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Buncrana · January 19, 2023 Also covered in Convoy

Regency accused claims dad was driving his jeep on day of attack

At the Special Criminal Court, the defence for Jason Bonney, a man accused of participating in the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency...

Mayo · January 18, 2023

Enoch Burke claims justice is 'being withheld' after injunction bid is dismissed

A High Court judge has dismissed an injunction application by a Westmeath teacher seeking to halt disciplinary proceedings against him. Mr Justice Conor...

Mayo · January 17, 2023

Enoch Burke can halt disciplinary hearing if he stays away from school

A High Court judge has determined that teacher Enoch Burke holds a strong case against disciplinary proceedings initiated by Wilson's Hospital School in...

Convoy · January 16, 2023

Regency Hotel trial hears of shootings linked to Hutch-Kinahan feud

A Detective Superintendent from the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau gave evidence at the Special Criminal Court trial concerning four...

Rathmullan · January 13, 2023

Second man admits facilitating Keane Mulready-Woods murder

A 49-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to facilitating the murder of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. Gerard Cruise, with an...

Donegal · January 13, 2023

Teen (19) sexually assaulted by sister's partner as she slept

A 27-year-old Donegal man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenager as she slept at his home on 4 June 2017. The Central Criminal Court heard that...

Convoy · January 12, 2023

'No further steps' in Regency trial in relation to disclosure of 'curious' document

Parties before the Special Criminal Court in the trial relating to the February 2016 Regency Hotel murder have agreed to take no further steps regarding a...

Mayo · January 11, 2023

Heated exchanges as Enoch Burke's bid to halt disciplinary process opens

Heated exchanges occurred at the High Court on Wednesday evening during a hearing of Enoch Burke's application for an injunction to halt disciplinary...

Castleblayney · December 21, 2022

Driving ban not required for careless driving causing death if it's first offence

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a mandatory driving ban is not required for those convicted of careless driving causing death where it constitutes a first...

Killoe · December 20, 2022

Accountant 'got himself into a mess' and filed late tax returns

A Longford accountant pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to filing false tax returns for five clients between July 2016 and August 2019. Robert...

Cavan · December 19, 2022

'Cornucopia of evidence' against ‘tiger kidnapper’ Paschal Kelly, appeal told

A man from County Cavan is appealing his conviction for a post office robbery in Dublin during which three women were tied up and abducted. Paschal Kelly,...

Donegal · December 19, 2022

Dowdall denies planning 'mass murder' on secret tapes

A former Sinn Féin councillor turned State's witness has denied allegations that he was recorded planning mass murder and discussing bomb-making during...

Lifford · December 16, 2022

Dowdall claims Monk is 'terrorising' his family

Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor, told the Special Criminal Court that he and his family are being terrorised and face death threats since...

Ballyhaunis · December 16, 2022

Dad jailed for life for murder of infant son seeks to overturn conviction

A man serving a mandatory life sentence for the murder of his infant son has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal, challenging the admissibility of...

Leitrim · December 13, 2022

'Mammy fell on daddy's fist many times': man's 'chilling' comments to son after beating partner

A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for assaulting his partner at their Co Leitrim home on 5 July...

Donegal · December 13, 2022

Dowdall denies he is "master manipulator"

Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor and State's witness in the trial of Gerard Hutch at the Special Criminal Court, has denied characterisations...

Monaghan · December 13, 2022

Caterer gets 'Christmas Eve' reprieve over Brennan's bakery contract

A High Court dispute concerning a catering contract at Brennan's bakery in Dublin has been adjourned to late March following agreement between the parties....

Donegal · December 12, 2022

Monk said he and other man shot David Byrne, Dowdall tells Regency trial

Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor, has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin against his former co-accused Gerard "The Monk"...

Cavan · December 09, 2022

Serial arsonist who killed uncle has jail term increased

A serial arsonist whose fire claimed his uncle's life has had his prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. Daniel Murray, aged 40, of no fixed abode...

Monaghan · December 08, 2022

Caterer says 'entire business and livelihood' will end on Christmas Eve

A catering company owner has brought proceedings in the High Court seeking an injunction to prevent termination of a contract with a major Dublin bakery....

Castlebar · December 05, 2022

Young men must understand that ‘no means no’, High Court judge says

Patrick McLoughlin, aged 35, of Torboy, Moydow, County Longford, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment, with the final eighteen months suspended,...

Rathmullan · December 05, 2022

Drogheda criminal admits facilitating Mulready-Woods murder

Paul Crosby (27), from Rathmullan Park in Drogheda, Co Louth, pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court on December 5th to facilitating the murder of...

Monaghan · December 02, 2022

Bugged conversations between Dowdall and Hutch admissible at trial, judges rule

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, judges ruled that approximately ten hours of recorded conversations between murder accused Gerard Hutch and former...

Sligo · December 01, 2022

Yousef Palani gets date for trial on double murder charges

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...

Westport · November 30, 2022

Valerie French Kilroy murder trial postponed

A man accused of murdering his wife at their Westport home in June 2019 will stand trial in March 2023 instead of December this year. James Kilroy, aged 48,...

Monaghan · November 29, 2022

Nothing in Irish surveillance law to say it applies outside of State, Hutch defence team says

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 29 November, senior counsel for Gerard Hutch argued that Irish surveillance legislation contains no provision...

Roscommon · November 28, 2022

'Sick sex abuser' has jail sentence reduced by two years

A man from Co Roscommon has had his prison sentence reduced by two years following an appeal at the Court of Appeal. The 76-year-old was convicted in June...

Monaghan · November 28, 2022

'Doesn't matter a damn' where bug travels once placed lawfully, Regency trial hears

The Special Criminal Court heard arguments on the admissibility of audio surveillance recordings in the trial of Gerard Hutch, who denies murdering David...

Bundoran · November 28, 2022

Property developer allowed write off over €170m in debt in insolvency arrangement

The High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement allowing a former property developer to write off approximately €170 million in debt. The...

Monaghan · November 25, 2022

Garda bug sought under 'culture of secrecy', Hutch lawyers tell Regency trial

At the Special Criminal Court, defence counsel for Gerard Hutch have argued that a garda audio recording of conversations between Hutch and former Sinn Féin...

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