206 cases mentioning Monaghan, Co. Monaghan — 206 from Courts News Ireland, 0 from local newspapers.
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By Claire Henry A chronic addict with 134 previous convictions has been jailed for 20 months for stealing a tourist's motorbike hours after the victim had arrived in Ireland. Joseph Gifford (40), formerly of Liberty House, Railway Street,...
A British national has been jailed for helping “serious criminals” escape in his car after they attacked a Tallaght home and beat a man with a hammer during a drug-related dispute. Mohammad Rehman (24) had arrived in Ireland by ferry the...
A veteran church security volunteer was ousted by the Augustinian Order for warning that certain “rogues” were going to try and pass off “fake relics” for sale at its church in Limerick City, a tribunal has been told. The allegation was...
A 79-year-old man from Mullingar, County Westmeath, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to eight counts of indecent assault against his younger sister between 1962 and...
A man from Belmullet, County Mayo has failed in a discrimination claim brought before the Workplace Relations Commission following a meeting about employment with the Erris Chamber of Commerce in April 2025. James Monaghan alleged that...
A man from Belmullet, County Mayo, has brought a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission alleging gender discrimination and breaches of the Employment Equality Act 1998 during a meeting with the Erris Chamber of Commerce in April...
A man from County Monaghan has been sentenced to four years imprisonment following his conviction for sexual assault. James Rafferty, aged 21 and from Gola, Scotstown, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a...
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the violent robbery of an off-duty garda in the Camden Road area on 22 January 2024. Evan Ward of Navan Road, Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to...
Sean Cullen, aged 22, of Hope Avenue, East Wall, Dublin 3, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of criminal damage and one count of common assault. The charges related to incidents at the Fairview DART Depot on 25...
A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to criminal damage and assault following incidents at Irish Rail facilities in Dublin. Sean Cullen, of East Wall, Dublin 3, admitted two counts of criminal damage and one count of common assault under...
A man accused of conspiring to steal vehicles with garda killer Aaron Brady has been refused bail ahead of his retrial at the Special Criminal Court. James Flynn, aged 43, with an address in Newry, County Down, faced objections from...
A detective inspector has outlined concerns about potential witness intimidation in proceedings against James Flynn at the Special Criminal Court. Det Inspector Mark Phillips detailed incidents during Aaron Brady's murder trial for the...
A remote worker from Monaghan brought a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission against her employer, PFH Technology Group Ltd, regarding her redundancy payment. The complainant, who had worked as a scheduler and administrative...
Jason Paget, aged 38, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges of possessing stolen property taken from a Dublin 8 apartment on 6 December 2021. The items included a motorised...
A former Lidl deputy logistics manager has lost his unfair dismissal claim after being sacked for remarks about female warehouse workers. Gabor Hoff, employed by Lidl Ireland since 2008, was dismissed from his position at the company's...
A man from Monaghan has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the rape of a teenager he had met for the first time. Shane McGovern, aged 31, approached the then 18-year-old outside a bar and offered...
A 71-year-old man from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for sexually abusing his three younger siblings over a period spanning the 1970s...
A Leaving Certificate supervisor from Monaghan has failed in a claim before the Workplace Relations Commission seeking over €1,600 in mileage expenses from the State Examinations Commission. Daniel Murphy alleged he was underpaid for...
A 37-year-old truck driver from County Fermanagh has been granted bail on appeal to the High Court following his arrest in a West Cork garda drugs operation. Sean Curran, with an address at Carrickyheenan, Aughnacloy, Enniskillen, was...
A man who was apprehended taking photographs in a female toilet cubicle at Dublin Airport has been convicted and sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Arthur Fiks, aged 47, admitted assault causing harm and possession of child...
Gerard Mackin, with a previous address at Rhebogue Road in Limerick, has failed in his appeal against a three-and-a-half year sentence for money laundering. The Court of Appeal dismissed the challenge on May 7th, 2024. Mackin had pleaded...
A Leaving Certificate supervisor has brought a complaint before the Workplace Relations Commission against the State Examinations Commission over mileage allowance deductions spanning three years. Daniel Murphy, from Monaghan, supervised...
A 61-year-old former scout leader has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to three counts of sexual assault committed between 1991 and 2000. The man, whose identity is...
Darren Martin, aged 48, of Bride Road, Dublin 8, has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to two robberies of elderly women in March 2022. The offences occurred...
At the ongoing inquest into the Stardust nightclub fire of February 1981, witnesses have testified that emergency exit doors were secured with chains and padlocks on the night of the blaze. A former employee stated that this practice of...
