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A 19-year-old man from Tallaght has been sentenced to two years in custody following two high-speed pursuits by gardaí within four months, including an incident in which his vehicle overturned on the M50. Josh Killeen pleaded guilty at...
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A man has been jailed for ten years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for supervising a drug trafficking operation. Tomasz Zdechlikiewicz, aged 38 of Clongriffin, was found guilty of possessing 36 kilogrammes of...
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A man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to offences arising from the fatal shooting of Noel Campion in Limerick city in April 2007. Darragh Quinlivan, aged 42 and...
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A 42-year-old man originally from Limerick City has pleaded guilty to participation in an organised criminal group and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life in connection with the fatal shooting of Noel Campion on April 26,...
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James McMahon, aged 31, of Riversdale Road, Clondalkin, has been sentenced to six years and nine months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, with the final two years suspended. McMahon pleaded guilty to stealing six vehicles...
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A 37-year-old man from Castlefin, County Donegal, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court for the rape of an 18-year-old woman at an address in Convoy on 14 January 2018. Desmond Leitch was found guilty...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions of Jason Bonney, aged 55, and Paul Murphy, aged 64, who were found guilty of acting as getaway drivers during the 2016 Regency Hotel attack in Dublin, in which Kinahan Cartel member David...
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Two men have been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court following a serious assault arising from a feud between Traveller families in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Michael Nevin, aged 41, of Grange Heights, Mullingar, was sentenced to ten...
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A man suffered life-threatening injuries when stabbed multiple times during an assault on Austin Friars Street in Mullingar on August 2nd, 2024, arising from an ongoing feud between Traveller families. The Central Criminal Court heard...
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Jordan Domican, aged 24, of Collinstown Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin, has been sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty to two counts of facilitating a criminal organisation between...
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A former football manager and League of Ireland player has been sentenced to 13.5 years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following conviction on three drugs offences. Andrew Noonan, aged 45, of Redhills Park, Ellistown,...
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A Moldovan national has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison following his conviction for drug trafficking at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Stefan Copiimulti, aged 42 and residing in Dublin 15, pleaded guilty to possessing...
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A man described as middle management in a significant drug operation has been sentenced to seven years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Philip Lawless, aged 48 and from Leixlip, County Kildare, pleaded guilty to possession of...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed a High Court decision that upheld the Special Criminal Court's declaration that Michael Connolly, from County Louth, was a victim of miscarriage of justice. Mr Connolly had spent fourteen...
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Keith McCormick, aged 23, of addresses in Bluebell and Mulhuddart, Dublin, received a five-year and six-month custodial sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following guilty pleas to drug dealing, burglary, vehicle theft, and related...
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Keith McCormick, aged 23, of addresses in Dublin, appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges arising from a series of offences committed between September 2020 and May 2021. He pleaded guilty to possession of drugs for sale or...
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The Court of Appeal heard submissions on 8 October concerning the convictions of Jason Bonney and Paul Murphy, who were found guilty at the Special Criminal Court in 2022 of facilitating a murder at the Regency Hotel, Whitehall, Dublin on...
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A man from Wicklow has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking offences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Ryon Fitzpatrick, aged 34 and with an address in Enniskelly, was arrested in...
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A man serving a life sentence for murder in Dublin in 2016 has failed in his appeal to overturn his conviction at the Court of Appeal. The appellant had challenged the admissibility of CCTV evidence used to identify him driving a vehicle...
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Darren Murphy, a man convicted of his role as a "spotter" in the 2012 murder of criminal Eamon Kelly in Dublin, has failed in his appeal to overturn the conviction at the Court of Appeal. Murphy, aged 53, was found guilty by the Special...
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Two men have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their arrest with cannabis worth €2.3 million concealed beneath frozen chicken. Daniel Bowker, aged 40, from Bolton in the United Kingdom,...
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Two men have been acquitted of robbery in connection with the 2013 Lordship Credit Union heist in Bellurgan, County Louth, during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was killed. Following a three-month trial at the Special Criminal...
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A Limerick man has been sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, by the Special Criminal Court for assisting the McCarthy-Dundon organised crime group in the attempted murder of drug dealer Christy...
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Two men have been sentenced at the Special Criminal Court for their roles in moving a submachine gun during a criminal operation in 2020. Robert Redmond, aged 35, was jailed for six years, while Jamie Gray, aged 27, received five years...
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Two British men pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing approximately €2.3 million worth of cannabis for sale or supply on 22 December 2022. Daniel Bowker, aged 40, of Bolton, United Kingdom, and Ibrar Sharif, aged...
