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Court reports mentioning Mallow, Cork

2014-11-25 · Cork

Pair who sexually assaulted one woman and assaulted another get more suspended from sentences

Two teenage men, Adam Heneghan (21) and Colin O'Sullivan (22), had their suspended prison sentences increased by the Court of Appeal after they sexually assaulted one woman and assaulted another with a bottle in Cork on 3 December 2011. Heneghan pleaded guilty to assault causing harm and sexual assault, receiving a nine‑year sentence with the final year suspended; O'Sullivan was found guilty by jury of assault causing harm and later pleaded guilty to sexual assault, receiving a ten‑year sentence with the final year suspended. The Court of Appeal, citing the seriousness of the offences and the defendants' youth, lack of prior convictions, and O'Sullivan's developmental issues, increased the suspended portions: Heneghan's suspended period was raised to four years, and O'Sullivan's to three‑and‑a‑half years. Both men will serve the remaining custodial time and have bonds of €1,000 to maintain good behaviour. The appeal was upheld on 25 November 2014.

2014-05-13 · Cork

Widow unable to recover six figure sum awarded for workplace accident

Helen Guiney, a widow from Kiskeam, Mallow, Cork, was awarded €794,765 in damages after her husband John died in a work‑related accident at a site in Raheen, Carrigaline in November 2000. The award was obtained against his former employer, MJ Manning Construction Ltd., which has since ceased trading. The insurer, UK‑authorised Independent Insurance Company Ltd (IICL), entered provisional liquidation in 2001, and creditors of IICL were expected to recover only 10‑15% of their claims. Mrs Guiney applied to the Insurance Compensation Fund (ICF), established under the 1964 Insurance Act, to recover the balance. In May the Accountant of the High Court refused her application, stating that the policy held by MJ Manning with IICL did not fall within the 1964 Act as amended in 2011, because IICL was liquidated before the amendment. The Accountant also noted that responsibility for the claim lies with UK authorities supervising IICL.