The Special Criminal Court has convicted James Flynn, an Armagh man, of conspiring with garda killer Aaron Brady to steal a Volkswagen Passat on 22 and 23 January 2013 at locations in County Louth. The vehicle is alleged to have been used...
A man with a criminal history has been sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for money laundering offences. Gerard Mackin pleaded guilty to handling €4,780 in cash that prosecutors alleged were...
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of a woman accused of defrauding two siblings of €10,200 through representations involving spiritual communications. Debbie Paget, of Knowth Court, Ballymun,...
Four senior executives of investment firm Custom House Capital have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their convictions in a fraud conspiracy that affected over three thousand investors. Harry Cassidy, the former...
A woman has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of dishonestly by deception after being accused of telling siblings that their deceased father instructed them to give her money. The accused, from Ballymun in...
Four men were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their guilty pleas in connection with a significant investment fraud at Custom House Capital Ltd. The offences occurred between October 2008 and July 2011. Before imposing...
The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Nuremore Hotel Management Ltd, the company responsible for operating the Nuremore Hotel and country club in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. Mr Justice Conor Dignam appointed insolvency...
At the Central Criminal Court in Monaghan, victim impact statements were heard in the case of Richard Burke, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Jasmine McMonagle on 4 January 2019 at Forest Park, Killygordon, County Donegal. The...
Gerard Mackin, 40, has pleaded guilty to money laundering before the Special Criminal Court following his extradition from Spain in December. The charge related to €4,780 seized outside his address on Rhebogue Road in Limerick on April...
A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court in Monaghan to hear the trial of a 32-year-old man charged with the murder of Jasmine McMonagle in County Donegal in January 2019. Richard Burke, with an address in Killygordon,...
A man has pleaded guilty to money laundering before the Special Criminal Court following his extradition from Spain. Gerard Mackin (40), originally from west Belfast, admitted to handling €4,780 in proceeds of criminal conduct at Rhebogue...
An Bord Pleanála has conceded a High Court challenge to its decision permitting Abbott Ireland to extend its manufacturing facility near Dromore, Co Monaghan. The board's approval, which allowed the company to add approximately 2,661...
A man with ninety previous convictions has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following an assault in the city centre. Jonathan Donovan (37) pleaded guilty to assault causing harm after the State...
Four senior executives of Custom House Capital have been directed to appear before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 8 March following guilty pleas to fraud-related charges. Between October 2022 and January 2023, former chief executive...
A former detective garda told the Special Criminal Court how he feared for his life during an armed robbery at Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, County Louth, on 25 January 2013, when a man pointed a shotgun at his face and threatened...
A man has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment following a burglary at a residential property in Dundrum, south Dublin on July 2nd, 2022. Gary Bailey, aged 45, of Gleann Na Ri, Druids Valley, Loughlinstown, pleaded guilty to the...
The Special Criminal Court has ruled that burglary and robbery charges against two men will be heard together, rejecting an application to separate the trials. Brendan Treanor, aged 34, formerly of Dundalk, County Louth, and James Flynn,...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that a mandatory driving ban is not required for those convicted of careless driving causing death where it constitutes a first offence. The court determined that mandatory disqualification applies only when...
A High Court dispute concerning a catering contract at Brennan's bakery in Dublin has been adjourned to late March following agreement between the parties. Ciaran Monaghan, who has provided catering services at the bakery's canteen for 28...
A catering company owner has brought proceedings in the High Court seeking an injunction to prevent termination of a contract with a major Dublin bakery. Ciaran Monaghan, trading as Ciaran Monaghan Catering, claims his firm has supplied...
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, judges ruled that approximately ten hours of recorded conversations between murder accused Gerard Hutch and former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall are admissible as evidence, despite finding...
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 29 November, senior counsel for Gerard Hutch argued that Irish surveillance legislation contains no provision permitting the operation of listening devices beyond the State's borders. Brendan...
The Special Criminal Court heard arguments on the admissibility of audio surveillance recordings in the trial of Gerard Hutch, who denies murdering David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016. Prosecution counsel Sean Gillane SC...
At the Special Criminal Court, defence counsel for Gerard Hutch have argued that a garda audio recording of conversations between Hutch and former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall should be deemed inadmissible. Brendan Grehan SC...
A man with previous convictions for aggravated sexual assault pleaded guilty to vehicle theft, dangerous driving, and assault causing harm following events in Dublin 8 in December 2021. The 35-year-old defendant, on bail for an unrelated...
A man has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for falsely registering himself as the father of six children to facilitate passport fraud. Alan Yip, aged 47, of Parnell Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty to...
A High Court judge has publicly refuted remarks made by a Sinn Féin TD regarding judicial willingness to travel outside Dublin to hear cases. Speaking at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott characterised comments by Sinn...
