225 cases mentioning Sligo, Co. Sligo — 225 from Courts News Ireland, 0 from local newspapers.
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By Declan Brennan and Eimear Dodd The trial of a garda accused of raping his wife and cruelty towards two of his daughters has reached closing stages. The 48-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to one count of child cruelty of his now...
Sligo man Barry Young has appeared in court on foot of an arrest warrant from Northern Ireland, where he is wanted to face prosecution for the murder of gangland figure Robbie Lawlor six years ago. Young (41), with a previous address at...
(File Picture: Mr Jonathan Gill. Photo: Collins) Jonathan Gill, who is wanted in Northern Ireland to face a charge of murdering gangland figure Robbie Lawlor, has challenged his extradition, claiming he will not receive the same...
Jonathan Gill, aged 44, faced a High Court bail hearing in connection with an extradition warrant issued by Northern Irish authorities. He is charged with murder in relation to the death of Robbie Lawlor on 4 April 2020, and with...
Jonathan Gill, aged 44 and with an address in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in relation to an extradition warrant issued by Belfast Magistrates' Court. Mr Gill is wanted in Northern Ireland to face charges of murder in...
Jonathan Gill, aged 44, with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in relation to extradition proceedings initiated by authorities in Northern Ireland. Gill is wanted by the PSNI in connection...
Jonathan Gill, aged 44 and with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in connection with an extradition application by Northern Irish authorities. Gill is wanted by the PSNI in relation to the...
Jonathan Gill, with an address on the Malahide Road in Clontarf, Dublin, appeared before the High Court in connection with extradition proceedings sought by authorities in Northern Ireland. The 44-year-old is wanted by the PSNI in...
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Andrew Cash Senior, aged 58, of Whitechurch Heights, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, was sentenced to two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to providing false information to Irish Passport Services. His...
A 44-year-old man from Clontarf, Dublin appeared before the High Court in connection with extradition proceedings relating to a 2020 murder in Belfast. Jonathan Gill is wanted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to face prosecution...
A man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his younger sister over seven years has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal in Dublin. Kyle Jinks, aged 32, of Slievemore, Ballytivnan, County Sligo, was found guilty at the...
A 70-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the systematic sexual abuse of five of his children over two decades at various addresses in County Sligo. Noel Farrell of Rathedmond Estate,...
A man has been jailed for two years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following an assault on an Irish Rail inspector aboard a Dublin to Sligo train at Connolly Station. Gerry Nevin (32), of Mostrim Road, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, pleaded...
A 29-year-old woman from Coolaney, Sligo, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to making a false criminal complaint at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Nicole Chambers alleged that a male prison officer had...
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for sexually abusing his eight-year-old cousin in County Sligo over a decade ago. The defendant pleaded guilty to five counts of oral rape...
A man convicted of raping a guest at his bed-and-breakfast in County Sligo has failed in an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Thomas Wymbs, aged 68, was proprietor of Atlantic Haven B&B near Mount Temple when the...
A man has pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Tom Niland at the Central Criminal Court, five days into his trial. John Irving, aged 31, of Shanwar, Foxford, County Mayo, changed his plea on the morning of July 17th. He is the third...
A man convicted of rape at the Central Criminal Court has appealed his conviction before the Court of Appeal on grounds relating to the trial judge's handling of prosecution submissions and expert evidence. Thomas Wymbs, aged 68, was...
A pensioner was so severely beaten during an alleged home invasion that neighbours did not recognise him as he walked along the road covered in blood with swollen eyes, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Witnesses described the victim...
A 27-year-old Galway man with alleged connections to organised crime boss Barry Young has had his sentence for money laundering reduced on appeal. At the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Michael MacGrath found that the original five-year...
A jury of eight women and four men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to hear the trial of a 31-year-old man accused of the unlawful killing of Tom Niland, a 74-year-old from Doonflynn, Skreen, County Sligo. The accused, John...
A 27-year-old man from County Galway has brought an appeal against his five-year sentence for money laundering, contending the term was disproportionate. Brian Cummins, Balgaddy Road, Tuam, pleaded guilty to money laundering contrary to...
At the Workplace Relations Commission, Atlantic Technological University has been ordered to pay an assistant lecturer €1,640.88 following a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991. The university had offered Ian Thornton a €15.25...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard closing arguments on Wednesday concerning the death of Angela Canavan, aged fifty-eight, at her home in St John's Terrace, Sligo on May 1st, 2023. The accused, Nigel Canavan, aged...
A man accused of murdering his mother at her home in County Sligo in May 2023 told gardaí during interviews that he delayed contacting emergency services for approximately 20 minutes after discovering her body. Nigel Canavan, aged 39, of...
At the Central Criminal Court, a detective told jurors that Nigel Canavan appeared nervous and evasive when questioned hours after his mother's death in Sligo on May 1, 2023. Detective Garda James Conneely met the 39-year-old accused...
A jury comprising ten women and two men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 39-year-old man from Crossmolina, County Mayo, who denies murdering his mother in Sligo. Nigel Canavan pleaded not guilty to the...
