265 cases mentioning Carney, Co. Sligo — 265 from Courts News Ireland, 0 from local newspapers.
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A serial criminal had just been released from prison for his role in the killing of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara in 2012 when he set fire to a car and robbed a Halfords outlet last year, a court has heard. Very high risk' offender Keith Hall...
A "high risk" child rapist who was sentenced to 15 years will be returned to jail after he was found in the company of three teenage boys in breach of his release conditions. In 2008, the late Mr Justice Paul Carney imposed two life...
(File Picture: Stephen ‘Rossi’ Walsh. Photo: Collins) A notorious child rapist has failed in a "confused" bid to have an attempt by the State to amend his post-release supervision conditions declared a miscarriage of justice. “The fact...
by Paul Neilan A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend on church grounds almost 21 years ago had "simply no basis" for claiming that the Court of Criminal Appeal had overturned his mandatory life sentence and substituted a 20-year term in...
by Paul Neilan Convicted murderer Raymond Donovan, who strangled his former girlfriend to death on the grounds of a church, has launched a High Court bid seeking his release from prison, claiming that the Court of Appeal substituted his...
By Eimear Dodd A man who demanded money from his ex-partner's parents, threatening them that their house “would go up like a Christmas tree”, has been jailed. Conor Stewart (31) of Kilcross Court, Sandyford, Dublin 18 pleaded guilty to...
A man who played a “vital” role in a money laundering scheme and separately obtained €15,000 in a social welfare fraud has been jailed for four years. Danny Cirstea (27) of Cuffe Street, Dublin 2, pleaded guilty to offences including...
(File Picture: Shane Ward. Photo: Collins) An uninsured rider who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with life-changing injuries, is to have his driving licence restored early, a judge has...
The Central Criminal Court has ordered an arrest warrant after a man who attempted to murder his wife 12 years ago allegedly breached the terms of his release by trying to contact his victim. Lounes Ouachek had admitted trying to murder...
A convicted murderer will not be permitted to introduce a new ground of appeal in a bid to overturn his conviction for killing a father of four, whose body was tied up with cable and dumped in the River Bandon, bringing an end to case...
(File Picture: Stephen Rossi' Walsh. Photo: Collins) Notorious criminal and child rapist Stephen Rossi' Walsh has had his conviction for indecent assault overturned after successfully arguing that he could not get a fair trial due to...
Gerard Hutch's defence team have raised concerns at the Special Criminal Court about whether gardaí deployed a tracker device on a vehicle belonging to former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall and used it illegally in Northern...
The second challenge in a week against the Minister for Justice over the new statutory parole board system man has been brought by a man serving a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. The application has been brought by Stephen...
A man who was released from prison in 2018 after serving ten years for his role in trying to make a female college student have sex with her male housemates during a violent burglary has had the suspended sentence portion of his sentence...
A woman convicted of causing serious injuries to a cyclist after running her over while driving unaccompanied as a learner driver has been given a suspended sentence. Paulina Galantkiewicz (34) told her trial that she “basically panicked”...
(File Picture: Stephen Rossi' Walsh. Credit: Collins) Notorious Dublin criminal and child rapist Stephen Rossi' Walsh has appealed his conviction for indecent assault, arguing that adverse media coverage meant he could not get a fair...
(File Picture: Barry McGee. Credit: Collins) A convicted rapist who raped and threatened to kill his two Australian victims in 2002 has had additional conditions applied to his post-release supervision. Barry McGee (38) held the two women...
An uninsured rider who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with serious injuries, has been jailed for two years. Shane Ward (24) and his motorcycle ended up in a canal after striking a foreign...
An Algerian man who admitted trying to murder his wife by beating her with a kettlebell after becoming resentful of her independence has claimed that he was misled by his legal team and that gardai fabricated evidence at his sentence...
John Tierney, aged 53, of Rockhouse, Gowna, County Cavan, received a fully suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to dangerous driving causing death. The collision occurred on the N4 motorway near...
A teenager was armed with a screwdriver when he broke into a young woman's home while she was in bed and subjected her to a “terrifying” ordeal, a Dublin court has heard. Jamie Nulty, who is now aged 22, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit...
(Pictured: Prince Aibangbe. Credit: Collins) A judge has said there is a greater onus on truck drivers to take care at junctions and look out for cyclists and pedestrians as she jailed a truck driver who broke a red light and fatally...
(Pictured: Prince Aibangbe. Credit: Collins) A truck driver who broke a red light and caused the death of a 21-year-old pedestrian claimed he was unaware he had hit someone until contacted by his boss the following day, a court has heard....
(File Picture: Survivor Ms Sonya Stokes. Credit: Collins) The Court of Appeal has upheld a 15-year prison sentence imposed on a serial abuser who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of his niece in 2015. Joseph Hogan (66) of Rose...
The part-owner of a horse sold in 2011 has apologised before the High Court to bloodstock sales firm Goffs for posts he made on social media about the company. In a statement read before Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds on Thursday, Mr James...
(File Picture: Mr Yusuf Ali Abdi. Credit: Collins) A man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia 10 years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his infant son, has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Yusuf Ali Abdi, with...
A man who murdered his infant son 17 years ago is seeking to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice on grounds that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in recent years. Yusuf Ali Abdi, with a last address at The Elms,...
A Limerick man jailed for life 15 years ago has lost an appeal against his conviction for murder. Gerard Hayes (53), with a last address at Deercourt, John Carew Park, in Limerick, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of 20-year-old John...
A convicted rapist who was jailed three years ago for failing to notify gardaí of his change of address has been imprisoned again for the same offence. Gerard Creighton (49), formerly of Cashel Road and Sundrive Road, Crumlin, Dublin, has...
(File Picture: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) A man who wrote letters apparently bragging about his involvement in the murder of Melanie McCarthy McNamara has had his conviction for murdering the innocent 16-year-old upheld on appeal....
A 39-year-old nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering her mother on Christmas Eve has lost an appeal against her conviction. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by banging her head against a wall and hitting...
A man from Castlebar, County Mayo, has failed in his appeal against a murder conviction at the Court of Appeal. The 25-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2014 for the death of his mother on March 9, 2011. He had...