A Monaghan care home has been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay its former nursing director over €63,000 for unfair dismissal. The operator of Drumbear Lodge, which experienced a significant Covid-19 outbreak in April...
The Workplace Relations Commission has dismissed a complaint of unfair dismissal brought by a direct provision centre worker in Monaghan. The adjudicating officer found that Siarhei Klimasheuski was guilty of gross misconduct akin to...
A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison following a serious unprovoked assault in Dublin city centre. Daryl Cassells, aged 27 and of no fixed abode, attacked a man outside Burger King on Grafton Street at...
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for a series of violent offences committed while on bail. The defendant, formerly of Sandyford in Dublin, pleaded...
An estate owner in County Cavan has initiated High Court proceedings challenging An Bord Pleanála's approval of a planning extension for an agri-food manufacturing facility. John Moreharte, who owns Bellamont Castle and approximately...
A Polish man has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to rape. Rafal Stojanowski, aged 36, admitted raping a woman on 27 October 2018 at a house in County Monaghan where he was...
Three former workers at an egg production facility in County Galway have secured redundancy payments following a Workplace Relations Commission ruling, two years after their initial claims were rejected due to the company's dissolution....
Three Monaghan brothers have been sentenced to a combined 19 years and six months imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for their roles in a cross-border ATM theft gang operating between 2018 and 2019. Gerard Duffy, aged 31, of...
A landlord couple from Crossmaglen, County Down, have been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay €7,500 to their former tenant following a discrimination complaint. David Paul Smith alleged that Martin and Hillary Shields...
A Georgian national from Monaghan pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to his role in facilitating illegal immigration and money laundering offences occurring between 2017 and 2019. The defendant, aged 46, was also found to...
Two brothers from Monaghan have entered guilty pleas at the Special Criminal Court in relation to a cross-border gang investigation involving ATM thefts. Gerard Duffy, aged 30, admitted to the attempted theft of an ATM at the Riverfront...
A delivery driver has been jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for a violent assault on another van driver. Aiman Khalel, aged 40, of Rathmines, Dublin, was found guilty after trial of assault causing harm and...
A Monaghan man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possessing stolen cash linked to coordinated ATM thefts by a cross-border criminal organisation. Stephen Duffy, aged 35, of Tullynahinera, Castleblayney, admitted to...
A man's appeal against a three-year-three-month prison sentence for assaulting two businessmen near Ballyconnell, County Cavan, has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal. James Bernard McGovern, aged 24, had pleaded guilty in March to a...
A serial fraudster from Carrickmacross is the subject of an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the leniency of his sentence. Michael McGauley pleaded guilty in October 2020 at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court to five...
A Sheriff from County Monaghan has initiated High Court proceedings seeking to overturn the mandatory retirement age requirement that would require him to leave office at 70 years of age. Mr Seamus Mallon, a qualified solicitor based in...
Two men have received fully suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assisting another man's escape from gardaí. Derek Mitchell, aged 27, and Patrick Macken, aged 34, pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension or...
A Dublin woman charged with dangerous driving following an alleged chase involving Garda vehicles on the M50 motorway has launched a second High Court judicial review action challenging bail conditions imposed by the District Court. Gemma...
A man with links to County Monaghan has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment for raping a woman in her Dublin home following their meeting on a dating application. The Central Criminal Court heard that the assault...
The High Court has ordered the release of a Co Monaghan businessman from Mountjoy Prison after he completed 115 days in custody for contempt of court. Mr Justice Senan Allen ruled that the continued imprisonment of Fergal Deery was no...
A man has pleaded guilty to rape and oral rape following a violent assault on a woman at her Dublin home in January 2018. Peter Loughran, aged 36, of Glasnevin Downs, Ballygall, Dublin, met the victim through the dating application Tinder...
A 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court for the death of a 61-year-old Monaghan man whose house was deliberately set alight in Carrickmacross in March 2016. Aaron McDonagh, of no fixed abode,...
A Monaghan businessman has informed the High Court he will not comply with orders to stay away from two properties in the county and is prepared to remain in custody at Mountjoy Prison. Fergal Deery, of Drumhillock, has spent nearly nine...
A man in his early thirties has received a fully suspended two-year prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material. The accused downloaded 1,299 video files depicting...
A businessman from Monaghan remains in custody at Mountjoy Prison after declining to purge contempt of court. Fergal Deery has spent nearly eight weeks in prison since early December following a High Court finding that he breached orders...
Five men, including a former All-Ireland club footballer, have had books of evidence served at the Special Criminal Court in relation to alleged thefts and attempted thefts of automated teller machines in Cavan and Monaghan during 2019....
