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Carrick-On-Shannon · November 09, 2023

Senior BOI official rejects Michael Lynn's defence on loans as 'fairytale'

Michael Lynn, a 55-year-old from County Wicklow, is on trial in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of stealing approximately €27 million from seven...

Castlebar · November 08, 2023 Also covered in Westport

Jury shown knife husband said he used to kill wife

At the Central Criminal Court, a jury has been presented with a bloodied and severely bent knife in connection with the death of Valerie French Kilroy at her...

Westport · November 07, 2023

Jury sworn-in for Valerie French Kilroy murder trial

A jury of seven women and five men has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a man charged with the murder of his wife in County Mayo....

Castleblayney · November 01, 2023

High Court grants protection to SCARP firm for first time

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...

Ballina · October 31, 2023

Senior employee at 'Rosary Priest' centre secures injunction

A senior employee at a spiritual centre dedicated to the late Fr Patrick Peyton has obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing his employer from...

Cavan · October 31, 2023

Notorious tiger kidnapper Paschal Kelly to remain in jail after appeal fails

Paschal Kelly, aged 57, has failed in his appeal against conviction for a €92,000 post office robbery committed in September 2014. The Court of Appeal...

Cavan · October 24, 2023

Double murder accused Ruth Lawrence to stand trial next year

Ruth Lawrence, a 42-year-old Dublin woman extradited from South Africa, will stand trial at the Central Criminal Court on October 7, 2024, on charges of...

Longford · October 24, 2023

Enterprise Ireland told start-up they 'didn’t have enough diversity', founders allege

Three founders of a Longford-based start-up have brought discrimination complaints against Enterprise Ireland at the Workplace Relations Commission, alleging...

Sligo · October 23, 2023

'Obsessed' double murderer Palani told gardai he would have continued to kill

Yousef Palani, aged 23, appeared at the Central Criminal Court for sentencing following guilty pleas to two murders in Sligo in April 2022. Palani admitted to...

Sligo · October 23, 2023

'Unspeakable violence': Serial Killer Palani jailed for life

At the Central Criminal Court on 23 October 2023, Yousef Palani, aged 23, from Markievicz Heights in Sligo, was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for...

Granard · October 20, 2023

Inmate further jailed for attack on officer in women's prison

A 39-year-old woman from Granard, County Longford, has been sentenced to twelve months in prison following an assault on a prison officer at the Dochas Centre...

Donegal Town · October 20, 2023

Teacher guilty of abusing her male student in 1980s

A woman has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy in the 1980s following a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Jacintha McSherry...

Longford · October 20, 2023

Pair jailed over rape and sex assault of woman in van launch appeals over incorrect phone evidence

Two men from County Longford have appealed their convictions for rape and sexual assault at the Court of Appeal following issues with phone evidence presented...

Donegal Town · October 19, 2023

Jury to continue deliberating in trial of teacher accused of abusing her male student

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court will resume deliberations tomorrow in the trial of a teacher accused of indecently assaulting a male student decades...

Monaghan · October 18, 2023

Stardust worker tells inquest that doors were 'always locked'

At the ongoing inquest into the Stardust nightclub fire of February 1981, witnesses have testified that emergency exit doors were secured with chains and...

Donegal Town · October 18, 2023

Jury continue deliberations in trial of teacher accused of abusing her male student

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has continued deliberations in the trial of a Donegal woman accused of indecently assaulting a male student nearly four...

Donegal Town · October 17, 2023

'A case where danger lurks': closing speeches in trial of teacher accused of abusing her male student

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a teacher accused of indecently assaulting a male student nearly four...

Longford · October 16, 2023

Teacher who groomed and repeatedly raped teenager gets 8 years

A man aged 54 from Erry, Clara, County Offaly, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment following his conviction on charges of sexually abusing a...

Donegal Town · October 16, 2023

Teacher takes stand and tells jury she never abused child

A teacher from Donegal Town has denied charges of indecent assault against a male student alleged to have occurred nearly four decades ago. The 63-year-old...

Carrick-On-Shannon · October 16, 2023 Also covered in Westport

Terminally ill man and trainee priest brother jailed for rape of young cousin

Two brothers have been sentenced to a combined seven years imprisonment following their conviction for the sexual abuse of their cousin over a four-year...

Donegal Town · October 13, 2023

Teacher told gardai that student fantasised about her, trial hears

A 63-year-old teacher from Donegal Town has pleaded not guilty to two counts of indecently assaulting a male student in 1985 when she was a trainee educator...

Strokestown · October 12, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris

Court rejects inquiry into detention of jailed Strokestown eviction vigilante

The High Court has dismissed an application for an inquiry into the detention of a Mayo farmer convicted in connection with a vigilante attack on security...

Donegal Town · October 12, 2023

Teacher goes on trial accused of abusing boy in 1980s

A former English teacher has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with indecently assaulting a pupil during the 1980s. Jacintha McSherry...

Convoy · October 09, 2023

'Christmas present' pair jailed after €2.3m in cannabis found hidden under frozen chicken

Two men have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their arrest with cannabis worth €2.3 million concealed...

Mayo · October 03, 2023

Enoch Burke to remain in prison as family members again removed from court

Teacher Enoch Burke will remain in Mountjoy Prison after refusing to comply with a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in County Mayo. Mr...

Carrick-On-Shannon · October 01, 2023 Also covered in Mohill, Ballinamore, Manorhamilton

Love Where You Live 2025 awards ceremony at Lough Rynn Castle tonight

Leitrim PPN and the council celebrate community groups making a difference across the county. Winners announced tonight (Thursday 2 Oct) at Lough Rynn Castle...

Monaghan · September 11, 2023

Special Criminal Court convicts Armagh man of conspiracy to seal car allegedly used in Lordship robbery

The Special Criminal Court has convicted James Flynn, an Armagh man, of conspiring with garda killer Aaron Brady to steal a Volkswagen Passat on 22 and 23...

Convoy · September 11, 2023

Two men cleared of notorious Lordship Credit Union robbery

Two men have been acquitted of robbery in connection with the 2013 Lordship Credit Union heist in Bellurgan, County Louth, during which Detective Garda Adrian...

Mayo · August 04, 2023

Veteran Murder Squad detective denied cold case killer had head immersed in body parts

A retired detective sergeant from the Garda Technical Bureau has denied allegations made by Noel Long, convicted in connection with a 1981 murder in Cork. The...

Donegal · August 01, 2023

Evidence points to 'inescapable conclusion' of 1981 murder accused's guilt, prosecution say

At the Central Criminal Court, prosecutors have submitted that forensic evidence in a cold case murder trial points inescapably to the guilt of the accused....

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