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A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in County Donegal has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity following a majority jury verdict at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant was charged with killing his 78-year-old...
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Derek Mulligan, aged 39, of Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 78-year-old grandfather, Derek Burns, at Carrickcoyle on December 19th, 2023. The Central Criminal...
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A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his grandfather, Derek Burns, aged 78, who died on 19 December 2023 following an assault at the family home. The...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld extradition orders against two men wanted in Northern Ireland for offences connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and Seamus...
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A 23-year-old Carlow woman may avoid imprisonment through community service following her guilty plea to money laundering charges at Carlow Circuit Criminal Court. Dion Timmons of Graiguecullen admitted to handling proceeds of crime when...
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A 23-year-old woman from Carlow has pleaded guilty to money laundering following her involvement in a significant social welfare fraud originating in Letterkenny, Donegal. The accused was approached whilst at college and persuaded to...
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The High Court has refused the State's application for leave to appeal a decision declining to extradite a convicted sex offender to Northern Ireland. Mr Justice Patrick McGrath ruled that the case was exceptional, finding it would be...
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A paramedic in Letterkenny has secured an award of €32,000 for racial discrimination from the Workplace Relations Commission following her dismissal over an incident at a petrol station. The EMT was fired for gross misconduct after...
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A 27-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in laundering proceeds from invoice redirection scams. Adeleke Adelani pleaded guilty to...
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Two men sought by United Kingdom authorities on charges connected to a 1975 RUC shooting have argued before the Court of Appeal that decades-long delays in pursuing their extradition amount to an abuse of process. John Edward McNicholl,...
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A retired garda sergeant from Donegal has been granted High Court permission to seek judicial review of An Garda Síochána's handling of his application to restore a Gaeltacht allowance. Paul Wallace, formerly stationed in Letterkerry,...
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Mark McAnaw, aged 53 and previously of Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to an additional ten months in custody following a breach of suspended sentence conditions at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. McAnaw pleaded guilty last...
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Two men in their 70s have been granted leave to appeal their extradition to Northern Ireland on charges connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. At the High Court, Mr Justice Patrick McGrath ruled that while authorities had...
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A former Donegal GAA player will not serve additional prison time following an unsuccessful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Court of Appeal. Kevin McMenamin, aged 43, from Letterkenny, was convicted of dangerous...
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A 42-year-old Donegal man with 33 previous convictions, including multiple road traffic offences, appeared before the Court of Appeal on 29 April regarding his sentence for dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm. Kevin McMenamin,...
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Two men in their seventies will be extradited to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer, the High Court has ruled. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and...
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A man with previous convictions for rape and kidnapping has pleaded guilty to harassing three female journalists at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Mark McAnaw, aged 52 and previously resident in Letterkenny, County Donegal, admitted to...
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A 72-year-old man from Letterkenny, Co Donegal is fighting extradition to Northern Ireland on charges relating to a 1975 police constable's murder, the High Court in Dublin heard. John Edward McNicholl and a second man, aged 73, face...
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A teacher at Kilmacrennan National School in Co Donegal is pursuing a discrimination claim before the Workplace Relations Commission, alleging she faced religious-based comments during her employment. The complainant has stated she was...
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Two men resident in the Republic are contesting extradition proceedings at the High Court in connection with charges arising from the 1975 murder of an RUC constable in County Derry. John Edward McNicholl, aged 72, of Newmills,...
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A 72-year-old man arrested in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, has been granted bail at the High Court following his arrest on a Northern Irish warrant. John Edward McNicholl is alleged to have murdered RUC Constable Robert John McPherson during...
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An eighty-year-old man with a gambling addiction pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of drugs worth nearly €471,000 for sale or supply. The defendant, from Belfast, was intercepted at Busaras in Dublin on 11...
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A man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to twenty-one months in prison following a dangerous driving conviction at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Kevin McMenamin, aged forty-two, pleaded guilty to causing serious bodily...
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A man has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment following his conviction for rape at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin. Daniel Maymay, aged 31, of Kilmacrennan Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal, was found guilty of one count of rape...
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A teacher at a County Donegal school has brought a discrimination complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission in Letterkenny, alleging she was passed over for a permanent contract on grounds related to her religion. The complainant...
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Richard Burke has been sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of Jasmine McMonagle. The 32-year-old from Killygordon, County Donegal, was found guilty of manslaughter following Ms...
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A man has been convicted of the murder of a woman in County Donegal in January 2019. The victim, a 28-year-old mother, was fatally beaten and strangled in her home in Killygordon following a distressed emergency call. Gardaí from Lifford...
