Cases and rulings mentioning Bailieborough from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
The Dock
2025-11-12
Courts News Ireland
By Alison O'Riordan and Brian Kavanagh The text message was ominous. At 5.57pm on the evening of April 22, 2014, Eoin O'Connor typed a message to a family member which read: “have to go to the country, Woodlands in Ballyjamesduff, if anything happens to me." Just a few hours earl
Central Criminal Court
2025-10-10
Courts News Ireland
(File Picture: Ms Ruth Lawrence. Photo: Collins) A woman who is accused of murdering two men asked about taking a boat out on Lough Sheelin – where the deceased's bodies were eventually found – the day before the men were last seen alive, a witness has told the Central Criminal C
Special Criminal Court
2021-11-29
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Niall Finnegan. Photo" Collins) A "family man" who got involved with a cross-border gang that carried out a series of destructive ATM thefts wept today as was jailed by the Special Criminal Court. The non-jury court also denied the defendant's request for a postponemen
Special Criminal Court
2020-09-07
Courts News Ireland
A former All Ireland club champion charged in relation to the theft and attempted theft of ATMs in Cavan and Monaghan last year has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court. Daniel O'Callaghan (30) appeared before the Special Criminal Court last week charged with five offe
Special Criminal Court
2020-09-01
Courts News Ireland
A former All-Ireland club champion today became the fifth man to be charged in relation to the theft and attempted theft of ATMs in Cavan and Monaghan last year. Daniel O'Callaghan (30) appeared before the Special Criminal Court this afternoon charged with five offences relating
Court of Appeal
2019-04-12
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Oliver Kierans. Credit: Collins) A man found guilty of shooting his wife dead in an act of gross negligence has lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence. Oliver Kierans (60) of Drumbannon, Bailieborough in Cavan, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal
Court of Appeal
2019-04-04
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Oliver Kierans. Credit: Collins) A man found guilty of shooting his wife dead in an act of gross negligence must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction and sentence. Oliver Kierans (60) of Drumbannon, Bailieborough in Cavan, had pleaded not guilty
Court of Appeal
2018-06-25
Courts News Ireland
Two criminals withdrew appeals against the severity of their prison sentences today, after the Court of Appeal reminded their lawyers of the court’s power to increase sentences as well as reduce them. Philip McKevitt (62), of Aghaboys, Mount Pleasant, Dundalk, was convicted of ma
Tribunal
2017-07-04
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Ms Laura Brophy. Credit: Collins) By Gerard Cunningham A witness at the Disclosures Tribunal described feeling a "wave of panic" when she realised she had incorrectly described abuse allegations in a report she wrote in 2013, increasing the severity of allegations agai
Central Criminal Court
2015-04-20
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) A Cavan father-of-four who killed his wife of 33 years at their family home has been jailed for 12 years. Oliver Kierans (57) of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan had pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans (54) on September 5th
Central Criminal Court
2015-03-26
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) A Cavan man who was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of his wife will be sentenced next month. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans (54)
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-27
Courts News Ireland
by Anne Sharkey A 57-year-old Cavan man has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of his wife at their family home in 2013. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans (54) on September 5
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-26
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) by Anne Sharkey The jury in the trial of a Cavan man accused of murdering his wife have been sent home for the evening and will resume their deliberations tomorrow. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon, Bailieborough in Cavan, has plead
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-25
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) by Anne Sharkey A Cavan man accused of murdering his wife has been found guilty of the unlawful possession of a 12-gauge double barrel shotgun. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to murde
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-24
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) by Anne Sharkey A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a Cavan man charged with murdering his wife. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans (54) on Septemb
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-20
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) by Anne Sharkey The son of a Cavan woman shot by her husband has told a murder trial jury that his father said "I don't want you to come home for my funeral" days before his mother was found dead in the family home. Oliver Kierans (57
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-18
Courts News Ireland
(File Picture: State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy, who gave evidence today. Photo: Collins) A murder trial has heard that the cause of death of Cavan mother of four Patricia Kierans was a shotgun injury to the chest. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cava
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-17
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans. Photo: Collins) by Anne Sharkey The jury in the trial of a Cavan man accused of murdering his wife has been shown CCTV footage of what gardai say were her final movements before her death. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, ha
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-17
Courts News Ireland
by Anne Sharkey A murder trial has heard that the accused man turned a gun on himself for "peace of mind" hours after his wife was shot in the family home. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drumbannon Bailieborough in Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans (54) on the
Central Criminal Court
2015-02-16
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Mr Oliver Kierans (57). Photo: Collins The jury in the trial of a Cavan man accused of murdering his wife has heard that the accused man said a prayer moments after his wife and the mother of their four children was shot at the family home. Oliver Kierans (57), of Drum