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Two men pleaded guilty in the Special Criminal Court to unlawful possession of a RAK PM-63 submachine gun recovered during a garda operation on the N11 in Shankill, Dublin on 7 March 2020. Robert Redmond, aged 35, and Jamie Gray, aged 27,...
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A barrister for James Flynn has told the Special Criminal Court that the prosecution's case against his client lacks any substantive evidence. Bernard Condon SC argued that there is no proof Mr Flynn was present at Lordship Credit Union...
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Before the Special Criminal Court on May 17th, 2023, a barrister for Brendan Treanor argued there is insufficient evidence to sustain charges against his client in connection with a 2013 credit union robbery in Bellurgan, County Louth,...
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A Special Criminal Court has heard that an organised criminal gang comprising at least five members with local knowledge deliberately targeted Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, County Louth, in the robbery during which Detective Garda...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 12 May 2023, Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney were sentenced to combined jail terms of 17 and a half years for their roles as getaway drivers during the Regency Hotel attack in February 2016. Murphy,...
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Scheduling difficulties have delayed a bid by Gerard Hutch to recover his legal costs following his acquittal last month on a murder charge at the Special Criminal Court. Hutch was cleared of involvement in the fatal shooting of David...
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Gerard Hutch, who was acquitted last month by the Special Criminal Court of murdering Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, has applied to recover his legal costs from the State. The State has indicated it will oppose...
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A man from Dublin has launched an appeal against his life sentence for the 2016 murder of a business owner in the capital. The defendant, aged 42, was convicted in 2018 at the Special Criminal Court of involvement in the killing, which...
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Two men have been sentenced to a combined total of sixteen-and-a-half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for facilitating a criminal organisation in the fatal shooting of Thomas McCarthy. Charles McClean, aged thirty-four,...
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A man convicted of murder as a spotter for a gang that killed a prominent Dublin criminal has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Darren Murphy was found guilty in November 2021 of the murder of Eamon Kelly, shot four times on...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, detailed evidence emerged concerning the February 2016 Regency Hotel shooting, which claimed the life of David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in attended by approximately 250 people, including...
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Thomas McCarthy, a fifty-five-year-old father of five, was shot dead at his mother's home in Ballyfermot, Dublin, on 27 July 2020, having been due to return to England that same evening following a three-week visit. The Central Criminal...
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Two men have been found guilty at the Special Criminal Court of providing getaway vehicles during the 2016 Regency Hotel attack in Dublin, in which Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne was killed. Paul Murphy, aged 61, of Swords, County...
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Thomas Rooney, described as a mid-to-high level member of an international crime group, appeared before the Court of Appeal on 16 February seeking return of a Mercedes S350 valued at approximately €50,000 that was forfeited to the State....
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The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement in the trial of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch and two co-accused charged in connection with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on 5 February 2016. After 52 days of evidence, Justice...
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The prosecution has closed its case against Gerard Hutch at the Special Criminal Court, arguing he was one of two gunmen who carried out the fatal shooting of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on 5 February 2016. Fiona Murphy SC...
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At the Special Criminal Court on 24 January 2023, a defence witness testified that Jason Bonney, accused of participating in the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on 5 February 2016, was working north of the...
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The State concluded its prosecution case after thirteen weeks at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin against Gerard Hutch, charged with murdering Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on 5 February 2016. Hutch's two...
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A Dublin man has received a fully suspended four-year sentence after pleading guilty to his role as an inside man in a €50,000 theft from a casino in August 2018. David Wright, aged 36, of Allenton Way, Tallaght, provided information...
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A Detective Superintendent from the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau gave evidence at the Special Criminal Court trial concerning four shootings linked to the Hutch-Kinahan feud. The officer described incidents involving...
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Parties before the Special Criminal Court in the trial relating to the February 2016 Regency Hotel murder have agreed to take no further steps regarding a document disclosed to the defence, which prosecution counsel described as a...
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A senior garda has given evidence to the Special Criminal Court describing the structure and operations of the "Hutch Criminal Organisation" in proceedings arising from the 2016 killing of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency...
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A garda has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court trial of three men accused of involvement in the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016. The officer told the court that a BMW X5...
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A man accused of facilitating the murder of a Kinahan Cartel member at the Regency Hotel in Dublin has challenged the admissibility of garda interviews conducted without him being cautioned. Jason Bonney, from Portmarnock, is charged with...
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At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, a man accused of participating in the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 told gardaí he received an invitation to the boxing weigh-in from former professional boxer Matthew...
