Cases and rulings mentioning Castleblayney from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
Court of Appeal
2026-02-20
Courts News Ireland
A 72-year-old man from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, has had his eight-year prison sentence reduced to six and a half years following a successful appeal at the Court of Appeal. The man pleaded guilty to fifteen counts of indecent assault against three of his siblings,...
Court of Appeal
2026-01-20
Courts News Ireland
A man convicted of sexually abusing three of his siblings has appealed his eight-year sentence as disproportionate. Gerry Harte, aged 72, of Tullynacrunat North, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of indecent assault against two younger sisters and a...
Court of Appeal
2025-01-17
Courts News Ireland
Niall Power, aged 51 and formerly of Riverstown, County Louth, has been granted legal aid to obtain a psychiatric assessment as he pursues an appeal against his conviction for the 2005 murder of Irene White in Dundalk. Power pleaded guilty to murder in 2019 and received a...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2025-01-14
Courts News Ireland
Two men have been convicted and jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for demanding €41,000 from a father by threatening him over debts allegedly incurred by his son. Alan Fitzsimons, aged 47, with addresses in Sutton, Dublin and Lisduff, Castleblayney, County Monaghan,...
Court of Appeal
2024-12-06
Courts News Ireland
Niall Power, aged 51 and formerly of Riverstown, County Louth, is pursuing an appeal of his murder conviction in connection with the death of Dundalk woman Irene White on 6 April 2005. Power was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2019 after pleading guilty to his role as an...
Central Criminal Court
2024-10-24
Courts News Ireland
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 and 1980s. The defendant pleaded guilty...
Court of Appeal
2024-06-10
Courts News Ireland
Niall Power, aged 51 and formerly of Riverstown, County Louth, has been pursuing an appeal against his life sentence for the murder of Irene White, a 43-year-old woman killed at her home in Dundalk on 6 April 2005. Power pleaded guilty to murder in 2019 and was described by the...
Court of Appeal
2024-03-21
Courts News Ireland
A 65-year-old man from Castleblayney Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh, has failed in his appeal against conviction and sentence for assault causing harm. The Court of Appeal dismissed both applications on 21 March 2024. The man was convicted by jury in October 2022 following a...
Court of Appeal
2024-02-01
Courts News Ireland
A man from Castleblayney Road in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, has appealed his 2022 conviction for assault causing harm following an attack on a musician neighbour near Castleblayney, County Monaghan, in November 2012. The 65-year-old was sentenced to three years imprisonment...
High Court
2023-11-01
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has granted protective orders to Bio Marine Ingredients Ireland Ltd, marking the first time such relief has been awarded to a company undergoing the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process. Justice Michael Quinn made the orders on Wednesday, preventing...
Court of Appeal
2023-02-28
Courts News Ireland
A former All-Ireland club medallist has exhausted his legal challenge against conviction for his involvement in an orchestrated cross-border ATM theft operation spanning 2018 and 2019. Daniel O'Callaghan, aged 33 and formerly of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, was sentenced to ten...
Court of Appeal
2022-12-21
Courts News Ireland
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 person has accumulated at least two...
Court of Appeal
2022-11-11
Courts News Ireland
Gerard Duffy, 32, of County Monaghan, has failed in his appeal against an eight-year and nine-month custodial sentence imposed for his role in a cross-border organised crime gang that systematically targeted automated teller machines across the border region. The Court of...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2022-11-08
Courts News Ireland
A man from Castleblayney Road, Crossmaglen, Armagh has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a brutal assault on his musician neighbour in November 2012. Eugene Hanratty Snr, aged 63, was convicted by jury following trial of assault...
Special Criminal Court
2022-11-04
Courts News Ireland
James Flynn, a 31-year-old from Newry in Northern Ireland, was refused bail at the Special Criminal Court on Friday following his extradition from the United Kingdom. He faces charges relating to the January 2013 robbery of Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, County Louth,...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2022-11-02
Courts News Ireland
Eugene Hanratty Senior, aged 63, of Castleblayney Road, Crossmaglen, Armagh, was convicted by jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following trial of assault causing harm committed at Castleblayney, County Monaghan on 24 November 2012. The victim, a musician, delivered a...
Court of Appeal
2022-07-26
Courts News Ireland
The Court of Appeal heard argument on whether the law mandates a driving ban for those convicted of careless driving causing death as a first offence. Colleen McCann, aged 27 with an address at Drumacon, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, was given a 12-month fully suspended sentence...
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-07
Courts News Ireland
Daniel O'Callaghan, a 32-year-old former All-Ireland club medallist from Crossmaglen in County Armagh, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for his involvement in a systematic cross-border ATM theft operation. Justice Tara Burns imposed the...
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-04
Courts News Ireland
A man has been convicted at the Special Criminal Court following a trial relating to a series of ATM robberies across the border region. Daniel O'Callaghan, aged 31, of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, was found guilty on sixteen counts concerning thefts and attempted thefts at...
Special Criminal Court
2022-03-04
Courts News Ireland
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 Greagh, Loughnamore, received eight years and...