A businessman must remain in Mountjoy Prison after a High Court judge found him in contempt of court orders relating to two properties in County Monaghan. Fergal Deery of Drumhillock was committed to prison this week following his arrest...
A Monaghan businessman has been remanded in custody to Mountjoy Prison by the High Court following his arrest by gardaí on allegations of repeatedly breaching court orders relating to two properties in Monaghan Town. Fergal Deery of...
A High Court challenge brought by Coolberrin Wind Farm Ltd against An Bord Pleanála's refusal of planning permission for a grid connector in County Monaghan has been admitted to the Strategic Infrastructure Development and Commercial...
Five men, including a former All-Ireland club footballer, have been charged with a combined 38 new offences at the Special Criminal Court relating to alleged ATM thefts across Cavan and Monaghan. Daniel O'Callaghan, aged 30, a former...
A man convicted of rape and sexual assault has had his sentence reduced by eighteen months following a Court of Appeal finding that the trial judge may have imposed a longer sentence than warranted due to comments about remission. The...
A 25-year-old student has received a fully suspended 12-month sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for money laundering. Jonathan Angbalu pleaded guilty to facilitating the lodgement of a stolen and altered €9,000 cheque into his...
Stuart McManus, aged 44, of Joyce Road, Drumcondra, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making a threat to cause serious harm to a woman at her home on Ferguson Road, Drumcondra on Hallowe'en night. The court heard...
A man from County Tipperary has mounted a challenge in the Court of Appeal seeking to overturn his conviction for the rape of his teenage foster daughter. Richard Moloney (42) of Roscrea was found guilty in July 2019 of one count of rape,...
A man with three All Ireland Club Championship medals with Crossmaglen Rangers has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court on charges relating to ATM thefts in the border region. Daniel O'Callaghan, aged 30, faces five offences...
A 30-year-old man with three All-Ireland club championship medals has been charged with offences relating to ATM thefts across Cavan and Monaghan. Daniel O'Callaghan appeared before the Special Criminal Court on charges including the...
Four men appeared before the Special Criminal Court on Tuesday charged with involvement in attempted ATM thefts across Cavan and Monaghan during 2019. Gerard Duffy, aged 29, Ciaran Duffy, aged 26, both of Greagh, Loughnamore, County...
A 67-year-old Co Monaghan farmer has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final two years suspended, following his conviction for sexual assaults on his grandchildren. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the abuse came to...
A man from Dublin has been imprisoned for his involvement in a serious knife attack that occurred on Dame Street in April 2009. Patrick Carter pleaded guilty to assault causing harm but absconded before sentencing, subsequently fleeing to...
A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison following a series of attempted car thefts in a Dublin housing estate while under the influence of crack cocaine. Thomas Cahill Donohue, aged 35, pleaded guilty to twelve...
A retired detective inspector giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court rejected claims that the garda investigation into the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was compromised by inadequate follow-up on key leads. The officer,...
Ricardo De Freitas Correia, a 34-year-old Portuguese national with an address in Dublin 15, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to deception and theft offences. The charges related to incidents in May 2019 at retail locations...
A man from County Monaghan has been ordered by the High Court to face extradition to the United Kingdom on manslaughter and conspiracy charges relating to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a lorry container in Essex in October...
At the High Court in Dublin, counsel for a Monaghan haulier argued that many offences alleged against him in connection with 39 migrant deaths occurred outside UK territory. Ronan Hughes, aged 40, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, faces 39...
The Court of Appeal heard arguments on May 7th regarding the extradition of a 23-year-old man from County Down, who is accused of delivering a trailer in which 39 Vietnamese migrants died in Essex in October 2019. The appellant's legal...
A 57-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has had his conviction appeal dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The man was convicted in March 2019 by the Special Criminal Court of membership of an unlawful organisation...
A Monaghan haulier alleged to be the principal organiser of a human trafficking operation has been refused bail by the High Court pending extradition proceedings. The man, aged 40 and from Tyholland, County Monaghan, faces 39 counts of...
A Monaghan man appeared before the High Court on bail application following his arrest on a European Arrest Warrant in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants discovered in an Essex lorry container in October 2019. The accused is...
A human trafficking charge against a 22-year-old from County Down has been withdrawn by United Kingdom authorities, the Court of Appeal in Dublin heard. Eamon Ronald Harrison from Mayobridge is contesting his extradition to face 39 counts...
A 40-year-old man from Tyholland, County Monaghan, appeared before the High Court in Dublin on charges arising from a migrant trafficking tragedy in Essex. Ronan Hughes is wanted by United Kingdom authorities to face 39 counts of...
