, has admitted...
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar has admitted manslaughter but denies murder in connection with the death of his mother at their home in Derrycrieve, Islandeady on 9 March 2011. The Central Criminal...
(Pictured: Stephanie Tuite (20, Dark Hair) leaving Dublin Central Criminal Court today) The ex-girlfriend of the man who murdered Melanie McCarthy McNamara has been given the Probation Act for...
At the Central Criminal Court, a 22-year-old man from Derrycrieve, Islandeady, Castlebar pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter in connection with the death of his mother, Noreen...
A witness told the Central Criminal Court that a half-naked teenager arrived at his kitchen window in Castlebar on the morning of 9 March 2011, covered in cuts and scratches. The young man, later...
by Anne Sharkey A 19-year old woman has been warned that she may have threatened the viability of a very serious case and could end up in jail as a result. Stephanie Tuite from Glenshane in Tallaght...
A witness has testified at the Central Criminal Court regarding the death of a woman in County Mayo. The 19-year-old brother of the accused gave evidence via live television link in the trial of...
(Pictured: Melanie McCarthy McNamara's godmother Jennifer Roche, who gave a victim impact statement, leaving Dublin Central Criminal Court) Teenager Daniel McDonnell has been sentenced to life in...
A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara, after hearing closing speeches from each side. Daniel McDonnell’s barrister told jurors...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing two letters in which the prosecution claims he bragged about shooting her. Daniel McDonnell wrote the letters from...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara was a protected prisoner when he allegedly wrote a letter containing the phrase: ‘Two in the head. The bitch is dead’. Daniel...
A 65-year-old Wicklow farmer with dementia and Parkinson’s disease has been deemed unfit to stand trial for the murder of his older brother in 2010. Cecil Tomkins is charged with murdering...
A Cork man who was jailed for life for the murder of a young Englishman who had joked about his father being in a loyalist organisation has failed in an appeal against his conviction. Timothy...
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar is to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court following the death of his mother in March 2011. The defendant pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing graffiti on his cell wall, which the State says bragged about killing her. Graffiti including: “2 in the head. The...
A murder trial has heard that teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara was bleeding profusely from her skull when she arrived at hospital after being gunned down in Tallaght two years ago. The jury was...
A jury has been told that the teenager charged with murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting her in graffiti on his cell wall. A prosecutor told his trial...
A mother-of-one who cleaned up the scene of a murder carried out by a “recidivist criminal” has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Siobhan Whitaker (25) with an address in Meadow Vale in London...
A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man accused of murdering a man in north Dublin in 2012. Andrew Gibney (21) is charged with murdering Gerard Burnett (28) at Castlecurragh Vale, Mulhuddart...
A Dublin teenager has pleaded not guilty to murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght almost two years ago. Daniel McDonnell of Brookview Lawns in Tallaght was before the Central...
A mother-of-one is to be sentenced later for assisting a “recidivist criminal” who carried out a murder in Dublin four years ago by cleaning up the scene. Siobhan Whitaker (25) with an address in...
A man serving a life sentence for raping four of his daughters has launched an appeal against his sentence at the Court of Criminal Appeal. The 52-year-old was convicted in December 2011 at the...
A 47-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his elderly mother in a Waterford nursing home last year. Gerald Vollrath of Tramore Heights, Tramore had been charged with the murder of...
A Limerick man who was jailed for life for the murder of his partner must wait to learn if his appeal against his conviction has been successful. In March 2007 Kieran Lynch (47) was sentenced to...
A Dublin man has been given a 20-year sentence for the attempted murder of his lifelong friend. Patrick McCann (20) of Decies Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Luke Wilson...
A Dublin man is to be sentenced later for shooting his lifelong friend causing him to lose his eye. Patrick McCann (20) of Decies Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Luke...
Notorious Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh will apply for bail pending appeals against his separate convictions for rape, indecent assault and defilement of a child....
The jury has been discharged in the trial of three men charged in connection with the death of a man in Limerick last year as no judge is available to hear the case this week. On Tuesday, Sean...
An electrician has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a bread deliveryman in a Limerick petrol station three years ago. John Coughlan (33) of Pineview Gardens,...
A 37-year-old Cork mother of three has been sentenced to life in prison for murder for a second time this year. Kinsale native Catherine O’Connor pleaded guilty to murdering her 42-year-old...
The jury is due to begin deliberating in the trial of an electrician accused of the fatal shooting of a bread deliveryman in Limerick three years ago. John Coughlan (33) of Pineview Gardens, Moyross...
A recidivist burglar who assaulted and threatened to kill a 97-year-old woman in her home has had his six-year jail term increased by four years after a successful appeal by the Director of Public...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack must wait to learn if his appeal against his 15-year sentence has been...