22 linked court reports in the localnews.ie archive.
This page groups public court reports by matching name and address evidence in the localnews.ie archive. Court reports can include allegations, charges, appeals, convictions and outcomes; read each linked report for its exact status and source attribution.
Kevin Braney, aged 49, is appealing his conviction for the murder of Peter Butterly at the Special Criminal Court. The appeal, heard before a three-judge panel, centres on two main issues: the lawfulness of surveillance authorisation and the admissibility of...
A man identified by gardaí as leader of the so-called New IRA is appealing his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal, with his legal team arguing the conviction was unsafe. Kevin Braney (49) was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court in February 2019...
A man convicted of perverting the course of justice in connection with a 2013 dissident Republican murder has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Raymond Kennedy was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in May 2022 after the Special Criminal...
A man has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice during the investigation into a 2013 murder. Ray Kennedy, aged 40, was found guilty of destroying a mobile phone SIM card on the day...
Ray Kennedy, aged 41, of Blanchardstown in Dublin, has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice at the Special Criminal Court following his destruction of a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013. The card was considered of significant evidential...
A man has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of disrupting the garda investigation into the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly in 2013. Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown, Dublin, was convicted of destroying a mobile phone SIM...
A man accused of perverting the course of justice in connection with a dissident republican murder has been remanded on bail pending judgment. The Special Criminal Court hearing concerns Ray Kennedy, who is charged with deliberately destroying a mobile...
Ray Kennedy, aged 40, has pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to a charge of perverting the course of justice. The prosecution alleges that Kennedy deliberately destroyed a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013, the day dissident republican...
A Detective Chief Superintendent has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court regarding two men charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Peter Butterly in March 2013. The victim, aged 35, was killed in a car park at Gormanston, Co Meath. Laurence...
A man charged in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly met veteran republican Marian Price at a Dublin hotel in 2010, the Special Criminal Court heard today. Gardaí gave evidence that Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of...
A man charged in connection with the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly was observed on multiple occasions with slain Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, the Special Criminal Court heard. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of Bettystown, Co Meath and Ray...
A trial at the Special Criminal Court has heard that a text message was sent to the wife of murder victim Peter Butterly minutes before he was shot dead in March 2013. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of Bettystown, County Meath, and Ray Kennedy, aged 39, of...
At the Special Criminal Court, a trial concerning two men charged with membership of an unlawful organisation has entered legal argument over mobile phone data retention. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, from Bettystown, County Meath, and Ray Kennedy, aged 39, from...
A witness in the Special Criminal Court has testified that the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly in Gormanston, County Meath on 6 March 2013 was an "IRA operation". David Cullen, now in the Witness Protection Program, gave evidence in trials of...
The Special Criminal Court is hearing evidence in the trial of two men accused of involvement in the 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly. The court listened to a covert audio recording made by gardaí from a listening device placed in a...
A State's witness who allegedly committed perjury during a previous murder trial was not prosecuted over concerns he would not return to Ireland, the Special Criminal Court heard. Dave Cullen, whose evidence secured convictions in the murder of dissident...
An accused man was observed meeting two individuals convicted in connection with the fatal shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly one day after the killing, the Special Criminal Court heard today. Surveillance officers told the non-jury court that...
The widow of dissident republican Peter Butterly told gardai that a man on trial in connection with her husband's death was a trusted friend to them both, the Special Criminal Court heard. Mrs Butterly gave evidence that her late husband met the accused on...
At the Special Criminal Court, Ray Kennedy (39) and Laurence Murphy (62) are on trial charged in connection with the killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly, who was shot dead on 6 March 2013 outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston, County Meath. The...
Two men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly in Gormanston, County Meath....
Two men have been convicted and sentenced by the Special Criminal Court in connection with the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Michael McDermott of Ballinagh, County Cavan, received four years imprisonment with the final six months...
Two men appeared at the Special Criminal Court on Monday for sentencing following their guilty pleas in connection with the March 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Frank Murphy, aged fifty-eight, of Bettystown in County Meath, pleaded...