A High Court judge has directed that a Monaghan businessman be arrested and brought before the court over allegations he has breached orders restraining him from two properties in the county town. Mr Justice Senan Allen ruled that Fergal...
A witness in the trial of Aaron Brady at the Central Criminal Court has testified that she initially provided false information to police about the accused's whereabouts on the night of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe's fatal shooting....
At the Central Criminal Court, a man accused of the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe has claimed he was engaged in diesel laundering at the time of the fatal shooting. Aaron Brady, aged 29, from Crossmaglen, Co Armagh,...
The High Court has struck out a damages claim brought by a man who was imprisoned in Mountjoy prison over Christmas 2007 for non-payment of debts. Mr Justice Bernard Barton dismissed the action taken by Gerard Martin Fulham, arising from...
A man has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction on charges of rape, oral rape, and sexual assault. Richard Moloney, aged 41, of Tullaskeagh Drive, Roscrea, County Tipperary, was...
A man has had his sentence increased following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions on grounds of undue leniency. Aurelijus Kizelavicius, aged 23, of Knocktornagh, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, pleaded guilty to rape and assault...
A Garda has told the Disclosures Tribunal that he was denied a commendation for helping rescue a drowning woman because of his status as a whistleblower. Garda Nicholas Keogh, based in Athlone, alleges that management withheld recognition...
A Garda has told the Disclosures Tribunal that he believes he was deliberately confined to stressful desk duties at Athlone Garda Station because he made a protected disclosure in 2014. Garda Nicholas Keogh alleged that a senior member of...
A 30-year-old man from Ballymun has received a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for stealing twenty bottles of spirits valued at €900 from Copper Face Jack's nightclub on Harcourt Street in May 2017. Jason...
Jason Kane, aged 24 of St Attracta Road, Cabra, Dublin, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment following his guilty plea to assault causing harm and production of a knife at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The offences occurred on...
A man convicted of manslaughter in connection with a 2013 killing has been found guilty of criminal damage and production of a weapon at the Central Criminal Court. Quentin Monaghan, aged 25 and from Tullamoy, Stradbally, County Laois,...
Derek Heavey, aged 32, of Moeran Road, Walkinstown, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm and criminal damage following an incident on Ballyfermot Road on May 23, 2018. An off-duty garda sounded...
A 56-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court following his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican...
A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following guilty pleas to nine burglaries and one count of criminal damage committed across Dublin locations between April and September...
A 56-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, will be sentenced at the Special Criminal Court next month. James Joseph Cassidy of...
A 55-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has been convicted of IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court. James Joseph Cassidy of Tullycollive was found guilty of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself...
A man convicted of assaulting his former partner on two occasions has been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a breach of a protection order. John Paul Gantley, aged 35 and residing in Dublin, pleaded guilty to two...
A man has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a series of robberies committed across Dublin between March and April 2018, with an additional offence in May 2017. Dean Gray, aged 31, of Buttercup...
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, evidence was heard regarding booster tubes discovered in separate locations linked to an IRA trial. James Joseph Cassidy, aged 55, from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to...
A 55-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, is standing trial at the Special Criminal Court on a charge of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself as the Irish Republican Army. James Joseph Cassidy of...
A 55-year-old mechanic from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself as the Irish Republican Army at the Special Criminal Court. James Joseph Cassidy of Tullycollive...
A 29-year-old man from Ballymun pleaded guilty to burglary at Copper Face Jacks nightclub in Dublin on 27 May 2017. Jason Whelan admitted stealing approximately 20 bottles of spirits valued between €700 and €900 from the premises. Dublin...
A man with previous convictions for manslaughter has been imprisoned after carrying out armed raids whilst serving a suspended sentence. Mark Bissett, aged 33, of Swords Road, Dublin 9, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to...
A 26-year-old man from Walkinstown, Dublin has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for stabbing another man in the neck during a prearranged fight. Mohammed Adan Ali pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing...
A Dublin man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment following his assault on a garda with a glass bottle. Christopher Reilly (28) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Garda Daniel Sweeney, causing...
A man has entered guilty pleas to a series of shop robberies at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, having been driven to multiple crime scenes by a taxi driver unaware of his passenger's intentions. Dean Gray, aged 30 and of Buttercup Drive,...
A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a garda with a glass bottle at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Christopher Reilly, aged 28, of Cabra, Dublin, assaulted Garda Daniel Sweeney on Ratoath Road, Cabra, on 10 November 2015, causing him...
Two men have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their guilty pleas to attempted robbery at a pharmacy in Kilbarrack on January 26, 2018. Brendan Raynor, aged 30, of Tulip Court, Darndale and Dean Slattery, aged 28,...