A man has been convicted and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for serious sexual offences against his sister. Kyle Jinks, aged 31, of Slievemore, Ballytivnan, County Sligo, was found guilty on 21 sample...
Margaret Doran (36), from Kimmage in Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of a false registration certificate for a caravan on 15 October 2019 at the Ranch House in Saggart, Dublin. Gardaí discovered the...
A former scrapyard worker has given evidence at the Workplace Relations Commission regarding an incident at Hammond Lane Metal Company's Clondalkin facility in December 2023. The woman alleged that a senior manager made offensive remarks...
The High Court has granted permission to a Sligo man to challenge the State's decision to cease his social welfare benefits. Juma Palani sought leave to judicially review determinations made earlier this year that disallowed his claims...
Juma Palani, from Sligo, has initiated High Court proceedings to challenge the State's decision to withdraw his jobseeker's and disability allowances. Mr Palani is seeking to overturn determinations made earlier this year by the Criminal...
A 67-year-old Sligo bed-and-breakfast proprietor has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment, with the final eighteen months suspended, following his conviction for rape. The man, who operated the establishment at Moneygold,...
A 24-year-old man from Co Sligo is to be extradited to Scotland following a reassessment of his case by the High Court. The respondent faces charges in Glasgow Sheriff Court relating to an alleged firearms offence and assault that...
A man from Strokestown, County Roscommon, has been sentenced to eleven and a half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction on twenty-six counts of sexually abusing his daughter between 2011 and 2016. Cyril...
A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and sexual abuse of two girls during the 1990s and 2000s. The man pleaded guilty to twelve counts relating to sexual offences...
A 59-year-old man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to twelve counts including rape, oral rape, and sexual assault committed against two victims over separate periods. The charges relate to offences occurring primarily in...
The High Court has ruled that Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank is entitled to take possession of a rural property in Ballinfull, County Sligo, following the death of its owner in 2008. The deceased woman had borrowed €60,000 through a Life...
A teenager from Sligo pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting his eight-year-old cousin and recording the incident on St Stephen's Day 2021. The boy, who was 14 at the time and cannot be named due to his age,...
Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank sought possession of a rural property in Ballinfull, County Sligo, valued at €180,000, following the death of its owner in July 2008. The deceased had borrowed €60,000 through a Life Loan mortgage in 2006–07...
At the Central Criminal Court on 23 October 2023, Yousef Palani, aged 23, from Markievicz Heights in Sligo, was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for the murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee. Justice Mary Ellen Ring imposed a...
Yousef Palani, aged 23, appeared at the Central Criminal Court for sentencing following guilty pleas to two murders in Sligo in April 2022. Palani admitted to the murder of Aidan Moffitt on 10 April at Cartron Heights and Michael Snee on...
A 23-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to two counts of murder and one count of causing serious harm. Yousef Palani, of Markievicz Heights, admitted to the murder of Aidan Moffitt on April 10, 2022,...
Barry Young, aged 38, has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for directing a criminal organisation. Mr Justice Tony Hunt imposed the custodial term following Young's guilty plea to the charge, which...
A man with an address in County Louth has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for operating as a fraudulent child psychologist across public and private healthcare sectors in Ireland. The accused pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit...
A van driver employed by an Italian food importer has been awarded €15,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission for breaches of working time legislation, though his constructive dismissal claim has been rejected. The complainant, based...
A man with 86 previous convictions, including for domestic violence, has had his custodial sentence doubled following a Court of Appeal ruling. Jason Doyle (28) of Tower Hill, Ballymote, County Sligo, pleaded guilty to one count of...
A 22-year-old man charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in Sligo has changed his senior counsel ahead of trial. The accused appeared via video link from Castlerea Prison in Roscommon at the Central Criminal...
A man granted refugee status in Ireland despite a prior UK sexual assault conviction has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape of one woman and the attempted abduction of another in County...
A High Court judge has refused to extradite a man to Scotland on humanitarian grounds, citing severe prison overcrowding and inadequate mental health provision. Mr Justice Paul McDermott found that surrendering Richard Sharples, aged 24,...
A 38-year-old Sligo man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a 20-member criminal organisation that operated across the northwest between October 2019 and January 2022. Barry Young coordinated drug dealing,...
A 22-year-old man charged with two murders and an attempted murder in Sligo has received a psychiatric assessment, the Central Criminal Court heard this week. Yousef Palani, of Markievicz Heights, Sligo, faces charges relating to...
A woman from Sligo has succeeded in her Supreme Court appeal against a mortgage lender's attempt to restore repossession proceedings on her family home. Noreen Stafford challenged a High Court decision that had remitted her case back to...
A 37-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a criminal organisation. Barry Young, with an address in Cranmore, Co Sligo, admitted to the charge relating to directing the activities of a...
A 26-year-old man from Sligo has received an concurrent 18-month prison sentence following his guilty plea to threatening a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison. Paul Darcy of Calry Court, Stephen Street, Sligo, made the threat on August 17,...