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Richard Burke, aged thirty-two and from Killygordon in County Donegal, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of Jasmine McMonagle at Forest Park on January 4, 2019. The Central Criminal...
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A Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard evidence on 20 October 2022 regarding three AK-47 assault rifles recovered in County Meath approximately one month after David Byrne was fatally shot at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on 5 February...
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Two men have had their convictions for rape upheld by the Court of Appeal. Boakye Osei, formerly of Burnfoot in County Donegal, and Kelvin Opoku, formerly of Letterkenny, were each sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in March 2020...
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Donegal County Council has applied to the High Court for an injunction to enforce the suspension of Councillor Frank McBrearty Jnr from attending council meetings until the end of February. The independent councillor was suspended on 31...
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A 24-year-old woman from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment for her involvement in a violent taxi hijacking in Crumlin, Dublin, on 6 May 2019. Nikkita Brogan pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal...
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The High Court at Letterkenny has ordered the extradition of a 36-year-old man to face serious charges in the United Kingdom. Oliver Lown, formerly residing in Ipswich, Suffolk, is wanted by UK authorities on twelve counts, including...
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Two men convicted of rape have appealed their convictions at the Court of Appeal, arguing the trial judge erred in questioning a witness about the complainant's level of intoxication. Boakye Osei, formerly of Burnfoot, County Donegal, and...
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A man from Raphoe in County Donegal has had his prison sentence doubled by the Court of Appeal following two attacks on his neighbour's home and an assault that left her with a broken jaw. Leon Kelly was originally sentenced to...
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A 24-year-old woman from Letterkenny, County Donegal, will be sentenced in November following her guilty plea to unlawful seizure of a vehicle at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The woman pleaded guilty to her role in an incident on 6 May...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed an 18-month custodial sentence imposed on a Donegal man, arguing it was unduly lenient. Leon Kelly, aged 34, pleaded guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm and...
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The High Court in Dublin is examining two separate challenges to mandatory hotel quarantine requirements for people arriving in Ireland from designated countries. Counsel for the applicants argued that the measures breach constitutional...
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A man wanted by United Kingdom authorities to face multiple charges including sexual activity with animals and possession of extreme pornographic material has challenged an extradition warrant in the High Court on grounds relating to...
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A High Court challenge brought by a man previously jailed for illegal dumping has been adjourned for twelve months. The action, taken under planning and waste management legislation, sought to prevent a waste facility at Labbadish,...
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A man has appeared before the High Court in Dublin following his arrest on a European Arrest Warrant issued by Suffolk police. Oliver Lown, aged 35, with an address in Kesgrave, Suffolk, was arrested by gardaí from the Extradition Unit on...
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A man from Dublin has failed in his appeal against extradition to Northern Ireland on a charge of attempted murder of a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer. The Court of Appeal dismissed the case today. The 29-year-old man was...
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A man from Dublin has appealed his extradition to Northern Ireland on a charge of attempted murder of a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer. Ciaran Maguire, aged 29, and a co-accused were arrested in County Donegal and are wanted...
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A man from Tuam, County Rosemmon, must serve eighteen months in prison following a Court of Appeal decision that his original suspended sentence was unduly lenient. Stephen Connor, aged 43, pleaded guilty in July 2019 to assault causing...
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A businessman from County Donegal who was imprisoned for nine weeks in 2019 over illegal dumping has initiated High Court proceedings against another waste disposal operator. Jim Ferry, whose former company Ferry Refuse Collection faced...
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed a suspended sentence imposed on a Roscommon man convicted of assaulting and falsely imprisoning his ex-partner at her home in Letterkenny, County Donegal on 5 May 2018. Stephen Connor, aged...
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A man convicted of stabbing a friend seventeen times with scissors in Letterkenny has failed in his appeal against an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence. Kenneth Broe was found guilty of assault causing serious harm following an...
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A man has brought an appeal against his eight-and-a-half year sentence for stabbing his friend seventeen times with scissors in Letterkenny, County Donegal, in October 2008. Kenneth Broe was convicted by jury of assault causing serious...
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Two men were jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court following their conviction for rape. Boakye Osei, aged 30, of Tooban, Burnfoot, and Kelvin Opoku, aged 33, of Letterkenny, County Donegal, had pleaded not guilty but were...