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At the Special Criminal Court, garda witnesses detailed their investigation into the February 2016 murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin. Detective Sergeant Alan McGovern testified that Detective Sergeant Brian Hanley had...
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A man accused of facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 told gardaí that his taxi could have been "cloned", the Special Criminal Court heard. Paul Murphy, aged 61, of Cherry Avenue, Swords, County...
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A surveillance garda told the Special Criminal Court that he observed Gerard Hutch and former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall meeting with a man later apprehended with three AK-47 assault rifles used in the February 2016 Regency...
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At the Special Criminal Court, the State sought to seize a €72,000 Mercedes-Benz used by Thomas Rooney, a 52-year-old from Meath described as a mid-to-high level gang member. Rooney pleaded guilty in July 2021 to possessing over €600,000...
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A Kinahan-linked man convicted of attempted murder is challenging his conviction on appeal, arguing that mobile phone records used to secure his conviction breached his right to privacy under Irish and European Union law. Caolan Smyth,...
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Two men have been jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for transporting a sawn-off shotgun in the Balbriggan area on 25 September 2020. Thomas McDonagh, aged 36, of Oldcastle Drive, Clondalkin, and William...
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Paul Penrose gave evidence at the Central Criminal Court in a murder trial concerning his son, Stephen Penrose, aged 38, of Coolock, Dublin. Stephen Penrose has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Phillip Finnegan, aged 24, at Rahin...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has initiated High Court proceedings to challenge a Special Criminal Court determination that a man's conviction for IRA membership constituted a miscarriage of justice. Michael Connolly, aged 47, from...
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The Special Criminal Court heard evidence on 21 June 2021 regarding David Duffy, aged 34, from Convoy, County Donegal, who pleaded guilty in April to knowledge of a criminal organisation and participation in activities connected with the...
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The Special Criminal Court has sentenced Dublin man Lee Canavan to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of David Douglas, a fifty-five-year-old who was shot at a city-centre shoe shop in Dublin's Liberties on July 1st, 2016. The...
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Two men have pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to charges of falsely imprisoning a Mayo businessman at a location in County Louth in December 2017. Thomas McGuinness, aged 34, of Chestnut Court, Johnstown, Navan, County...
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Lee Canavan has been convicted of the murder of David Douglas at the Special Criminal Court following trial in May 2021. The 55-year-old was shot six times at Shoestown, a shoe shop on Bridgefoot Street in Dublin's Liberties, on 1 July...
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A Dublin man accused of facilitating the 2016 murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court. Jason Bonney, aged fifty, of Portmarnock, faces charges of participating in activity that could...
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A 59-year-old man accused of supplying logistical support in connection with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016 may be granted bail by the Special Criminal Court if he can secure an independent surety. Paul Murphy,...
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Three men appeared before the Special Criminal Court at an out-of-hours sitting charged in connection with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in February 2016. Patrick Dowdall, Paul Murphy, and Jason Bonney, all from...
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A man from Dundalk, County Louth, has had his conviction for IRA membership declared a miscarriage of justice by the Special Criminal Court. The applicant was originally convicted in June 2017 and spent fourteen months in custody. The...
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A 31-year-old man accused of murdering Dublin businessman David Douglas five years ago was described by prosecutors as "up to his neck" in a meticulously planned killing. Lee Canavan, with an address in Dublin 14, has pleaded not guilty...
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A man acquitted of IRA membership in the Special Criminal Court has had his case examined for miscarriage of justice findings. Michael Connolly, aged 47 from County Louth, was convicted in 2017 of membership of an unlawful organisation...
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The Special Criminal Court has sentenced a man to twenty years imprisonment for his role in an attempted murder conspiracy linked to organised crime. Caolan Smyth, aged twenty-nine, of County Meath, was found guilty in January of...
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A man convicted of attempting to murder a drugs cartel target will be sentenced by the Special Criminal Court next month. Caolan Smyth, aged 29, from County Meath, was found guilty on January 5th of shooting James Gately five times as he...
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The Special Criminal Court found Caolan Smyth guilty of attempted murder on Tuesday following the May 2017 shooting of James Gately at a filling station on the Clonshaugh Road in north Dublin. Mr Gately sustained injuries to his upper...
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Aaron Brady was convicted of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was shot during an armed robbery at Lordship Credit Union in County Louth on 25 January 2013. An investigation spanning several years culminated in Brady's...
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A 23-year-old man from Ballyfermot, Dublin has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for his role as a getaway driver in the murder of Alan O'Neill. Eric Shorthall pleaded guilty to impeding the...
