Court archive
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2023-01-19 · Dublin
Lorcan Merriman, aged 26, had his sentence increased by two years after the Court of Appeal reviewed his conviction for disposing of the firearm used in the cold‑blooded assassination of Thomas Farnan, a 37‑year‑old who was shot dead at his home in Clondalkin on 25 April 2016. Merriman had previously pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of…
2022-03-30 · Dublin
Lorcan Merriman, aged 25, was sentenced to two‑and‑a‑half years in prison for disposing of the gun used in the murder of Thomas Farnan, 37, on 25 April 2016. Merriman pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court last year to the offence of disposing of a murder weapon. He had previously been convicted of possession of a firearm and was serving a…
2022-03-16 · Dublin
In a Central Criminal Court sentencing hearing, Ivona Shortt, mother of Thomas Farnan, 37, recounted the shock of her son's murder on 25 April 2016. She described calling him when he asked her to "hang on" as a visitor approached the front door of their Kilcronan Close apartment. Minutes later she learned Thomas had been shot dead by a caller.…
2021-11-09
During the murder trial of Lorcan Merriman, the jury was informed that Gardaí conducted a warrant‑driven search of Merriman's home on 4 May 2016. Detective Garda Sharon Duncan, who participated in the search, located a JD Sports bag in a small wardrobe in a corner of a box bedroom at the front of the house. Inside the bag she found an empty box…
2021-11-02 · Tallaght, Dublin
The murder trial of Lorcan Merriman, 25, of Lealand Close, Clondalkin, is ongoing at the Central Criminal Court before Mr Justice David Keane and a jury. Merriman has pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Thomas Farnan at Kilcronan Close, Clondalkin, on April 25 or 26, 2016. Chief State Pathologist Dr Linda Mulligan testified that Mr Farnan…
2021-11-01 · Dublin
During the Central Criminal Court trial of Lorcan Merriman, a witness, Bernadette Hanlon, testified that she heard a series of loud bangs at 11:35 pm on 25 April 2016 while watching television in her apartment overlooking Thomas Farnan's garden. She said she jumped to the window, heard about four more bangs, and saw a tall, thin man in a dark…
2021-10-29
During a late‑night visit to her dentist, Elaine Heffernan was awakened by three gentle taps on the letterbox. She thought a neighbour was knocking, but as Thomas Farnan opened the front door a gunman fired a single shot that killed him before he could even open the door. He fell slowly, and Heffernan tried to stop him, but he was already dead.…
2021-10-28
In a Central Criminal Court trial, a 37‑year‑old man known to the gardai was shot dead while speaking to his mother on the phone at the front door of his home. The case concerns 25‑year‑old Lorcan Merriman of Lealand Close, Clondalkin, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Thomas Farnan at Kilcronan Close, Clondalkin, on the evening of 25…
2020-10-27 · Dublin
A 24‑year‑old man from West Dublin, Lorcan Merriman, is charged with the murder of Thomas Farnan, aged 37, who was shot several times at his home in Clondalkin on 25 April 2016. Merriman's trial is scheduled for 18 January 2021 at the Central Criminal Court.
2018-07-05 · Dublin
Lorcan Merriman, a 21‑year‑old Dubliner, was sentenced to five years in prison for unlawful possession of a semi‑automatic machine gun and ammunition that he had hidden in his parents' attic. He admitted that he had agreed to hide the weapon to pay off a drug debt. The gun was found to be functioning and had been altered for criminal use, and it…