Six-month jail sentence for taxi driver who sexually assaulted young passenger
(Pictured: Augustin Ion. Credit: Collins) A taxi driver who sexually assaulted a young passenger and then “maligned” her character by claiming she was drunk...
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Louth man to be sentenced for bomb possession
A Louth man who was caught making a bomb in his shed will be sentenced next month at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. Last month, after a 21-day trial,...
Garda recited Act of Contrition for dissident republican he found with massive gunshot injuries, murder trial hears
A member of the Garda National Surveillance Unit has given evidence of reciting the Act of Contrition to dissident republican Peter Butterly, after finding...
Solicitor jailed for stealing €260k from clients has prison sentence halved on appeal
(Pictured: Jacqueline Durcan. Credit: Collins) A former solicitor jailed for stealing €260,000 from clients has had her 12 month prison sentence halved on...
Jail for man over violent disorder in bookies
A man who was involved in the stabbing of a customer in a bookies has been given a four year sentence. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the victim was...
Man with multiple driving bans is jailed over reckless collision
By Declan Brennan and Fiona Ferguson A man whose 57 previous convictions for road traffic offences include multiple driving bans has been given a three and a...
Public excluded from court as gardai give evidence anonymously in murder trial
The public was excluded from a Special Criminal Court murder trial today, while members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit gave evidence anonymously. The...
Peter Butterly died of multiple gunshot wounds, trial hears
The Special Criminal Court has heard that dissident republican Peter Butterly died of multiple gunshot wounds in a Meath car park almost four years ago....
Schoolboys witnessed gun attack, Peter Butterly murder trial hears
A student on his way home from school saw one man raise his arm and shoot another man as he waited at his bus-stop, the trial of two men charged with...
Senior insurance official is jailed over €220k fraud after DPP appeal
A senior claims official who defrauded her employer of €220,000 over six years has been sent to jail on foot of an appeal by prosecutors. Naila Zaffer (38),...
Youth worker caught with cocaine in his underwear avoids jail
A community youth worker who was caught with over €17,000-worth of cocaine, including some down his underwear, has avoided jail after a judge found it was an...
Alleged prostitution trafficking victim underwent "voodoo process", jury hears
A woman accused of trafficking a young Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her into prostitution has gone on trial in Dublin. The victim allegedly...
Gardai to give evidence anonymously with public excluded from court at non-jury trial
The Special Criminal Court has ruled that evidence from eleven members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit in the retrial of two men accused of the murder...
Alleged burglar may have escaped Circuit Court trial had he not "skipped the country”
An alleged burglar who “scarpered” and “skipped the country” faces trial in a higher court than originally indicated following failed legal proceedings....
Non-jury court to rule on whether gardai can give evidence anonymously and with public excluded from court
The Special Criminal Court will rule tomorrow on a prosecution application that evidence from eleven members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit in the...
Gunman's car was under garda surveillance, Peter Butterly murder trial hears
A man was gunned down in the car park of a pub in Co Meath shortly before surveillance gardai intercepted the car and gunman, the Special Criminal Court was...
Killer's lawyers ask for sentence of no more than four years
A defence barrister asked for her client to be handed a sentence of no more than four years after he was convicted of stabbing a man to death during a row...
Warrant issued as murder accused fails to show up at trial
One of three men facing trial for the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly almost four years ago failed to appear at the Special Criminal Court in...
Former solicitor appeals 12-month jail sentence for stealing €260k from clients
(Pictured: Jacqueline Durcan. Credit: Collins) A former solicitor jailed for stealing €260,000 from her clients must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal...
Leitrim man jailed for rape and sexual abuse of boy
A Leitrim man who sexually abused a boy in his community while calling him “a dirty little queer” has been jailed for eight years. Damien Reilly (39) was 17...
Drug Mule has balance of sentence suspended on condition she leave Ireland
A “drug mule” who attempted to transport an illegal substance from Kenya to Scotland via Dublin has had the balance of her sentence suspended on condition...
Murder conviction for escalated punishment shooting upheld
A man who agreed to assist in a dissident Republican's punishment shooting or knee-capping which, unknown to him, was to be a “deliberate execution from the...
Man convicted of kidnapping mother of his children
A man has been convicted of kidnapping the mother of his children in Longford after she obtained a barring order again him. A Central Criminal Court jury...
Pair raided GAA club, tied up manager and patron on semi-final night
Two men who broke into a Dublin GAA club on semi-finals night, tied up the bar manager and a patron and made off with over €7,500 have been jailed for...
Appeal lawyer accuses DPP of "ambushing" murder accused and "offering" manslaughter pleas
The Director of Public Prosecutions has been accused of ambushing a man on trial for murder and “offering” pleas of manslaughter to his co-accused after...
Jury begins deliberating in trial of man accused of raping former partner
A judge has told the jury in the trial of a man accused of raping his former partner after kidnapping her that an honest, though unreasonable, belief that the...
Alleged rape and kidnap victim did not appear distressed, witness tells trial
A Longford woman who was allegedly kidnapped and raped by her former partner did not appear upset or distressed at the time, a witness has told a jury. The...
Man who stabbed mother to death is committed to Central Mental Hospital
A 32-year-old man who stabbed his retired psychiatrist mother to death with a kitchen knife and was found not guilty of her murder by reason of insanity, has...
Man who put explosive on bus and made bomb threats during Queen's visit is jailed for 8.5 years
(Pictured: Donal Billings. Credit: Collins) A man who put an incendiary device on a Dublin-bound passenger bus and made bomb threats during the State visit of...
"Drug mule" to be sentenced over khat importation
By Liz Farsaci A “drug mule” who attempted to transport an illegal substance from Kenya to Scotland via Dublin will be sentenced next week. Revenue officers...
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