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High Court2022-05-09

Agri-food plant extension opposed by estate owner

An estate owner in County Cavan has initiated High Court proceedings challenging An Bord Pleanála's approval of a planning extension for an agri-food manufacturing facility. John Moreharte, who owns Bellamont Castle and approximately...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2021-05-07

Directors of foreign real estate company are jailed

Two directors of a real estate company have been imprisoned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following guilty pleas to defrauding clients. Sean Boylan, aged 72, of Cootehill, County Cavan, and Colin Horan, aged 38, of Dun Laoghaire,...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2021-03-18

Former publican caught moving €2.5m in cocaine

A 59-year-old man from Cootehill in Cavan has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for his role in transporting cocaine valued at €2.5 million. The former publican pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Court of Appeal2020-05-18

Child rapist to appeal 20-year sentence

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A man has been granted a Court of Appeal date to challenge his 20-year prison sentence for the serial sexual abuse of children in Cavan and Monaghan. The 53-year-old pleaded guilty in December 2016 to 52 sample charges of indecent assault...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2019-02-01

Tiger kidnapper gets 18 years

A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has been sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment following his conviction on multiple charges related to a tiger kidnapping at a post office in north Dublin. Paschal Kelly, aged fifty-three, was...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-11-21

Tiger kidnap trial enters seventh week

The trial of Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, has entered its seventh week at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Mr Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges including trespass, false imprisonment of three people at a...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-11-05

Tiger kidnap trial hears of car crash

A witness has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of a man charged in connection with a €90,000 tiger kidnapping that occurred in September 2014. The witness described how his vehicle was struck by another car...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-10-30

Technical evidence in tiger kidnap trial

The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with technical evidence relating to phone records. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and resident in Cootehill, County Cavan, has...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court2018-10-16

Legal argument in tiger kidnapping trial

Paschal Kelly, aged 52, from Cootehill, County Cavan, stands trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for charges arising from an alleged tiger kidnapping in September 2014. He has pleaded not guilty to trespassing and falsely imprisoning a...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report
Central Criminal Court2015-02-12

Archaeologist was stabbed 17 times, murder trial hears

A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that archaeologist Emmett Connolly sustained 17 stab wounds during an incident at a house in Cootehill, County Cavan on September 28, 2013. Kevin Moran, aged 30, of Lodgeview, Cootehill,...

Courts News Ireland · Original CNI report