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  1. planningPlanning conditional: permission to remove thatch and dormer windows to existing roof of single storey...
  2. planningPlanning application received: permission to construct a new bungalow style dwelling, install new mechanical...
  3. planningThatch roof and dormer windows replaced with slate on single-storey house
  4. courtsFinancial Services manager won't face third trial over alleged role in €61m fraud conspiracy
  5. courtsSecond jury fails to reach verdict in Custom House Capital fraud conspiracy trial
  6. courtsCHC investor fraud did more damage to woman's life than WW2, court hears as 197 victims give statements
  7. courtsSenior Custom House Capital execs get date for sentencing hearing
  8. courtsFraud trial hears of guilty plea by Custom House Capital CEO
  9. courtsKnife-wielding burglar who threatened to kill residents has jail term increased

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Second jury fails to reach verdict in Custom House Capital fraud conspiracy trial

(File Picture: Ms Ciara Kelleher. Photo: Collins) A jury has once again failed to reach a verdict in the second trial of a financial services manager accused of being part of an alleged conspiracy to defraud investors in Custom House Capital over a decade ago. Ciara Kelleher (53), the firm's then-se

Courts News Ireland report
13 Feb 2025 · Courts News Ireland

Senior Custom House Capital execs get date for sentencing hearing

(File Picture: Harry Cassidy. Photo: Collins) Four senior executives of investment firm Custom House Capital are due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next month in relation to a conspiracy to defraud investors over a decade ago. The company's former CEO Harry Cassidy (67) along with

Courts News Ireland report
08 Mar 2023 · Courts News Ireland

Fraud trial hears of guilty plea by Custom House Capital CEO

By Eimear Dodd The jury in the fraud trial of a former financial services manager for Custom House Capital has heard that the company's former CEO Harry Cassidy and others have pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the garda investigation. On day 11 of the trial Michael Bowman SC, defending,

Courts News Ireland report
14 Feb 2023 · Courts News Ireland

Knife-wielding burglar who threatened to kill residents has jail term increased

A violent burglar who carried out a knife-point home invasion that involved "gratuitous" criminal damage and left the residents with "significant psychological trauma" after threats were made against their lives has had his jail sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. John McDonagh and a teenage

Courts News Ireland report
12 Jul 2022 · Courts News Ireland

Planning

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Thatch roof and dormer windows replaced with slate on single-storey house

Mary McKenna wants to give her single-storey house in Ballinode a makeover by removing the thatch roof and dormer windows and replacing them with slate. The work also includes some changes to how the house looks from the outside, along with updates to the entrance and sewerage connection.

Mary McKenna
File ref: 2660187 · Monaghan County Council
12 May 2026 · Monaghan County Council (Planning)

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Dublin Circuit Criminal Court 2023-03-08 Courts News Ireland

Senior Custom House Capital execs get date for sentencing hearing

Four senior executives of Custom House Capital pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to conspiracy to defraud investors during the period between October 2008 and July 2011. Harry Cassidy, the former chief executive, along with former head of private clients John...

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court 2023-02-14 Courts News Ireland

Fraud trial hears of guilty plea by Custom House Capital CEO

On the eleventh day of the fraud trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the jury heard that the former chief executive of Custom House Capital and three others have entered guilty pleas to charges arising from a garda investigation. Harry Cassidy, aged sixty-seven, pleaded...