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Cavan · March 15, 2023

Bus driver avoids jail for careless driving causing death of cyclist

A man has received a fully suspended one-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for careless driving causing the death of a cyclist. Mariusz...

Castlerea · March 15, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Jury finds Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder after two trials

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found Stephen Silver guilty of capital murder following a retrial. Silver, aged 46, a mechanic from Aughaward,...

Charlestown · March 15, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

'Learned Impunity': the trial of garda murderer Stephen Silver

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has convicted Stephen Silver of the capital murder of Garda Colm Horkan in Castlerea, County Roscommon, on 17 June 2020....

Swinford · March 15, 2023

Couple secure injunction preventing receiver's proposed sale of house

A businessman and his wife from Lisheenbrawn, Swinford, County Mayo, have obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing a mortgage company and a...

Castlebar · March 14, 2023 Also covered in Westport

Airbnb guest was staying at Valerie French Kilroy's home when she was killed by husband, trial hears

A man charged with murdering his wife in County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. James Kilroy, aged 49, of...

Boyle · March 14, 2023 Also covered in Claremorris, Ramelton, Strokestown

Security guard tells trial of being attacked at Strokestown repossession farm

A security guard giving evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has described being attacked during a repossession at a rural property near Strokestown,...

Castlerea · March 14, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Jury to continue deliberating in Garda Colm Horkan murder trial

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of Stephen Silver continues deliberations in the case concerning the death of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea,...

Castlebar · March 14, 2023

Ammi Burke gets date for High Court challenge against Arthur Cox dismissal

A solicitor from Castlebar, Co Mayo is pursuing a High Court judicial review challenge against a Workplace Relations Commission decision rejecting her unfair...

Ballyshannon · March 14, 2023

Department store ordered to pay worker discriminated against due to post natal depression

The Workplace Relations Commission has ordered Edward Slevin & Co Ltd, trading as Slevins Department Store in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, to pay €5,500 in...

Castlerea · March 13, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

'This is not trial by expert, this is trial by jury': garda murder trial jury begin deliberations

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has begun deliberations in the trial of Stephen Silver, charged with the murder of Garda Colm Horkan at Castlerea, County...

Strokestown · March 13, 2023 Also covered in Boyle, Claremorris, Convoy

'Like something out of the wild west', defence say of Strokestown eviction

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard testimony on 13 March 2023 in the trial of four men charged in connection with an attack on a repossessed farm near...

Monaghan · March 13, 2023

Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin admits to money laundering for crime gang

A man has pleaded guilty to money laundering before the Special Criminal Court following his extradition from Spain. Gerard Mackin (40), originally from west...

Westport · March 10, 2023

Mum died of strangulation, blunt force trauma and stab wound to neck, pathologist tells trial

At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, the Chief State Pathologist provided evidence that a woman from Westport, County Mayo, died from ligature...

Castlerea · March 10, 2023

'No rational basis or motivation' for shooting garda, defence tell murder trial jury

At the Central Criminal Court, defence counsel Dominic McGinn SC argued during closing submissions that Stephen Silver's shooting of Garda Colm Horkan at...

Castlebar · March 10, 2023 Also covered in Westport

Murder accused said he 'waited in long grass' for wife before 'dark and frenzied attack'

At the Central Criminal Court, a murder trial heard that James Kilroy, aged 49, a park ranger from Kilbree Lower, Westport, County Mayo, described to gardai...

Sligo · March 10, 2023

Man admits to directing criminal gang

A 37-year-old man from Sligo has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing a criminal organisation. Barry Young, with an address in Cranmore,...

Castlerea · March 09, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Murder accused had 'seething resentment' toward gardai, prosecution tell jury

Stephen Silver, aged 46 of Aughavard, Foxford, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...

Westport · March 09, 2023

Child of mother killed in rural home requested coco pops after gardai found body, trial hears

A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning the death of a forty-one-year-old occupational therapist discovered in a campervan...

Westport · March 08, 2023 Also covered in Castlebar

Valerie French Kilroy trial: accused described to gardai how he killed wife

James Kilroy, aged 49, of Kilbree Lower, Westport, County Mayo, stands trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of Valerie French Kilroy at...

Castlerea · March 08, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Garda murder accused 'an unreliable historian' of his mental health, psychiatrist tells trial

A consultant psychiatrist has given evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan at...

Westport · March 08, 2023 Also covered in Castlebar

Valerie French Kilroy's husband found naked in field after killing her, jury hears

A 49-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his wife at their rural home near Westport, County Mayo, the Central Criminal...

Mayo · March 08, 2023

Jail for man who abducted daughter, prompting nationwide alert

A 33-year-old man from County Mayo has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment following his abduction of his two-year-old daughter from a health...

Ballinode · March 08, 2023

Senior Custom House Capital execs get date for sentencing hearing

Four senior executives of Custom House Capital pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to conspiracy to defraud investors during the period between...

Mayo · March 07, 2023

Chaotic scenes as Burkes physically removed from failed appeal hearing

Chaotic scenes erupted at the Court of Appeal on 7 March when members of the Burke family were physically removed from the courtroom during the dismissal of...

Castlebar · March 07, 2023 Also covered in Castlerea, Foxford

Garda murder accused was 'outraged' at being detained because of 'learned impunity', psychiatrist tells trial

A consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court that Stephen Silver, who stands accused of murdering Garda Colm Horkan with the officer's own...

Knock · March 06, 2023

12.5 years for psychiatric nurse who repeatedly raped wife and abused daughter

At the Central Criminal Court, Martin Doyle, aged 53, of Esker, Knock, County Mayo, was convicted following trial of two counts of rape and 25 counts of...

Westport · March 06, 2023 Also covered in Castlebar

Husband goes on trial accused of Valerie French Kilroy murder

A 49-year-old man from Westport, County Mayo has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court. James...

Castlerea · March 06, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Garda murder accused's sister planned to have him admitted to hospital on day before shooting

At the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a murder trial heard evidence concerning Stephen Silver's mental state in the hours before the fatal shooting of...

Donegal · March 06, 2023

Donegal man who sexually assaulted partner while she slept is given suspended sentence

A Donegal man has received a fully suspended sentence following his conviction for sexually assaulting his partner while she slept at their family home in...

Monaghan · March 03, 2023

Planning Board concedes as permission for agri-food plant is quashed

An Bord Pleanála has conceded a High Court challenge to its decision permitting Abbott Ireland to extend its manufacturing facility near Dromore, Co Monaghan....

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