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Monaghan · May 12, 2023

'Your father said you are to give me €10,000'; psychic goes on trial accused of deception

A woman has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of dishonestly by deception after being accused of telling siblings that their...

Monaghan · May 12, 2023

Custom House Capital execs jailed over €61m investor fraud conspiracy

Four senior executives of investment firm Custom House Capital have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their convictions in a fraud...

Convoy · May 10, 2023

Monk's bid to recoup Regency legal costs runs into scheduling difficulty

Scheduling difficulties have delayed a bid by Gerard Hutch to recover his legal costs following his acquittal last month on a murder charge at the Special...

Monaghan · May 10, 2023

200 victim impact statements to be read out in sentencing of Custom House Capital fraud conspirators

Four men were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following their guilty pleas in connection with a significant investment fraud at Custom House...

Ballina · May 09, 2023

Mobster directed 20-strong West of Ireland gang

A 38-year-old Sligo man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a 20-member criminal organisation that operated across the northwest...

Boyle · May 08, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Strokestown accused told gardai he organised people to 'take back the house peacefully'

A 56-year-old man from Boyle, Co Roscommon has told gardaí that he organised approximately 30 men to travel to a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown on 16...

Convoy · May 08, 2023

Monk to seek legal costs from the State

Gerard Hutch, who was acquitted last month by the Special Criminal Court of murdering Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, has applied to...

Carrickmacross · May 08, 2023

Court orders winding-up of Monaghan hotel company

The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Nuremore Hotel Management Ltd, the company responsible for operating the Nuremore Hotel and country club in...

Bundoran · May 05, 2023

Bray Boxing Club murder accused in custody for five years, without new trial date

A man accused of murdering Bobby Messett and attempting to murder boxing coach Pete Taylor during a shooting at Bray Boxing Club in June 2018 has applied for...

Boyle · May 05, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Convoy, Ramelton

Strokestown accused told gardai he was asleep at home on night of attack

A man accused of participating in an attack on security personnel at a repossessed farm in County Roscommon has told gardaí he was asleep at his home on the...

Boyle · May 04, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Sergeant tells trial that reasonable force was used to remove family from repossessed farm

A garda sergeant has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that reasonable force was employed by security personnel during the removal of occupants from...

Boyle · May 02, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Detective tells Strokestown eviction case he didn't believe body-cam clip was relevant

A garda detective has given evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the trial of four men charged in connection with an alleged attack on security...

Convoy · April 28, 2023

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson in bid to overturn murder conviction

A man from Dublin has launched an appeal against his life sentence for the 2016 murder of a business owner in the capital. The defendant, aged 42, was...

Boyle · April 28, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Elphin, Ramelton

Journalist refused to give information on source, Strokestown repossession trial hears

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a jury heard that a journalist who filmed burning vehicles during an alleged attack on a repossessed farm near Strokestown,...

Convoy · April 27, 2023

Two sentenced for roles in unexplained murder of dad with "Heart of Gold"

Two men have been sentenced to a combined total of sixteen-and-a-half years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for facilitating a criminal...

Boyle · April 27, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Senior garda denies failures over Strokestown house repossession

A garda superintendent has firmly rejected suggestions that policing failures contributed to a violent incident at a repossessed house near Strokestown,...

Sligo · April 26, 2023

Psychiatric assessment for man charged with two murders and attempted murder

A 22-year-old man charged with two murders and an attempted murder in Sligo has received a psychiatric assessment, the Central Criminal Court heard this week....

Boyle · April 26, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Security guard alleges he was struck with bat and cut with blade at repossessed house

A security guard gave evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a violent attack at a repossessed property in Strokestown, County Roscommon, on 16 December...

Mayo · April 25, 2023

Architect of 'barbaric' attack on businessman fails in bid to overturn conviction

William Twomey, with an address in Warrenpoint, County Down, has failed in his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal in relation to an attack on a...

Convoy · April 21, 2023

Spotter for 'murder gang' who gunned down Eamon Kelly seeks to overturn conviction

A man convicted of murder as a spotter for a gang that killed a prominent Dublin criminal has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal. Darren Murphy...

Ballinode · April 21, 2023

CHC investor fraud did more damage to woman's life than WW2, court hears as 197 victims give statements

Four men pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to their roles in a fraud scheme targeting investors in Custom House Capital Ltd between October 2008...

Strokestown · April 20, 2023 Also covered in Boyle, Claremorris, Ramelton

Strokestown eviction accused said he never saw gun

A 58-year-old man from County Mayo has told gardaí he was not present at a December 2018 incident at a repossessed farm near Strokestown, County Roscommon,...

Castlerea · April 19, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

'No forgiveness': Silver to serve 40 years for murder of Garda Colm Horkan

Stephen Silver, aged 46 and a resident of Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years at the...

Boyle · April 19, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Builder denied he was man with chainsaw during farm eviction attack

A 44-year-old builder from County Donegal is on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of participating in an armed attack on security personnel at a...

Monaghan · April 18, 2023

Mum tells court she wonders if Jasmine McMonagle called out for family as she was beaten to death

At the Central Criminal Court in Monaghan, victim impact statements were heard in the case of Richard Burke, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Jasmine...

Strokestown · April 18, 2023 Also covered in Boyle, Claremorris, Convoy

Strokestown eviction accused told gardai that courts enforced 'pirate law, the law of the sea'

Martin O'Toole, aged 58, of Stripe, Irishtown, Claremorris, County Mayo, stands trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges including false...

Boyle · April 17, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

'Remember, you could be next': Roscommon eviction trial hears of WhatsApp messages

Four men accused of participating in an armed attack on security personnel at a rural property near Strokestown have pleaded not guilty to 17 charges each at...

Convoy · April 17, 2023

Pair guilty of acting as getaway drivers for Regency Hotel hitmen

Two men have been found guilty at the Special Criminal Court of providing getaway vehicles during the 2016 Regency Hotel attack in Dublin, in which Kinahan...

Convoy · April 17, 2023

Dad of five gunned down at mother's house was due to return to UK

Thomas McCarthy, a fifty-five-year-old father of five, was shot dead at his mother's home in Ballyfermot, Dublin, on 27 July 2020, having been due to return...

Convoy · April 17, 2023

'The Hutch gang cannot be equated with Gerard Hutch': the Regency Hotel trial in full

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, detailed evidence emerged concerning the February 2016 Regency Hotel shooting, which claimed the life of David Byrne...

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