A car parts manufacturer in Sligo Town has been ordered to pay €10,000 to a worker with an anxiety disorder following a discrimination finding by the Workplace Relations Commission. The adjudicating officer found that G. Bruss Gmbh...
A 22-year-old man from Sligo has been scheduled to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court in November 2023 on charges relating to two deaths and an attempted murder in the town. Yousef Palani is charged with the murder of Aidan Moffitt...
Simon McGinley has failed in his second attempt to overturn his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal. McGinley, aged 38, was convicted in April 2014 of murdering Eugene Gillespie, a retired telecoms broker, at a house on Old Market...
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a series of offences including dangerous driving, burglary, and criminal damage. Paul Darcy, with addresses in Dublin and Co...
A 37-year-old man charged with directing a criminal organisation will face trial before the non-jury Special Criminal Court following a successful application by the State. The accused was first charged at Sligo District Court in January...
An environmental group's challenge to a major State capital investment plan has opened before the Supreme Court. Friends of the Irish Environment brought the appeal against the €165 billion Project Ireland 2040 scheme, which was...
A cinema projectionist in Sligo has failed in his unfair dismissal claim following his sack in 2020. Joseph Callaghan, who worked at an Omniplex cinema since 1992, was dismissed after the wrong film was screened to patrons. The Workplace...
At the Court of Appeal, John McDonagh, aged 27, of Brookfield, Ballinode, Sligo, had his sentence increased following a knife-point home invasion in Sligo Town in January 2020. McDonagh and a teenage accomplice broke into a house at...
A former general manager of the Clayton Hotel in Sligo has been awarded €50,000 in compensation by the Workplace Relations Commission following a finding of unfair dismissal. Fergal Ryan was dismissed by Dalata Hotel Group PLC after...
Three men from County Louth convicted of conspiracy to acquire explosives and weapons for the Real IRA are seeking damages in the High Court for a period of unlawful imprisonment. Fintan O'Farrell and Declan Rafferty from Carlingford, and...
A 59-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction on charges arising from an incident at his home in April 2015. Christopher Feeney was found guilty of rape,...
A man who served as a Minister of the Eucharist has had his appeal against his sentence dismissed at the Court of Appeal. The applicant, whose identity is protected to safeguard the victim, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years...
A man aged 67 has appealed his sentence at the Court of Appeal following conviction for sexually assaulting a victim over a 12-year period beginning when she was ten years old. He was sentenced to 12.5 years, with four years suspended, at...
A bus driver employed by Boyce Coach Travel Ltd has been awarded €15,800 in compensation following an unfair dismissal ruling by the Workplace Relations Commission. Simon Logue was dismissed after pruning tree branches obstructing access...
A delivery driver has brought a complaint of constructive dismissal against an Italian food importer to the Workplace Relations Commission following his resignation in August 2020. The complainant alleged he was required to undertake...
A 44-year-old Lithuanian man has failed in his appeal against a four-year custodial sentence imposed for managing a cannabis cultivation operation in Ballymote, County Sligo. Danius Gastilavicius pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis...
A woman left paralysed following a high-speed car crash near Ballisodare in 2010 has expressed relief after the Court of Appeal rejected the driver's second attempt to restore his licence. Martin Kearney of Castlefield Manor, Ballina, Co...
The High Court has set aside certain convictions and suspended sentences imposed on a Department of Agriculture official in relation to animal carcass disposal breaches. Bernard Kilgariff, aged 64, of Bricklieve, Castlebaldwin, County...
Christopher Feeney (58) was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of rape and sexual assault following a trial last September. The offences occurred at his home in Millbrook, Riverside, Sligo on 26 April 2015. The victim, then aged...
Simon McGinley (38) appeared before the Court of Appeal on 14 October seeking to have his murder conviction quashed on the basis of new psychiatric evidence. McGinley was convicted in April 2014 of murdering Eugene Gillespie (67) at a...
A manslaughter trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard evidence regarding the character of the deceased man in the case. Ronan Byrne, aged 31, of Lohunda Downs, Clonsilla, Blanchardstown, Dublin, pleads not guilty to the unlawful...
A man from Sligo has been convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following the unlawful killing of his wife in April 2018. The court heard that Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park, Sligo, had secretly recorded his wife...
A man from Sligo has been found guilty of murdering his wife at the Central Criminal Court. Rafal Karaczyn, aged thirty-five, of Crozon Park in Sligo, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but not guilty to murder for the unlawful killing of his...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is continuing deliberations in the trial of a Sligo man charged with murder. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has admitted killing his wife Natalia but denies murder. He has pleaded...
At the Central Criminal Court on 17 May 2021, closing speeches were delivered in the trial of a 35-year-old Sligo man charged with murdering his wife in April 2018. The accused has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder. The...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard that a woman expressed her desire for independence in text messages to her husband before her death. The deceased, a 30-year-old mother of three from Sligo, told her husband in...
