Cases and rulings mentioning Ballinagh from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
Court of Appeal
2026-06-30
Courts News Ireland
(File Picture: Darren Redmond (L) & Alan Harte (R). Photo: Collins) Three men who abducted Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, subjected him to “animalistic” levels of “protracted torture” and carved the letters QIH into his chest in an act of “lawlessness...
Court of Appeal
2026-01-13
Courts News Ireland
Three men convicted of the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had their conviction appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte, Alan O'Brien, and Darren Redmond, all from East Wall, Dublin, were found guilty by the Special...
Court of Appeal
2025-07-28
Courts News Ireland
Alan Harte, aged 43, is serving a 30-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court for the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at a yard in Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019. At the Court of Appeal, Harte's legal team argued...
Court of Appeal
2025-03-11
Courts News Ireland
The Court of Appeal heard submissions on whether to uphold convictions against three men jailed for the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Sean Guerin SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, argued that the case rested on sound...
Court of Appeal
2025-02-04
Courts News Ireland
Alan Harte, who is serving a 30-year sentence for the false imprisonment and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney in County Cavan in September 2019, has been ordered to pay the State's costs following the dismissal of his appeal at the Court of Appeal....
Court of Appeal
2025-01-20
Courts News Ireland
A man serving a 30-year sentence for the kidnapping and torture of a Quinn Industrial Holdings director has failed in his Court of Appeal challenge against a refusal to extend time for seeking judicial review of his non-jury trial. Alan Harte was convicted in the Special...
Court of Appeal
2024-12-18
Courts News Ireland
Three men convicted of the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had their appeal adjourned for three months by the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte (43), Alan O'Brien (43) and Darren Redmond (30), all from East Wall, Dublin, sought to overturn...
Court of Appeal
2024-12-17
Courts News Ireland
Three men convicted of the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have appealed their sentences at the Court of Appeal, arguing that crucial DNA evidence from a Renault Kangoo van should not have been admitted at trial. Alan Harte, Alan...
Court of Appeal
2024-12-16
Courts News Ireland
Three men convicted of the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have appealed their convictions at the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte (43), Alan O'Brien (43), and Darren Redmond (30), all from East Wall, Dublin, were sentenced in December 2022...
Court of Appeal
2024-11-07
Courts News Ireland
A 43-year-old man serving a 30-year sentence for the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019 has appealed a High Court refusal to extend time for him to challenge his trial in the non-jury...
Special Criminal Court
2023-03-16
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has reserved its decision on a constitutional challenge brought by Alan Harte, who seeks to overturn his conviction and 30-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court in 2021. Harte was sentenced for the serious harm and false imprisonment of Quinn...
Court of Appeal
2022-11-04
Courts News Ireland
A man convicted of perverting the course of justice in connection with a 2013 dissident Republican murder has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Raymond Kennedy was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in May 2022 after the Special Criminal Court found him...
High Court
2022-03-21
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has directed that an application by Alan Harte, who was convicted of kidnapping and torturing Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, must be served on the Director of Public Prosecutions. Harte, aged 41, was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment by the...
High Court
2022-02-21
Courts News Ireland
A man convicted at the Special Criminal Court of kidnapping and assaulting a Quinn Industrial Holdings director has launched a High Court challenge against his conviction and 30-year sentence. Alan Harte claims that Section 40 of the 1939 Offences Against the State Act breaches...
High Court
2022-01-18
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has lifted a gagging order that prevented the media from naming Alan Harte, a 40-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and torturing Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. Harte was previously identified only as "YZ" in media reporting. On 17...
Court of Appeal
2022-01-14
Courts News Ireland
The State has argued to the Court of Appeal that an anonymity order protecting a man convicted in the Kevin Lunney case should be lifted without further delay. The individual, identified as YZ in proceedings, received a 30-year sentence in December for his role in the...
Special Criminal Court
2021-12-20
Courts News Ireland
Three men have been sentenced following their conviction for the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. At the Special Criminal Court, a man identified as YZ received 30 years...
High Court
2021-12-17
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has extended an anonymity order protecting the identity of a man convicted of inflicting serious injuries on businessman Kevin Lunney during a kidnapping in County Cavan in September 2019. Mr Justice Charles Meenan granted a temporary extension of the order until...
High Court
2021-12-16
Courts News Ireland
An application to maintain the anonymity of a man convicted of serious offences against businessman Kevin Lunney came before the High Court on Thursday. The man, referred to as YZ, was convicted earlier this year alongside two co-accused of false imprisonment and intentionally...
Special Criminal Court
2021-12-13
Courts News Ireland
The Special Criminal Court has extended an order protecting the identity of a man convicted of inflicting the most severe injuries on businessman Kevin Lunney during a 2019 kidnapping in Cavan. The anonymity order, which was due to expire on 13 December, has been extended until...