Mark Bissett (33) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to attempted robbery and robbery following two incidents in Ranelagh, south Dublin in October 2017. He targeted a Spar shop on October 15th, armed with a knife, and a...
A 53-year-old man from Castleblayney in County Monaghan has been committed for trial at the Special Criminal Court on a charge of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. James Joseph Cassidy, of...
A former solicitor from Maynooth, County Kildare, has been granted bail on appeal at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following approval of a €100,000 independent surety. Michael Lynn, aged 49, faces allegations of stealing approximately €30...
A man's conviction for threatening to kill a relative whilst brandishing a meat cleaver at University College Hospital Galway has been quashed by the Court of Appeal. Aaron Ward (32), from Tuam, Co Galway, was found guilty following a...
A haulier from County Monaghan has brought proceedings in the High Court against two related commercial vehicle firms based in Monaghan and Armagh, alleging he was sold trucks with substantially higher mileage than represented at the time...
A man from Castleblayney has been sentenced to five years in prison following his conviction for rape and assault at the Central Criminal Court. Aurelijus Kizelavicius pleaded guilty to attacking a woman in County Monaghan on 29 March...
A Cork man has been granted a date to appeal his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation. Martin McHale, aged 54, was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court in 2017 following an incident in Monaghan in November 2013. He...
A Carlow publican has received a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for stealing €8,589 from his former employer at The Porterhouse Central on Nassau Street, Dublin. Brian O'Kane, aged 45 and of Royal Oak,...
The Charleton tribunal heard evidence concerning discussions between gardai and lawyers about a decade-old indecent assault allegation against Sergeant Maurice McCabe in the days before the O'Higgins Commission of Inquiry began hearings...
A man has been convicted at the Special Criminal Court of directing a terrorist organisation following a Garda surveillance operation at a Dublin public house. Seamus McGrane, aged 63, from Dromisikin in County Louth, was monitored by the...
A High Court judge has referred apparent inconsistencies in Ben Gilroy's stated income to the Revenue Commissioner's Investigations Unit. Justice Brian McGovern noted that when contempt proceedings were heard in July, Mr Gilroy, of Navan,...
A garda inspector testified at the Charleton tribunal that she received no instruction to inform the Office of the Garda Commissioner that an allegation of serious sexual abuse against Sergeant Maurice McCabe was false. Inspector Karen...
A 44-year-old man from County Monaghan has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court following his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Jim Smyth,...
A man with a previous conviction for manslaughter has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for threatening to burn down the home of a charity worker. The defendant, aged 31 and from Swords Road, Dublin 9, pleaded...
A 44-year-old man from Aghalissabeagh, Scotstown, County Monaghan, was convicted last month by the Special Criminal Court of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Jim Smyth was found guilty of...
A 44-year-old man from County Monaghan has been convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army by the Special Criminal Court. Jim Smyth, with an address at Aghalissabeagh, Scotstown, had...
James Joseph Cassidy, aged 53 and resident of Tullycollive in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, has been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. The alleged offence occurred on 21 September...
A man from County Monaghan has completed trial at the Special Criminal Court on a charge of membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Jim Smyth, aged 44, with an address at Aghalissabeagh, Scotstown,...
A 44-year-old man from Scotstown, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army at the Special Criminal Court. The trial heard that gardaí conducted a planned...
The Special Criminal Court has ruled that the arrest of a Monaghan man charged with IRA membership was lawful. Jim Smyth, aged 44, of Aghalissabeagh, Scotstown, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful...
A 44-year-old man from Scotstown, County Monaghan, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army at the Special Criminal Court. The accused, Jim Smyth of Aghalissabeagh, faces an...
A Monaghan man has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army before the Special Criminal Court. Jim Smyth, aged 44, with an address at Aghalissabeagh, Scotstown, is accused of...
A man from Monaghan has been remanded on bail pending trial at the Special Criminal Court following his arrest in connection with a significant weapons discovery. The 43-year-old was apprehended in Carrickmacross in November 2015 during...
At the Court of Appeal on 23 March 2017, a woman serving a life sentence for murder had her conviction appeal dismissed. Sabrina Cummins, with an address in Dublin, had been found guilty by jury at the Central Criminal Court of murdering...
A 53-year-old Cork man has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Martin McHale, with an address at Blackwater Grove, Togher, Cork, was...
A book of evidence has been served on a man accused of membership of an unlawful organisation before the Special Criminal Court. James Joseph Cassidy, aged 53, of Tullycollive, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, is charged with membership of an...