A murder trial opened at the Central Criminal Court on May 6th, 2021, concerning allegations that a Sligo man killed his wife following her return home from another man's house. The accused, aged 35 and resident at Crozon Park, Sligo, has...
A jury of nine women and three men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to hear the trial of a Sligo man charged with murder. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 35, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
Lidl Ireland has commenced defamation proceedings in the High Court against the Irish Farmers Association, its President Tim Cullinan, and Vice-President Brian Rushe. The supermarket chain contests allegations published by the IFA in...
A judge at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has ordered the forfeiture of €6,700 in cash intercepted at an An Post sorting facility in south Dublin. The package, which arrived from the United States in June 2020, was addressed to a Michael...
A woman with a last address in Finisklin, Sligo, has been returned to prison after breaching the conditions of a suspended sentence imposed by the Central Criminal Court. The 30-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to impeding the...
A bench warrant has been issued at the Central Criminal Court for a Sligo woman who breached the conditions of her suspended sentence. Janice Brady, aged 29, had been sentenced to four years imprisonment in November 2019 after pleading...
A Formula 1 engineer's appeal against a nine-year prison sentence for attacking and falsely imprisoning his elderly landlord has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Stefan Schaufler, aged 53, pleaded guilty at Sligo Circuit Court in...
Stefan Schaufler, a 53-year-old engineer formerly employed in Formula 1, has appealed his sentence at the Court of Appeal for an attack on his 81-year-old landlord in Sligo on 20 June 2018. Schaufler lured Michael Lally to a bedroom under...
The High Court has appointed provisional liquidators to two fashion retail companies that operated thirteen Pamela Scott stores across Ireland. Arzac Developments Ltd ran ten stores while Richard Alan & Co operated three, with outlets in...
A construction worker from Sligo has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for his involvement in a tax fraud scheme at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Martin Stokes, aged 35, pleaded guilty in April 2016 to charges under the Theft...
The High Court in Dublin has dismissed an appeal brought by a County Sligo man seeking to overturn a possession order relating to his family home. Keith McNair had appealed a 2016 Circuit Court decision, made in favour of Start Mortgages...
The High Court has approved a €12 million settlement in a case concerning a child who developed bacterial meningitis after being sent home from Sligo General Hospital. The girl, who was ten months old when she presented at the A&E...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has been halted after three jurors notified the court they could not attend proceedings. Ms Justice Eileen Creedon discharged the 12-member jury on 18 March, noting that one juror would likely...
At the Central Criminal Court, Ms Justice Eileen Creedon instructed a jury on 12 March 2020 to return on Wednesday to conclude closing speeches in the trial of Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo. The judge relayed directions...
A woman from Sligo who received a suspended sentence for obstructing the prosecution of her brother in connection with a murder has been cautioned by the Central Criminal Court regarding compliance with probation conditions. Janice Brady...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a witness testified that Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo, appeared emotionally distressed in the months preceding his wife's death. The friend told the jury he believed Karaczyn was...
At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard text and Facebook messages exchanged between a Sligo couple in the months preceding the woman's death. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty...
A man has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter following the death of his wife at their home in Crozon Park, Sligo, between 29 April and 1 May 2018. Rafal Karaczyn (34) denied to gardaí that he killed his wife because...
A man on trial for murder told gardaí at Ballymote Garda Station in County Sligo to search for CCTV footage of a six-foot man with red hair, whom he claimed had threatened him with a gun weeks before his wife disappeared. The Central...
A garda has testified at the Central Criminal Court that he discovered the body of a woman in a forested area off the Holywell Road near Ballymote, County Sligo, after being directed there by the accused man. Garda James Kenneally told...
The High Court has ruled that debt-for-equity swaps cannot be approved within personal insolvency arrangements without the explicit consent of the relevant secured creditor. Mr Justice Denis McDonald delivered the judgment in dismissing...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a jury heard evidence regarding the movements of a woman on the morning she died. CCTV footage showed the 30-year-old returning to her home in Crozon Park, Sligo at 6.23am on 29 April 2018...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a trial heard evidence on Monday concerning the movements of a 30-year-old woman in the hours before her death. A man gave testimony that he accompanied the woman to his home in Sligo in the early...
Natalia Karaczyn's sister has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding CCTV footage she viewed in the hours following her sibling's disappearance in April 2018. Magdalena McMorrow told the jury she saw her sister walking...
A fresh jury was sworn in at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday following the discharge of a previous panel in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34 and from Crozon Park in Sligo, faces a charge of...
At the Central Criminal Court, the sister of Natalia Karaczyn gave evidence regarding her brother-in-law's account of events surrounding the 30-year-old's death. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park in Sligo, has pleaded not guilty to...
A man accused of murdering his wife in Sligo told gardai that he lay down with her for approximately ten minutes after killing her, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Rafal Karaczyn, aged 34, of Crozon Park, Sligo, has pleaded not...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of murdering his wife at their home in Crozon Park, Sligo, between April 29th and May 1st, 2018. The accused has pleaded not guilty to the...
