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Lack · June 28, 2021

High level member of transnational crime gang had €350k in cash and Rolexes

(Pictured: Jason Reed. Credit: Collins) A high level member of a transnational crime gang who was targeted by gardai will be sentenced next month after he was...

Convoy · June 28, 2021

DPP challenges declaration that IRA conviction was miscarriage of justice

A High Court challenge has been brought by the DPP against the Special Criminal Court's decision that a man’s conviction for IRA membership was a miscarriage...

Carrickmacross · June 25, 2021

Brother describes agony of standing 'helplessly' outside home where pensioner 'burned to death'

The brother of a "trusting, gentle" and vulnerable pensioner, who was killed after a teenager with an intellectual disability set fire to his home in Co...

Lack · June 24, 2021

Home was 'chaotic', support worker tells Munster abuse trial

By Sonya McLean and Fiona Ferguson A family support worker has told a jury of her observations during visits to the home of children who were allegedly abused...

Lack · June 23, 2021

DPP seeks order quashing judge's direction in child abuse imagery case

The Director of Public Prosecutions has brought a High Court challenge against a judge's direction that a copy of a hard drive allegedly containing thousands...

Ballinagh · June 23, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Lunney trial hears from witnesses who made CCTV available to gardai

Lawyers defending four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney are challenging CCTV evidence gathered by...

Ballinagh · June 22, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Lunney trial hears of alleged 'preparatory' trip

One of the men accused of assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney allegedly visited a garda station before making what the State argues was...

Convoy · June 21, 2021

Kinahan cartel believed 'Mago' Gately was involved in Regency attack, court hears

Criminals who attempted to murder James Mago' Gately believed he was involved in the attack at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 in which Kinahan gang member...

Ballinagh · June 21, 2021 Also covered in Springfield

Man who disrupted dissident murder investigation should not be jailed, defence say

Lawyers for a man who had arranged to meet dissident republican Peter Butterly at the scene of his "execution-type" murder and was found guilty of disrupting...

Ballinagh · June 21, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Lunney trial court views CCTV footage

The Special Criminal Court has been watching CCTV footage compiled by gardai during the investigation of the abduction and assault on Quinn Industrial...

Ballinagh · June 18, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Sergeant mediated between local gardai and Lunney accused, trial hears

One of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney asked gardai to leave his family alone after one of his...

Rathmullan · June 18, 2021

Mulready-Woods murder accused served with non-jury court trial notice

Two men charged with murdering 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods in Drogheda have been served with a notice that their trials will go ahead in the Special...

Monaghan · June 17, 2021

Pair avoid jail for assisting offender in 'far more serious criminal enterprise'

Two men who assisted another man's attempts to evade arrest by gardaí have received fully suspended sentences. Derek Mitchell (27) and Patrick Macken (34)...

Carney · June 17, 2021

Notorious child rapist Rossi Walsh argues media coverage cost him fair trial

(File Picture: Stephen Rossi' Walsh. Credit: Collins) Notorious Dublin criminal and child rapist Stephen Rossi' Walsh has appealed his conviction for indecent...

Ballinagh · June 17, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

State says number used to book Las Vegas holiday is linked to Lunney accused

(Pictured: Accused Mr Darren Redmond. Credit: Collins) Lawyers for Darren Redmond, one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial...

Lack · June 16, 2021

Grow-house gardener jailed as judge says 'message needs to be sent out'

By Fiachra Gallagher A grow-house gardener who was paid up to €1,000 a month to live in a house used to grow cannabis has been jailed for three years. Sarunas...

Lanesborough · June 16, 2021

High Court quashes planning permission for large-scale wind farm

(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...

Lack · June 15, 2021

Sister tells killer's sentencing that brother 'had more stab wounds than his age'

The sister of a fisherman whose life was "so brutally and viciously robbed" after a row over missing crack cocaine has said that her 37-year-old brother had...

Ballinagh · June 15, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

'It would be nice' if EU courts gave structure on accessing phone data, Lunney judge says

(Pictured: Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Credit: Collins) A judge presiding in the trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings...

Ballinagh · June 14, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Mass data retention is not unlawful, State argue in Lunney trial

(Pictured: Prosecution Counsel Mr Sean Guerin SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers for the State have told the Special Criminal Court that gardai were entitled to use...

Rathmullan · June 11, 2021

Keane Mulready-Woods murder accused to stand trial at non-jury court

Two men charged with murdering 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods in Drogheda will go on trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court following an application...

Ballinagh · June 11, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Gardai breaking law for 'years and years' by seizing phone data, Lunney trial told

(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Gardai have repeatedly broken the law by accessing illegally retained mobile phone data,...

Longford · June 10, 2021

Date set for man accused of murdering boxing champ

A date has been set for the Central Criminal Court trial of a British man accused of murdering an Irish boxing champion in a hit and run. Logan Jackson (31)...

Westport · June 10, 2021

Husband of Valerie French Kilroy to strand trial for murder

A husband accused of murdering his wife in Mayo in 2019 will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court in October. James Kilroy (47) of Kilbree Lower,...

Donegal · June 10, 2021

Man appeals IRA conviction after threat to shoot accident victim

A Dubliner has appealed against his conviction for IRA membership, following a threat to shoot an accident victim if he did not withdraw a claim. Ciaran...

Ballinagh · June 10, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

'Day of reckoning': defence in Lunney trial criticises government inaction of data law

(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) A barrister representing one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn...

Lack · June 09, 2021

'Embarrassment' over lack of money to socialise saw young man become money mule

A young man who acted as a money mule as part of a fraud in which €23,000 was laundered through his account has received a fully suspended sentence. Aaron...

Lack · June 09, 2021

Taxi driver avoids jail for sexually assaulting passenger

A taxi driver who sexually assaulted a passenger as she was collecting her bag from the car has been given a suspended sentence. Father of four, Kusika Kudia...

Lack · June 09, 2021

'Close run thing' as veteran chef avoids jail for tax evasion

by Stephen Bourke A chef and former restaurateur who represented Irish produce at international trade shows has avoided jail for tax evasion. Eamonn Walsh...

Ballinagh · June 09, 2021 Also covered in Kilcogy

Lawyers to argue admissibility of phone evidence in Lunney trial

(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers will this afternoon outline why they say mobile phone evidence should not be used...

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