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The High Court has approved a settlement of €35,000 to the family of Brian McElhinney, a retired building contractor from Glenties, County Donegal, who died in December 2014 months after undergoing a medical procedure at Letterkenny...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury has convicted two men of the rape of a woman in County Donegal in February 2015. Boakye Osei, aged 29, of Twoban, Burnfoot, and Kelvin Opoku, aged 33, of Cill Graine, Letterkenny, had both pleaded not...
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Two Dublin men are to be extradited to Northern Ireland to face charges of attempted murder of a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer and possession of explosive substances with intent to endanger life. Ciaran Maguire, aged 29, and...
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The High Court has scheduled judgment for 12 February on extradition proceedings against two Dublin men sought by Northern Irish authorities for alleged attempted murder of a police officer and explosives offences. Ciaran Maguire, aged...
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A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted two men of raping a woman in County Donegal in February 2015. Boakye Osei, aged 29, of Tooban, Burnfoot, and Kelvin Opoku, aged 33, of Cill Graine, Letterkenny, pleaded not guilty to two...
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Two Dublin men wanted in Northern Ireland for the alleged attempted murder of a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer have failed in their latest legal challenge. Ciaran Maguire, aged 29, and Sean Paul Farrell, aged 32, face charges...
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A man convicted of murdering a fellow Polish national in Letterkenny, Co Donegal has had his appeal against conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Krzystof Grzegorski was found guilty of murdering Bogdan Michalkiewicz at Westside...
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Two Dublin men sought by Northern Irish authorities for the alleged attempted murder of a PSNI officer and possession of explosives with intent to endanger life have brought legal challenges regarding access to detention records. Ciaran...
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A 66-year-old woman from Co Donegal has initiated High Court judicial review proceedings against Donegal County Council's decision to suspend her from its housing allocation list for one year. The applicant, a member of the Irish...
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A man from Castlefin in County Donegal has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment following his conviction for the repeated rape of his teenage daughter. The offences occurred between November 2010 and June 2011 at the family home....
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A man from Castlefin in County Donegal has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping his teenage daughter repeatedly over an eight-month period between late 2010 and mid-2011. Maurice Lafferty, aged 50, committed the offences...
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Two Dublin men wanted in Northern Ireland for the alleged attempted murder of a police officer have challenged their arrest and detention in Co Donegal through judicial review proceedings in the High Court. Ciaran Maguire, aged 29, and...
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A Dublin man has been sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing serious harm to a teenage pedestrian from Donegal. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the court heard that John...
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A man convicted of driving his car at gardaí has been jailed following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Paul McGillion, aged 33 and resident at Ard Caoin, Manorcunningham, County Donegal, pleaded guilty in Letterkenny to...
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The Charleton tribunal has completed hearings examining circumstances surrounding garda whistleblower Keith Harrison and has invited legal submissions on the evidence heard during the current module. Justice Peter Charleton outlined...
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The Charleton tribunal received three of four requested statements from senior garda officers on Thursday morning. Statements were submitted by Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn, Chief Superintendent Tony McLoughlin, and Superintendent...
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The Charleton tribunal has requested new statements from four senior gardaí regarding an October 2013 meeting in Letterkenny, County Donegal, which prompted referrals concerning garda whistleblower Keith Harrison to the HSE and GSOC....
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Two men sought by Northern Irish authorities in connection with the attempted murder of a PSNI officer have been granted leave to pursue judicial review at the High Court. The applicants, arrested in County Donegal in 2015, allege that An...
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Two men wanted in Northern Ireland on charges of attempted murder of a PSNI officer and possession of explosives with intent to endanger life have brought High Court applications seeking disclosure of Garda records following their arrest...
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Michael Lyons, aged 55, of Currin, Glencolmcille, County Donegal, has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal at the Court of Appeal. Lyons pleaded guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing serious harm following...
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A man from Letterkenny, Co Donegal, has been jailed for 12 months following conviction on a charge of sexually exploiting a child. Donnchadh McGinley, then aged 34, met a 15-year-old girl through a youth mental health messaging...
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The High Court has heard that orders directing the vacation of a Letterkenny building housing Donegal County Council's water testing laboratory have not been complied with. Mr Justice Tony O'Connor was told the premises remain occupied...
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A 74-year-old man has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court following his arrest in County Donegal on charges relating to the 2006 killing of Denis Donaldson, a Sinn Féin member and alleged MI5 agent. The accused, with an...
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At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on 5 July 2016, Krzystof Grzegorski, aged 22, was found guilty of the murder of Bogdan Michalkiewicz, 41, at Westside Apartments, Letterkenny, County Donegal on 13 May 2013. Grzegorski had pleaded...
