A witness at the Central Criminal Court has testified that a fire was burning at a house in Mountnugent, County Meath, the day after two men went missing in April 2014. Vytautis Bitaris told the court he was present at Patricks Cottage on...
A pregnant bar supervisor in Cavan has been awarded €18,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission after successfully claiming discrimination following her dismissal. The worker was let go by Brandon Taverns Ltd, operator of the Imperial...
A 30-year-old man with three All-Ireland club championship medals has been charged with offences relating to ATM thefts across Cavan and Monaghan. Daniel O'Callaghan appeared before the Special Criminal Court on charges including the...
A man with a documented history of assaulting women has had his prison sentence doubled by the Court of Appeal in Cavan, just three days before his scheduled release. Aaron Heffernan, aged 39 and residing in Cavan town, had pleaded guilty...
A 34-year-old Latvian woman is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a man in connection with the death of Antra Ozolina. The accused, Egita Jaunmaize, is alleged to have placed a...
A jury has been discharged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the retrial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally or recklessly causing...
A jury has been empanelled at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the second retrial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally...
A retrial date has been set for a Cavan childminder charged with causing serious harm to an infant. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a baby at...
A social worker told the Charleton tribunal she received no contact after an error in child protection records relating to Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe came to light. Laura Connolly, a duty social worker in Cavan, reviewed...
A social worker has told the Charleton tribunal that administrative error led her to fail to identify that two distinct alleged abuse victims were listed within a single report file. The tribunal is examining claims that allegations of...
A retrial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has collapsed following a juror's internet research into a witness in the case. The jury had retired to consider their verdict when a juror informed Judge Martin Nolan that the jury foreman had...
A retired consultant paediatrician has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that the pattern of injuries sustained by a ten-month-old child indicated non-accidental harm. Dr Christopher Woods, who reviewed the child's medical files, stated...
A childminder accused of causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the charge. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, is alleged to have...
A childminder has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant in her care in Cavan. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan...
A man from County Antrim has been imprisoned following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against an unduly lenient sentence. Edmund Stewart, aged 33, of Ardgate Place, Newtownabbey, had pleaded guilty at Cavan...
A Lithuanian woman pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to providing false information and using forged documents in connection with an attempted sham marriage in County Cavan. Rita Skvarcinskaite (42) was charged with offences...
A childminder from Cavan is to stand trial for a second time at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next May on a charge of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby in March 2012. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The...
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a registered childminder charged with causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, had pleaded not guilty to...
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been instructed that it may return a majority verdict in the trial of a registered childminder charged with causing serious harm to a ten-month-old child. Sandra Higgins of Cavan town has...
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court adjourned its deliberations in the trial of a Cavan childminder accused of assaulting a ten-month-old baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty...
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court will begin deliberating tomorrow in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a ten-month-old baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, Co Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally...
Closing speeches have been heard in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly...
A defence witness at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has testified that shaken baby syndrome lacks scientific validation. The neuropathologist told the trial that she formerly supported the diagnosis but changed her view after research...
A garda handwriting expert has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder accused of assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, County Cavan, has pleaded not...
A consultant paediatrician has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty to...
A US paediatric radiologist gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder accused of assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, County Cavan has pleaded not guilty...
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a consultant paediatrician has testified that brain injuries sustained by a ten-month-old infant could not reasonably have been inflicted before the child was left with a childminder on 28 March 2012....
A childminder has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby at her home in Cavan town on 28 March 2012. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan told gardai during...
A childminder charged with causing serious harm to a baby in her care appeared before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, from Drumgola Wood in Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or...
A registered childminder from County Cavan has pleaded not guilty to charges of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant at her home on 28 March 2012. The trial opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court...
At the Central Criminal Court, a 35-year-old Polish national pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 38-year-old Romanian man at Connolly Court in Cavan between 13 and 14 October 2012. The accused has pleaded guilty to criminal damage in...
A Polish national has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Romanian man at an apartment in Cavan town in October 2012. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, is accused of fatally stabbing Costel Catalin Cretu during...