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(File Picture: Stephen Silver. Photo: Collins) Stephen Silver, who shot and murdered Garda Colm Horkan after taking the garda's own service gun from its holster, has appealed his conviction claiming that the State's...
A judge has denied legal aid for a third senior barrister to represent each of the Sliabh Liag murderers Alan Vial and Nikita Burns in their bid to overturn their convictions, noting he had to have “some regard to the...
(File Picture: Stephen Silver. Photo: Collins) Lawyers representing Stephen Silver, who is serving a 40-year sentence for the capital murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan, have said they are unable to advance an...
By Fiona Magennis The Court of Appeal has set a date in November to resentence two offenders who were teenagers when they were convicted of separate murders, following a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling that found...
James Kilroy, who was jailed for life last summer after a jury rejected his claim that he was insane when he beat, stabbed and strangled his wife to death, has been granted legal aid to appeal his conviction. Kilroy...
(Pictured: Mr Simeon Burke. Photo: Collins) The Garda Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has been refused access to "ambient" audio recordings of a court "melee" as part of its investigation into how gardai acted during the...
(Pictured: Mr Simeon Burke. Photo: Collins) Audio recordings of court proceedings will be released to gardai and to Simeon Burke as part of an appeal against the student lawyer's conviction for a public order offence...
A man who was 17 when he coerced a 12-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him has lost an appeal against what he claimed was the severity of his four-year jail sentence. The defilement of the child occurred at a...
(Pictured: The Burke family outside the Bridewell Garda Station this afternoon. Photo: Collins) There were chaotic scenes at the Court of Appeal today during the dismissal of Enoch Burke's application to set aside...
(Pictured: Mr Enoch Burke. Photo: Collins) Enoch Burke has told the Court of Appeal that Wilson's Hospital School directed him to refer to a student by a different name and by the pronoun they', which amounted to a...
There is a “cornucopia of evidence” linking ‘tiger kidnapper’ and gangland criminal Paschal Kelly to a post office robbery in which three women were tied up and abducted, the Court of Appeal has been told. However,...
(Pictured: John Tighe. Photo: Collins) A 45-year-old man has appealed his conviction for the murder his infant son, arguing the trial judge should not have allowed evidence from the postmortem report go before the jury...
Notorious tiger kidnapper' and gangland criminal Paschal Kelly has opened an appeal against his conviction and 18-year sentence for a €92,000 post office robbery, during which three women were tied up and abducted....
The "architect" behind a plan to rob a businessman, who begged to be shot after being badly beaten by men who claimed they were in the Continuity IRA, has appealed his conviction on the grounds that he had pulled out...
The six-and-a-half-year jail term handed down to an international crime gang member who used fake bank cards to steal more than €120,000 from dozens of bank accounts was too severe, his lawyers told the Court of Appeal...
(File Picture: Victim Ms Lydia Branley. Photo: Collins) A women who was left paralysed after the car she was a passenger in crashed into a field at high speed has told of her relief after the driver lost a second bid...
A middle-aged man who was jailed for the historic sex abuse of his younger cousin at their grandmother’s home in the 1980s has lost his appeal against his conviction. The man, who is now 53, had pleaded not guilty at...
A Mayo man has lost his appeal against the severity of his sentence for sexually abusing three sisters of a neighbouring family over an 18-year period. He had already lost his appeal against conviction. The 65-year-old...
The DPP has lost its appeal against the suspended sentence for the child pornography crimes of a 78-year-old Northern Irish native, who the court was told had grown up sharing a bed with a man who had raped him. The...
A Mayo man has appealed the severity of his sentence for sexually abusing three sisters of a neighbouring family over an 18-year period. He lost his appeal against conviction last month. The 65-year-old man, who cannot...
A Mayo man has failed in a bid to have his conviction set aside for sexually abusing three sisters of a neighbouring family over an 18-year period. The man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of the victims,...
A Mayo man has moved to appeal his conviction for sexually abusing three sisters of a neighbouring family over an 18-year period. The man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of the victims, assaulted the...
A man jailed for savagely beating the mother of his four children must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against a requirement that he stay away from her for 30 years. Daniel Wildes (32) of Devitt Villas,...
A man jailed for repeatedly raping his daughter has been found to be a “highly manipulative” person and allegations that his daughter confessed to telling lies about him were “not credible”, the Court of Appeal has...
by Gerard Cunningham A burglar who told a Mayo pensioner he was a garda when discovered in the middle of a break-in has had his sentence appeal dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Martin Conroy (45) was sentenced in...
A disgraced ex-garda who sexually assaulted a sleeping woman after a charity event has lost an appeal against the severity of his two year prison sentence. The 37-year-old married father of children, who has since been...
A drunk driver who fled the scene of a fatal collision he caused by attempting an illegal u-turn has had his five year jail term upheld by the Court of Appeal. Declan Moran (40), of Carrentrilla, Ballina, Co Mayo,...
A man jailed for repeatedly raping his daughter, who then visited him in prison and allegedly “admitted telling lies” during the trial, must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction. The young woman...
A young woman repeatedly raped by her father has given evidence to the Court of Appeal that she was “manipulated” into visiting him in prison by his relatives shortly after the trial. Last February, the 47-year-old man...
A young woman who was repeatedly raped by her father visited him in prison where she allegedly “admitted telling lies" during his trial, the Court of Appeal has heard. In February, the 47-year-old man was found guilty...
Lawyers for a man jailed for repeatedly raping his daughter are seeking to adduce "new evidence" which, they say, shows the victim allegedly “recanted” and admitted “telling lies during the trial”. In February, the...
A disqualified driver who nearly collided with two women out for an evening walk as he sped away from a patrol car has lost a sentence appeal. Martin Maughan (32), with an address at Knock Road, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo,...
The Court of Appeal has almost doubled the prison sentences of two men who set fire to a car with a bound and gagged prisoner in the boot, in what was described as an “unbelievable” offence “akin to attempted murder”....
(Pictured: Mark Hehir. Credit: Collins) An underage football star who admitted stealing €300,000 from his employer to fund a gambling addiction has been spared jail a second time, despite an appeal by prosecutors to...
A man whose conviction for raping the bother of two sisters he admitted abusing in the 1990s was overturned following a successful appeal will not face a retrial, following a ruling from the Court of Appeal. The...
A 25-year-old man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother at their Mayo home while he was high on drugs has lost an appeal against his conviction. Celyn Eadon stabbed 46-year-old Nóirín Kelly 19 times on...
A man jailed for offering a 13-year-old boy €50 for sex on a busy street has had his five year prison sentence cut to 12 months on appeal. Thomas Folliard (64), of Church Road, Aughamore, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, had...
A man jailed for offering a 13-year-old boy €50 for sex has moved to appeal his conviction in an identification case that, his lawyers have claimed, has all the characteristics of a “miscarriage of justice”. Thomas...
A 70-year-old man with a “remarkable” history of sexual offending, described as “dangerous” and “unsafe” for children to be around, has had his six year jail term for abusing an autistic boy cut on appeal. The UK...
A 25-year-old man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother at their Mayo home while he was high on drugs must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction. Celyn Eadon stabbed 46-year-old...
2023-11-10 · Castlebar, Mayo · Court of Appeal
Two members of the Burke family were removed from the Court of Appeal by gardaí on 10 November after loudly protesting when the presiding judge muted Enoch Burke's microphone during proceedings. The court was hearing a civil application by the Garda Síochána...