'No rational basis or motivation' for shooting garda, defence tell murder trial jury
At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel Dominic McGinn SC argued during closing submissions that Stephen Silver's shooting of Garda Colm Horkan at...
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Murder accused said he 'waited in long grass' for wife before 'dark and frenzied attack'
At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that James Kilroy, aged 49, a park ranger from Kilbree Lower, Westport, County Mayo, described to gardai...
Man admits to directing criminal gang
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,...
Murder accused had 'seething resentment' toward gardai, prosecution tell jury
Stephen Silver, aged 46 of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...
Child of mother killed in rural home requested coco pops after gardai found body, trial hears
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning the death of a forty-one-year-old occupational therapist discovered in a campervan...
Valerie French Kilroy trial: accused described to gardai how he killed wife
James Kilroy, aged 49, of Kilbree Lower, Westport, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of Valerie French Kilroy at...
Garda murder accused 'an unreliable historian' of his mental health, psychiatrist tells trial
A consultant psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...
Valerie French Kilroy's husband found naked in field after killing her, jury hears
A 49-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his wife at their rural home near Westport, County Mayo, the Central Criminal...
Jail for man who abducted daughter, prompting nationwide alert
A 33-year-old man from County Mayo has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment following his abduction of his two-year-old daughter from a health...
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...
Chaotic scenes as Burkes physically removed from failed appeal hearing
Chaotic scenes erupted at the Court of Appeal on 7 March when members of the Burke family were physically removed from the courtroom during the dismissal of...
Garda murder accused was 'outraged' at being detained because of 'learned impunity', psychiatrist tells trial
A consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver, who stands accused of murdering Garda Colm Horkan with the officer's own...
Husband goes on trial accused of Valerie French Kilroy murder
A 49-year-old man from Westport, County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. James...
12.5 years for psychiatric nurse who repeatedly raped wife and abused daughter
At the Central Criminal Court, Martin Doyle, aged 53, of Esker, Knock, County Mayo, was convicted following trial of two counts of rape and 25 counts of...
Garda murder accused's sister planned to have him admitted to hospital on day before shooting
At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a murder trial heard evidence concerning Stephen Silver's mental state in the hours before the fatal shooting of...
Donegal man who sexually assaulted partner while she slept is given suspended sentence
A Donegal man has received a fully suspended sentence following his conviction for sexually assaulting his partner while she slept at their family home in...
Planning Board concedes as permission for agri-food plant is quashed
An Bord Pleanála has conceded a High Court challenge to its decision permitting Abbott Ireland to extend its manufacturing facility near Dromore, Co Monaghan....
Garda murder accused's 'grossly inappropriate' behaviour indicative of mental illness, psychiatrist tells trial
At the Central Criminal Court, a psychiatrist gave evidence that Stephen Silver displayed behaviour indicative of mental illness during garda interviews...
Jury in trial of four view bodycam footage of Strokestown eviction
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has viewed bodycam footage from an eviction at a property near Strokestown, County Roscommon, recorded five days...
State accepts plea to lesser charge for violent criminal with 90 previous convictions
A man with ninety previous convictions has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following an assault in the city centre....
Security guard tells trial of Strokestown four that he is former UDR member
A security guard testifying at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in a trial arising from the December 2018 Strokestown eviction told the court this week that he...
Psychiatrist gives evidence of garda murder accused's multiple hospital admissions
A psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court regarding the mental health history of Stephen Silver, aged 46, of Aughavard, Foxford, County...
Lifeguard supervisor sacked over alleged failure to oversee 'life-or-death' ring buoy inspections brings unfair dismissal case
A former lifeguard supervisor from Donegal has brought an unfair dismissal claim before the Workplace Relations Commission following her dismissal by Donegal...
Custom House Capital executives due in court next week over fraud conspiracy
Four senior executives of Custom House Capital have been directed to appear before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 8 March following guilty pleas to...
Enoch Burke late for court as judge wants details of every alleged contempt
Enoch Burke arrived late to the High Court this morning where his dispute with Wilson's Hospital School in County Westmeath was mentioned before Mr Justice...
All-Ireland winner fails in bid to overturn ATM theft gang conviction
A former All-Ireland club medallist has failed in his appeal against conviction for his role in a cross-border ATM theft operation. Daniel O'Callaghan (33)...
Strokestown eviction case: security guard forced to eat dog faeces, trial of four men hears
Four men are standing trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 53 charges arising from an alleged attack on security personnel during a property repossession...
Garda murder accused previously had symptoms on 'extreme end' of mental illness, trial hears
A forensic psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver, accused of murdering Garda Horkan in Castlerea, County Roscommon, in June...
Garda murder accused's mental capacity 'significantly impaired', psychiatrist tells trial
A forensic psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver's mental capacity was significantly impaired at the time Garda Colm Horkan was...
Garda murder accused denies 'inventing' MI6 belief
Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard in Foxford, County Mayo, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the...
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