At the Central Criminal Court, evidence emerged that Aaron Brady was subject to bail conditions and a curfew when Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was fatally shot on 25 January 2013 at Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, County Louth. Mr...
A man convicted of raping two women at his Sligo apartment has failed in his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Clement Limen, aged 47, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo town, was found guilty by jury at the Central Criminal...
A woman from Sligo has had the remainder of her four-year prison sentence suspended by the Central Criminal Court following her conviction for impeding the prosecution of her brother. The defendant, who pleaded guilty to the offence in...
A Sligo woman has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for staging a crime scene to obstruct the prosecution of her brother, who was convicted of murder the previous week. Janice Brady, aged 29, pleaded...
A 32-year-old man from Sligo has been convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following his third trial for the offence. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate was found guilty of killing Martin Kivlehan at New Apartments, Holborn...
A man has been convicted of murdering a Sligo musician following three separate trials. Keith Brady, aged 32, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, was found guilty of the murder of Martin Kivlehan at the Central Criminal Court. The offence...
A man convicted of raping two women in Sligo town has launched an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Clement Limen, aged 47, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo, was found guilty by jury at the Central Criminal Court of...
A man accused of murdering a musician in County Sligo has heard prosecution counsel argue that his actions before and after the alleged killing demonstrate deliberate intent, despite claims of intoxication. Keith Brady, aged 32 of Cartron...
Keith Brady, aged 32, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, stands charged with murder following the death of a local musician at New Apartments on Holborn Street in August 2015. He has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. At...
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a garda inspector has denied allegations that he fabricated evidence against a Sligo man charged with murder. Inspector Patrick Harney testified that Keith Brady, aged 32, of Cartron Estate, made...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that blood matching a musician found stabbed to death in his Sligo home was present on two knives recovered from the scene. A forensic scientist told the court that DNA evidence from a...
A 32-year-old man charged with murder at the Central Criminal Court has expressed remorse through his legal counsel. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate, Sligo, pleads not guilty to the murder of 60-year-old Martin Kivlehan on August 2nd or 3rd...
A judge at the Central Criminal Court has warned jurors at a murder trial not to conduct independent investigations into the case. Mr Justice Alexander Owens addressed the jury hearing the case against Keith Brady, aged 32, from Cartron...
A 32-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo entered a plea of not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of another Sligo man who died in his home in August 2015. The Director of Public Prosecutions...
A 32-year-old man from Sligo has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering his neighbour at Connolly Street in February 2018. Richard McLaughlin, with an address at The Laurels, Woodtown Lodge, was committed to the Central...
Patrick McMorrow, aged 51, of Caltragh Crescent, Sligo, has failed in his appeal against a ten-year sentence imposed for a knife attack at the Crozon Inn in October 2016. McMorrow pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to two...
A 32-year-old man from Sligo has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital following a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity for the death of his neighbour. Richard McLaughlin was found not guilty of murdering a 20-year-old man at...
A man has been found not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court for the killing of a twenty-year-old in Sligo. Richard McLaughlin, aged 32, of The Laurels, Woodtown Lodge, Sligo, was charged with the murder of Jimmy...
A consultant forensic psychiatrist has testified at the Central Criminal Court that a man accused of murder in Sligo meets the criteria for a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. The 32-year-old defendant is charged with...
A 32-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of a 20-year-old in Sligo in February 2018. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused admitted carrying out the fatal attack with a crowbar at a...
The Central Criminal Court has scheduled a trial for June 10, 2020, in the case of Richard Burke, who faces a charge of murder in connection with the death of Jasmine McMonagle. Ms McMonagle, aged 28, was discovered deceased at her...
A 29-year-old Sligo woman has been granted bail by the High Court despite objections from the Director of Public Prosecutions, following an arrest warrant issued against her for alleged breaches of previous bail conditions. The woman,...
A 29-year-old man from Ballysodare in Sligo has received a fully suspended sentence following his conviction at the Special Criminal Court for assisting an unlawful organisation. Damhan McFadden pleaded guilty in November 2019 to...
A 31-year-old man from County Sligo has been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to three years imprisonment, with the final year suspended for twelve months, following his guilty plea to the defilement of a child under 15. The...
A Sligo woman who pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension of a man for a killing in the town has been granted bail by the High Court pending sentencing. Janice Brady, aged 29, of Maryville Hostel in Finisklin, Sligo, admitted the...
A man charged with murder in County Sligo will face trial for a third time in November 2019 after his previous trial collapsed at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, was tried in connection with the death...
A man has been convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation by the Special Criminal Court following a trial in Dublin. Julian Flohr, aged 37, of Rusheen Ard, Caltragh, Sligo, was found guilty of the charge relating to 14 August...
A 37-year-old man from Caltragh in Sligo has been granted temporary bail over Christmas by the Special Criminal Court pending a verdict in his case. Julian Flohr is charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has collapsed following broadcast content on RTÉ's Prime Time programme concerning the legal defence of provocation. Ms Justice Carmel Stewart discharged the jury after establishing that five...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is deliberating in the trial of a Sligo man charged with the murder of a musician. Keith Brady, aged 31 and from Cartron Estate in Sligo, is accused of fatally stabbing Martin Kivlehan on a date...
