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Workplace Relations Commission
2026-02-27
Courts News Ireland
Healthcare workers from Zimbabwe who said they were left “begging” from relatives and living in "freezing" accommodation after paying thousands in fees to secure jobs in Ireland which never materialised have won orders for a whole year’s wages each – nearly a quarter of a million
Workplace Relations Commission
2025-11-14
Courts News Ireland
Care workers from Zimbabwe, who allege they paid thousands of euro each to a recruiter to secure work permits, have told a tribunal of living in "freezing" shared accommodation without pay after the jobs they were promised in Ireland failed to materialise. Testifying to the Workp
Court of Appeal
2023-02-28
Courts News Ireland
(File Picture: Daniel O'Callaghan. Credit: Collins) A former All-Ireland winner who stole an "eye-watering" sum of money as part of a cross-border gang that used stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls has failed in a bid to overturn his conviction after challenging the identifica
Special Criminal Court
2023-02-08
Courts News Ireland
The Special Criminal Court has heard evidence from the victims of "creeper" break-ins in the case of two men accused of conspiring to commit those burglaries and of the robbery of a credit union during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot dead. Brendan Treanor (34), prev
Special Criminal Court
2023-02-07
Courts News Ireland
The Special Criminal Court has refused to hear separate trials in the case of two men accused of conspiracy to commit burglaries and of the robbery of a credit union in which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot dead. Lawyers for Brendan Treanor and James Flynn had asked the t
Court of Appeal
2022-11-11
Courts News Ireland
One of three Monaghan brothers who were part of a notorious cross-Border gang that stole an "eye-watering" amount of money from ATMS has failed in an appeal against his jail sentence. The three had all pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court last year to being part of a gang
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2022-11-01
Courts News Ireland
A man who falsely registered himself as the father of six babies in order to facilitate their mothers in securing Irish passports for their children has been jailed for three years. However, Judge Martin Nolan today imposed suspended sentences on the parents who decided to partic
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-07
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Daniel O'Callaghan. Photo: Collins) A former All-Ireland club winner who stole an "eye-watering" sum of money while he was a member of a cross-border gang that used stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls has been jailed for 10 years by the Special Criminal Court. Ms Ju
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-04
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Daniel O'Callaghan. Photo: Collins) Seventeen testimonials were handed in to the Special Criminal Court today on behalf of a cross-border criminal who was involved with a notorious gang that stole hundreds of thousands of Euro using stolen diggers to pull ATMs from wal
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-04
Courts News Ireland
Three Monaghan brothers who were part of a destructive ATM cross-Border gang that stole an "eye-watering" amount of money have received combined jail sentences of 19-and-a-half years at the Special Criminal Court today. The three had all pleaded guilty to being part of a gang tha
Special Criminal Court
2022-02-18
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Daniel O'Callaghan. Photo: Collins) The Special Criminal Court has found that a GAA club All-Ireland winner was involved with a cross-border gang that stole hundreds of thousands of Euro by using stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls. Daniel O'Callaghan (31), who has
Special Criminal Court
2022-02-01
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Stephen Duffy. Photo: Collins) There were emotional scenes at the Special Criminal Court today as three brothers who were part of a cross-Border ATM theft gang that stole almost €800k were remanded in custody ahead of sentencing. The three have all pleaded guilty to be
Special Criminal Court
2022-01-27
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Daniel O'Callaghan. Photo: Collins) The State has concluded its case against a former Armagh GAA club star accused of being part of a destructive cross-Border gang involved in the theft and attempted theft of two ATMs. Today at the three-judge Special Criminal Court, p
Special Criminal Court
2022-01-26
Courts News Ireland
A man who admitted trying to steal an ATM and to moving cash for a cross-border gang was found hiding in a toilet hours after he ran from responding gardai, the Special Criminal Court has heard. The non-jury court is hearing the case of former club all-Ireland champion Daniel O'C
Special Criminal Court
2022-01-13
Courts News Ireland
A former All-Ireland club football champion has pleaded not guilty to possessing more than €400,000 in cash that was stolen from ATMs by a criminal gang in 2019. Daniel O'Callaghan (31), who played for Crossmaglen Rangers, and has an address at Monog Road, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh,
Special Criminal Court
2021-12-21
Courts News Ireland
Two Monaghan brothers admitted to their involvement with a cross-border gang that used excavators to carry off ATMs by entering guilty pleas to a number of charges at the Special Criminal Court today. The pair, along with their older brother, are among a number of men who have be
Special Criminal Court
2021-12-21
Courts News Ireland
A man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to attempting to steal a restaurant ATM in Cavan and to moving cash for a cross-border gang. Ciaran Duffy (27) of Greagh, Loughnamore, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan pleaded guilty at the three-judge, non-jury court to three offe
Special Criminal Court
2021-12-16
Courts News Ireland
(Pictured: Stephen Duffy. Photo: Collins) A Monaghan man has become the second male to admit to his involvement in the thefts of ATMS by a destructive cross-Border gang, after he pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possessing stolen cash. Five men have been charged be
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
2021-11-22
Courts News Ireland
The physical scars and mental trauma of the kidnap and assault on businessman Kevin Lunney will remain with him and his family for the rest of their lives, the Special Criminal Court has heard. Mr Lunney wrote a victim impact statement for the court which was read out by Detectiv