(File Picture: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) Letters written by a man apparently bragging about his involvement in the murder of innocent 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara were not reliable to safely convict him of murder, his...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he assaulted and forced into the refuse chute of an apartment building, where he got snagged and died, is facing a retrial following a successful appeal. David O’Loughlin (30), of Garden City...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he assaulted and forced into the refuse chute of an apartment building, where he got snagged and died, has had his conviction quashed over the jury's visit to the scene. David O’Loughlin (30), of...
A man serving a life sentence for the 2011 murder of his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo, has lodged an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Celyn Eadon was convicted in February 2014 of murdering his 46-year-old mother,...
A 39-year-old nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering her mother on Christmas Eve must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against her conviction. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by banging her head...
A 77-year-old man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his daughter has failed in his appeal against a 12-year prison sentence imposed in 2011. The Court of Appeal dismissed the challenge on 7 December 2017, finding no error in the...
A Dublin man given a 20-year sentence for the attempted murder of his lifelong friend, in a case that "might as well have appeared in the Love/Hate script", has withdrawn his appeal against sentence shortly before it was due to be heard....
(Pictured: Daniel McDonnell. Credit: Collins) The Court of Appeal has been told that a man serving life for the murder of Melanie McCarthy McNamara is suffering from a “psychiatric illness”. Daniel McDonnell (22) of Brookview Lawns in...
A Cork man found guilty of murdering a man he put in the refuse chute of an apartment complex has brought an appeal against his conviction arguing that the jury “ought not to have” visited the chute before delivering their verdict. David...
(Pictured: Defendant Mr Peter Herbert speaking outside court today. Credit: Collins) Charges against ten of the 11 Jobstown water charge have been formally dropped. Cheers broke out and air horns sounded in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court...
Brian Kenna was part of a Provisional IRA gang that was confronted for the only time in the 30 year history of the northern “troubles” by armed uniformed gardai during a foiled bank robbery in Enniscorthy. Kenna was one of seven raiders...
Notorious Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh has been refused an enlargement of time to appeal convictions for rape and defilement of a child. Walsh (69), formerly of Belgrave Road, Rathgar in Dublin, was given...
A man jailed for the regular abuse of his younger sister, from when he was aged 14 until 20, has had an appeal against the severity of his sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The 39-year-old Cork man, who cannot be named for legal...
A man, who raped a woman in her apartment after she invited him in for drinks with friends, has had his eight year jail term cut to five on appeal. Hungarian national Tamas Vecernyes (29) with a last address in Cork, had pleaded not...
A father-of-two jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’, has lost a conviction appeal. John Hannigan (48) of River House, New Quay, Clonmel, Co...
A father-of-two jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’, must wait to hear the outcome of his appeal against conviction. John Hannigan (48) of River...
A serial sex offender, who opened a sweet shop under an alias where he employed young children, has had his life sentence for abusing an 11-year-old boy reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 40-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named to...
A convicted murder who claimed he accidentally shot the man he blamed for his brother's suicide has lost an appeal against conviction. Michael Collins (34), with an address at Upper Kilmona, Grenagh, Co Cork had pleaded not guilty to the...
The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said “'yes'” in response to a question from the jury. Romanian national Ciprian...
A double murderer whose detention and interrogation went “beyond the pale”, according to his lawyers, has lost an appeal against conviction. Gary Howard (28), of Emerald Street in Dublin's North Inner City, had pleaded not guilty at the...
A 62-year-old man jailed for sexually abusing two young female members of his family must wait to hear the outcome of his sentence appeal. The Dublin man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had pleaded guilty at the Central...
A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon five years ago, has moved to appeal his conviction. Romanian national Ciprian Grozavu (42), with a last address at Bridge House, Sean Hales Place, Bandon, Co Cork had pleaded...
A man from Cavan has received a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence following his conviction for the rape of his teenage niece in the mid-1990s. The Central Criminal Court heard that the offences occurred in early 1997 when the victim was...
A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner has today pleaded guilty to her manslaughter. In March 2007 Kieran Lynch (49) was sentenced to life in prison by Mr Justice Paul Carney having...
A Dublin man who fatally stabbed his cousin with a flick knife the deceased had just received as a present was entitled to credit for staying at the scene and administering CPR, the Court of Appeal has stated. Shane Millea (30), with a...
The Court of Appeal heard submissions today regarding an appeal against conviction brought by a Ballymun man sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to steal from a cash facility at a supermarket in...
By Conor Gallagher and Isabel Hayes A convicted killer who robbed a post office while armed with an axe has been sentenced to four years, with the final 18 months suspended. Kenneth Wilson (46) of Deansrath Road, Clondalkin, Dublin has 18...
A convicted murder who claimed he accidentally shot the man he blamed for his brother's suicide and poisoning of his father's dogs has moved to appeal his conviction. Michael Collins (34), with an address at Upper Kilmona, Grenagh, Co...
A man jailed for seven years for raping a woman in her home four years ago was “wise” to withdraw his appeal this morning, according to the Court of Appeal. Lovemore Dube (28), with addresses in Limerick and Cork, had pleaded guilty at...
A man with intellectual disabilities who was charged with rape but found unfit to be tried must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against that finding. The 40-year-old man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had been charged...
A Wicklow man jailed for life for the murder of a French musician and juggler in Bray seven years ago has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed. Declan Sheridan (29), of Sugarloaf View, Sea Road, Kilcoole, had pleaded not guilty...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that prior consensual sexual contact does not permit subsequent forced intercourse. The trial concerns a 22-year-old Donegal man charged with rape alleged to have occurred in an alleyway...
In Ireland you hear the term “miscarriage of justice” and it probably conjures up images of Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon in the movie In the Name of the Father, tearing at his shirt, railing at the world. Or, depending on your age,...
(File Picture: Timothy Rattigan. Photo: Collins) A man jailed for life for the shooting of a 65-year-old grandmother in Tallaght 12 years ago, has lost an application to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice. Timothy...
A man jailed for the “prolonged and intensive” sexual assault of his teenaged step-daughter, who grew up believing he was her father, has had his 10 year prison sentence reduced to seven on appeal. William Coster (45), with an address at...