A 31-year-old homeless man has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to demanding money with menaces. Brendan Glynn, originally from Sligo, handed a typed note into a Spar shop on The...
A 31-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering Martin Kivlehan, a 59-year-old musician, between 2nd and 3rd August 2015. The accused has pleaded not guilty to murder but...
A Sligo man charged with murder at the Central Criminal Court has pleaded not guilty to killing a musician but guilty to manslaughter. Keith Brady, aged 31, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, is accused of murdering Martin Kivlehan on a date...
A 29-year-old man from Ballysodare in County Sligo has pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to assisting an unlawful organisation by transporting a training mortar. Damhan McFadden admitted knowingly rendering assistance to...
A superintendent has told the Central Criminal Court that he facilitated an unusual meeting between two detained siblings on humanitarian grounds rather than as an investigative strategy. Keith Brady, aged 31, of Cartron Estate in Sligo...
A man charged with murder in connection with the death of a Sligo musician has told gardaí that the killing was "a moment of madness" following drug use. Keith Brady, aged 31, of Cartron Estate in Sligo town, denies murdering Martin...
A 31-year-old man from Sligo town is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering a local musician in August 2015. The accused has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. During the fifth day of...
Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, is charged with the murder of Martin Kivlehan, a musician, at his home on Holborn Street between 2nd and 3rd August 2015. He has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter, a plea the...
At the Central Criminal Court, a pathologist has given evidence that a musician found dead in his Sligo home was severely intoxicated at the time of his death. Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis told the trial of Keith Brady, aged...
A scenes of crime expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a musician found dead in his Sligo home was likely in a seated or recumbent position when one of two fatal neck wounds was inflicted. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate is...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence that the death scene of a 59-year-old Sligo man appeared staged to resemble a suicide. Keith Brady, aged 31 and of Cartron Estate in Sligo, faces a charge of murdering Martin...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is hearing evidence in the trial of a 31-year-old Sligo man charged with murdering Martin Kivlehan in the town during August 2015. Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate, pleaded not guilty to murder but...
Two men from County Sligo have had their vehicle stop and search challenged as unlawful at the Special Criminal Court. Julian Flohr, aged 37, of Rusheen Ard, Caltragh, and Damhan McFadden, aged 29, of Kilmacowen, Ballysadare, face charges...
A 31-year-old man from Sligo has admitted to the killing of Martin Kivlehan but denies the charge of murder. Keith Brady, of Cartron Estate, appeared before the Central Criminal Court where he pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
Two men from County Sligo are on trial at the Special Criminal Court charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Julian Flohr, aged 37, of Caltragh, and Damhan McFadden, aged 29, of...
A homeless man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to demanding money with menaces following an incident at a store in Clontarf on 16 July 2017. Brendan Glynn, aged 31 and originally from Sligo, handed a threatening note to...
A forensic examination of computers and mobile devices used by senior gardaí has uncovered no evidence supporting allegations made by former press officer Superintendent David Taylor that he was instructed to issue negative media...
A dispute between a financial fund and a court-appointed receiver against the owners of residential properties across multiple counties has been admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court list at the High Court. Seaconview DAC and...
A wind-farm developer operating in County Sligo has obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing a quarrying company from pursuing a winding-up petition against it. Ms Justice Caroline Costello granted an interim order on...
A former Gaelic football coach from Cloonloo, County Sligo, has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal following convictions for indecent assaults on young boys. Ronan McCormack, aged 75, was found guilty by jury at Dublin Circuit...
A former Mayor of Sligo and his wife have obtained a High Court injunction preventing a fund-appointed receiver from taking possession of two residential properties they own in Temple Street, Sligo. Ms Justice Carmel Stewart ruled that...
A Sligo man has been convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment following a trial at the Central Criminal Court. Clement Limen, aged 45, of North Court, Quayside, Sligo town, was found guilty of raping two women at his...
A dissident republican leader has been jailed for eleven and a half years by the Special Criminal Court following his conviction of directing the activities of an unlawful organisation. Seamus McGrane, aged 63, of Dromiskin, County Louth,...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo is to stand trial for murder at the Central Criminal Court in November 2018 following the discharge of a jury that could not reach a verdict. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate is charged with the murder of a...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in a murder trial. Keith Brady, aged 30, of Cartron Estate, Sligo had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is to resume deliberations on Monday in the trial of Keith Brady, aged 30 of Cartron Estate, Sligo. Mr Brady has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter following the death of...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is to consider whether a 30-year-old man from Sligo was too intoxicated to form the intention to murder when he inflicted fatal stab wounds to the neck of a 59-year-old man in August 2015. Keith Brady...
