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A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary conditions. The 40-year-old father received an 18-month custodial sentence,...
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A jury at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court has returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in respect of an aeronautical engineer charged with damaging telecommunications infrastructure across Mayo and Galway. Adrian Behan, aged...
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A man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 33 offences alleged to have occurred at telecommunications and utility sites across Mayo and Galway between September and October 2023. Adrian Behan, aged 44, of...
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A Knockmore man has been sentenced to four years in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court for offences including the savage mauling of a woman by his unmuzzled dog. David Barrett, aged 41, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an...
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A 47-year-old man from Swinford has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an incident in which he struck his brother with a shovel at their home in Cloongullaune on 27 July 2022. The victim was rendered unconscious and...
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A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has found that a 61-year-old Tesco worker was unfairly dismissed following the loss of a €20 note at a Castlebar store in 2023. Declan Kavanagh was suspended in October 2023 pending...
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A 33-year-old man convicted of defiling a child in County Mayo has been granted bail pending an appeal against his conviction. The man's identity is protected to safeguard the complainant. He was convicted by a majority jury verdict at...
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A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several...
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At Castlebar Circuit Court, two parents have admitted to multiple counts of child cruelty following an investigation into the abuse of their six children. The case emerged after two teenagers walked into a garda station in the west of...
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A teenager has been awarded €700,000 by the High Court following the HSE's admission of liability for failures in ante-natal care at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar during 2009. The girl, now aged sixteen, sued the health authority...
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A Castlebar man has pleaded guilty to three thefts totalling over €34,000 from a Lidl supermarket in Westport during the Christmas and New Year period of 2023. Mantas Kerusauska, aged 39, admitted to stealing €11,250 on Christmas Eve,...
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A ballet teacher from Tuam in County Galway has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for the sexual abuse of two young girls during dance classes in County Mayo. Leighton...
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A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the final year suspended, following a violent assault at a petrol station in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in January 2023. Tommy Sweeney, aged 23, of Castlepark, Ballybane, pleaded...
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Leighton Morrison, a 49-year-old ballet instructor from Tuam in County Galway, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment with the final twelve months suspended following his conviction for sexually abusing two young girls during...
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A man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for sexual offences against a woman in County Mayo. Jorge Paris, aged 62 and resident in Dublin, pleaded guilty to three...
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An intensive care nurse at Mayo General Hospital has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Court for forging prescriptions to obtain painkillers. Sinéad Donohoe, aged 42, of Scrigg, Ballyhaunis, pleaded guilty to two...
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A man from Castlerea in County Roscommon has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following what the judge described as a remarkable turnaround in his life. Ernest Ashman, aged 39, pleaded guilty to...
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A Brazilian man has received a three-year suspended sentence following an assault outside a Westport nightclub that left his victim requiring extensive dental treatment. Joao Hermino Sousa Correia, aged 23, of Middletown, Manulla,...
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A man has been convicted of defiling a child under 17 at his home in County Mayo six years ago. The accused, whose identity is protected to safeguard the complainant, pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was acquitted of a separate count...
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A man now aged 22 pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court to possessing child sexual abuse material discovered on his mother's laptop in County Mayo on 6 June 2018. He was 15 when gardaí found the illegal content after he...
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A 33-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and defilement of a child following an incident in County Mayo in July 2020. The trial, heard this week at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court, was told the complainant was 16 years...
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A man aged 33 has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a staff party in County Mayo in July 2020. The trial is taking place at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court before Judge Eoin Garavan and an all-male...
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A man from Castlebar has pleaded guilty to sharing intimate images of a woman without her consent on two separate occasions. Daniel Humphreys, aged 38 and residing on McHale Road, admitted the offences at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court,...
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Bernard McDonagh, aged 30, of Gortnafolla, Turlough, Castlebar, has affirmed guilty pleas to five charges at Castlebar Circuit Court. The charges arise from incidents on November 11 last year at various locations in Castlebar. McDonagh...
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A 33-year-old man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and child defilement at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court. He denies sexually assaulting a female at a county address between 14 and 15 July 2020, and...
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A woman who was raped at eighteen has welcomed the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a seven-year custodial sentence imposed on her attacker. The complainant, who waived anonymity, told the court that a 22-month delay in determining...