A convicted killer and armed robber, who is due to be sentenced for robbery of a post office while armed with an axe, has told a court that this will be “the last of his offending behaviour.” Kenneth Wilson (46) of Deansrath Road,...
A man jailed for the shooting of Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght four years ago has had his 20-year jail term cut to 17-and-a-half years on appeal. Keith Hall (26), of Kilmartin Drive, Tallaght, had pleaded not guilty to murder but...
A man jailed for life for firing 10 bullets into his victim in Dublin in 2010 has lost an appeal against his conviction for murder. Jonathan Douglas (30), aka Yuka, of O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty at the Central...
A man who lured two girls away from a children's birthday party and told them he would cut their parents' throats before repeatedly raping them has had an appeal against sentence dismissed. The 32-year-old man, who cannot be identified...
A Cork man jailed for life last year for the murder of a mother-of-three in her home, which he then set on fire, has won an appeal against conviction now faces a possible retrial. Darren Murphy (38), of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West,...
A prosecution witness told the Central Criminal Court that she wrote to the late Mr Justice Paul Carney claiming a convicted killer had pressured her into making false allegations against the accused, the jury heard. Michael Kinsella,...
A man jailed for the shooting of Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght four years ago has moved to appeal his 20 years sentence for manslaughter. Keith Hall (26), of Kilmartin Drive, Tallaght, had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty...
A two-time murderer given two life sentences in separate Central Criminal Court trials has had the second of his two convictions confirmed by the Court of Appeal. Gary Campion (31), last of Pineview Gardens, Moyross, Limerick had moved to...
A man who lured two girls away from a children's birthday party and told them he would cut their parents' throats before repeatedly raping them has moved to appeal his life sentence. The 32-year-old man, who cannot be identified for legal...
Two men who took part in an attempted “predatory gang rape” of a woman in a van with a mattress in the back have had their jail terms cut on appeal. The two men aged 22 and 24, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, along with a...
An Algerian man jailed for attempting to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle-bell has had his jail term cut by one year on appeal. Lounes Ouachek (45), of St Dominic's Terrace, Tallaght, Dublin 24, had pleaded...
A Cork man jailed for life last year for the murder of a mother-of-three in her home, which he then set on fire, has moved to appeal his conviction. Darren Murphy (38), of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork had pleaded not guilty...
A Carlow born former US Marine jailed for sexually abusing and attempting to rape his niece has had his 12 year prison sentence reduced to 10 on appeal. Eamonn McCall (42), with an address on North Circular Road, Dublin 7, had pleaded...
A man jailed for life for firing 10 bullets into his victim in Dublin in 2010 has moved to appeal his conviction for murder. Jonathan Douglas (30), aka Yuka, of O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal...
Two men jailed for the attempted rape of a woman in a van, which had a mattress in the back, after she got separated from friends on a night out, have lost appeals against their convictions. The two men aged 22 and 24, who cannot be...
(Pictured: Ms Aoife Maguire. Photo: Collins) Several changes were made to the name and address details on the account of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on the bank's internal record system, a trial has heard. The trial...
A man jailed for life ten years ago has had a bid to have his murder conviction declared a miscarriage of justice based on a recent Supreme Court decision dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Frank Cunningham (30), with an address at...
A victim of child rape has avoided jail for the molestation of his five year old niece who would sleep in his bed because of her fear of ghosts. The 21-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim,...
The Court of Appeal has been asked to hold that a man jailed for a “brutal” double murder in 2010 was entitled to have his solicitor present during garda interviews. Gary Howard (27), of Emerald Street in Dublin's North Inner City, had...
A 57-year-old man with a history of paramilitary activity has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal following his conviction for sexually abusing two young girls in Donegal. The Court of Appeal in Dublin reduced his sentence from...
A Roscommon man has successfully appealed his acquittal for the murder of his mother by reason of insanity and will face a retrial. The 29-year-old had been acquitted by jury at Castlebar in May 2014 following the death at Abbeystown in...
(The Hon. Mr Justice Paul Carney pictured at the Four Courts today. Photo: Collins) Ireland has a “better and more independent class” of judge now than when he started out in criminal law some 50 years ago, Mr Justice Paul Carney has...
A man who had sex with a 15 year old girl at a party has been jailed for two years at the Central Criminal Court. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty to one count of defilement of a child on...
By Declan Conlon A man who had sex with a 15 year old girl at a party will be sentenced later this week at the Central Criminal Court. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty to one count of...
The High Court has granted bail to a Dublin man charged with murdering a teenager, who was in State care, more than five years ago. Trevor Noone, with an address at Whitestown Avenue, Blanchardstown is charged with murdering 17-year-old...
A Dublin man has received a 12 year sentence with the final two suspended for the repeated rape of his partner’s then 11-year-old daughter in her Galway home. Henry Crowe (57), of Blackditch Road, Ballyfermot, pleaded guilty at the...
A 39-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering a fellow Nigerian native on the main street of a North Dublin town in 2013. Jooda Akanbi, of Ashton Avenue, Applewood, Swords in Dublin was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court...
(Photo: Collins) Lawyers for the man charged with murdering journalist Tom O’Gorman have said insanity will be an issue in the case, which will be short as a result. Saverio Bellante (35) is accused of murdering Mr O’Gorman on January...
A convicted rapist has been jailed for failing to notify gardai of his change of address and for an attempted robbery on a bookmakers. Gerard Creighton (49) went into the shop in Dublin city centre on February 28, 2014 armed with what the...
A date has been set for the trial of a Co Offaly GP who is accused of the murder of her 11-year-old daughter at their family home. Dr Bernadette Scully (57), of Emvale, in Bachelor’s Walk, Tullamore, Co Offaly, is charged with the murder...
A man has avoided a jail term for assaulting and robbing his ex-girlfriend in Kildare last year. Earlier the victim, who can’t be named to protect her child’s identity, appealed to Judge James O’Donohoe not to jail Tadgh Delaney (41),...
A man jailed for neglecting his children has failed in an appeal his conviction for raping one of them, an offence for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The 46-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded...
(File Picture: Gary Campion) Limerick man Gary Campion's appeal against his conviction for the murder of Frank Ryan in Moyross nine years ago resumes in the Court of Appeal tomorrow. Campion has moved to appeal separate convictions for...
(Pictured: Gary Campion. Photo: Collins) A man with "joined eyebrows" was spotted near the scene of a fatal shooting, a distinguishing feature jurors were able to observe on a murder accused prior to convicting him eight years ago, the...
(File Picture: Collins) Gary Campion has moved to appeal separate convictions for the murders in Limerick of bouncer Brian Fitzgerald outside his home and Frank Ryan who was shot dead by a passenger in his car while driving. Campion (31),...
A Dublin man will be sentenced next month for the repeated rape of his partner’s then 11-year-old daughter in her Galway home. Henry Crowe (57) of Blackditch Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to five sample...
(Pictured: Sonya Stokes speaking to media outside court today. Photo: Collins) by Declan Brennan and Sonya McClean A man who was jailed in the early 1970s for indecently assaulting a young girl has been jailed for 15 years for raping his...
A Roscommon man acquitted of his mother's murder by reason of insanity has appealed against the verdict, seeking a retrial on grounds of diminished responsibility. Paul Henry was sent to the Central Mental Hospital in May 2014 following...
By Angela Mullin A Pakistani native has been sentenced to two years for impersonating a member of the gardaí and demanding money from a woman working as an escort. Bilal Idrees (24), with a former address at Castlegate Elms, Lucan,...
A man who was jailed in the early 1970s for indecently assaulting a young girl will be sentenced next week for raping his seven-year-old niece a decade later. The 61-year-old Limerick man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of...
By Declan Brennan and Sonya McLean A Clare resident who began sexually abusing his Limerick niece from the age of six has been jailed for 15 years at the Central Criminal Court. The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons,...
By Aodhan O'Faolain A judge has ruled the detention in solitary confinement for almost a year of the man serving a life sentence for the murder of teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara at Wheatfield Prison amounts to a breach of the...
A Kildare woman has appealed to a judge not to jail her ex-partner for assaulting and robbing her because she believes he has turned his life around. The woman, who can’t be named to protect her child’s identity, told Judge James...
A Clare resident who began sexually abusing his Limerick niece from the age of six will be sentenced next week at the Central Criminal Court. The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, later began raping the child from...
A man jailed for life for the murder of Gareth Brosnan-Grant in Limerick seven years ago has lost an appeal against conviction. Greg Crawford (27), last of St Munchin's Street, St Mary's Park, Limerick, pleaded not guilty to murdering...
A Kerry man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to eleven counts of indecent assault in the early 70s. The trial of the 74-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is set to begin on Thursday. The offences are...
A Dublin man has been convicted of manslaughter but acquitted of murder following a five-day trial at the Central Criminal Court. Kevin Moran, aged 30, was charged with the murder of archaeologist Emmett Connolly, 32, at Lodgeview in...
A man from Roscommon has been sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment following a Court of Appeal determination that his original eight-year sentence was manifestly inadequate. The accused had pleaded guilty to repeated counts of rape...
(Photo: Collins) A Romanian man has lost an appeal against his conviction for murdering his ex-girlfriend in a Sandyford hotel room five years ago. Mihalache Marian (53), with a last address in Romania, pleaded not guilty to the murder of...
(Photo: Collins) Lawyers for wife-killer Joe O'Reilly have applied to the Central Criminal Court for inspection facilities pending his appeal against conviction for murder. In July 2007 O'Reilly was convicted by a jury at the Central...
A man from Roscommon has brought an appeal against his acquittal on grounds of insanity for the death of his mother in 2011. The 29-year-old had pleaded not guilty to murder at a Castlebar sitting of the Central Criminal Court. A jury...
by Aodhan O'Faolain The man serving a life sentence for murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara has brought a High Court challenge against the 23 hour per day lock up regime he is subjected to at Wheatfield Prison. The action has...
by Alison O'Riordan A life sentence has been handed down to a 36-year-old "bare knuckle boxer" for murdering his wife in an assault that lasted "one hour and twenty minutes" in their home in Dundalk three years ago. Michael McDonagh, of...
A man who was jailed for six years for neglecting his children is seeking to appeal a separate conviction for raping one of them, an offence for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The 46-year-old man, who cannot be named for...
A man jailed for life has applied to have his conviction for murder overturned in the Court of Appeal. Greg Crawford (27), of St Munchin's Street, St Mary's Park, Limerick, pleaded not guilty to murdering Gareth Brosnan-Grant at St Ita's...
A soccer player who broke an opponent’s nose after he head-butted him in an off the ball incident has avoided a jail term. Padraig Seery (27), a player with Walkinstown side Castle Celtic, was marking Leixlip Town’s captain, Mark Coyne,...
A man jailed for raping a woman in Cork four years ago has failed to have his conviction declared perverse. George Arundel (27), of Shannonlawn, Mayfield, Cork City, pleaded not guilty to attempted rape, sexual assault, rape and false...
A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago. John Prendiville (49) of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the...
A 23-year-old man from Mount Prospect in Roscommon has pleaded guilty to manslaughter before the Central Criminal Court. Ray Gralton was arraigned on Monday in connection with the death of a woman in December 2013. He entered a not guilty...
(Photo: Collins) Patrick O'Brien has been sentenced to 12 years in prison with the final three suspended for raping his daughter Fiona Doyle following a finding by the Court of Appeal that his original sentence was too lenient. The...
A convicted murderer has brought an appeal against conviction on grounds that gardaí “harvested” evidence from him after telling his solicitor he was in custody on foot of a separate matter. John Walsh (49), with an address at Cork...
A motorist who killed another in a “road rage homicide” has had his prison sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. Karl Donohoe (33), of Fisherman's Wharf, Ringsend, Dublin 4, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Ray Bates at the...
(Pictured: Flowers left by friends at Castle Road, Dundalk. Photo: Collins) The man who killed 18-year-old Niall Dorr in a prolonged and "vicious" assault in Dundalk four years ago has had his prison sentence reduced by the Court of...
A convicted sex offender will be sentenced next week for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago. John Prendiville (49) of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the...
(Pictured: Mr Graham Dwyer (41). Photo: Collins) A 41-year man has pleaded not guilty to murdering Elaine O'Hara in South Dublin more than two years ago and will go on trial tomorrow. Graham Dwyer, of Kerrymout Close, Foxrock, Dublin is...
