22 linked court reports in the localnews.ie archive.
This page groups public court reports by matching name and address evidence in the localnews.ie archive. Court reports can include allegations, charges, appeals, convictions and outcomes; read each linked report for its exact status and source attribution.
Kevin Braney, aged 49 and identified by gardaí as a leader of the dissident republican organisation styling itself the New IRA, is pursuing an appeal of his 2019 conviction for the premeditated murder of Peter Butterly. The appeal, heard at the Special...
A 49-year-old man identified by gardaí as leader of the New IRA is challenging his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal, with his defence team arguing the conviction should be quashed as unsafe. Kevin Braney was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court...
Raymond Kennedy has appealed his conviction for perverting the course of justice in relation to the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Kennedy was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court in July 2021 after...
Ray Kennedy, aged 40, of Blanchardstown in Dublin, has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice. Kennedy was convicted of destroying a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013, the day...
Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown in Dublin, was convicted by the Special Criminal Court of perverting the course of justice following his destruction of a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013. The card was considered evidentially significant to the...
Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown in Dublin, has been convicted at the Special Criminal Court of perverting the course of justice in connection with the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly at Gormanston, County Meath. Kennedy was found...
A man accused of perverting the course of justice in connection with a dissident republican murder in County Meath has been remanded on bail pending judgment at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. Ray Kennedy is charged with deliberately destroying a...
Ray Kennedy, aged 40, pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to perverting the course of justice in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly in County Meath. The State alleged that Kennedy deliberately destroyed...
At the Special Criminal Court, a Detective Chief Superintendent presented evidence regarding two men charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army in connection with the fatal shooting of Peter Butterly in March...
Two men charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly faced further prosecution evidence at the Special Criminal Court. Laurence...
At the Special Criminal Court, Detective gardaí provided evidence that Ray Kennedy, aged 40, of Blanchardstown, Dublin, was observed in the company of Alan Ryan, the slain Real IRA leader, on separate occasions during 2011 and 2012 in the Donaghmede area of...
The Special Criminal Court has heard evidence during an ongoing trial concerning the fatal shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly in March 2013. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of Bettystown, County Meath, and Ray Kennedy, aged 39, of Blanchardstown,...
At the Special Criminal Court, proceedings in a trial concerning two men charged with membership of an unlawful organisation have entered a phase of legal argument focusing on mobile phone data retention. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, from Bettystown, County...
A witness in the Special Criminal Court has testified that the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly in Gormanston, County Meath on 6 March 2013 was an "IRA operation". David Cullen, now in the Witness Protection Program, gave evidence in trials of...
The Special Criminal Court is hearing evidence in the trial of two men accused of involvement in the 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly. The court listened to a covert audio recording made by gardaí from a listening device placed in a...
A State's witness who allegedly committed perjury during a previous murder trial was not prosecuted over concerns he would not return to Ireland, the Special Criminal Court heard. Dave Cullen, whose evidence secured convictions in the murder of dissident...
The Special Criminal Court heard evidence in October 2019 that an accused man was observed meeting individuals already convicted of involvement in the fatal shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Surveillance officers testified that on March 7,...
The widow of dissident republican Peter Butterly told gardai that a man on trial in connection with her husband's death was a trusted friend to them both, the Special Criminal Court heard. Mrs Butterly gave evidence that her late husband met the accused on...
At the Special Criminal Court, Ray Kennedy and Laurence Murphy have pleaded not guilty to charges of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, in relation to the fatal shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly on...
Two men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly in Gormanston, County Meath....
Two men have been convicted and sentenced by the Special Criminal Court in connection with the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Michael McDermott of Ballinagh, County Cavan, received four years imprisonment with the final six months...
Two men appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 11 March 2019 for sentencing following their guilty pleas in a case arising from the March 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly in County Meath. Michael McDermott, aged sixty, from...