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The Dock2025-11-12

Symbiotic: how Ruth Lawrence became a double murderer

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At Dublin's Central Criminal Court, a trial has heard evidence concerning the disappearances of Eoin O'Connor and Anthony Keegan, who went missing from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan on 22 April 2014. Eoin, a 32-year-old drug dealer, sent a...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Central Criminal Court2025-10-08

Woman to go on trial accused of 2014 double murder

A 45-year-old woman with an address in County Meath has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor, alleged to have occurred at an...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Central Criminal Court2023-10-24

Double murder accused Ruth Lawrence to stand trial next year

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Ruth Lawrence, a 42-year-old Dublin woman extradited from South Africa, will stand trial at the Central Criminal Court on October 7, 2024, on charges of murdering Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor. The bodies of both men were discovered...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Court of Appeal2022-12-09

Serial arsonist who killed uncle has jail term increased

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A serial arsonist whose fire claimed his uncle's life has had his prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. Daniel Murray, aged 40, of no fixed abode but residing in County Cavan, was originally sentenced to seven-and-a-half years...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Central Criminal Court2021-11-01

Murder accused admits to manslaughter, arson

Daniel Murray, aged 39 and of no fixed abode, appeared at the Central Criminal Court on charges relating to a house fire in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan in August 2018. He had been charged with murdering Patrick Oliver Murray in the...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-01-15

Truck driver smuggled over €1m in cocaine into country

A truck driver from Cavan has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment following his conviction for drug smuggling at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Maurice McCreesh, aged 38 and resident in Lisreagh, pleaded guilty to possessing...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Special Criminal Court2015-12-17

"Slab" Murphy guilty of tax evasion

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

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2015-02-02

Cavan resident pleads guilty to threatening CAB officer

A 49-year-old resident of Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan has pleaded guilty to threatening a Criminal Assets Bureau officer and submitting a false tax return. Pascal Kelly entered guilty pleas at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to...

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

Paris Bakery wound up

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

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report