Cases and rulings mentioning Castlebar from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-03-13
Courts News Ireland
A 23-year-old man from Ballina has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following a violent incident outside St Mary's Secondary School in April 2021. Taylor Moran admitted attacking another youth with a claw hammer during a brawl involving a group of ten to twelve people in...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-03-13
Courts News Ireland
A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary conditions. The 40-year-old father received an 18-month custodial sentence, with one year suspended, while his...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-03-05
Courts News Ireland
A delivery driver has been sentenced to five months in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court after pleading guilty to careless driving causing the death of a seventy-six-year-old woman in Westport. Maureen Hopkins died following a collision with a lorry in the car park of SuperValu...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-26
Courts News Ireland
A jury at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court has returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in respect of an aeronautical engineer charged with damaging telecommunications infrastructure across Mayo and Galway. Adrian Behan, aged 44 of Newport Road, Castlebar, faced 23...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-25
Courts News Ireland
A man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 33 offences alleged to have occurred at telecommunications and utility sites across Mayo and Galway between September and October 2023. Adrian Behan, aged 44, of Ballyfarna, Belcarra, Castlebar, faces 23...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-20
Courts News Ireland
A Knockmore man has been sentenced to four years in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court for offences including the savage mauling of a woman by his unmuzzled dog. David Barrett, aged 41, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an attack on November 20th, 2022, at Mount...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-19
Courts News Ireland
A 47-year-old man from Swinford has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an incident in which he struck his brother with a shovel at their home in Cloongullaune on 27 July 2022. The victim was rendered unconscious and transported to Mayo University Hospital with a...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-09
Courts News Ireland
A 61-year-old man from Ballina in County Mayo has been sentenced to 11 and a half years imprisonment for sexually abusing five girls over nearly two decades. David Langdon pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Court to seven sample counts of sexual assault on children aged...
Workplace Relations Commission
2026-01-30
Courts News Ireland
A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has found that a 61-year-old Tesco worker was unfairly dismissed following the loss of a €20 note at a Castlebar store in 2023. Declan Kavanagh was suspended in October 2023 pending investigation and subsequently dismissed in January...
Court of Appeal
2026-01-16
Courts News Ireland
A 33-year-old man convicted of defiling a child in County Mayo has been granted bail pending an appeal against his conviction. The man's identity is protected to safeguard the complainant. He was convicted by a majority jury verdict at Castlebar Circuit Court in July 2025...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-12-19
Courts News Ireland
A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several years. The man received six years and three...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-12-16
Courts News Ireland
At Castlebar Circuit Court, two parents have admitted to multiple counts of child cruelty following an investigation into the abuse of their six children. The case emerged after two teenagers walked into a garda station in the west of Ireland to report ongoing physical and...
High Court
2025-12-10
Courts News Ireland
A teenager has been awarded €700,000 by the High Court following the HSE's admission of liability for failures in ante-natal care at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar during 2009. The girl, now aged sixteen, sued the health authority through her mother over circumstances...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-10
Courts News Ireland
A Castlebar man has pleaded guilty to three thefts totalling over €34,000 from a Lidl supermarket in Westport during the Christmas and New Year period of 2023. Mantas Kerusauska, aged 39, admitted to stealing €11,250 on Christmas Eve, €10,700 on December 29th, and €12,300 on...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-06
Courts News Ireland
A ballet teacher from Tuam in County Galway has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for the sexual abuse of two young girls during dance classes in County Mayo. Leighton Morrison, aged 49, pleaded guilty to six...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-06
Courts News Ireland
A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the final year suspended, following a violent assault at a petrol station in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in January 2023. Tommy Sweeney, aged 23, of Castlepark, Ballybane, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm and producing...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-06
Courts News Ireland
Leighton Morrison, a 49-year-old ballet instructor from Tuam in County Galway, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment with the final twelve months suspended following his conviction for sexually abusing two young girls during dance classes in County Mayo. Morrison...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-05
Courts News Ireland
A 40-year-old woman from Ballina in County Mayo has pleaded guilty to possessing €62,000 worth of cannabis herb for sale or supply. Bernadette Muldoon, of St Patrick's estate, admitted the offence relating to drugs found at a different address on the same estate on 7 June last...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-05
Courts News Ireland
A man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for sexual offences against a woman in County Mayo. Jorge Paris, aged 62 and resident in Dublin, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and one of...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2025-11-03
Courts News Ireland
A man has admitted careless driving causing the death of a woman in her 70s at a supermarket car park in County Mayo last year. The incident occurred on June 6, 2024, at Supervalu in Westport, when a lorry struck the pedestrian in the vehicle forecourt. Mihail Tanasevici, aged...
