Court reports mentioning Donal Billings

2020-07-06

Court upholds sentencing of Queen's visit bomber

Stage: Appeal

Finding: Found guilty

Outcome: Found guilty; Credit: Collins) A pensioner, who put a bomb on a bus during Queen Elizabeth's visit here, has lost an appeal against the severity of his eight-and-a-half year sentence.

2019-05-28

Queen's visit bomber loses appeal based on Irish language rights

Stage: Appeal

Finding: Found guilty

Outcome: Found guilty; Sentencing him to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment, Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, said Billings was "perfectly entitled to hold a low opinion" of Queen Elizabeth and her visit to Ireland but was "not entitled to express such an opinion by engaging in criminality".

2019-01-16

Irish language rights independent of fair trial rights, lawyers for Queen's visit bomber say

Stage: Appeal

Finding: Found guilty

Outcome: Found guilty; Sentencing him to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment, Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, said Billings was "perfectly entitled to hold a low opinion" of Queen Elizabeth and her visit to Ireland but was "not entitled to express such an opinion by engaging in criminality".

2016-12-15

Man who put explosive on bus and made bomb threats during Queen's visit is jailed for 8.5 years

Stage: Sentence

Finding: Found guilty

Outcome: Found guilty; At today's sentence hearing, Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, with Judge Martin Nolan and Judge Cormac Dunne, said that Billings was "perfectly entitled to hold a low opinion" of Queen Elizabeth and her visit to Ireland but "not entitled to express such an opinion by engaging in criminality". In addition to the eight and a half year sentence for the explosives offence, Billings was sentenced to one, two, three and four years respectively for each of the threatening phone calls.

2016-10-26

Man guilty of having explosive device, making bomb threats during Queen's visit

Stage: Sentence

Finding: Found guilty

Outcome: Found guilty; Billings was remanded in custody until November 30th, when he will be sentenced.; Billings was remanded in custody until November 30th, when he will be sentenced.

2016-10-19

Evidence of "Queen's visit" explosives accused "utterly implausible", prosecution tells court

Stage: Trial

Outcome: Mr Billings was remanded on continuing bail until that date.

2016-10-14

Explosives trial hears accused didn't like the Queen

Stage: Charge Or Pretrial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-13

Mast evidence in Queen's visit trial

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-12

Number on SIM card called garda station, explosives trial hears

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-11

Explosives trial hears of car search

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-10

Caller said mortars set at Dublin Castle during Queen's visit, trial hears

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-07

Irish-language trial hears of phone allegedly used to make threats

Stage: Charge Or Pretrial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-06

Anonymous caller claimed bombs were "for the Queen"

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-05

Gardaí found bomb aboard Dublin-bound bus on eve of Queen's visit

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2016-10-04

Gardaí received bomb threats on eve of Queen's visit to Ireland, trial hears

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty