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(File Picture: Darren Redmond (L) & Alan Harte (R). Photo: Collins) Three men who abducted Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, subjected him to “animalistic” levels of “protracted torture” and carved the letters QIH into his...
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(Pictured: Sentencing judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Photo: Collins) A Cavan man must serve a six-year prison sentence for trying to murder his father before beginning a life sentence for murdering his mother in attacks of “extreme violence”...
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A man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father in an attack at their family home in Ballyconnell, County Cavan on 11 January 2025. The 33-year-old defendant wept as...
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A 31-year-old man from Killeshandra, County Cavan, has received a fully suspended two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a Ryanair cabin crew member during a flight to Dublin Airport. Aaron Brady...
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A former accountant pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft and deception offences committed over six weeks in early 2025. Michelle Dillon, aged 59 and homeless, stole a bank card and medical card from an elderly patient...
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A 32-year-old man from Ballyconnell, County Cavan, has pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder before the Central Criminal Court. Danny Heyneman admitted to the murder of Annie Heyneman at a family home in Kilnavart on January 11,...
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A 31-year-old man from Killeshandra, County Cavan, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a Ryanair cabin crew member during a flight to Dublin Airport. The assault occurred approximately 40 minutes before...
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A 39-year-old self-employed carpenter from Cavan has been disqualified from driving for two years following a conviction for drink driving. Eduard Hupalov was stopped by gardaí on Belgard Road, Dublin 24, on 25 February 2024, after...
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Eight healthcare workers from Zimbabwe have been awarded €30,420 each by the Workplace Relations Commission following a finding that Unity Healthcare Services Ltd failed to pay their wages over a six-month period. The adjudicator...
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A 32-year-old man from Ballyconnell in County Cavan is to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin in April on charges relating to alleged incidents at a family home in Kilnavart. The accused is charged with murder and...
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A woman from Kingscourt, Co Cavan, has been convicted and fined €750 following an assault at a concert venue in Dublin. Sarah Callan, aged 37, pleaded guilty at Dún Laoghaire District Court to a Section 2 assault that occurred on 20 June...
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Three men convicted of the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had their conviction appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte, Alan O'Brien, and Darren Redmond, all from East Wall, Dublin,...
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A firefighter employed part-time with Cavan County Fire Service has been awarded €15,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission following a successful complaint of penalisation under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. Cian...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Ruth Lawrence of murdering Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor between April and May 2014. Justice Tony Hunt handed down two concurrent life sentences on Monday, backdated to October 2022....
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Eight care workers from Zimbabwe have testified before the Workplace Relations Commission regarding allegations of unpaid wages and financial exploitation linked to their recruitment by Unity Healthcare Services Ltd. The workers,...
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At Dublin's Central Criminal Court, a trial has heard evidence concerning the disappearances of Eoin O'Connor and Anthony Keegan, who went missing from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan on 22 April 2014. Eoin, a 32-year-old drug dealer, sent a...
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A key witness in the trial of Ruth Lawrence at the Central Criminal Court suffered a heart attack requiring hospitalisation during proceedings, creating significant complications for the case. The witness, who had provided crucial...
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A Cavan man previously imprisoned for handling 117 stolen bicycles has received a suspended sentence for money laundering linked to the same offence. Dinas Bimbiras, aged 50, of Maple Drive, Drumgola Wood, Cavan, pleaded guilty at Dublin...
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A man has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for two counts of animal cruelty connected to protests against asylum seeker accommodation at Thornton Hall in north Dublin. In June 2024, security...
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A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has ordered a Cavan takeaway business to pay €154,828 in compensation to a Chinese national for serious employment rights violations sustained over two years. The worker, employed at Lam's...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard that drug dealer Eoin O'Connor sent a text message on April 22, 2014, stating "have to go to country… if anything happens to me" before he and Anthony Keegan disappeared. Ruth Lawrence (45),...
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A witness at the Central Criminal Court has testified that a fire was burning at a house in Mountnugent, County Meath, the day after two men went missing in April 2014. Vytautis Bitaris told the court he was present at Patricks Cottage on...
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A key witness has told the Central Criminal Court that he feared Ruth Lawrence, who is accused of murdering two men in April or May 2014. The 45-year-old from Mountnugent in Co Meath has pleaded not guilty to killing Anthony Keegan and...
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A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that Ruth Lawrence, the accused in a double murder trial, admitted to shooting drug dealer Eoin O'Connor but said the killing "went wrong" and her boyfriend "took over". Stacey Symes testified...
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A retired Deputy State Pathologist has testified at the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man whose remains were discovered on an island in Lough Sheelin, County Cavan, died from two gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Dr Michael...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a dog handler has testified in the double murder trial of Ruth Lawrence that his specially trained German Shepherd gave an indication at a tarpaulin-covered area on Inchicup Island in Lough Sheelin, where...
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At the Central Criminal Court, families of two men missing since 2014 provided testimony in the murder trial of Ruth Lawrence. The 45-year-old, from Mountnugent in County Meath, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Anthony Keegan and...
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A woman accused of murdering two men inquired about borrowing a boat on Lough Sheelin the day before the deceased were last seen alive, the Central Criminal Court has heard. Ruth Lawrence, 45, of Patricks Cottage, Ross, Mountnugent, Co...
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Ruth Lawrence, a Dublin woman with an address in County Meath, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of two men whose bodies were discovered on Inchicup Island in Lough Sheelin in May 2014. The island straddles the borders of Meath,...
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A 45-year-old woman with an address in County Meath has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor, alleged to have occurred at an...
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Alan Harte, aged 43, is serving a 30-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court for the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at a yard in Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019. At the...
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A 63-year-old former Defence Forces member has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for five counts of sexual assault committed against a child in Cavan between September 2007 and June 2010. Mr Justice...
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a serving member of An Garda Síochána and his partner against a High Court order requiring them to vacate a property in Co Cavan. The couple had occupied the house at Lock Eala, Loch Gowna...
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A chef employed at restaurants in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan has lodged multiple employment rights complaints at the Workplace Relations Commission against a businessman and his limited company. The worker, a Chinese national, alleges...
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The Court of Appeal heard submissions on whether to uphold convictions against three men jailed for the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Sean Guerin SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, argued...
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A migrant chef employed at a takeaway in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, worked up to 73 hours weekly for approximately €25 daily while servicing an illegal recruitment debt of €30,000, the Workplace Relations Commission heard on Tuesday....
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Alan Harte, who is serving a 30-year sentence for the false imprisonment and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney in County Cavan in September 2019, has been ordered to pay the State's costs following the dismissal...
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A 27-year-old fitness instructor from Donabate has been sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for drug trafficking. The man pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis on 26...
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A man serving a 30-year sentence for the kidnapping and torture of a Quinn Industrial Holdings director has failed in his Court of Appeal challenge against a refusal to extend time for seeking judicial review of his non-jury trial. Alan...
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Three men convicted of the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had their appeal adjourned for three months by the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte (43), Alan O'Brien (43) and Darren Redmond (30), all from...
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Three men convicted of the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have appealed their sentences at the Court of Appeal, arguing that crucial DNA evidence from a Renault Kangoo van should not have been...
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Three men convicted of the kidnapping and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have appealed their convictions at the Court of Appeal. Alan Harte (43), Alan O'Brien (43), and Darren Redmond (30), all from East Wall,...
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An Indian national living in County Cavan has brought complaints of discrimination against the State's Housing Agency at the Workplace Relations Commission, alleging his applications for a local authority home loan were wrongfully...
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A 43-year-old man serving a 30-year sentence for the kidnap and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019 has appealed a High Court refusal to extend time for him to...
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A pregnant bar supervisor in Cavan has been awarded €18,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission after successfully claiming discrimination following her dismissal. The worker was let go by Brandon Taverns Ltd, operator of the Imperial...
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Two men from County Cavan have received suspended sentences at the Special Criminal Court for assisting the Continuity IRA in connection with a purported attack on Enniskillen police station in March 2021. Desmond Smith, aged 65, of...
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A farm worker in County Cavan has been awarded nearly €14,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission following a ruling that his former employer failed to provide statutory annual leave entitlements over a six-year period. The complainant,...
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A former Olympic swimming coach has been convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and sexual assault of a teenage girl over three decades ago. Derry O'Rourke, aged 78, of Virginia Road,...
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A man has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of raping and sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in Cavan during the late 1980s. Derry O'Rourke, aged 78, of Virginia Road, Cavan, was found guilty of one count of rape and eleven...
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A 79-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually abusing his two granddaughters over a fourteen-year period. He pleaded guilty to eleven counts of sexual abuse occurring...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Derry O'Rourke, a former Irish Olympic swimming coach, of raping and sexually abusing a teenage girl over three decades ago. O'Rourke, aged 78 and resident in Cavan, had pleaded not...
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A sentencing hearing at the Special Criminal Court heard evidence concerning an alleged Continuity IRA attack on Enniskillen PSNI station in March 2021 that went undetected at the time. Desmond Smith, aged 65, of Kilnavara Crescent,...
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A 66-year-old man from Arva, County Cavan, appeared before the High Court today following his arrest at Dublin Airport on an extradition warrant issued by Northern Ireland authorities. James Donegan is wanted in connection with the murder...
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Contempt of court proceedings against Gemma O'Doherty in the High Court have been adjourned to July following a request for time to address allegations concerning third party funding of the plaintiff's case. Ms O'Doherty has claimed that...
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The High Court and coroner's court have examined competing legal arguments regarding the scope of verdicts available to the jury in the resumed inquest into the 48 deaths at the Stardust nightclub fire. The new inquests, which commenced...
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Activist Gemma O'Doherty appeared before the High Court on Wednesday following her arrest by An Garda Síochána on an application alleging contempt of court. Mr Justice Conor Dignam adjourned the hearing to allow Ms O'Doherty to obtain...
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Two men from County Cavan have pleaded guilty to assisting the IRA at the Special Criminal Court. Desmond Smith, aged 64, of Kilnavara Crescent, and Stephen Hamill, aged 51, of Willow Ridge, Gortnakesh, each admitted to knowingly...
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A 39-year-old man with 174 previous convictions has been sentenced to 14 months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for breaching conditions of a suspended sentence, including a lifelong driving disqualification. James Maughan...
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A High Court judge has ruled that Gemma O'Doherty must appear before the court to answer alleged contempt of an existing injunction. Mr Justice Mark Sanfey was satisfied that Ms O'Doherty had breached an order restraining her from...
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An application seeking Gemma O'Doherty's possible committal to prison for alleged contempt of court has been adjourned for one week by Mr Justice Mark Sanfey in the High Court. The motion, brought by Edel Campbell from Kingscourt, County...
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A contempt of court application against Gemma O'Doherty has been adjourned to February 12th following a hearing in the High Court. The motion, brought by Edel Campbell from Kingscourt, County Cavan, seeks Ms O'Doherty's attachment and...
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Paschal Kelly, aged 57, has failed in his appeal against conviction for a €92,000 post office robbery committed in September 2014. The Court of Appeal dismissed his challenge on all grounds, upholding his 18-year sentence imposed by...
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Ruth Lawrence, a 42-year-old Dublin woman extradited from South Africa, will stand trial at the Central Criminal Court on October 7, 2024, on charges of murdering Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor. The bodies of both men were discovered...
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A woman from Kingscourt, County Cavan, has secured court orders requiring Twitter to disclose the identities of operators behind two accounts allegedly in breach of an injunction. At the High Court on Tuesday, Edel Campbell's legal team...
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A mother from Kingscourt, County Cavan, has returned to the High Court seeking orders to identify operators of Twitter accounts alleged to have breached an existing injunction against former journalist Gemma O'Doherty. Edel Campbell is...
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A woman from Lough Gowna in County Cavan has brought proceedings in the High Court against a manufacturing company and its alleged directors over noise pollution affecting her home. Ita Madden claims that excessive noise generated by...
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A mother from Kingscourt, County Cavan, has obtained High Court orders restraining former journalist Gemma O'Doherty from harassing her following the death of her teenage son. Mr Justice Conor Dignam granted the injunctions on Friday in...
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Edel Campbell from Kingscourt, County Cavan, brought proceedings before the High Court alleging that she has experienced intensified online harassment and intimidation following her legal action against Gemma O'Doherty. Ms Campbell claims...
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A man's appeal against his four-year jail sentence for the sexual abuse of a child in County Cavan has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The appellant, now 23, pleaded guilty at Cavan Circuit Criminal Court in June 2021 to defilement...
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The inquest into the Stardust fire of February 1981, in which 48 young people died, entered a new phase at Dublin Coroner's Court on 23 May 2023. Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane addressed the jury, noting that the tragedy had left an indelible...
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The Special Criminal Court heard closing submissions yesterday in the trial of two men accused of involvement in the fatal robbery at Lordship Credit Union in County Louth in January 2013. Prosecution counsel told the three-judge court...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld a €94,000 damages award made to a cabin supervisor from Cavan who sustained injuries during a workplace accident aboard a Ryanair aircraft. Fiona Nangle, aged 41 from Latt Hills, successfully sued the...
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The High Court has reserved its decision on a constitutional challenge brought by Alan Harte, who seeks to overturn his conviction and 30-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court in 2021. Harte was sentenced for the serious...
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A man has received a fully suspended one-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for careless driving causing the death of a cyclist. Mariusz Karpinski, aged 32 and from Ashbourne in County Meath, pleaded guilty to careless driving...
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A man from Kingscourt, County Cavan, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment following his conviction for rape at the Central Criminal Court. The offence occurred in February 2007, when the man raped an acquaintance who was sleeping...
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Two men from County Cavan appeared before the Special Criminal Court on 14 February 2023 following their arrest by members of the Special Detective Unit. Desmond Smith, aged 63, of Kilnavara Crescent, Cavan, and Stephen Hamill, aged 50,...
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The Special Criminal Court has heard testimony concerning a credit union robbery in County Louth in January 2013 during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was fatally shot. Staff from Lordship Credit Union and Cooley Credit Union in...
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The Special Criminal Court heard evidence from victims of "creeper" burglaries in the ongoing trial of two men accused of conspiring to commit such break-ins across the border region. Brendan Treanor and James Flynn, both charged with...
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Two men have been charged with conspiracy to commit a series of burglaries known as "creeper burglaries" across Ireland between September 2012 and January 2013. The Special Criminal Court heard that the offences involved late-night...
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A man from County Cavan is appealing his conviction for a post office robbery in Dublin during which three women were tied up and abducted. Paschal Kelly, aged 56, was convicted in 2018 of robbery, false imprisonment, threatening to kill,...
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A serial arsonist whose fire claimed his uncle's life has had his prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. Daniel Murray, aged 40, of no fixed abode but residing in County Cavan, was originally sentenced to seven-and-a-half years...
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A man convicted of perverting the course of justice in connection with a 2013 dissident Republican murder has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Raymond Kennedy was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in May 2022 after...
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A man from Cavan has been sentenced to two years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing 117 stolen bicycles valued at approximately €50,000. Dinas Bimbiras, aged 47, of Maple Drive, Drumgola Wood, Cavan, pleaded guilty...
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A man with a last address in Cootehill, County Cavan, has appealed his conviction and 18-year sentence imposed by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in a €92,000 post office robbery in 2014. The appellant was convicted of...
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A divorced couple received fully suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for money laundering nearly €180,000 stolen through an invoice redirect fraud targeting an education board. Zanab Ibrahim, aged 51, of Wolfe Tone Street...
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A farmer from County Cavan has been awarded €13,400 by the Workplace Relations Commission following a finding of unfair dismissal. Padraig Cunningham was dismissed from Pat the Baker Unlimited, based in Granard, County Longford, in May...
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At the High Court on Friday, Mannok Cement Limited and Mannok Build Ltd sought an injunction to prevent Sean Quinn from trespassing on lands in Co Cavan, including Swanlinbar Quarry. The companies allege that Mr Quinn has repeatedly...
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Two Mannok companies have initiated High Court proceedings against Sean Quinn, alleging trespass on Swanlinbar Quarry in County Cavan. Mannok Cement Limited and Mannok Build Ltd seek an injunction to restrain Mr Quinn from entering the...
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An environmental campaigner has failed in a High Court challenge to overturn An Bord Pleanala's decision to permit a weather mast at a wind farm in Co Cavan. Val Martin, a farmer and environmental campaigner resident near the Raragh Wind...
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A Dublin man with a history of dangerous driving offences was handed a fully suspended four-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 4 April 2022. James Maughan (36) pleaded guilty to endangerment, dangerous driving, and driving...
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The High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement enabling a 59-year-old building foreman from Blacklion, County Cavan, to write off approximately €19 million in debt. Mr Justice Mark Sanfey granted approval to the arrangement...
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The High Court has directed that an application by Alan Harte, who was convicted of kidnapping and torturing Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, must be served on the Director of Public Prosecutions. Harte, aged 41, was...
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Daniel Munteanu, a 32-year-old Romanian national resident in Co Meath, has failed in his Court of Appeal challenge against a six-and-a-half-year custodial sentence. Munteanu pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft totalling €121,800 from 52...
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A 32-year-old Romanian national is appealing a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed for his role in an international bank card skimming operation. Daniel Munteanu pleaded guilty at Trim Circuit Criminal Court to ten counts of theft...
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Five men have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their roles in an affray during which a man was attacked with weapons including a slash-hook and hatchet on Hartstown Road, Dublin on 7 February 2015. The victim sustained...
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A man convicted at the Special Criminal Court of kidnapping and assaulting a Quinn Industrial Holdings director has launched a High Court challenge against his conviction and 30-year sentence. Alan Harte claims that Section 40 of the 1939...
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A man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for manslaughter following the death of his uncle in a house fire at Derrylurgan, Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan in August 2018. Daniel Murray (40) pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson...
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The High Court has lifted a gagging order that prevented the media from naming Alan Harte, a 40-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and torturing Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. Harte was previously identified only...
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A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of his uncle in a house fire at Derrylurgan, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan in August 2018 appeared before the Central Criminal Court. Daniel Murray (40) admitted setting fire to...
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The State has argued to the Court of Appeal that an anonymity order protecting a man convicted in the Kevin Lunney case should be lifted without further delay. The individual, identified as YZ in proceedings, received a 30-year sentence...
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A 26-year-old man from Cavan has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to sexually abusing two young children in their home during summer 2014. The defendant, who...
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A 27-year-old man from Castleblayney, County Monaghan has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to three offences arising from his involvement with a cross-border criminal organisation in 2019. Ciaran Duffy admitted attempting to...
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Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, gave evidence at the Special Criminal Court detailing his abduction and assault in County Fermanagh in September 2019. Mr Lunney described being forced into a vehicle, transported to...
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Three men have been sentenced following their conviction for the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. At the Special Criminal Court, a...
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The High Court has extended an anonymity order protecting the identity of a man convicted of inflicting serious injuries on businessman Kevin Lunney during a kidnapping in County Cavan in September 2019. Mr Justice Charles Meenan granted...
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An application to maintain the anonymity of a man convicted of serious offences against businessman Kevin Lunney came before the High Court on Thursday. The man, referred to as YZ, was convicted earlier this year alongside two co-accused...
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The Special Criminal Court has extended an order protecting the identity of a man convicted of inflicting the most severe injuries on businessman Kevin Lunney during a 2019 kidnapping in Cavan. The anonymity order, which was due to expire...
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A 36-year-old Dublin man pleaded guilty to endangerment, dangerous driving, and driving without insurance following a high-speed chase through west Dublin on 27 February 2020. The incident began in a Blanchardstown shopping centre car...
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A 39-year-old man from County Armagh has been jailed for four-and-a-half years by the Special Criminal Court following his guilty plea to handling proceeds from cross-border ATM thefts. The accused pleaded guilty in July to possessing...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, businessman Kevin Lunney delivered a victim impact statement describing the lasting trauma inflicted on himself and his family by his abduction and assault in September 2019. Mr Lunney, a director...
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A man from Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan, has had his prison sentence increased following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Shane Smith (32) pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an elderly woman at her home in April 2018 after...
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A man from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, is the subject of a Director of Public Prosecutions appeal against sentence at the Court of Appeal. Shane Smith, aged 32, had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a...
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Three men have been convicted of falsely imprisoning, beating and mutilating Kevin Lunney, director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. A fourth man was acquitted. Mr Justice Tony Hunt found Alan O'Brien...
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A man in his forties has been convicted by the Special Criminal Court of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. The accused, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was tried...
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Judgment commenced at the Special Criminal Court on November 8th in the trial of four men charged with falsely imprisoning and assaulting businessman Kevin Lunney. Mr Justice Tony Hunt began delivering his ruling after a 40-day trial,...
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The Special Criminal Court has rejected a defence application to adjourn the verdict in the trial of four men charged with the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin Lunney until after a European Court of...
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Daniel Murray, aged 39 and of no fixed abode, appeared at the Central Criminal Court on charges relating to a house fire in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan in August 2018. He had been charged with murdering Patrick Oliver Murray in the...
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The Special Criminal Court has postponed delivery of its verdicts in the case of four men charged with abducting and torturing Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. The three-judge non-jury court had initially scheduled...
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A man has been convicted at the Special Criminal Court of handling nearly €104,000 in proceeds from an organised ATM theft gang that stole approximately €790,000 across the Border region. Niall Finnegan, aged 39, was arrested at...
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The Special Criminal Court heard closing arguments on the final day of the trial of four men charged with the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a Quinn Industrial Holdings director, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on September...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, closing arguments concluded on Wednesday in the trial of four men accused of the abduction and assault of businessman Kevin Lunney in Cavan on 17 September 2019. The accused, identified as YZ, Alan...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 3 August 2021, prosecutors outlined their case against four accused men charged in connection with the abduction and serious assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at...
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A man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment, with the final two years suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for a four-day assault on a teenager in County Cavan in October 2019. The 27-year-old...
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A Dublin man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment following a money-laundering conviction at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Jonathon O'Connor, aged 38, pleaded guilty to concealing over €870,000 in cash at a rural property in...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, the presiding judge questioned whether defence counsel was suggesting gardaí engaged in misconduct by planting DNA evidence in a van allegedly used in the abduction and torture of Kevin Lunney. The...
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Michael Murray (50) has been sentenced to an additional 16 years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for harassment and death threats directed at lawyers and his rape victim. Murray, formerly of Killiney, Dublin, was convicted...
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A 19-year-old was subjected to a four-day ordeal of assault, false imprisonment and sexual abuse at a house in County Cavan between October 17th and 20th, 2019, the Central Criminal Court heard. The main male accused, aged 27, developed...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, evidence was heard that a Renault Kangoo van allegedly used in the abduction of Cavan businessman Kevin Lunney was left unlocked on a Dublin street in October 2019. Members of the National...
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A husband and wife from Watermint Court, Royal Canal Park, Ashtown, have received fully suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to making false personal injury claims. The offences occurred between...
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The Special Criminal Court has rejected two defence applications in the trial of four men charged with the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. Defence...
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Detective Sergeant Jim McDevitt of Cavan Garda Station gave evidence at the Special Criminal Court concerning evidence in the trial of three men charged in connection with the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn...
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A forensic scientist told the Special Criminal Court that DNA matching Kevin Lunney and one of the accused men was found in a Renault Kangoo van examined in October 2019. Dr Edward Connolly of Forensic Science Ireland used luminol to...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, one of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has been heard refusing to answer key questions during garda interviews. The accused man,...
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Luke O'Reilly, one of four men charged in connection with the abduction of businessman Kevin Lunney, described Cyril McGuinness as "like a big crazy bastard" and "not a good yoke" during garda interviews, the Special Criminal Court in...
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The Special Criminal Court heard evidence on Tuesday that a forensic investigation textbook was discovered during a garda search of an accused man's Dublin apartment. Detective Garda Lisa Young told the court she found "The Forensic...
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A Renault Kangoo van allegedly used in the abduction of businessman Kevin Lunney may have been brought to Ireland from the United Kingdom shortly before the alleged offence, the Special Criminal Court has heard. Prosecution counsel told...
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The Special Criminal Court has heard that prosecution evidence in the trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney is expected to conclude next week. The trial, under way since...
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During the trial of four men accused of abducting businessman Kevin Lunney at Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019, defence counsel Michael O'Higgins SC raised concerns about the conduct of proceedings at the Special Criminal Court....
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A medical examination of Kevin Lunney, director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, revealed extensive injuries sustained during an abduction and assault on September 17, 2019, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan. Dr Muhammad Ashraf Butt of...
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The Special Criminal Court heard evidence on Tuesday concerning a Renault Kangoo van allegedly used in the abduction of businessman Kevin Lunney in September 2019. A car dealer from Drogheda testified that he purchased the van for €400...
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The Special Criminal Court heard evidence of mobile phone contacts the prosecution alleges were connected to the abduction and assault of businessman Kevin Lunney in September 2019. An Garda Síochána intelligence analyst Edel Hannigan...
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A forensic scientist told the Special Criminal Court that she discovered blood inside a horse box at a yard in Ballinagh, Co Cavan during an examination in September 2019. Dr Yvonne O'Dowd of Forensic Science Ireland used luminol...
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A man has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice during the investigation into a 2013 murder. Ray Kennedy, aged 40, was found guilty of destroying a mobile phone...
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The Special Criminal Court heard that gardaí employed an "extremely impressive" identification procedure when examining CCTV footage related to the abduction and assault of businessman Kevin Lunney in County Cavan on 17 September 2019....
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The Special Criminal Court has ruled that mobile phone and CCTV evidence gathered during the investigation into the abduction and assault of businessman Kevin Lunney is admissible. The three-judge court rejected arguments from defence...
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A 47-year-old man has received a life sentence at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a 78-year-old widow in Limerick in December 2017. Alexandru Iordache, originally from Romania, pleaded guilty to the killing of Rose Hanrahan...
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At the Special Criminal Court, defence counsel have challenged prosecution tactics employed during the trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Giollaiosa O'Lideadha SC,...
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The State has opposed defence applications to exclude CCTV evidence from the trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. The Special Criminal Court heard that Sean Guerin SC,...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 30 June 2021, defence counsel argued that gardai are operating a "de facto surveillance system" through unauthorised access to private CCTV footage, breaching citizens' constitutional rights to...
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The Special Criminal Court trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney heard evidence from multiple witnesses who provided CCTV footage to gardai. Witnesses from Cavan, Monaghan,...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, prosecutors presented evidence that one of three men accused of assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney made a journey to Cavan on September 16, 2019, which the State...
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The Special Criminal Court examined CCTV footage on Monday as part of the trial relating to the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, in September 2019. Detective Garda Alan Jones spent three days...
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Ray Kennedy, aged 41, of Blanchardstown in Dublin, has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice at the Special Criminal Court following his destruction of a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013. The card was considered of...
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A sergeant told the Special Criminal Court that he mediated between gardaí and one of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. The accused man, who cannot be identified, attended Store...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, prosecutors presented evidence alleging that a phone number ending in 567 was linked to Darren Redmond in connection with the September 2019 abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney near Ballinagh,...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Mr Justice Tony Hunt expressed frustration regarding the absence of clear European Union guidance on police access to mobile phone data during the trial of four men accused of abducting and...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, counsel for the State submitted that gardaí were lawfully entitled to access mobile phone data during their investigation into the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn...
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Four men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to charges of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September...
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A barrister representing one of three men charged with the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has criticised the government's failure to introduce legislation governing gardai access to mobile phone...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 9 June 2021, defence counsel challenged the validity of search warrants used to obtain mobile phone data in the investigation of Kevin Lunney's abduction and assault in County Cavan in September...
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The Special Criminal Court heard submissions on the admissibility of mobile phone evidence in the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Defence...
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Four men charged in connection with the abduction and serious assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have mounted a challenge to the admissibility of mobile phone evidence central to the prosecution's case at the...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, gardaí gave evidence in the trial of four men charged in connection with the abduction and assault of Kevin Lunney in County Cavan in September 2019. An unnamed 40-year-old man, Alan O'Brien,...
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Two men charged with murder will proceed to trial at the Special Criminal Court following the rejection of a jurisdictional challenge this morning. Kenneth Donohoe, aged 42, and Darren Murphy, aged 50, both face allegations relating to...
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A director of Quinn Industrial Holdings told the Special Criminal Court how he dragged himself along a dark country road after being subjected to serious violence, fearing he would not receive help. Kevin Lunney, giving evidence in the...
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A man was forcibly removed from his car, imprisoned in a shipping container and subjected to serious violence during an assault lasting approximately 40 minutes on 17 September 2019 near Ballinagh, County Cavan, the Special Criminal Court...
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The Special Criminal Court has rejected jurisdictional challenges to its authority to try four men accused of assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. A defence counsel argued the court has evolved into a permanent...
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The Special Criminal Court has adjourned proceedings in the trial of four men charged with the false imprisonment of Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin Lunney. A jurisdictional application is to be heard tomorrow on behalf of one...
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Four men stand charged with the false imprisonment and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. The trial at the Special Criminal Court is now scheduled to commence on 31...
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A man has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of disrupting the garda investigation into the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly in 2013. Ray Kennedy, aged 41, from Blanchardstown, Dublin, was convicted of destroying...
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Two directors of a real estate company have been imprisoned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following guilty pleas to defrauding clients. Sean Boylan, aged 72, of Cootehill, County Cavan, and Colin Horan, aged 38, of Dun Laoghaire,...
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A man and woman pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making false personal injury claims following a car accident on Griffith Avenue in May 2019. Rene Cifra reversed his vehicle into a van driven by an off-duty garda whilst...
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A 59-year-old man from Cootehill in Cavan has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for his role in transporting cocaine valued at €2.5 million. The former publican pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of...
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A man accused of perverting the course of justice in connection with a dissident republican murder has been remanded on bail pending judgment. The Special Criminal Court hearing concerns Ray Kennedy, who is charged with deliberately...
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Ray Kennedy, aged 40, has pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to a charge of perverting the course of justice. The prosecution alleges that Kennedy deliberately destroyed a mobile phone SIM card on 6 March 2013, the day...
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The Central Criminal Court is managing a substantial backlog of cases caused by Covid-19 restrictions, with trial commencement dates now being set more than two years in advance. Mr Justice Michael White scheduled a trial for attempted...
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Four men are charged with the false imprisonment and assault of Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. The trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court has been...
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The trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Kevin Lunney, a Quinn Industrial Holdings executive, has been adjourned by the Special Criminal Court. Mr Justice Tony Hunt determined on Tuesday that proceeding with the trial as...
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Four men accused of falsing imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have had a pre-trial application to adjourn their case rejected at the Special Criminal Court. Mr Justice Tony Hunt dismissed all four...
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Four men accused of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney appeared before the Special Criminal Court on 26 November to address an adjournment application. Luke O'Reilly, aged 66, from...
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A defence counsel for one of four men charged with the false imprisonment and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has applied for the trial to be adjourned, citing legal uncertainty surrounding mobile phone data...
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Environmental activist Peter Sweetman has initiated High Court judicial review proceedings against the Forestry Appeals Committee's decision to grant a felling licence to Coillte for coniferous Sitka Spruce trees on the Bellamont Forest...
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Four men facing charges of false imprisonment and assault in connection with an incident involving Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney are expected to delay their trial through High Court challenges to the Special Criminal...
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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...
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Aaron Brady has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in January 2013. Brady, aged twenty-nine and from New Road in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, was...
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At the Central Criminal Court, victim impact statements were read concerning the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohue, who died during an armed robbery at Lordship Credit Union on 25 January 2013. His wife Caroline described the...
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a debt collector against an 18-month custodial sentence imposed for intimidation and harassment offences. Kevin Molloy, aged 51, originally from Donegal and currently residing in Cavan, was...
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A Dublin man charged in connection with an incident involving Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has initiated High Court proceedings challenging the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision to try him before the Special...
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A man accused of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has failed in his application to have the charges dismissed at the Special Criminal Court. Alan O'Brien, aged 39, from East Wall, Dublin,...
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Alan O'Brien, aged 39, with an address at Shelmalier Road, East Wall, Dublin 3, appeared before the Special Criminal Court on July 6th, 2020 to seek dismissal of charges relating to the false imprisonment and assault of Kevin Lunney. Mr...
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A boy born at Cavan General Hospital in August 2017 with cerebral palsy has received a €4.6 million interim payment following settlement of his High Court medical negligence claim against the HSE. The child, who requires constant care and...
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Four men faced the Special Criminal Court on charges of false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, County Cavan on 17 September 2019. Luke...
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A man has been granted a Court of Appeal date to challenge his 20-year prison sentence for the serial sexual abuse of children in Cavan and Monaghan. The 53-year-old pleaded guilty in December 2016 to 52 sample charges of indecent assault...
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Gareth Hamilton, aged 26, from Drumconnick, County Cavan, was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to robbery at an Applegreen Service Station in Inchicore on 28 November 2018....
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The High Court has granted bail to two men charged with the false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm of Kevin Lunney, a director at Quinn Industrial Holdings, notwithstanding garda opposition. Luke O'Reilly, aged 66, from...
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Two men appeared before the High Court on bail applications in connection with charges of false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. Luke O'Reilly, aged 66, from...
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Four men appeared before the Special Criminal Court charged with false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. Luke O'Reilly, aged 66, from Mullahoran Lower, Kilcogy, County...
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Four men are to appear before the Special Criminal Court on Friday following their committal for trial over allegations relating to the assault and false imprisonment of a Quinn Industrial Holdings director in September 2019. Luke...
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A former soldier from Ballyhaise, County Cavan, has had the final year of his 15-year prison sentence suspended by the Court of Appeal. Shane Costello, aged 50, was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting three young girls over a...
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A man has been sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment following a fatal collision on the Naas Road in Dublin on 31 January 2016. Anthony Corcoran, aged 39, of Lyons Street, Newcastle, County Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit...
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Anthony Corcoran, aged 39, of Newcastle, County Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to failure to remain at the scene with intent to escape civil or criminal liability following a collision on the Naas Road, Dublin on...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has acquitted Patrick Carroll on all charges relating to a €90,000 post office robbery in September 2014. The 54-year-old from Swords had pleaded not guilty to charges of trespass, false...
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A Detective Chief Superintendent has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court regarding two men charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Peter Butterly in March 2013. The victim, aged 35, was killed in a car park at...
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A man charged in connection with the March 2013 killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly met veteran republican Marian Price at a Dublin hotel in 2010, the Special Criminal Court heard today. Gardaí gave evidence that Laurence...
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A man charged in connection with the 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly was observed on multiple occasions with slain Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, the Special Criminal Court heard. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of Bettystown, Co...
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A man convicted of sexually assaulting a young child has been remanded in custody at the Central Criminal Court following his apprehension. The 24-year-old was found guilty on all fourteen counts of sexual assault at two Dublin locations...
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A trial at the Special Criminal Court has heard that a text message was sent to the wife of murder victim Peter Butterly minutes before he was shot dead in March 2013. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, of Bettystown, County Meath, and Ray...
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At the Special Criminal Court, a trial concerning two men charged with membership of an unlawful organisation has entered legal argument over mobile phone data retention. Laurence Murphy, aged 62, from Bettystown, County Meath, and Ray...
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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...
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A 35-year-old man from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan has been sentenced to six years imprisonment following his conviction for serious offences against his former partner. Derek Fay pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to...
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A former soldier has withdrawn an appeal against a €150,000 damages award in the Court of Appeal following an assault on his former partner. Jonathan McSherry, formerly of Dublin, had challenged the High Court's assessment of damages for...
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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...
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At the Special Criminal Court, Ray Kennedy (39) and Laurence Murphy (62) are on trial charged in connection with the killing of dissident republican Peter Butterly, who was shot dead on 6 March 2013 outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston,...
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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...
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A 29-year-old woman from Tallaght pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to money laundering following an email fraud scheme that targeted a Cavan-based hardware company. The court heard that €34,587 was fraudulently diverted...
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A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his housemate in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan on New Year's Day 2018. Tomasz Paszkiewicz was convicted by jury of...
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A meat factory worker has been convicted of manslaughter following the death of his poker opponent outside their home in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan on New Year's Day 2018. The 39-year-old was found guilty by jury at the Central Criminal...
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A meat factory worker was convicted of manslaughter but acquitted of murder at the Central Criminal Court following a trial in July 2019. Tomasz Paszkiewicz had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and not guilty to murder in connection with...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the murder trial of a meat factory worker from Cavan. The accused, a 39-year-old, admits killing his housemate with a boning knife from his workplace but denies murder,...
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A 39-year-old meat factory worker has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter following the death of his housemate in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, on New Year's Day 2018. The Central Criminal Court heard that Tomasz...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that the accused man handed himself in to gardaí in Cork on 3 January 2018, three days after the fatal stabbing of his housemate in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan. Garda Razvan Ghetau testified...
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A takeaway worker from Cavan was commended by Justice Tara Burns at the Central Criminal Court for providing first aid to a fatally injured man on New Year's Eve 2018. Alannah Sheridan, who was employed at a takeaway in Ballyjamesduff,...
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A man has admitted fatally stabbing his housemate following a dispute over a poker game on New Year's Eve at their home in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan. Tomasz Paszkiewicz, aged 39, is charged with the murder of Marek Swider, aged 40, on...
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Emil Wyrebiak, aged 26 and resident in Ballinagh, Co Cavan, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of cannabis discovered in a vehicle at Ballyogan Avenue, Carrickmines on April 23, 2018. Gardaí stopped a blue BMW...
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William Burns, held at Loughan House Open Centre in Co Cavan, has challenged the Minister for Justice's refusal to grant him enhanced remission from his prison sentence. Burns was convicted by the Special Criminal Court in 2016 of...
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A former school principal from Ballybofey, County Donegal, has been sent to prison following a Court of Appeal ruling that his original suspended sentence was unduly lenient. Finbarr Boyle, aged 39, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft...
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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...
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Two men appeared at the Special Criminal Court on Monday for sentencing following their guilty pleas in connection with the March 2013 murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Frank Murphy, aged fifty-eight, of Bettystown in County...
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A man convicted of murdering a guardian at a brothel in Cavan seven years ago has had his appeal against conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Przemyslaw Trebacz, a Polish national formerly of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, Co Cavan,...
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A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has been sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment following his conviction on multiple charges related to a tiger kidnapping at a post office in north Dublin. Paschal Kelly, aged fifty-three, was...
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Paschal Kelly, aged 53, of Cootehill, County Cavan, has been convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of false imprisonment, robbery, and threatening to kill three women during a tiger kidnapping in September 2014. The convictions...
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Paschal Kelly, aged 53, with an address in Cootehill, County Cavan, has been convicted of tiger kidnapping, false imprisonment and robbery at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The offences occurred on 25 September 2014, when a postmistress,...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of Paschal Kelly, aged 53, from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, who has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from an incident on September 25, 2014. The charges include...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the defence barrister in a tiger kidnapping trial has submitted that the State's case against Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and with an address in Cootehill, County Cavan, is fundamentally flawed. Martin...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, prosecution counsel has outlined what it characterises as compelling evidence linking Paschal Kelly, aged 52, from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, to a tiger kidnapping at Malahide in September 2014. Mr Kelly has...
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A man in his twenties has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in absentia at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for sexually abusing a young relative in Dublin. He was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict on...
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A protected State's witness testified at the Special Criminal Court on the circumstances surrounding the 2013 shooting death of dissident republican Peter Butterly. The witness, formerly charged with murder but subsequently turned...
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A man has pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a former murder accused who became a State witness. Frank Murphy, aged fifty-eight, of Bettystown, County Meath, admitted to...
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A detective has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he holds the view a man accused of involvement in a €90,000 tiger kidnapping in 2014 has connections to organised crime. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and from Cootehill, County...
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A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an alleged tiger kidnapping in September 2014. Paschal Kelly, aged 52, faces charges of trespass, false imprisonment of a...
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A man from Cavan has pleaded guilty before the Special Criminal Court to assisting an unlawful organisation in the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. Michael McDermott, aged 59, of Ballinagh, Co. Cavan, admitted to knowingly...
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A man on trial at the Special Criminal Court for the murder of a father-of-two was removed from proceedings in an ambulance after falling unwell before the hearing commenced. Frank Murphy, aged fifty-eight, of McDonough Caravan Park,...
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The trial of Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, has entered its seventh week at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Mr Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges including trespass, false imprisonment of three people at a...
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A garda fingerprint expert has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that examination of a vehicle used in a €90,000 tiger kidnapping yielded no evidential value. Garda Frank Doyle said he found nothing of relevance during internal and...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard evidence regarding garda procedures at a crime scene in a tiger kidnapping trial. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and from Cootehill, County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to charges of trespass and...
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A detective gave evidence on day 21 of the trial of Paschal Kelly at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, describing the discovery of an additional licence plate during examination of a vehicle alleged to have been used in a tiger kidnapping....
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A man convicted of murdering a Romanian national at a brothel in Cavan six years ago is awaiting the outcome of his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Przemyslaw Trebacz, a Polish national aged 39, of Bramble Rise,...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, two men have been sentenced for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman while she lay asleep in a private room at a nightclub in Swords, Dublin in July 2017. Joshua Sykes, of Ardlo Manor, Mullagh, County...
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A witness has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of a man charged in connection with a €90,000 tiger kidnapping that occurred in September 2014. The witness described how his vehicle was struck by another car...
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A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has died by suicide since his arrest on the morning of a tiger kidnapping, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard. Paschal Kelly, aged 52, has pleaded not guilty to charges including false imprisonment...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a garda detective testified on the fifteenth day of trial that he discharged two shots at a suspect during an armed chase because he feared for his life. The officer said he believed he saw a firearm in...
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The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with technical evidence relating to phone records. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and resident in Cootehill, County Cavan, has...
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The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued with legal argument held in the jury's absence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Paschal Kelly, aged 52 and from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, has pleaded not...
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The trial of Paschal Kelly (52), from Cootehill, County Cavan, has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with legal argument conducted in the jury's absence. Mr Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges of trespass, false imprisonment,...
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Paschal Kelly, aged 52, from Cootehill, County Cavan, stands trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for charges arising from an alleged tiger kidnapping in September 2014. He has pleaded not guilty to trespassing and falsely imprisoning a...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a detective gave evidence in the trial of a man accused of tiger kidnapping. Detective Garda Eamon Keane described observing a Volkswagen car driven by a man wearing a ski mask near the home of...
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An Italian language student giving evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has described the moment armed raiders entered the bedroom where she was sleeping during an alleged kidnapping in 2014. The witness, who was staying in the north...
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A postmistress and her daughter gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court describing their ordeal during a tiger kidnapping at their Malahide home in September 2014. Susan Lawlor told the court that intruders forced her, her daughter...
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A man with an address in Cootehill, County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an alleged "tiger kidnapping" at a post office in north Dublin four years ago. Paschal Kelly, aged 52, faces...
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Three men have been arraigned at the Special Criminal Court on charges of murdering a dissident republican shot dead outside a public house in Meath over five years ago. Michael McDermott, aged 58, of Ballinagh, County Cavan; Kevin...
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Dean Evans, aged 27, received a mandatory life sentence at the Special Criminal Court following his guilty plea to the murder of Peter Butterly, a 35-year-old dissident republican shot dead outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanstown, County...
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A man arrested in Spain following his failure to appear at trial has pleaded guilty to murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly at the Special Criminal Court. Dean Evans, aged 27 and from Dublin, admitted to the charge of murdering...
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Liberty Insurance DAC, a subsidiary of the US-based Liberty Mutual group with offices on Dublin Road in Cavan, sought High Court approval for a cross-border merger with Spanish entity Liberty Seguros Compania De Seguros Y Reaseguros SA....
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has discontinued proceedings against a Cavan childminder who faced allegations of causing serious harm to an infant. Sandra Higgins of Drumgola Wood, Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to a charge of...
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David Drumm, former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has received a fully suspended sentence of fifteen months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his involvement in an unlawful loan scheme. The 51-year-old from Skerries, County...
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At the Court of Appeal on 25 June 2018, two appellants withdrew challenges to their prison sentences after being informed by President Mr Justice George Birmingham of the court's power to both increase and reduce sentences under review....
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At the Charleton tribunal in Dublin on 21 June 2018, Dáil Deputy Mick Wallace gave evidence regarding allegations of a campaign to undermine Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Mr Wallace told the tribunal that he believed an...
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The third re-trial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby has collapsed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Sandra Higgins, aged 37 of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to intentionally or...
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Fionnan Sheahan, editor of the Irish Independent, has denied telling a former colleague that garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe was "a paedophile". Giving evidence to the Charleton tribunal on Friday, Mr Sheahan stated he had...
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A retrial concerning a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to an infant continued before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Friday with legal argument conducted in the jury's absence. Sandra Higgins, aged 37, of The Beeches,...
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A consultant paediatrician has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that medical evidence points to serious non-accidental injury in a case involving a ten-month-old infant. Dr Christopher Hobbs, a UK expert in physical signs of child...
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A retrial opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 12 June 2018 concerning a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant. Sandra Higgins, aged 37 of Drumgola Wood, Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to...
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Journalist Michael Clifford told the Charleton Tribunal that he was initially shocked when he first learned of allegations of sexual abuse against Sergeant Maurice McCabe in early 2014. Mr Clifford said he heard the allegations on three...
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A Cavan bus driver has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison following conviction for the sexual abuse of three children at the Central Criminal Court. Shane Costello, aged 49, from Hillview, Ballyhaise, was found guilty after trial...
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Two peat extraction companies have sought permission to appeal High Court decisions rejecting their challenges to An Bord Pleanála determinations that their operations are no longer exempt development. Bulrush Horticulture Ltd and...
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Former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan told the Charleton Tribunal on Friday that he never sought to discredit Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Mr Callinan denied directing press officer Superintendent David Taylor to brief media negatively...
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A 21-year-old man from Cavan has received a three-year suspended sentence following his guilty plea to sexually assaulting his 15-year-old cousin at the Central Criminal Court. The offence occurred on May 17, 2015, when the accused was 18...
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A man with a documented history of assaulting women has had his prison sentence doubled by the Court of Appeal in Cavan, just three days before his scheduled release. Aaron Heffernan, aged 39 and residing in Cavan town, had pleaded guilty...
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Mark Foster (23) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of drugs for sale or supply at his home on South Circular Road, Dublin, on 11 January 2017. Gardaí discovered cannabis, MDMA, cocaine and ketamine with a...
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A man charged with the murder of Peter Butterly appeared at the Special Criminal Court after his arrest in Spain. Dean Evans, aged 25, from Raheny in Dublin, failed to appear for trial in January 2017 for the alleged murder of Butterly,...
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Two senior politicians gave evidence to the Charleton tribunal regarding allegations that garda leadership circulated damaging rumours about whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe to political figures and media. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál...
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A 59-year-old businesswoman from Virginia, Cavan has been handed a three-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to harassing three former employees at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Helen Rahill sent 93 emails and made 660 calls...
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Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe gave evidence before the Charleton tribunal in Dublin, describing the response to an internal investigation into his complaints of malpractice at Bailieboro Garda Station in Co Cavan as "a kick in the teeth"....
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A 34-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for impeding the apprehension or prosecution of her housemate's killer. Egita Jaunmaize, of no fixed abode, was convicted of placing a cord...
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A woman has been convicted of impeding the prosecution of her boyfriend for murder by staging her housemate's death as suicide. The 34-year-old defendant, Egita Jaunmaize, was found guilty by majority verdict at the Central Criminal Court...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury has been instructed that they may return a majority verdict in the trial of a woman charged with impeding the prosecution of her boyfriend for murder. The 34-year-old defendant is accused of staging...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberating in the trial of a 34-year-old Latvian woman charged with impeding the prosecution of her boyfriend in connection with a death at Kilnaleck, County Cavan. The accused is charged...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been instructed to consider defences of duress and reasonable excuse in the trial of a 34-year-old woman charged with impeding the apprehension of her boyfriend in connection with a death in...
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The Disclosures Tribunal heard closing submissions on its first module of inquiry concerning false allegations of sexual abuse made against garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe in 2013. The tribunal investigated how a file...
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A trial at the Central Criminal Court heard evidence that a 34-year-old woman accused of impeding the prosecution of her partner in connection with a death would have had limited capacity to resist his control due to childhood trauma. A...
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A 34-year-old Latvian woman is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with impeding the prosecution of a man suspected of murdering Antra Ozolina, a 49-year-old woman found dead at their shared home in Kilnaleck, County Cavan in...
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A 34-year-old Latvian woman is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a man in connection with the death of Antra Ozolina. The accused, Egita Jaunmaize, is alleged to have placed a...
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A 34-year-old woman from Latvia is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a man in connection with the death of her housemate. The accused is alleged to have placed a cord around...
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A retired garda civil servant has denied telling a colleague that the garda legal team was "going after" Sergeant Maurice McCabe, a garda whistleblower. The Charleton Tribunal, examining whether former garda commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan...
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A daughter testified at the Central Criminal Court that her mother, a 49-year-old Latvian woman, was a contented and healthy person with no medical ailments. The trial concerns Egita Jaunmaize, aged 34, of no fixed abode, who has pleaded...
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A 34-year-old Latvian woman has pleaded not guilty to impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a man in connection with a death in Co Cavan. The trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that Egita Jaunmaize is accused of placing a...
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A 34-year-old Latvian woman has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a person in connection with a death in Kilnaleck, Co Cavan, in June 2014. Egita Jaunmaize is accused of...
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A County Cavan man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting his 15-year-old cousin as she slept beside him at his home in May 2015. He was 18 years old at the time of the offence. The court heard the pair had...
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A 34-year-old woman is set to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a man in connection with a death in Co. Cavan nearly four years ago. The accused is alleged to have placed a...
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A retired garda chief superintendent has apologised to the Charleton Tribunal for a 2011 circular sent to stations in the Cavan-Monaghan division congratulating members of Baileboro garda district. Colm Rooney told the tribunal that he...
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A Polish national has successfully appealed his sentence for cannabis cultivation at Cavan Circuit Criminal Court. Stanislaw Gronski, aged 44, of Hill Lodge, Drumnawall, Arva, Co Cavan, had pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis without a...
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A senior barrister who cross-examined garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe at the 2015 O'Higgins Commission of Investigation has told the Charleton tribunal that his conscience remains clear. Colm Smyth SC represented former Garda...
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Former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan told the Charleton tribunal today that she faced an "almost impossible dilemma" in supporting whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe while simultaneously having his evidence tested at the...
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A jury has been discharged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the retrial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally or recklessly causing...
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A truck driver from Cavan has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment following his conviction for drug smuggling at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Maurice McCreesh, aged 38 and resident in Lisreagh, pleaded guilty to possessing...
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A jury has been empanelled at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the second retrial of a Cavan childminder accused of causing serious harm to a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally...
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A 54-year-old man from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing almost 10 kilograms of cannabis worth approximately €199,000. Ronald Flynn pleaded guilty to...
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A bookkeeper from Virginia, County Cavan, has avoided imprisonment after admitting theft from a Dublin creche. Elizabeth Ingram (61) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stealing €14,000 from Ballyfermot Resource Centre...
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A trial date of 2 October 2018 has been set at the Special Criminal Court for five men charged in connection with the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly. The 35-year-old was fatally shot outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston,...
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A Cavan man has been sentenced to five years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to offences against a 14-year-old boy. Michael Galligan, aged 40 and residing in Springfield, Cavan, pleaded guilty to...
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A man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the attempted robbery of a flower shop on Aungier Street in Dublin on 26 November 2015. Andrew Cash, aged 26 and of no fixed abode, produced a Stanley blade and pointed it at the...
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Michael Kinsella, aged 25 and formerly of Ardkeen, County Cavan, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for assaulting a fellow prisoner at Wheatfield Prison on 13 April 2012. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Karen...
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Four men appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the Special Criminal Court on charges arising from the death of Peter Butterly. Mr Butterly, aged thirty-five, was shot outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston, County Meath on 6 March...
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A retrial date has been set for a Cavan childminder charged with causing serious harm to an infant. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, denies intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a baby at...
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The Charleton Tribunal has concluded its first module of proceedings examining allegations that garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe was targeted by a smear campaign orchestrated by senior Garda management. Hearings will resume on...
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A 28-year-old man from Tallaght has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to stealing five iPhones from Three mobile phone stores across the country between November 3 and 7, 2015....
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A garda whistleblower was subjected to hostility and bullying within the Cavan-Monaghan division, the Charleton tribunal heard. Sergeant Maurice McCabe's barrister told the inquiry that whilst some garda witnesses claimed never to have...
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A tribunal examining allegations of a smear campaign against garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe heard evidence relating to incidents that occurred in County Cavan following the Director of Public Prosecutions' 2007 decision not...
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At the Charleton tribunal on 19 July, the inquiry into whether Sergeant Maurice McCabe was targeted by a smear campaign heard testimony from Superintendent Noel Cunningham. The tribunal examined a 2006 investigation into allegations of...
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A 28-year-old man from Tallaght has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to his involvement in the theft of five iPhones from mobile phone stores across the country between November 2015. Viorel Rostas admitted to taking part...
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A social worker with Tusla told the Charleton tribunal that she received an incomplete version of files relating to Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe when asked to review them. Clare Tobin, who works with the Sexual Abuse...
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A garda sergeant assigned as liaison officer with Tusla told the Charleton tribunal he never received a 2014 notification containing a false allegation of sexual abuse against garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Sergeant Tony...
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A social worker told the Charleton tribunal she received no contact after an error in child protection records relating to Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe came to light. Laura Connolly, a duty social worker in Cavan, reviewed...
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A social worker has told the Charleton tribunal that administrative error led her to fail to identify that two distinct alleged abuse victims were listed within a single report file. The tribunal is examining claims that allegations of...
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A 61-year-old woman from Virginia, County Cavan pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stealing approximately €14,000 from Ballyfermot Resource Centre in Dublin during 2011 and 2012. Elizabeth Ingram worked as a bookkeeper at...
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The Charleton Tribunal, examining allegations that sexual abuse claims were weaponised against garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe, heard evidence on the handling of a false allegation originating from Bailieboro Garda Station in...
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A Medical Council inquiry has found obstetrician Dr Salah Aziz Ahmed guilty of one count of poor professional performance relating to his care of a patient at Cavan General Hospital. The committee determined that Dr Aziz failed to decide...
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A retrial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has collapsed following a juror's internet research into a witness in the case. The jury had retired to consider their verdict when a juror informed Judge Martin Nolan that the jury foreman had...
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A retired consultant paediatrician has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that the pattern of injuries sustained by a ten-month-old child indicated non-accidental harm. Dr Christopher Woods, who reviewed the child's medical files, stated...
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A ten-month-old girl presented with injuries consistent with abusive head trauma when admitted to Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin in April 2012, a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The...
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A childminder accused of causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the charge. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, is alleged to have...
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A childminder has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant in her care in Cavan. Sandra Higgins, aged 36, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan...
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At the Central Criminal Court, Michael McCarville, aged 49, from Longfield, Lisboduff, Cootehill, County Cavan, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the sexual abuse of seven siblings over an 18-year period beginning in 1982....
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The High Court has granted a Mareva injunction freezing assets valued at €2.37 million belonging to a County Galway man, following allegations that he provided false evidence during examination before the Master of the High Court. AIB...
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A High Court judge has dismissed an appeal by a Cavan couple against a bank repossession order, while strongly criticising unqualified advisers giving flawed legal guidance to homeowners in financial difficulty. Mr Justice Seamus Noonan...
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A judicial review challenge to An Bord Pleanála's approval of a North-South electricity interconnector has been brought before the High Court. The applicant, David Malone, seeks to have the board's December 2016 decision quashed. The...
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Michael Kinsella, aged 24, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after admitting he intimidated a witness in a criminal investigation. Kinsella, formerly of addresses in Tallaght, Dublin and...
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A man from County Antrim has been imprisoned following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against an unduly lenient sentence. Edmund Stewart, aged 33, of Ardgate Place, Newtownabbey, had pleaded guilty at Cavan...
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A Medical Counsel inquiry opened on Thursday into allegations against a consultant gynaecologist at Cavan General Hospital. Dr Salah Aziz Ahmed faces charges of poor professional performance and professional misconduct relating to...
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Promontoria (Aran) Ltd has secured admission of its High Court application for a judgment of €21.45 million against Cathal Brady of Roscalgan, County Cavan, to the fast-track Commercial Court list. The financial fund alleges that Mr Brady...
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A man from Ballyconnell, County Cavan, has had his prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal following a review by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Pearse McAuley, aged 50, pleaded guilty to serious assault and false...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions will argue before the Court of Appeal in November that a 12-year prison sentence imposed on a man for attacking his estranged wife was "unduly lenient". Pearse McAuley, aged 50 and resident in...
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The Court of Appeal has overturned a Circuit Court ruling that a man was unfit to stand trial for dangerous driving causing death. Robert Harrison, aged 25, of Shantonagh in Monaghan, faces charges relating to a collision at Drung,...
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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...
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A man from Cavan pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm and attempted sexual assault following an incident at a McDonald's restaurant on Grafton Street in June 2014. Adrian Smith, aged 33, of Curkish,...
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A 22-year-old man who admitted to manslaughter in connection with a fatal stabbing will be sentenced in April at the Central Criminal Court. Michael Kinsella, with addresses in Tallaght and Cavan, pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of...
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Two men were sentenced to four years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their guilty pleas to car-jacking. Francis Stokes, aged 29, of Ballyconnell, County Cavan, and Martin Stokes, aged 24, of Celbridge, County...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed a Circuit Criminal Court ruling that a man charged with dangerous driving causing death is unfit to stand trial. Robert Harrison, aged 25, from Shantonagh in Monaghan, faces charges...
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A Dublin man's prison sentence for violent disorder has been increased by the Court of Appeal. John Doyle, aged 26 and residing in County Meath, had pleaded guilty at Cavan Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder committed in...
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Thomas Murphy, aged 66, from Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, County Louth, has been found guilty of nine counts of tax evasion at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. The three-judge court determined that Murphy failed to furnish returns of...
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A Dublin man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Adil Essalhi following a five-day trial at the Central Criminal Court. Michael Kinsella, aged 22, with addresses in Tallaght and Ardkeen, Cavan, had initially pleaded not guilty to...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a resident of an apartment complex in Tyrellstown, Dublin 15 has given evidence in the trial of Michael Kinsella (22), who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Adil Essalhi (29) on January 6, 2011. The...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard evidence on Tuesday in the trial of Michael Kinsella (22), of Swiftbrook Close, Tallaght and Ardkeen, Cavan, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Adil Essalhi (29) on January 6, 2011. The...
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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,...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been discharged in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering Adil Essalhi in 2011. Michael Kinsella, aged 22 and with addresses at Swiftbrook Close in Tallaght and Ardkeen in Cavan, had...
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The family of an infant who died two days after birth at Cavan General Hospital have settled their action against the HSE for €70,000 in the High Court. Francis Flynn and Fiona Watters, from Navan in Co Meath, had sued the health service...
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A Lithuanian woman pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to providing false information and using forged documents in connection with an attempted sham marriage in County Cavan. Rita Skvarcinskaite (42) was charged with offences...
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The trial of Thomas Murphy at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin has heard evidence regarding substantial cattle transactions spanning several years. A former project manager at Kepak Meat Processors testified that between August 1999...
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The trial of Thomas Murphy at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard evidence regarding substantial cattle trading activity spanning several years. Prosecution witnesses, employed at livestock marts in counties Meath, Cavan, and...
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A man has received a suspended prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for extortion offences committed against an elderly victim in Foxrock, Dublin on October 28, 2014. John Murphy, aged 31, of New Ross, County Wexford, pleaded...
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A childminder from Cavan is to stand trial for a second time at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next May on a charge of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby in March 2012. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a registered childminder charged with causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, had pleaded not guilty to...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been instructed that it may return a majority verdict in the trial of a registered childminder charged with causing serious harm to a ten-month-old child. Sandra Higgins of Cavan town has...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court adjourned its deliberations in the trial of a Cavan childminder accused of assaulting a ten-month-old baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty...
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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court will begin deliberating tomorrow in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a ten-month-old baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, Co Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally...
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Closing speeches have been heard in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of Cavan town, County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly...
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A defence witness at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has testified that shaken baby syndrome lacks scientific validation. The neuropathologist told the trial that she formerly supported the diagnosis but changed her view after research...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to proceed with a prosecution against a woman from Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan who had been charged in connection with her father's death in 1988. Sharon Cullen, 39, had faced a charge of...
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A garda handwriting expert has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder accused of assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, County Cavan, has pleaded not...
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A consultant paediatrician has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty to...
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A US paediatric radiologist gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of a childminder accused of assaulting a baby. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, County Cavan has pleaded not guilty...
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A 28-year-old woman from Belturbet, County Cavan, has received a five-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing almost two kilograms of herbal cannabis valued at €39,000 for sale or supply. Carmel O'Reilly was arrested...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a consultant paediatrician has testified that brain injuries sustained by a ten-month-old infant could not reasonably have been inflicted before the child was left with a childminder on 28 March 2012....
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A childminder has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby at her home in Cavan town on 28 March 2012. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan told gardai during...
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A childminder charged with causing serious harm to a baby in her care appeared before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. Sandra Higgins, aged 34, from Drumgola Wood in Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or...
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A registered childminder from County Cavan has pleaded not guilty to charges of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a ten-month-old infant at her home on 28 March 2012. The trial opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court...
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A 56-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for his role in a €528,000 cannabis importation operation that took place in 2008. The defendant pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing 88...
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Cavan County Council and Oxigen Environmental Limited have appealed fines totalling over one million euro imposed in 2012 for landfill odour nuisance offences. Both defendants pleaded guilty at Cavan Circuit Criminal Court to breaches of...
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A 31-year-old man from Wexford pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft following an extortion scheme targeting an elderly sex offender. The defendant and an associate posed as journalists, threatening to publish...
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At the Central Criminal Court on April 13th, Kevin Moran was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, with the final two years suspended, for the manslaughter of archaeologist Emmett Connolly. The thirty-year-old from Lodgeview, Cootehill,...
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Oliver Kierans, aged 57, from Drumbannon in Bailieborough, County Cavan, has been convicted of manslaughter following the death of his wife Patricia on 5 September 2013. He was found not guilty of murder by jury verdict at the Central...
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Kevin Moran (30) of Cootehill, County Cavan, was convicted of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court following a six-day trial concluding in February 2015. He had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection...
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Oliver Kierans, aged 57, from Drumbannon in Bailieborough, County Cavan, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering his wife Patricia Kierans on 5 September 2013 at their home address. He has pleaded not guilty to...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found a 57-year-old man from Bailieborough, County Cavan, guilty of unlawful possession of a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge, as well as to a separate...
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A jury has begun deliberations in the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Oliver Kierans, aged 57, from Drumbannon, Bailieborough, County Cavan. He has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Patricia Kierans, aged 54, at their home...
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A man from Bailieborough in Cavan has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife at their home in September 2013. Oliver Kierans, aged 57, faces charges of unlawful possession of a shotgun and possession of the same weapon with intent to...
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A man accused of murdering his wife in County Cavan in 2013 has told the Central Criminal Court that her death was accidental. Oliver Kierans, aged 57, from Drumbannon, Bailieboro, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Patricia Kierans...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence in the trial of a fifty-seven-year-old man from Bailieborough, County Cavan, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife. The accused is charged with the death of a...
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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...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been discharged for the weekend in the trial of a man accused of murdering archaeologist Emmett Connolly. Kevin Moran, aged 30, from Cootehill, County Cavan, is charged with the murder of Mr...
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The trial of a Cavan man charged with murder resumed at the Central Criminal Court on Friday with legal arguments. Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon in Bailieborough, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Patricia Kierans on 5...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that archaeologist Emmett Connolly sustained 17 stab wounds during an incident at a house in Cootehill, County Cavan on September 28, 2013. Kevin Moran, aged 30, of Lodgeview, Cootehill,...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury heard that gardaí discovered the body of Patricia Kierans at her family home in Drumbannon, Bailieboro, County Cavan, on the evening of 5 September 2013. Garda Adrian O'Hanlon of Virginia Garda...
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A barman has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court that the accused man aimed a sawn-off shotgun at a garda on the day his wife went missing. Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon in Bailieboro, County Cavan, has pleaded not...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that a fifty-seven-year-old man from Bailieboro in Cavan appeared depressed in the days before his wife's death in September 2013. Oliver Kierans has pleaded not guilty to murdering...
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A Dublin man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of Emmett Connolly at a house in Cootehill, County Cavan on 29 September 2013. Kevin Moran, aged 30, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard that Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon, Bailieboro in Cavan, was involved in a siege at a public house on the same day he is alleged to have shot his wife. Mr Kierans has pleaded not...
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A Cavan man was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court on charges relating to the death of his wife in 2013. Oliver Kierans, aged 57, of Drumbannon, Bailieboro, pleaded not guilty to murdering Patricia Kierans on 5 September 2013 at...
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A 49-year-old resident of Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan has pleaded guilty to threatening a Criminal Assets Bureau officer and submitting a false tax return. Pascal Kelly entered guilty pleas at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to...
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The High Court has struck out a damages action brought by Lorcan Roche Kelly against the State following the murder of his wife, Sylvia Roche Kelly, in December 2007. Ms Roche Kelly, a mother of two, was killed at The Clarion Hotel in...
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A man from Killeshandra in County Cavan has had his sentence reduced by three years following a successful appeal at the Court of Appeal. Malachy Boyle, aged 45, was originally sentenced to ten years imprisonment with three years...
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The High Court has annulled the bankruptcy of a couple from Knocknaveigh, Virginia, County Cavan, in what represents the first application of its kind since new insolvency legislation came into force. Ms Justice Caroline Costello set...
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An Offaly man was sentenced to 240 hours community service at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for assaulting a garda in Tullamore on 12 March 2012. Enda Carroll, aged 23, of The Willows, Mucklagh, was found guilty...
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A 49-year-old man from Ballyjamesduff, Cavan was remanded in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his arrest on two outstanding warrants. Paschal Kelly, originally from Dublin, was apprehended in Castlepollard, Westmeath on...
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A man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of an elderly patient at a County Cavan psychiatric hospital. Ian Harman, aged 50, of Carrickallen near Cootehill, initially pleaded...
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A man pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of an elderly patient at Cavan General Hospital's psychiatric unit in June 2011. Ian Harman, aged 50, from Cootehill, County Cavan, initially denied murdering Michael Treanor, aged...
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A man accused of murdering an elderly patient at Cavan General Hospital has pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court. Ian Harman, aged fifty, of Carrickallen, Mountain Lodge, Cootehill, changed his plea during trial...
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Closing speeches are scheduled to take place in the trial of a man accused of murdering a pensioner at a psychiatric unit in Co. Cavan. Ian Harman, aged 50, of Carrickallen, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a defence psychiatrist has testified that a man charged with murdering an elderly patient at Cavan General Hospital was unable to refrain from killing due to the withdrawal of anti-psychotic medication. Ian...
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A High Court dispute between brothers Patrick and Paul Elliott concerning the management of Elliott Construction Ltd, a County Cavan property company, has been resolved. Patrick Elliott, who holds a 60 per cent shareholding and serves as...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a psychiatric nurse testified that Ian Harman (50), from Carrickallen, Co Cavan, appeared calm and composed following an incident at Cavan General Hospital's psychiatric unit. Harman has pleaded not guilty...
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A psychiatric registrar at Cavan General Hospital told the Central Criminal Court that he had worked 77 hours when he was alerted to a death on the psychiatric unit on 27 June 2011. Dr Akindele Serinmade said his shift, which began on 24...
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At the Central Criminal Court, the wife of Ian Harman (50), from Carrickallen, Co Cavan, testified that her husband had been in a "dark place" and drinking heavily before his admission to a psychiatric unit. Harman has pleaded not guilty...
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A man charged with murder at Cavan General Hospital has been tried at the Central Criminal Court following allegations that he killed a fellow psychiatric patient in June 2011. Ian Harman, aged 50, of Carrickallen, Co Cavan, has pleaded...
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A psychiatric patient has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of a fellow patient at Cavan General Hospital's psychiatric unit on 27 June 2011. Ian Harman, aged 50, of Cootehill, Co Cavan, pleaded not...
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Seven cases were heard at Balbriggan District Court. A 23-year-old man from Skerries pleaded guilty to hit-and-run offences following a rear-end collision on Selsekar Road in September 2013. Judge Dermot Dempsey convicted and fined him...
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The High Court has wound up Paris Bakery and Pastry Ltd, the Moore Street establishment that closed in May following a worker sit-in over unpaid wages. Mr Justice Brian Cregan appointed Carl Dillon of Moore Stephens Nathans as official...
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At Balbriggan District Court on 23 May 2014, a 26-year-old man from Donabate was remanded on continuing bail in connection with allegations of assaulting a bouncer outside a nightclub in Balbriggan in March 2013, causing a fractured...
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A civil engineer from Kingscourt, County Cavan, has been sentenced to three years in prison by the Court of Criminal Appeal for dangerous driving causing death. Ronan Cunningham, aged 30, had pleaded guilty to causing the death of Emanuel...
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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for murder in County Cavan. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, was found guilty of murdering Costel Catalin Cretu at Connolly Court, Cavan...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Przemyslaw Trebacz of the murder of Costel Catalin Cretu in Co. Cavan. Trebacz, a 35-year-old Polish national from Killynebber, Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to the charge. The offence...
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The jury at the Central Criminal Court has adjourned deliberations for a third consecutive evening in the trial of a man charged with murder in County Cavan. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, Cavan denies the...
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The jury at the Central Criminal Court has adjourned deliberations in the trial of Przemyslaw Trebacz, a 35-year-old Polish national accused of murdering Costel Catalin Cretu, a 38-year-old Romanian man, in Co. Cavan in October 2012....
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has paused deliberations in the trial of a man accused of murder in County Cavan. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Costel...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of a man accused of murder in County Cavan. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Costel Catalin Cretu,...
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A 35-year-old Polish national has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Romanian man at an apartment in Cavan in October 2012. Przemyslaw Trebacz of Killynebber, Cavan faces a charge relating to the death of Costel Catalin Cretu at...
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A 35-year-old Polish national has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Romanian man who was fatally stabbed at an apartment complex in Cavan in October 2012. The accused told gardai during interview that he acted in self-defence when he...
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A Polish national pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of a Romanian man in Co. Cavan in October 2012. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, is accused of fatally stabbing Costel Catalin...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a 35-year-old Polish national pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 38-year-old Romanian man at Connolly Court in Cavan between 13 and 14 October 2012. The accused has pleaded guilty to criminal damage in...
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A Romanian woman giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court has denied washing floors following the death of her partner at an apartment in Cavan in October 2012. Florentina Sotir (41) is a witness in the trial of Przemyslaw Trebacz...
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A witness at the Central Criminal Court has acknowledged inconsistencies between her testimony and statements made to gardaí. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Costel...
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A woman giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court has described witnessing the stabbing of her partner during an incident at an apartment in Cavan in October 2012. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, Cavan has...
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A Polish national has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Romanian man at an apartment in Cavan town in October 2012. Przemyslaw Trebacz, aged 35, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, is accused of fatally stabbing Costel Catalin Cretu during...
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A 35-year-old man from Cavan has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court. Przemyslaw Trebacz, of Bramble Rise, Killynebber, denies the murder of Costel Catalin Cretu at Connolly Court, Connolly Street, Cavan, between...
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A 28-year-old student has been further remanded in custody in connection with the death of archaeologist Emmet Connolly, who was fatally stabbed in Cootehill, County Cavan, in late September. Mr Connolly, aged 32 and from Rockcorry,...
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The Court of Criminal Appeal ruled on Tuesday that a five-year wholly suspended sentence imposed for dangerous driving causing death was unduly lenient. Ronan Cunningham, aged 31, of Enniskeen, Kingscourt, had pleaded guilty at Dublin...