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2025-04-10 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Court of Appeal
(File Picture: PJ Sweeney. Photo: Collins) One of three men who took part in a “brutal and savage” vigilante attack on security workers guarding a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon which involved forcing a man to eat dog faeces has lost an appeal against...
2023-05-26 · Ramelton, Donegal · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Patrick J Sweeney. Photo: Collins) The jury in the trial of four men accused of taking part in a vigilante group attack on security personnel guarding a repossessed farmhouse asked today to see two exhibits in the trial and for a...
2023-05-25 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured L-R: Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of four men accused of taking part in a vigilante group attack on security personnel guarding a repossessed...
2023-05-23 · Boyle, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured L-R: Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Declan Brennan A jury is set to begin their deliberations in the trial of four men accused of taking part in a vigilante group attack on security...
2023-05-18 · Ramelton, Donegal · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured: Mr Patrick J Sweeney. Photo: Collins) The prosecution case against a Donegal builder accused of being part of a group of men who attacked security guards at a repossessed farm house is fundamentally flawed, contaminated and devoid of fair...
2023-05-17 · Boyle, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured L-R: Mssrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Declan Brennan Four men accused of being part of a group that attacked and humiliated security guards at a repossessed farm property five years ago were...
2023-05-16 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured L-R: Mssrs David Lawlor, Martin O Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) Those who carried out the attack on security men guarding a repossessed farm in Co Roscommon five years ago were “bent on violence and domination" and were...
2023-05-04 · Roscommon, Roscommon · Roscommon District Court
By Eimear Dodd "Reasonable force" was used by security personnel to remove people from a repossessed farm in Co Roscommon, a garda sergeant has told the trial of four men accused of taking part in a later attack on security men at the premises. The rural...
2023-05-02 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
By Eimear Dodd A garda detective has told the trial of four men alleged to have taken part in an attack on security men at a repossessed farm in Co Roscommon that a two-second video clip was not disclosed as he didn't believe it was “relevant”. The trial at...
2023-04-28 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Eimear Dodd The jury in the trial of four men alleged to have taken part in an attack at a repossessed farm in Co Roscommon have heard that a...
2023-04-27 · Boyle, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
Pic: David Lawlor from Navan Co Meath, Martin O Toole, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Paul Beirne, Boyle, Co Roscommon and Patrick Sweeney, Ramelton, Co Donegal who are accused of involvement in an alleged violent incident in Falsk, Strokestown, Roscommon in December...
2023-04-26 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
Pic: David Lawlor from Navan Co Meath, Martin O Toole, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Paul Beirne, Boyle, Co Roscommon and Patrick Sweeney, Ramelton, Co Donegal who are accused of involvement in an alleged violent incident in Falsk, Strokestown, Roscommon in December...
2023-04-17 · Strokestown, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Paul Beirne. Photo: Collins) The Roscommon eviction assault trial has heard evidence of calls and WhatsApp messages on an iPhone allegedly found in a lorry belonging to one of four men accused of taking part in the early morning attack....
2023-03-31 · Boyle, Roscommon · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
(Pictured L-R: Accused Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Claire Henry The Roscommon eviction assault trial has heard evidence of a search warrant which was executed at the home of one of the defendants....
2023-03-28 · Claremorris, Mayo · Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
Lawyers for one of the men accused of taking part in assaults at a repossessed farmhouse in Roscommon has challenged the evidence that two mobile phones were taken from the accused's home. At around 5am on December 16, 2018, a group of approximately 30 armed...