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Eric Shorthall, aged 23 and resident in Ballyfermot, Dublin, is to be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court for his role as getaway driver in the May 2015 murder of Alan O'Neill in Tallaght. Shorthall pleaded guilty to impeding the...
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A witness at the Special Criminal Court has testified that property magnate Jim Mansfield Jnr could not have written a note allegedly used during an alleged kidnapping in Dublin. Martin Byrne, a former employee, told the three-judge court...
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A key witness in the Witness Protection Programme has told the Special Criminal Court that Jim Mansfield Jnr arranged meetings with the New IRA and INLA to help recover parts of his family's property portfolio. Martin Byrne testified that...
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A trial concerning an alleged attempt to obstruct justice following a shooting in Dublin has concluded at the Special Criminal Court. Gary McAreavey, aged 53, of Castlebellingham, County Louth, has pleaded not guilty to assisting in the...
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The State has told the Special Criminal Court that Caolan Smyth was the man who "pulled the trigger" in the attempted murder of James Gately at a filling station on the Clonshaugh Road in north Dublin on 10 May 2017. Mr Gately was shot...
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A 28-year-old man from County Meath has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of James Gately at a Dublin filling station in May 2017. Caolan Smyth has also denied charges of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life. A...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a credit union volunteer described the moment she feared for her life during a fatal armed robbery at Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, County Louth, on 25 January 2013. Bernadette McShane told the court...
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A former detective garda testified at the Central Criminal Court that he feared for his life when armed raiders confronted him and his colleague during a credit union escort at Bellurgan, County Louth on 25 January 2013. The witness...
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A man has pleaded not guilty to the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe at the Central Criminal Court. The garda was shot during a robbery at Lordship Credit Union in County Louth on January 25th, 2013. The prosecution...
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Gareth Brophy, aged 25, of Reuben Walk, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of David Douglas at the Special Criminal Court. Mr Douglas, 55, was shot six times in Shoestown on Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8, on 1 July 2016....
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A conspiracy to murder trial at the Special Criminal Court has heard covert recordings from vehicles bugged by gardaí investigating the Kinahan organised crime gang. Liam Brannigan, aged 37 from Dublin 8, has pleaded not guilty to...
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Two men have been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to a combined total of twenty years for their role in facilitating the murder of Vincent Ryan. Jeffrey Morrow, aged thirty-seven, received eleven years imprisonment, whilst Paul...
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At the Central Criminal Court, two men have pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of Vinnie Ryan, whose shooting in Dublin on 19 February 2016 left his five-week-old daughter without a father. Paul O'Beirne of Ballyfermot and Jeffrey...
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A Dublin man has been convicted of armed robbery at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a trial spanning ten days. Keith Murtagh, aged 34, was found guilty on all three charges relating to a post office raid on Farmhill Road,...
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A man accused of armed robbery at a Dublin post office in January 2016 has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Keith Murtagh, aged 34, is charged with robbing €3,174.54 from Roebuck post office on Farmhill Road,...
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A 47-year-old man from County Louth has been acquitted of IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court following a finding that the court could not rely on belief evidence given by a Garda Assistant Commissioner. Michael Connolly had...
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A Garda Assistant Commissioner has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court that he believes a County Louth man is a member of the IRA. Michael Connolly, aged 47, of Dundalk, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful...
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A Dublin man who participated in a violent assault and false imprisonment as part of an organised eviction has had his prison sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. Donal O'Hara, aged 27, of Coolock, had pleaded guilty at the Special...
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A man known as "The Border Fox" has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for his role in forcibly evicting a family from their home and launching a violent assault. The 62-year-old defendant, from...
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A 62-year-old man from County Armagh has been remanded in custody pending sentence at the Special Criminal Court following admissions to assault and false imprisonment at a Dublin apartment complex in June 2015. The defendant, known as...
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The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment on whether to increase the sentence imposed on a man convicted of his role in a violent gang assault. Donal O'Hara (26), from Dublin, pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to assaulting a...
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A 62-year-old British man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, with the final 12 months suspended, for possession of nearly 150,000 prescription sleeping tablets valued at approximately €298,000....
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A 20-year-old man has been remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Special Criminal Court following his admission to facilitating the murder of David Douglas in Dublin in July 2016. Nathan Foley, with an address in Maryland, Dublin...
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The Court of Appeal has substantially increased prison sentences imposed on two men convicted of setting fire to a vehicle containing a bound and gagged prisoner in the boot. Polish nationals Kamil Lacki and Krzysztof Niepogoda, with...
