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Castlerea · November 16, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Jury continue deliberations in Garda Colm Horkan murder trial

The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, a 46-year-old motorbike mechanic from Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, continued deliberations at the Central...

Foxford · November 15, 2022

Jury deliberating in Detective Garda Colm Horkan murder trial

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberating in the trial of Stephen Silver, aged 46, from Aughaward, Foxford, County Mayo, who is charged with...

Inniskeen · November 15, 2022 Also covered in Kingscourt

Family of UDR man murdered by IRA granted access to court file

The President of the High Court has ordered that the family of Corporal James Elliott, a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment member murdered by the Provisional...

Donegal · November 14, 2022

Gardai believed IRA firearms and explosives were being stored at ex-SF councillor's home

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Inspector Padraig Boyce told the trial of Gerard Hutch, charged with the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne...

Virginia · November 11, 2022 Also covered in Ballybay, Carrickmacross, Castleblayney

Member of notorious cross-border ATM theft gang fails in appeal

A member of a cross-border organised crime gang has failed in his appeal against a custodial sentence imposed for attempted ATM theft. Gerard Duffy, 32, of...

Claremorris · November 11, 2022

Solicitor jailed for stealing over €200k from clients

A former solicitor from Claremorris, County Mayo, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for stealing over €200,000...

Castlerea · November 10, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

'This is not trial by expert, this is trial by jury', judge charges

At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul McDermott has instructed the jury in the trial of Stephen Silver to apply common sense when evaluating...

Convoy · November 10, 2022

Court hears evidence of 'intergenerational' Hutch Criminal Organisation for first time

A senior garda has given evidence to the Special Criminal Court describing the structure and operations of the "Hutch Criminal Organisation" in proceedings...

Convoy · November 09, 2022

Jeep belonging to Regency accused had 'fresh valet smell', garda tells trial

A garda has given evidence at the Special Criminal Court trial of three men accused of involvement in the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the...

Castlerea · November 09, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

'Unsafe' to convict garda murder accused, defence tell jury

At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel for Stephen Silver argued it would be unsafe to convict him of the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan,...

Castlerea · November 09, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Lawyer questions whether prosecution have proven Detective Garda Colm Horkan was a garda

At the Central Criminal Court, counsel for Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, has questioned whether the prosecution has...

Roscommon · November 08, 2022

Pair jailed for roles in violent robbery of sex worker

Two men have been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for their roles in a violent robbery at a hotel in Swords in November 2019. Ioan Galben, aged 40,...

Convoy · November 08, 2022

Regency murder accused seeks to have garda interviews ruled inadmissible

A man accused of facilitating the murder of a Kinahan Cartel member at the Regency Hotel in Dublin has challenged the admissibility of garda interviews...

Castleblayney · November 08, 2022

Three years for brutal attack on musician left with 'no escape from torture'

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...

Castlerea · November 08, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Garda murder accused gave 'shifting accounts' of shooting, prosecution tell jury

A man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan gave inconsistent accounts of the shooting in the immediate aftermath and during garda interviews, a...

Castlerea · November 08, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Murder accused 'filled with a burning anger' towards gardai, prosecution say

Stephen Silver, a forty-six-year-old motorbike mechanic from Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering...

Longford · November 07, 2022

Rape victim's trust 'breached in a most frightening way'

A Longford man has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment, with the final eighteen months suspended, following his conviction for rape at the Central...

Convoy · November 07, 2022

Regency accused told gardai he got invite from boxer Macklin, trial hears

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, a man accused of participating in the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 told gardaí he...

Castlerea · November 07, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Garda murder accused was not psychotic at time of shooting, psychiatrist tells trial

The Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver, who denies murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan, heard closing arguments are immencing. A prosecution...

Convoy · November 07, 2022

Taxi driver suspected of driving away Regency gunman, trial hears

At the Special Criminal Court, garda witnesses detailed their investigation into the February 2016 murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin....

Mayo · November 07, 2022

Enoch Burke's criticism of judges 'scurrilous' and 'utterly without merit', High Court judge says

A High Court judge has firmly rejected criticisms levelled by imprisoned teacher Enoch Burke against members of the judiciary, describing such allegations as...

Cavan · November 04, 2022

Man jailed for perverting investigation into dissident murder says he was unlawfully detained

A man convicted of perverting the course of justice in connection with a 2013 dissident Republican murder has appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal....

Castlerea · November 04, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Sister of garda murder accused planned to admit him, trial hears

A man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan became severely mentally unwell the day before the shooting and his sister planned to have him admitted...

Castleblayney · November 04, 2022

'The boys are gone, you will never get them', gardai investigating Adrian Donohoe murder were told

James Flynn, aged 31, of Raven's Glen in Newry, Northern Ireland, was refused bail at the Special Criminal Court on Friday following his recent extradition...

Convoy · November 03, 2022

Regency accused told gardai taxi could have been 'cloned'

A man accused of facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 told gardaí that his taxi could have been "cloned", the Special...

Monaghan · November 03, 2022

Notorious sex offender Paget attacked garda after high speed chase

A man with previous convictions for aggravated sexual assault pleaded guilty to vehicle theft, dangerous driving, and assault causing harm following events in...

Boyle · November 03, 2022 Also covered in Claremorris, Geevagh

Drunk driver who left cyclists with life-changing injuries wins unfair dismissal claim

A man imprisoned for dangerous driving that caused serious injury to two cyclists has successfully challenged his dismissal from Irish Rail at the Workplace...

Castlerea · November 03, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Murder accused enacted 'personal dramas involving confrontation with gardai', psychiatrist tells trial

At the Central Criminal Court, a consultant psychiatrist has disputed evidence that a murder accused's responsibility was diminished due to mental illness....

Donegal · November 02, 2022

Hutch defence team want to know if there was illegal use of tracker device

Gerard Hutch's defence team have raised concerns at the Special Criminal Court about whether gardaí deployed a tracker device on a vehicle belonging to former...

Castlerea · November 02, 2022 Also covered in Foxford

Garda murder accused's responsibility diminished by mental illness, psychiatrist tells trial

A consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that a man accused of murdering Detective Garda Colm Horkan was suffering from bipolar affective...

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