A 53-year-old Cork man has been remanded in custody pending sentencing following his conviction for membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Martin McHale, with an address in Togher, Cork, was...
A Cork man has been convicted of membership of the Irish Republican Army at the Special Criminal Court following a trial centred on the discovery of half-a-tonne of fertiliser in a van he was driving in Monaghan. Martin McHale, aged 53,...
At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, closing arguments concluded in the trial of a Cork man charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the IRA. Martin McHale, aged 53, of Blackwater Grove, Togher, Cork, has...
An Assistant Garda Commissioner has testified at the Special Criminal Court that he holds a "100 per cent" belief that a Cork man charged with IRA membership is indeed a member of that organisation. Martin McHale, aged 53, from Togher,...
A 53-year-old Cork man accused of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army has pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard that Martin McHale told gardaí he travelled...
A 52-year-old Cork man accused of IRA membership was discovered in a Hiace van loaded with bags of nitrogen fertiliser during a garda patrol in Monaghan town on November 1st, 2013, the Special Criminal Court heard. Martin McHale, with an...
An Armagh man has been ordered to complete 240 hours of community service following his conviction for attempting to remove markers from diesel fuel. Paul Haughey, aged 36 and resident in Keady, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal...
The Court of Appeal has rejected claims that prosecutors improperly handled plea negotiations during the murder trial of Darren Wynne. Wynne, aged 23 from Ballyroe, Athy, County Kildare, was convicted of murdering Jamie Lindsay at Coney...
A murder conviction is under appeal at the Court of Appeal following allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. Darren Wynne, aged 23, was found guilty in July 2014 of murdering Jamie Lindsay at Athy, County Kildare in April 2013. He...
A 34-year-old Mauritian man has been sentenced to two months in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to three counts of deception. Resen Modeley facilitated marriages of convenience between Irish residents...
A 36-year-old man from County Armagh pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to attempting to remove tax markers from gas oil without Revenue Commissioners' consent. The offence occurred at a rural property near Castleblaney,...
A 52-year-old man from Cork will stand trial at the Special Criminal Court in 2017 on charges relating to membership of an unlawful organisation and possession of an explosive substance. Martin McHale, of Blackwater Grove, Togher, is...
Ms Justice Caroline Costello has lifted freezing orders on bank accounts at the High Court following agreement by the account holders to transfer funds to the Official Assignee. The monies, totalling over €85,000 in cheques made payable...
A High Court judge has referred legal questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding cost allocation in proceedings connected to the north-South electricity interconnector project. Mr Justice Richard Humpreys made the...
The High Court has dismissed an action brought by the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign seeking to halt an oral hearing into EirGrid's application to construct approximately 300 pylons for the proposed North-South electricity...
A 52-year-old man from Cork has been served with a book of evidence at the Special Criminal Court following his arrest in December as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity. Martin McHale stands charged with...
A man from Armagh has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his conviction for sexually abusing his partner's daughter over a three-year period while the family lived in Monaghan. Darren...
A group representing nearly 200 landowners in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath has initiated High Court judicial review proceedings challenging An Bord Pleanála's decision to hold an oral hearing on EirGrid's North-South electricity...
A 52-year-old man from Cork has been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court following charges relating to IRA membership and explosives offences. Martin McHale of Blackwater Grove, Togher, Cork, was charged on November 1st, 2013, with...
A 52-year-old man from Cork has been charged at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin with membership of an unlawful organisation and possession of an explosive substance. Martin McHale, of Blackwater Grove, Togher, was charged with IRA...
A 43-year-old man from Monaghan charged with membership of an unlawful organisation was released on bail at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today, contrary to gardai objections. The man was arrested in Carrickmacross last month...
A 43-year-old man from County Monaghan has been charged with membership of an unlawful organization styling itself the Irish Republican Army. The man was arrested in Carrickmacross on the evening of 28 November following an investigation...
A 24-year-old man from County Armagh has been declared legally detained following a High Court ruling on Friday. Adam Grant of Silverbridge was remanded in custody at Monaghan District Court after his arrest in connection with an...
A 24-year-old man from County Armagh, charged in connection with the recovery of an ATM at Drumass, Iniskeen in County Monaghan, has challenged the legality of his detention at the High Court. Adam Grant was remanded in custody at...
A 24-year-old man from County Armagh has sought a High Court inquiry into the lawfulness of his detention following charges related to an ATM incident in Inniskeen, County Monaghan. The accused was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison...
A 48-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to possession of cannabis worth €200,000. The defendant, of Clondalkin, stored the drugs in 19 bags within a...
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a jury has acquitted Gail O'Rorke of attempting to assist the suicide of her friend. The jury returned not guilty verdicts after an eight-day trial and seven hours of deliberation. Ms O'Rorke, a taxi...
