Co. Longford • 11 court reports
Cases and rulings mentioning Lanesborough from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
The shooter in a "meticulously planned" murder of a much-loved and vulnerable victim has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Mr Justice Paul McDermott at the Central Criminal Court today said it is accepted that Joseph Richards (3
A 35-year-old criminal was “crack crazy” when he shot a father-of-two twice in the face at the door of his own home in Dublin, a court has heard. Robert Sheridan (45) was fatally wounded when he answered the door of his house at Poppintree Crescent, Ballymun, on the morning of Oc
A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a father-of-two who was shot in the head and body at the front door of his home in Dublin eight years ago. Joseph Richards (34) was charged in 2024 with the murder of 45-year-old Robert Sheridan at the deceased's home in Poppintree
A graveyard flower seller has been jailed for his role in supplying shops and private homes with untaxed tobacco products. When Revenue officials moved in on Eamonn Lynch (44) at a container storage yard in north Dublin, they found cigarettes and loose tobacco with an estimated r
A postal worker who was caught in possession of nearly €80,000 of cannabis herb has been jailed for two and a half years. Darren Cumberton (26) was arrested after gardaí caught him moving some of the drugs from a van to a car in Dublin in April 2021. The total value of the cannab
A man has been jailed for purchasing two vehicles that were used in an arson attack on a house that was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau prior to belonging to “a person of some notoriety”. Joseph Richards (30) later told gardaí he had not been aware the cars would be used for
A High Court judge has allowed An Bord Pleanala to appeal his decision to quash planning permission for a wind farm which would include one of the tallest structures in Ireland. In his ruling, the judge also said however that the board's submission that his judgement had "extreme
(Pictured: Mr Peter Sweetman. Credit: Collins) The High Court has quashed An Bord Pleanala's decision to grant planning permission to a subsidiary of Bord Na Mona to build a wind farm in the Midlands. The proposed wind farm was located in bogland known as Mountdillon Peat Product
By Declan Brennan and Isabel Hayes A former Ireland ice hockey player has been jailed for two years for assaulting two cousins in a nightclub, leaving them with a broken knee cap and a broken jaw. Dubliner Patrick Anderson (22) punched the two men in the face and head and continu
A man with no previous convictions has pleaded guilty to carrying out two nightclub assaults which left one victim with a broken jaw. Dubliner Patrick Anderson (22) punched the two men in the face and head and continued to assault them after they left the Wright venue nightclub i
It took three and a half years to arrest and charge a man caught with child abuse imagery because of the backlog in the garda computer crimes unit, a court has heard. Paul Devine (45) was caught with 25 videos and 80 photographs of child sex abuse after an investigation by the Ga