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A jury in a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court will resume deliberations tomorrow after nearly three hours of consideration on Monday. The defendant, a 22-year-old man of Polish nationality, stands accused of stabbing and beating...
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A Polish man has been released from custody at the Central Criminal Court after three years in detention. Justice Patrick McCarthy directed the jury to acquit Dariusz Weckowicz (51) of the murder of Bogdan Michalkiewicz (41) at Westside...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a 22-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of a 41-year-old man on May 13, 2013. The State has not accepted...
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Krzystof Grzegorski (22) made a video confession from England after learning his co-accused had been arrested for a killing he carried out, the Central Criminal Court heard on Monday. Mr Grzegorski has pleaded not guilty to murder but...
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At the Central Criminal Court, Dariusz Weckowicz has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Bogdan Michalkiewicz on 13 May 2013 at Westside Apartments in Letterkenny, County Donegal. His co-accused, Krzystof Grzegorski, has pleaded not...
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Two men stand accused of murdering Bogdan Michalkiewicz on May 13, 2013, at Westside Apartments in Letterkenny, County Donegal. The Central Criminal Court heard that Dariusz Weckowicz, aged 51, told gardaí following his arrest in June...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a former Detective Sergeant gave evidence regarding statements made by a man accused of murder. Michael Carroll told the court that he arrested Dariusz Weckowicz, aged 51, in Letterkenny, County Donegal on...
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A consultant pathologist with 28 years' experience told the Central Criminal Court that she had never encountered injuries of the type found on a man discovered dead at his Letterkenny home in May 2013. Dr Alison Armour gave evidence at...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a forensic expert testified that blood found on clothing and a shoe belonging to Dariusz Weckowicz matched that of Bogdan Michalkiewicz, who died on 13 May 2013 at his home in Westside, Letterkenny, County...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a detective from the Garda Technical Bureau described evidence gathered at an apartment in Westside, Letterkenny, following the death of a 41-year-old man in May 2013. Detective Garda Shane Curran outlined...
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A witness at the Central Criminal Court told the jury that a man accused of murder knelt down and swore on his knees that he had not been involved in the killing. Adam Kycwaik said he encountered the accused, Dariusz Weckowicz, a few days...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a witness told a murder trial that one of the two accused appeared intoxicated and displayed unusual aggression on the date of the alleged killing. Przemyslaw Lyczek, from Letterkenny, described the...
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At the Central Criminal Court, a jury in a murder trial heard evidence from the brother of the deceased, who discovered his sibling's badly beaten body at Westside Apartments in Letterkenny, County Donegal on May 13, 2013. The witness...
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A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard evidence today of a violent attack on a Polish man at Westside Apartments in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. Bogdan Michalkiewicz, aged 41, was found dead two days after the alleged assault on...
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Two men from Letterkenny, County Donegal, are to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of Bogdan Michalkiewicz. Dariusz Weckowicz, aged 51, and Krzystof Grzegorski, aged 22, both entered not guilty pleas to the charge....
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A man serving a life sentence for his role in a dissident republican murder in Donegal in 2008 has lodged an appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. Martin Kelly, aged 41, from Strabane in County Tyrone, was found guilty by the...
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A Derry man has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court denying murder but admitting he caused the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Stephen Cahoon, aged 43, of Harvey Street in Derry, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jean...
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Stephen Cahoon, aged 43, with an address at Harvey Street in Derry, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Jean Teresa Quigley at Cornshell Fields in Derry on July 26th, 2008. The case is being heard in the Central Criminal Court. During...
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A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Cahoon appeared notably anxious on the morning a pregnant woman's body was discovered in Derry. Cahoon, aged 43 and from Harvey Street in Derry, Northern Ireland, has pleaded not...
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A 51-year-old man with an address in Letterkenny, County Donegal, has received a suspended sentence following his guilty plea to sexual assault at Dublin Airport. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the man pleaded guilty to the offence at...
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A 51-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been remanded in custody for sentencing following his guilty plea to sexual assault at Dublin Airport Terminal 2 on 10 April 2014. At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the man pleaded...
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A Letterkenny chiropractor has had his sentence for burglary reduced on appeal. Kevin Ginty, aged 47, pleaded guilty to burgling the home of a woman with whom he had been in a relationship. He was initially sentenced to five years...
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A man's indecent assault conviction has been quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal in the first case decided under a recent Supreme Court ruling on suspect interrogation rights. The man, now aged 45, had been sentenced to two years...