(Photo: Collins) An Ill and infirm Patrick O'Brien, who subjected his daughter Fiona Doyle to "shocking torture" over a number of years, cannot be treated as a person for whom a prison sentence would be impossible to tolerate, the Court...
A Westmeath man has pleaded guilty to the false imprisonment and attempted rape of a woman last year. The 27-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of the victim, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court, to four...
A Connaught man who raped two mentally impaired brothers, his neighbours, has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 25-year-old man, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty to two counts of buggery of a mentally impaired...
A Dublin man who was given a ten year jail term for killing a father-of-three by savagely beating him with a hurley stick in a road-rage incident must wait to hear the outcome of his appeal against sentence. Karl Donohoe (33), of...
(Pictured: Patrick O'Brien (75) Photo: Collins) The prison sentence imposed on the father of well known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was "unduly lenient" the Court of Appeal has found. Patrick O'Brien (75) had pleaded guilty to 16 charges of...
A date has been set for the trial of a 41-year-old woman charged with murdering her former partner in his South Dublin home. Mercy Peters, originally from Sierra Leone, is charged with murdering 42-year-old Tyrone McKenna on July 17 at...
(Pictured: The footbridge on St Dominic’s Road, Tallaght. Photo: Collins) A date has been set for the trial of seven Dubliners charged with murdering 20-year-old Dale Creighton in Tallaght on New Year’s Day. An eighth person will go on...
A Letterkenny chiropractor has had his sentence for burglary reduced on appeal. Kevin Ginty, aged 47, pleaded guilty to burgling the home of a woman with whom he had been in a relationship. He was initially sentenced to five years...
A man with an interest in magic has had his jail term for sexual assault involving production of a knife in “bizarre circumstances" reduced by the Court of Appeal. The 29-year-old man, who cannot be identified to protect the victim's...
A man who committed “outrageous” offences of rape and false imprisonment against a woman separated from her friends at a hen party, has had an application to review his sentence rejected by the Court of Appeal. Louis Shiels (27), with a...
A Clare man who sexually assaulted his younger cousin over a three year period and raped her has had his six year jail term reduced to four by the Court of Appeal. The 27-year-old man from Co Clare, who cannot be identified to protect the...
by Fiona Ferguson & Nicola Donnelly A Limerick teenager who sexually abused his younger step sister while babysitting her has been sentenced to eight years in prison with the final three years suspended. The 19-year-old man, who cannot be...
The Court of Appeal has determined that an eight-year prison sentence imposed on a Roscommon man convicted of raping his neighbour's daughter was unduly lenient. President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice Seán Ryan delivered the decision...
A Dublin man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife he had bought him as a present has had his prison sentenced reduced by three years by the Court of Appeal. Shane Millea (29), with a last address at Celbridge, Co Kildare,...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Paul Carney) A High Court judge has told members of a jury in a rape trial that he was brought back in from hospital to direct them. At the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Dublin, Mr Justice Paul Carney told the...
A Limerick teenager who sexually abused his younger step sister while babysitting her will be sentenced next month. The 19-year-old man, who cannot be identified to protect the girl’s identity, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court...
An Albanian man, who was sent to prison for impeding a garda murder investigation, has had his sentence reduced by the new Court of Appeal. In the first criminal case heard by the new Court of Appeal, Kastriot Boza (41) successfully...
A young man who was himself raped and sexually assaulted along with his teenage brother has pleaded guilty to molesting his niece. The 21-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, fondled the five...
A 23-year-old man has denied murdering a man and harming four other people near his north Dublin home two years ago. David Brannock of St Joseph’s Way, Ballymun was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court this morning, charged with...
A 40-year-old has been convicted of murdering a Polish man in Co. Clare last year. Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court, Ennis had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Piotr Nowakowski (31) at Sandfield Mews,...
The new Court of Appeal will hear an application from prosecutors that the sentence handed down to the father of well known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient. Patrick O'Brien (74) had pleaded guilty to 16 charges of rape and...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Paul Carney) A judge has told the jury in the trial of man accused of murder, that alcohol is not a defence to criminal responsibility. Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court, Ennis, Co Clare, has pleaded not guilty to...
The trial of man who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him, has heard that the accused “would be known to drink a lot.” Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court, Ennis has pleaded not guilty to murder but...
A 36-year-old Cork man who sexually abused his younger sister during their childhood and teens has been given a five year sentence. The man, who cannot be named at this stage for legal reasons, was convicted by a jury following a trial...
(Pictured: Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis) A man who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him told gardai that he “just went berserk”. Michael Maughan (40) of Stone Court, Ennis pleaded not...
A paramedic has told the trial of a 40-year-old, who admits killing a Polish man in Co. Clare last year but denies murdering him, that he saw the deceased being kicked in the head. Michael Maughan of Stone Court, Ennis pleaded not guilty...
A 36-year-old nurse has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by banging her head against a wall and...
A Dublin man who was twice convicted of the same murder and successfully appealed the first count must wait to hear whether his second appeal can be taken to the Supreme Court. Warren Dumbrell (40) was jailed, along with his brother...
The barrister for a nurse who killed her mother on Christmas Eve has said she did not have the intent necessary for murder because she was so intoxicated. Caroline Biggs SC was giving her closing speech in the trial of a 36-year-old nurse...
A murder trial prosecutor has told a jury that ‘most people who commit murder are ordinary people like you and me’. Pauline Walley SC was giving her closing speech in the trial of a 36-year-old nurse charged with murdering her mother on...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a 40-year-old accused of murdering a man in Co. Clare last year. Michael Maughan of Stone Court, Ennis pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of...
(Pictured: Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis) The trial of a nurse charged with murdering her mother in their Dublin home has heard that the 55-year-old died of blunt force trauma to the head. The Central Criminal Court was...
A murder trial jury has seen photographs of the body of a woman killed by her daughter on Christmas Eve four years ago. The Central Criminal Court was hearing from a garda photographer in the trial of a 36-year-old nurse, charged with...
A jury has been shown the bloodstained glass bottle with which a nurse is understood to have killed her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago. The Central Criminal Court was hearing from a forensic scientist in the trial of a 36-year-old...
The charred passport of a woman killed by her daughter was found in their rubbish bin after the Christmas Eve attack, a jury has heard. A detective gave the evidence to the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a 36-year-old nurse...
A nurse charged with murdering her mother on Christmas Eve told gardai that she hit her over the head with a glass bottle because the deceased had been trying to separate her from her husband. Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla...
The trial of a 36-year-old nurse, charged with murdering her mother, has heard that the deceased thought that her daughter was not a good parent and threatened to take her child away. Greta Dudko has admitted killing 55-year-old Anna...
A 36-year-old nurse has gone on trial, charged with murdering her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago by hitting her over the head with a bottle. Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in Dublin has admitted killing 55-year-old...
A 44-year-old man from County Carlow has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his two young sons in County Mayo in July 2013. Sanjeev Chada pleaded guilty to strangling the children, whose...
A 36-year-old woman has admitted killing her mother on Christmas Eve four years ago, but has denied her murder. Greta Dudko of Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in Dublin is charged with murdering 55-year-old Anna Butautiene at that address...
by Aodhan O'Faolain A MAN convicted of forcing a young woman to have sex with him by threatening her with punishment from the IRA has launched a High Court action seeking his early release from prison. In 2008 Adrian Mooney (36), of...
A 30-year-old charged with murdering a man in Tallaght five years ago has been refused bail at the Central Criminal Court. 27-year-old Seamus (Shay) O'Byrne was shot in the driveway of a house in Tymon Park North, Tallaght on March 13,...
The Central Criminal Court has heard there is six months of CCTV footage in the case of murder accused Graham Dwyer. Mr Dwyer, a south Dublin architect, is the man charged with murdering Dublin childcare worker Elaine O’Hara (37) in Co...
A 44-year-old Algerian man who attempted to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle bell has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with three suspended. Lounes Ouachek of St Dominic’s Terrace, Tallaght pleaded guilty...
(Pictured: Mr Justice Frank Clarke, who delivered the written judgement of the CCA today) A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack has had his fifteen-year...
A 44-year-old Algerian man who attempted to murder his wife by bludgeoning her in the head with a kettle bell is to be sentenced later. Lounes Ouachek of St Dominic’s Terrace, Tallaght pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the...
The trial of the man charged with murdering teenager Marioara Rostas six years ago will open tomorrow (Wednesday), after a fresh jury was sworn in. Alan Wilson (35) of New Street Gardens in Dublin has pleaded not (NOT) guilty to murdering...
A 65-year-old woman has been sentenced to 18 months for helping her husband’s killer dispose of his body in Co. Westmeath almost thirty years ago. But Vera McGrath of Volvenstown, Fordstown, Navan, Co Meath will not serve any further time...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has been remanded to the Central Mental Hospital following his acquittal on a charge of murder at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has been acquitted of murdering his 70-year-old father at their home in May 2012 on grounds of insanity. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused was diagnosed with severe...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 65-year-old woman will be sentenced next week for materially assisting the killer of her husband by disposing of evidence almost thirty years ago. Vera McGrath of Volvenstown, Fordstown, Navan, Co Meath was arraigned...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman he'd been “an item” with for three months. Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork had pleaded not guilty to murdering Olivia Dunlea...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A man accused of murdering his girlfriend and setting fire to her home allegedly watched from above like Nero as the house burned with her in it, a jury heard before beginning its deliberations. Darren Murphy (37) of...
A barrister for a Cork man charged with murdering the woman he said he loved has suggested that gardai had ‘a discussion’ with him before the recorder was turned on in his final interview. Darren Murphy (37) has admitted killing...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack presents as “vastly better” than two years ago, the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard. Adam Fitzgibbon (20) carried...
A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his wife in Dublin almost two years ago. Lounes Ouachek of St Dominic’s Terrace, Tallaght was charged with the attempted murder of Ruta Ouachek (32) at that address on August...
A 35-year-old man from Claremorris in County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to murdering his elderly father by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. John Biggins of Ballynalty, Cross, Claremorris faces a charge of murdering...
A 65-year-old woman has admitted to being an accessory after the fact to her husband’s manslaughter at their Westmeath home almost 30 years ago. Vera McGrath of Volvenstown, Fordstown, Navan, Co Meath was arraigned before the Central...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A murder trial has heard that text messages between the deceased and a man accused of her murder were of good nature in the hours before her body was found. Darren Murphy (37) of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co...
A 37-year-old man accused of murdering a woman he'd been in a three month relationship with told gardaí that a knife was no sooner in his hands than it was in her neck,' a jury has heard. Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West,...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man accused of murdering a woman he had been “an item” with for three months, told gardaí he lit her house on fire because he didn't want the kids to find her, a jury has heard. Darren Murphy of Dan...
by Ruaidhri Giblin A 37-year-old man has gone on trial accused of murdering a woman he had been “an item” with for three months. Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Village, Passage West, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering Olivia Dunlea...
by Aodhan O'Faolain The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a Co Tipperary man's bid to have his appeal against the severity of his eight-year sentence for a violent sexual assault on a teenager determined by the Supreme Court. In...
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man will be sentenced for impeding the prosecution in a murder trial after he was found not guilty last month of murdering his friend. Alan Harte (33) of Clareville Grove, Glasnevin had pleaded not guilty to the...
A 37-year-old man is due to go on trial tomorrow accused of murdering a woman in Cork last year. Darren Murphy of Passage West, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering Olivia Dunlea (36) at Pembroke Crescent, Passage West, Co Cork on...
by Ruaidhhri Giblin A man who was found not guilty of murdering his father by reason of insanity has been deemed to be suffering from a mental illness and detained further for the purposes of treatment. Edward Boylan Jnr (31) of no fixed...
A Dublin man has been jailed for eight years for shooting a 51-year-old man in the city last year. Thomas Ryan (32) of McKee Park in Cabra had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Patrick Charles O’Neill on Glasnevin Avenue in...
A Dublin man, who killed his elderly father with a World War I sword hours after being released from prison, has been found not guilty of his murder by reason of insanity. Both the prosecution and the defence had called for the special...
Psychiatrists for both sides in a murder trial have testified that the accused was suffering from a mental disorder and met the criteria for an insanity verdict when he stabbed his father to death with a World War 1 sword. The doctors...
A 31-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial, charged with murdering his elderly father by stabbing him with a 100-year-old bayonet, a family heirloom from World War 1. Edward Boylan Jnr of no fixed abode has admitted stabbing the...
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man will be sentenced next Monday for the attempted murder of a man in August 2013. Thomas Ryan (32) of McKee Park in Dublin has pleaded guilty to shooting Patrick Charles O’Neill (51) on Glasnevin Avenue in...
A Dublin man has begun an appeal against his conviction for the murder of his friend who died two years after he was shot in the head. In February 2012 Jonathan Dunne was jailed for life by Mr Justice Paul Carney having been found guilty...
by Anne Sharkey A Cork woman who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her eight-year-old-son has had her sentence hearing adjourned for two weeks. Diane Ward (45) of Harrison Place, Charleville was due to be sentenced today at the...
A Cork woman pleaded guilty today to the manslaughter of her eight-year-old-son in 2012. Diane Ward (45) of Harrison Place, Charleville will be sentenced next Monday (24) to allow time for psychiatric evidence to be given to the court....
by Anne Sharkey A Limerick woman will go on trial this Thursday charged with impeding the apprehension of Jonathan Fitzgerald in 2011. Mary Maloney (45) has pleaded not guilty to impeding Fitzgerald's apprehension saying the accused was...
The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a life sentence imposed on a man convicted of raping four of his daughters over an 18-year period. The three-judge court ruled that the sentencing judge was entitled to impose...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack has successfully appealed against the 15-year sentence imposed on him. The man, who was a teenager in the care of the...
The man charged with murdering Dublin childcare worker Elaine O’Hara has been refused bail by the High Court. Graham Dwyer of (41) of Kerrymount Close in Foxrock is charged with the murder of Ms O’ Hara (37) in Co Dublin on August 22nd,...
A man who received an eight-year sentence for sexually abusing his nephew must wait to learn if his appeal against conviction has been successful. In January 2012 the now 68-year-old man was sentenced to eight years with two years...
A 32-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder another man in the city during the summer. Thomas Ryan of McKee Park in North Dublin was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court today. He pleaded guilty to the...
A Tipperary father-of-two has been jailed for life for murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches because the victim ‘wouldn’t shut up’. John Hannigan (46) of River House, New Quay, Clonmel had pleaded not guilty...
A jury will begin deliberating on Friday in the trial of a Tipperary man charged with murdering his friend with what he described as ‘Bruce Lee’ punches. John Hannigan (46) of River House, New Quay, Clonmel has pleaded not guilty to...
A Tipperary man has told his murder trial that he had nothing to do with killing his friend and that he was ‘just panicking’ when he told gardai he had given him ‘Bruce Lee’ punches. John Hannigan (46) spent today in the witness box at...
A Tipperary man accused of murder told investigating gardaí that he punched his alleged victim like Bruce Lee in the martial arts movie Fists of Fury, a court has heard. In the Central Criminal Court today, gardaí gave evidence of...
A Tipperary man accused of murder described the scene in which the deceased was assaulted as like a ‘bloodbath’ and ‘horror show’, his trial has heard. A detective was giving evidence of an interview he conducted with Clonmel man John...
A 47-year-old Waterford man has been given a suspended three-year sentence for attempting to murder his elderly mother in an attempted mercy killing, after the judge ruled that his motivation was entirely compassionate. Veronica (Vera)...
A date has been set for the trial of south Dublin architect Graham Dwyer who is accused of murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara. Mr Dwyer (41) of Kerrymount Close in Foxrock is charged with the murder of Ms O’ Hara (37) in Co. Dublin...
A Tipperary murder trial has heard that the deceased had 31 separate fractures to his ribs when the State Pathologist examined his body two years ago. Professor Marie Cassidy was giving evidence today in the trial of a 46-year-old Clonmel...
Gardai have told a murder trial that the accused had grazed knuckles when they arrived at the scene of a suspicious death in Tipperary two years ago. The officers were giving evidence today on the second day of the trial of 46-year-old...
A former glass blower has told a murder trial that the accused informed him that he had committed the crime hours after the killing. William O’Riordan (39) was giving evidence today on the opening day of the trial of a 46-year-old...
A 47-year-old Waterford man will be sentenced next week for attempting to murder his elderly mother while keeping vigil by her death bed in a nursing home. Veronica (Vera) Vollrath (83) was pronounced dead on January 9, 2012 at Killure...
The jury has been discharged in the trial of a 21-year-old accused of murdering a man in north Dublin three years ago after failing to reach a verdict. Michael Kinsella of Swiftbrook Close in Tallaght had pleaded not guilty to murdering...
A 46-year-old Tipperary man has pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in the county two years ago. John Hannigan of River House, New Quay in Clonmel is charged with murdering Anthony Fallon (46) in Clonmel on January 18, 2012. He is...
(Pictured: Jeffrey Dumbrell (33)) Two Dublin brothers have appealed against their second conviction for murdering a father-of-six in front of his wife and children outside his Dublin home. Warren (39) and Jeffrey Dumbrell (33) were jailed...
The jury is deliberating in the trial of a 21-year-old accused of murdering a man in north Dublin three years ago. Michael Kinsella of Swiftbrook Close in Tallaght has pleaded not guilty to murdering Adil Essalhi (31) at Tyrrelstown, Co....
by Anne Sharkey A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder of a man whose body was found in a wardrobe in 2012. Christopher Jackson was stabbed to death in his Dublin flat almost two years ago...
A 20-year-old Dublin man has pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in the capital two and a half years ago. Craig O’Halloran of Colepark Road, Ballyfermot is charged with murdering Kevin Kenny on Sarsfield Road, also in Ballyfermot....
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar, County Mayo has been sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for the murder of his mother at the Central Criminal Court. The accused had admitted manslaughter but pleaded not guilty to...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court will begin deliberating tomorrow in the case of a Castlebar man charged with murdering his mother. Celyn Eadon of Derrycrieve, Islandeady is accused of killing Noreen Kelly at their home in March 2011....