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Donal O'Hara (26), of Glin Park, Coolock, Dublin 17, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with one year suspended by the Special Criminal Court for his role in a coordinated intimidation and assault on June 9, 2015. O'Hara...
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A Dublin man has pleaded guilty to assault and false imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. Donal O'Hara (26), of Glin Park, Coolock, Dublin 17, admitted assaulting John Roche and causing him harm at The Towers, Saggart on...
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A man from Lucan has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for his involvement in a kneecapping incident in County Dublin in January 2013. Eamon McNamee, aged 37, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm...
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A 26-year-old Dublin man has been remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Special Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to assault and false imprisonment offences. Donal O'Hara, of Glin Park, Coolock, Dublin 17, admitted...
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A man from County Dublin has had his sentencing adjourned at the Special Criminal Court following a dispute over the facts of a firearms case. Eamon McNamee, aged 37, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to commit an...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of a man sentenced for the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl. Fergus Carson, aged 55, of The Green, Main Street in Convoy, County Donegal, was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of...
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The Court of Appeal will review video recordings of a complainant's full evidence in a sexual assault case following an appeal by the convicted man. Fergus Carson, aged 55, of Main Street in Convoy, County Donegal, was convicted by jury...
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A Luth man has been sentenced to three years in prison following his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation. Michael Connolly, aged 45, of Dundalk, was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of membership of the IRA....
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A 44-year-old man from Dundalk in County Louth has been convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army by the Special Criminal Court. Michael Connolly, of Grange Drive, was found guilty...
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A 44-year-old man from County Louth has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation, a charge he denies relates to the Irish Republican Army. Michael Connolly of Dundalk faced trial at the Special Criminal Court, where...
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A 44-year-old man from Dundalk, County Louth, will have the Special Criminal Court determine tomorrow whether his trial for alleged IRA membership can proceed. Michael Connolly has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful...
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At the Special Criminal Court, a Detective Garda Unit officer gave evidence regarding the arrest of a man accused of IRA membership. Detective Garda Paul Cornish denied that any attempt had been made to extract the accused, Michael...
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The Special Criminal Court has heard evidence that two "very well-made" and "viable" improvised explosive devices were discovered in a vehicle stopped by gardai on the N52 in County Meath. Michael Connolly, aged 44 and from Grange Drive...
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Gardaí forcibly removed a man from his vehicle during a roadside stop on the N52 in County Meath in December 2014, the Special Criminal Court heard. Michael Connolly, aged 44, of Dundalk, County Louth, has pleaded not guilty to membership...
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A trial at the Special Criminal Court has heard surveillance evidence relating to the movements of two vehicles through counties Westmeath and Louth on 16 December 2014. Michael Connolly, aged 44 and of Grange Drive in Dundalk, County...
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Michael Connolly, aged 44 and resident of Grange Drive in Dundalk, County Louth, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on 16 December 2014. The Special Criminal Court...
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Two Dublin men have had their sentences reduced on appeal following convictions for aggravated burglary at a rural Tipperary home in November 2013. Patrick Gately and Dean Byrne, both convicted alongside five others for the offence at the...
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A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to one year's detention at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a series of offences committed in April 2016. The teenager pleaded guilty to burglary, dangerous driving, and criminal damage to a...
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A man's sentence for attempted robbery of a cash-in-transit van has been reduced by the Court of Appeal. Joseph Warren, aged 32, was convicted by jury at Dublin Circuit Court in 2012 of conspiracy to steal cash from a Chubb Ireland van at...
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At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a man from Dublin has been sentenced to 240 hours of community service after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply prescription medication without authorisation. Alan McDermott, aged 54, of...
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A 54-year-old man has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to keeping a controlled substance for supply without authorisation. Alan McDermott of Clonliffe Avenue, Dublin was arrested on Philipsburgh Avenue on 16 August 2014...
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A 54-year-old man from Convoy, County Donegal, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court following his conviction on six counts of sexual assault. Fergus Carson, of The Green, Main Street, was found...
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A father and son from Drogheda have had their appeals against prison sentences dismissed by the Court of Appeal following their conviction for cannabis possession. Michael Devlin Snr and Michael Devlin Jnr pleaded guilty at Dundalk...
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Adam O'Mara, aged 20 and resident in County Louth, received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a high-speed pursuit on the N1 Motorway near Drogheda on 8 February 2012. O'Mara pleaded guilty to unlawful use of...
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A 71-year-old Dublin man has lost his appeal against a conviction for IRA membership imposed by the Special Criminal Court in February 2011. Barry Fitzpatrick, formerly of Donegal connections, received a three-year sentence which he has...