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Court reports mentioning Croom, Limerick
2025-12-05 · Limerick
A bride who fell from a second-storey hotel window on her wedding night, suffering serious injuries, has resolved her personal injury claim at the High Court. Jackie Sexton (nee Tyrrell) brought a case against Deebert House Hotel Ltd, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, following the incident that occurred in the early hours after her February 29, 2020, wedding. The hotel denied liability, claiming that windows had been properly fitted with restrictors in 2014 and were in compliance with building standards. Ms Sexton alleged negligence and breach of duty, arguing that the hotel failed to ensure her safety. She told the court that she and her husband returned to the hotel around 3:30am and went to room 217. She said she was smoking a cigarette at the window when she fell, and the next thing she remembered was waking up in hospital the following day. Her husband found her missing from the bedroom and heard her moaning from below the window. Ms Sexton suffered multiple fractures, a collapsed lung, and other injuries, which significantly impacted her life and career.
2024-01-15 · Limerick
Peter Guerin, 65, was sentenced to two‑and‑a‑half years in prison, with six months suspended, for engaging in a sexual act with a highly vulnerable learning‑disabled woman. The woman, travelling from sheltered accommodation to Limerick, was taken by Guerin from a bus station to his home, where he offered her money and attempted sexual contact. She later reported the assault and was examined at a sexual assault treatment unit. Guerin pleaded guilty to the offence of engaging in a sexual act with a protected person on 30 April 2018. The judge accepted the plea on the basis of recklessness, noting the woman's low cognitive function and vulnerability. Conditions of the suspended portion include staying away from the complainant, maintaining peace and good behaviour for three years, and engaging with the Probation Service for twelve months after release.
2021-06-28 · Cork
A would-be ATM thief who almost caused a massive explosion that could have killed him has lost his appeal against the severity of a five-year jail sentence imposed for attempting to blow up an ATM at a filling station in Cork last year. Evan Stubbins (25), an unemployed single man from Church Road, Croom, Co Limerick, was convicted at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last November for the possession of explosives after pleading guilty to possessing a blow torch and canisters containing oxygen and propane in an attempt to blow open an ATM at the Maxol garage at Carr's Hill, Carrigaline, Co Cork on August 2, 2020. He also pleaded guilty to separate charges of criminal damage and attempted theft. At a sitting of the Court of Appeal, counsel for Stubbins, Ray Boland BL, argued that the sentencing judge, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin, had not given the appellant a sufficient reduction from the headline sentence of seven years for his signed guilty plea. Counsel said the judge had also erred by failing to further reduce the length of the sentence by taking into account various mitigating factors including Stubbins' youth, his cooperation with gardaí and the fact that the offence was committed under duress as part of his efforts to pay off a drug debt to unnamed individuals. The matter was adjourned.