The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by four commercial fishermen who contended that the State owed them a duty of care when permitting access to mussel seed fishing zones. The plaintiffs, including Gerard Kelly of Greencastle, County...
A former Stardust doorman has told an inquest that witnesses were “wrong” in their statements about seeing a person who matched his description kicking the padlock off an exit door in order to open it on the night of the fire. “I didn’t...
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A surveillance garda told the Special Criminal Court that he observed a man he recognised as Gerard Hutch departing Jonathan Dowdall's home on the Navan Road on 12 February 2016 on a black Honda motorcycle, approximately one week after...
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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...
A man who aroused the suspicions of gardaí because of his nervous and agitated behaviour has been jailed for two and a half years for carrying just over €61,000 worth of cocaine. Philip Cooke (34) was hiding the cocaine under his jacket...
The owner of the Bargaintown chain of furniture stores has secured a High Court injunction requiring several parties to vacate a commercial property it acquired last year. The High Court heard that solicitors for Bargaintown had received...
A business owner supplying supplements to the weight lifting community who had a side business dealing steroids has been jailed for 21 months. Robert Wynne (37), who had a legitimate nutrition supplements business, bought the illegally...
by Paul Neilan A man found not guilty of having a loaded handgun and 31 rounds of ammunition in a public park in Dublin "needs to take a long look" at himself, a judge of the Special Criminal Court said this morning. Paul Norton (31) from...
The Special Criminal Court will deliver a verdict next month in the case of a man accused of dropping a loaded handgun during a chase through the Stardust Memorial. Paul Norton (31) from Cromcastle Court, Coolock, Dublin 17, has pleaded...
A detective has told the Special Criminal Court that he was on first-name terms with a man accused of possessing a loaded gun and that the accused had even nicknamed him after a TV Garda character. Paul Norton (31) from Cromcastle Court,...
A forensic science lab contaminated samples sent as part of the investigation into a man accused of having a loaded handgun and ammunition, the Special Criminal Court heard today. Paul Norton (31) from Cromcastle Court, Coolock, Dublin...
A court has heard details of a high-speed chase by gardaí of a man who allegedly dropped a loaded handgun and ammunition in a public park. The Special Criminal Court is hearing the trial of Paul Norton (31) from Cromcastle Court, Coolock,...
A man dropped a bag containing a loaded handgun and ammunition as he was chased by gardai through the Stardust Memorial Park, the Special Criminal Court will hear. Paul Norton (31) from Cromcastle Court, Coolock, Dublin 17, has pleaded...
A Dublin man who led gardai on a dangerous motorway chase after he and an accomplice stole a suitcase from a parked car has been jailed for three and a half years. Detective Garda Robert Collins revealed that this suitcase was then thrown...
(Pictured: Robert Faherty. Credit: Collins) By Declan Brennan and Catherine Sanz A man whose careless driving left a cyclist without the ability to speak, walk or hear has been given a suspended sentence of nine months imprisonment....
By Catherine Sanz The husband of a woman left severely brain damaged after her bike collided with a car has said that the incident resulted in her losing the ability to speak, walk, or hear, a court has heard. The daughter of the man who...
A man who gardaí believed wanted to die by “death by cop” has been jailed for a year for threatening to kill officers and detonate a bomb. Gary Partridge (29) claimed that this was never his intention and insisted that he was actually...
Teen sentenced to one month in prison after he failed to complete community service A TEENAGER who failed to attend appointments at the Probation Services after he was ordered to carry out community service has been sentenced to one month...