The trial of a woman accused of assisting the suicide of her friend continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on the third day of proceedings. The deceased, who suffered from severe multiple sclerosis, had expressed a wish to end her...
A Monaghan shopkeeper who was made bankrupt following a €32m bank judgment sought High Court permission to pursue a negligence claim against real estate company CBRE over property valuations in Castleblayney. The man borrowed €32m from...
A 19-year-old college student from Charlemont has received a suspended sentence for assaulting a girl in a Temple Bar nightclub. The defendant pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm at Alchemy on 28 March...
Two Lithuanian men have been sentenced to four years in prison with the final two years suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction on extortion and threatening-to-kill charges. Deividas Sutkevicius, aged 29, of...
A 70-year-old man from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan has failed in his appeal against sentences for sexually assaulting two young girls. Peter Clarke pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault committed in May and September 2011. He...
A man already serving a life sentence for murder has received an additional 12-year sentence for firearms offences at the Central Criminal Court. Darren Wynne, aged 21 from Athy, County Kildare, was convicted in July of murdering Jamie...
Three men have been sentenced for their involvement in a fatal shooting in Co. Kildare in April 2013. At the Central Criminal Court, Darren Wynne was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting Jamie Lindsay in the...
A 41-year-old man from Tullyallen, Drogheda has voluntarily surrendered to Northern Irish authorities following his arrest here in June on a European Arrest Warrant. Edward McDonagh appeared before the High Court in connection with 11...
At the Central Criminal Court on 22 July 2014, Darren Wynne, aged 21 of Ballyroe, Athy, County Kildare, was sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for murder. Wynne had been found guilty by jury of murdering Jamie...
Darren Wynne, aged 21 of Ballyroe, Athy, County Kildare, has been sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for murder at the Central Criminal Court. Wynne was found guilty on July 10th of murdering Jamie Lindsay, aged 20,...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Darren Wynne guilty of murdering Jamie Lindsay in Athy, Co. Kildare on April 6, 2013. Wynne (21) of Ballyroe, Athy was convicted after the jury deliberated for almost five hours. He was also...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of a man accused of murdering his best friend in County Kildare in 2013. Darren Wynne, aged 21, of Athy, has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to...
At the Central Criminal Court, Darren Wynne (21) of Ballyroe, Athy, County Kildare was re-arraigned on charges relating to the death of Jamie Lindsay (20) at Coney Green, Coneyboro, Athy on April 6, 2013. Wynne pleaded not guilty to...
A 21-year-old man from Athy, Co. Kildare, charged with the murder of a 20-year-old in April 2013, has changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter. The Central Criminal Court heard that the Director of Public Prosecutions has not accepted...
Two men have changed their pleas at the Central Criminal Court in relation to the death of a man in County Kildare in April 2013. Quentin Monaghan, aged 21, and James Seery, aged 21, initially pleaded not guilty to murder but today...
Three men charged with murder were arraigned before the Central Criminal Court in connection with the death of a 20-year-old in County Kildare in April 2013. All three pleaded not guilty to murdering the victim at Coneyboro, Athy. One...
A trial began at the Central Criminal Court concerning the death of a 20-year-old man shot in County Kildare in April 2013. Three men aged 21 were arraigned: one pleaded not guilty to murder and to possession of a sawn-off shotgun with...
Three men faced murder charges at the Central Criminal Court following the death of a twenty-year-old in County Kildare in April 2013. Darren Wynne, Quentin Monaghan, and James Seery all pleaded not guilty to murdering Jamie Lindsay at...
The Deputy State Pathologist told the Central Criminal Court that a 20-year-old man died from a gunshot wound to the head during a trial hearing in Dublin. Three men, aged 21, have pleaded not guilty to murdering Jamie Lindsay at Coney...
Three men have pleaded not guilty to the murder of a twenty-year-old man in County Kildare in April 2013. James Seery, Quentin Monaghan, and Darren Wynne appeared before the Central Criminal Court charged with the killing of Jamie Lindsay...
The trial of three men accused of murdering a 20-year-old in County Kildare opened at the Central Criminal Court this week. James Seery and Quentin Monaghan, both aged 21, pleaded not guilty to murder, whilst Darren Wynne, also 21,...
Three men appeared before the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of a 20-year-old man in County Kildare in April 2013. James Seery, aged 21, of Athy, Quentin Monaghan, aged 21, of Stradbally in County Laois, and Darren Wynne,...
A man in his early twenties has had his sentence increased from two years to three years imprisonment following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Court of Criminal Appeal. The man pleaded guilty in January...