At the Central Criminal Court, three mental health professionals gave conflicting evidence in the murder trial of a man accused of killing his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo. Celyn Eadon, aged 22, of Derrycrieve, Islandeady, admits...
A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning a Castlebar man accused of fatally stabbing his mother. The accused, aged 22, of Derrycrieve, Islandeady, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder in connection...
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar has admitted manslaughter but denies murder in connection with the death of his mother at their home in Derrycrieve, Islandeady on 9 March 2011. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused disputed...
(Pictured: Stephanie Tuite (20, Dark Hair) leaving Dublin Central Criminal Court today) The ex-girlfriend of the man who murdered Melanie McCarthy McNamara has been given the Probation Act for failing to testify at his trial. The judge...
At the Central Criminal Court, a 22-year-old man from Derrycrieve, Islandeady, Castlebar pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted manslaughter in connection with the death of his mother, Noreen Kelly, on March 9, 2011. The 46-year-old...
A witness told the Central Criminal Court that a half-naked teenager arrived at his kitchen window in Castlebar on the morning of 9 March 2011, covered in cuts and scratches. The young man, later identified as Celyn Eadon, then aged 22,...
by Anne Sharkey A 19-year old woman has been warned that she may have threatened the viability of a very serious case and could end up in jail as a result. Stephanie Tuite from Glenshane in Tallaght was arrested for failing to give...
A witness has testified at the Central Criminal Court regarding the death of a woman in County Mayo. The 19-year-old brother of the accused gave evidence via live television link in the trial of Celyn Eadon, aged 22, from Derrycrieve,...
(Pictured: Melanie McCarthy McNamara's godmother Jennifer Roche, who gave a victim impact statement, leaving Dublin Central Criminal Court) Teenager Daniel McDonnell has been sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of...
A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara, after hearing closing speeches from each side. Daniel McDonnell’s barrister told jurors that there wasn’t a scintilla of evidence...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing two letters in which the prosecution claims he bragged about shooting her. Daniel McDonnell wrote the letters from his prison cell in March 2012, while on...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara was a protected prisoner when he allegedly wrote a letter containing the phrase: ‘Two in the head. The bitch is dead’. Daniel McDonnell’s murder trial heard that he had cell to...
A 65-year-old Wicklow farmer with dementia and Parkinson’s disease has been deemed unfit to stand trial for the murder of his older brother in 2010. Cecil Tomkins is charged with murdering 66-year-old Walter Tomkins at their home in...
A Cork man who was jailed for life for the murder of a young Englishman who had joked about his father being in a loyalist organisation has failed in an appeal against his conviction. Timothy O’Driscoll (36), formerly of St. Rita’s...
A 22-year-old man from Castlebar is to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court following the death of his mother in March 2011. The defendant pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a...
The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing graffiti on his cell wall, which the State says bragged about killing her. Graffiti including: “2 in the head. The bitch is dead” was found on Daniel...
A murder trial has heard that teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara was bleeding profusely from her skull when she arrived at hospital after being gunned down in Tallaght two years ago. The jury was also shown the shotgun that gardai found...
A jury has been told that the teenager charged with murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting her in graffiti on his cell wall. A prosecutor told his trial that while being investigated for her...
A mother-of-one who cleaned up the scene of a murder carried out by a “recidivist criminal” has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Siobhan Whitaker (25) with an address in Meadow Vale in London pleaded guilty to impeding the...
A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man accused of murdering a man in north Dublin in 2012. Andrew Gibney (21) is charged with murdering Gerard Burnett (28) at Castlecurragh Vale, Mulhuddart on August 21, 2012. Mr Gibney of...
A Dublin teenager has pleaded not guilty to murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght almost two years ago. Daniel McDonnell of Brookview Lawns in Tallaght was before the Central Criminal Court today charged with...
A mother-of-one is to be sentenced later for assisting a “recidivist criminal” who carried out a murder in Dublin four years ago by cleaning up the scene. Siobhan Whitaker (25) with an address in Meadow Vale in London pleaded guilty to...
A man serving a life sentence for raping four of his daughters has launched an appeal against his sentence at the Court of Criminal Appeal. The 52-year-old was convicted in December 2011 at the Central Criminal Court in Castlebar, County...
A 47-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his elderly mother in a Waterford nursing home last year. Gerald Vollrath of Tramore Heights, Tramore had been charged with the murder of Veronica Vollrath (83) on or about...
A Limerick man who was jailed for life for the murder of his partner must wait to learn if his appeal against his conviction has been successful. In March 2007 Kieran Lynch (47) was sentenced to life in prison by Mr Justice Paul Carney...
A Dublin man has been given a 20-year sentence for the attempted murder of his lifelong friend. Patrick McCann (20) of Decies Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Luke Wilson (19) at Liffey Gaels, GAA club, Memorial...
A Dublin man is to be sentenced later for shooting his lifelong friend causing him to lose his eye. Patrick McCann (20) of Decies Road, Ballyfermot pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Luke Wilson (19) at Liffey Gaels, GAA club,...
Notorious Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh will apply for bail pending appeals against his separate convictions for rape, indecent assault and defilement of a child. Walsh (65) formerly of Belgrave Road,...
The jury has been discharged in the trial of three men charged in connection with the death of a man in Limerick last year as no judge is available to hear the case this week. On Tuesday, Sean Flanagan (28) and Paul Colbert (46) both of...
An electrician has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a bread deliveryman in a Limerick petrol station three years ago. John Coughlan (33) of Pineview Gardens, Moyross had pleaded not (NOT) guilty to...
A 37-year-old Cork mother of three has been sentenced to life in prison for murder for a second time this year. Kinsale native Catherine O’Connor pleaded guilty to murdering her 42-year-old neighbour, John Forrester, when arraigned before...
The jury is due to begin deliberating in the trial of an electrician accused of the fatal shooting of a bread deliveryman in Limerick three years ago. John Coughlan (33) of Pineview Gardens, Moyross has pleaded not guilty to murder but...
A recidivist burglar who assaulted and threatened to kill a 97-year-old woman in her home has had his six-year jail term increased by four years after a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions. After gaining access to the...
A Limerick man who left a school boy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack must wait to learn if his appeal against his 15-year sentence has been successful. The man, who was a teenager in the...