Keith Brady, aged 30, of Cartron Estate in Sligo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Martin 'Matt' Kivlehan, aged 59, at New Apartments on Holborn Street, Sligo on August 2nd or 3rd, 2015. Mr Brady has...
A 30-year-old man accused of murdering a Sligo musician told gardai he stabbed the victim in the neck but could not recall his motive, the Central Criminal Court heard today. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate, Sligo has pleaded not guilty to...
At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that the accused claimed he had been treated unfairly and denied involvement in a fatal stabbing. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate, Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
A brother and sister arrested during a murder investigation were permitted to meet while in garda custody at Sligo Garda Station, the Central Criminal Court heard. The meeting, described as highly unusual, took place in August 2015 and...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that a Sligo man told gardai he was deeply sorry for the death of a 59-year-old and would sacrifice his own life if he could. Keith Brady, aged 30, of Cartron Estate, Sligo, has pleaded...
A 30-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man at New Apartments on Holborn Street, Sligo, on 2nd and 3rd August 2015. The...
At the Central Criminal Court, the Deputy State Pathologist gave evidence in the murder trial of a 30-year-old Sligo man accused of fatally stabbing a musician in his home. Dr Michael Curtis testified that the deceased, Martin Kivlehan,...
Seamus McGrane, aged 63, of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth, has been remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Special Criminal Court on 7 December. McGrane was convicted last month of directing the activities of an unlawful...
A musician found dead in his Sligo home with a knife on his chest and stab wounds to his neck was remembered as a "gentleman who wouldn't hurt a fly" as a murder trial heard evidence at the Central Criminal Court. Martin Kivlehan, aged...
A 33-year-old woman from Sligo has pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension of a man suspected of involvement in a killing in the town. Janice Brady, of Maryville Hostel in Finisklin, appeared before the Central Criminal Court on...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 59-year-old bachelor at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady of Cartron Estate is accused of causing Martin...
A 75-year-old farmer from Cloonloo, County Sligo, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment following his conviction for indecently assaulting two young boys during the 1970s. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the man was found...
A man from County Louth has pleaded not guilty to directing the activities of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army between April and May 2015. The Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard at the opening of the...
A former GAA coach's conviction for sexually abusing five boys has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Ronan McCormack, aged 75, from Cuppanagh, Cloonloo, Co Sligo, was found guilty at Sligo Circuit Criminal Court of 53 counts of...
The parents of Natalie McGuinness, a 23-year-old from Sligo, addressed the Central Criminal Court on 17 July following the case of Oisín Conroy, who was found not guilty of her murder by reason of insanity. Ms McGuinness was strangled to...
A 34-year-old man from Boyle, County Roscommon, has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. The accused was charged with the death of a 23-year-old woman in Sligo on 28 October 2015. During the...
A 34-year-old man stands charged with the murder of his girlfriend at the Central Criminal Court. The accused, with an address in Boyle, County Roscommon, is charged with strangling a 23-year-old woman at a residence in Sligo on 28...
A 34-year-old man from Boyle, County Roscommon, has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court, arising from the death of a 23-year-old woman at his home in Sligo on 28 October 2015. The accused...
A 34-year-old man from Boyle, County Roscommon, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 23-year-old woman in Sligo by reason of insanity. The accused was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court on charges relating to the death on...
A 21-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, following his conviction for assault at the Central Criminal Court. The man was acquitted of rape but found guilty of assault...
A man convicted in Sligo District Court of being in charge of an intoxicated vehicle has lost his appeal against the validity of his arrest. The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction on a case stated basis following a February 2011...
A 29-year-old man from Cartron Estate in Sligo has been sent forward for trial on a charge of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Keith Brady is accused of the death of Martin Kivlehan, aged 59, which occurred on Holbron Street, Sligo...
Two men from County Sligo have been sent forward for trial at the Special Criminal Court on charges of membership of an unlawful organisation. Damhan McFadden, aged 27, of Kilmacowen, Ballysodare, and Julian Flohr, aged 35, of Rusheen...
The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 31-year-old man from Sligo to the United Kingdom to face trial on charges of blackmail, conspiracy to commit blackmail, and possession of criminal property. High Court judge Ms Aileen...
A woman has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to the alleged trafficking of a young Nigerian woman into Ireland for the purposes of prostitution. Joy Imasogie, aged 40, with an address in Hollystown,...
A Medical Council inquiry has found Dr Andrea Hermann guilty of poor professional performance on 17 counts and professional misconduct on three counts. Dr Hermann, who worked as an obstetric and gynaecology registrar at Sligo General...
Simon McGinley, aged 32 from Connaughton Road Car Park in Sligo, has had his appeals against conviction and sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. McGinley was convicted of the murder of Eugene Gillespie, a 67-year-old retired...
Two men from County Sligo have been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court following their arrest in Co Leitrim during an operation targeting dissident republican activity. Damhan McFadden, aged 27, of Kilmacowen, Ballysodare and...
Two men from County Sligo have been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Damhan McFadden, aged 27, of Kilmacowen, Ballysodare, and Julian Flohr, aged 35, of Rusheen Ard, Caltra,...
A man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final year suspended for three years, at the Central Criminal Court for the sexual abuse of his daughter over a decade-long period. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two...
Two men convicted of historical sexual abuse have brought appeals against their convictions to the Court of Appeal. Francis McLoughlin, aged 66, of Mahanagh, Cloonloo, Co Sligo, was found guilty of indecently assaulting two young boys...
A man in his fifties appeared before the Central Criminal Court in relation to serious sexual offences committed against his daughter over a decade-long period at the family farm in County Sligo. The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts...
A 40-year-old man from Dublin who has since relocated to Sligo received a suspended sentence at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting his niece over two decades ago. The defendant pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual...
A 28-year-old man from Sligo has been sentenced to seven and a half years' imprisonment following his guilty plea to sexually assaulting his young cousin while babysitting. The offence occurred between 2007 and 2010. The Central Criminal...
A man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making a false report concerning explosives at an Intel facility in County Kildare on January 13th, 2015. The defendant, aged 20 and from Balbriggan in County Dublin, had arranged...
Four men convicted of assaulting two off-duty gardaí at Charlestown in June 2012 have been imprisoned following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecution against their original suspended sentences. Nico Barrett, aged 22,...
The President of the High Court has rejected applications by three men imprisoned for drug possession offences, who sought release following a Court of Appeal decision that struck down provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act as...
A Dublin man imprisoned for three years following his admission to possessing over 5,000 ecstasy tablets has secured a High Court inquiry into the lawfulness of his continued detention. Keith Willis, currently held at Wheatfield Prison,...
The trial of Mark Nash at the Central Criminal Court resumed following legal argument on this date. Nash, aged 42, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering two women in sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman in March 1997. The...
A Mayo man has failed in his appeal against a six-year prison sentence imposed for dangerous driving that caused serious injury to his front seat passenger, though the Court of Appeal has reduced his driving disqualification from twenty...
A Sligo man has received a five-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of heroin worth over €100,000 with intent to supply. Anthony Fitzpatrick, aged 22 and resident in Tubbercurry, pleaded guilty to the...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has acquitted a Galway man charged with raping a woman in Sligo in December 2010. The man had pleaded not guilty to the allegation. During a four-day trial, the complainant gave evidence that she had...
A man originally from Sligo has failed in his bid to have his conviction appeal heard by the Supreme Court following an attack on his former partner in Dublin in 2009. Fergal McNulty was convicted by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of...
A 26-year-old man born in Sligo pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to trespassing with intent to commit an offence at an ESB substation on the Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin on 3 November 2013. Jamie Gordon suffered severe burns...
Six individuals convicted of bombing offences in England during the late 1990s and early 2000s have been released from Portlaoise Prison following High Court challenges to their detention. The men, who were transferred to Ireland to serve...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Simon McGinley, aged 30 of Connaughton Road Car Park in Sligo, guilty of the murder of Eugene Gillespie, a 67-year-old retired telecoms broker. McGinley had initially denied the murder charge...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has suspended deliberations in the trial of a 30-year-old man charged with murdering a pensioner in Sligo. Simon McGinley, of Connaughton Road Car Park, Sligo, has pleaded not guilty to murder but...
The trial of a 30-year-old Sligo man accused of murdering a 67-year-old pensioner continued at the Central Criminal Court today. The accused has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter, a plea the State rejected. He has...
At the Central Criminal Court, a 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. Simon McGinley of Connaughton Road faces...
The Court of Criminal Appeal has declined to order a retrial of two nightclub doormen whose assault convictions were previously quashed. Frankie Murphy, aged 44, of Stephen Street, Sligo, and John Molloy, aged 33, of Creggs Road, Ballina,...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter following the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. Simon McGinley, of Connaughton Road, has also pleaded guilty to false imprisonment...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. Simon McGinley of Connaughton Road has also admitted false imprisonment and...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. The trial at the Central Criminal Court heard evidence of a 999 emergency...
A 30-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 67-year-old pensioner in September 2012. The accused, of Connaughton Road, Sligo, also pleaded guilty to false...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 30-year-old man from Sligo charged with murder. Simon McGinley of Connaughton Road pleaded not guilty to the murder of Eugene Gillespie on September 22, 2012, but...
A man originally from Sligo has been unsuccessful in appealing his conviction for a serious assault on his former partner. Fergal McNulty (44) was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in July 2012 following his conviction on two counts...
PSNI officers have given evidence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin in the trial of a man charged with withholding information relating to the November 2012 murder of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black. Vincent Banks (44),...
The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the convictions of two nightclub doormen from Sligo and Co Mayo who were sentenced in 2011 for assault causing harm. Frankie Murphy of Stephen Street, Sligo, and John Molloy of Creggs Road,...
A Sinn Féin local election candidate from County Sligo has secured a High Court order lifting his indefinite suspension from the party. Edward McCarrick, 33, with an address in Tubbercurry, was selected to contest the Ballymote electoral...