Jury deliberating in trial of three accused of raping then-teenage girl
By Eimear Dodd The jury in the trial of three defendants accused of raping a then-teenage girl in a hotel car park has begun their deliberations. It is the...
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Man who stabbed home attacker in self defence is cleared of murder
A 33-year-old man who stabbed a man in his own home in self defence because he believed his life was in danger has been acquitted of murder by a jury at the...
Roscommon eviction trial to resume after Easter break
(Pictured L-R: Accused Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Claire Henry The Roscommon eviction assault...
Murder trial jury ask judge about self defence and intent
A jury deliberating in the trial of a Polish man charged with murdering a 24-year-old Mayo man today asked the trial judge to clarify certain issues in the...
Arsonist gets eight years for unlawful killing of Angolan man
(Pictured: Dean Boland. Credit: Collins) By Sonya McLean & Claire Henry A homeless addict has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the unlawful killing...
Notorious criminal Mackin accepts he has 'made poor choices in the past'
Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin, who pleaded guilty to laundering thousands of euro in crime cash in Limerick, accepts he has made poor choices in the past...
Enoch Burke sacked for harassing colleague, breaching student's confidence, High Court told
(File Picture: Mr Enoch Burke. Photo: Collins) Enoch Burke was dismissed from his teaching position at Wilson's Hospital School because he had intimidated and...
Jury begin deliberating in Mayo murder trial
A jury at the Central Criminal Court have begun their deliberations in the trial of a Polish man charged with murdering a 24-year-old Mayo man by stabbing him...
Enoch Burke case in delayed start
(Pictured: Mr Enoch Burke. Photo: Collins) The second day of the full High Court hearing of the dispute between teacher Enoch Burke and Wilson's Hospital...
Garda identified defendant as attacker at Strokestown eviction farm
(Pictured: Accused Mr Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) A community garda from rural Donegal identified one of the defendants as an alleged attacker caught on...
Principal tells court of feeling 'hunted' by Enoch Burke
(Pictured: Enoch Burke. Photo: Collins) The former Principal of Wilson's Hospital secondary school has described Enoch Burke's "public outbursts" at a...
Strokestown attack accused challenges mobile phone evidence
Four men have pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges arising from an assault at a repossessed farmhouse near Strokestown, County...
Motorcyclist jailed for causing serious injuries to pedestrian while hitting 130km/h in 50km/h zone
By Fiona Ferguson and Sonya McLean A man who drove a motorbike at 130km/h in a 50km/h zone has been jailed for three and a half years after a court heard he...
Teen rapist placed in custody after place found in Oberstown
A teenage rapist who was sentenced to 16 months detention but remained on bail yesterday due to a lack of space in Oberstown Detention Centre has now been...
Housemate of garda killer treated as hostile witness after trial hears of statement change
A housemate of garda killer Aaron Brady was treated as a hostile witness today in the trial of a man accused of the robbery at Lordship Credit Union during...
Murder accused entitled to defend himself in own home, defence tell jury
Murder accused Matusz Batiuk was entitled to defend himself when he was attacked in his own home, a defence barrister has told the Central Criminal Court. In...
'What will we do with you?': Enoch Burke excluded from hearing after judge notes he'd 'test the patience of Job'
(Pictured: Mr Enoch Burke. Photo: Collins) A High Court judge has said that Enoch Burke would "test the patience of Job" as he excluded the teacher from...
Date set for retrial in Valerie French Kilroy case
James Kilroy, who is accused of the murder of his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, will go on trial for a second time at the Central Criminal Court...
Lack of space at Oberstown sees teen rapist remain on bail
A teenage boy who raped a girl in a park, putting his hands around her throat and telling her she was his “slut”, is to remain on continuing bail as there is...
Appropriate for jury to consider diminished responsibility, psychiatrists tell murder trial
Two forensic psychiatrists have said it is appropriate for the jury in the trial of a Polish man charged with the murder of a 24-year-old Mayo man to consider...
Jail for young man who posted intimate images of teen ex on Snapchat
A young man who posted a collage of intimate images of his teenage girlfriend on Snapchat to his 1,100 followers after they broke up has been jailed for six...
Man who groped girl (11) in Penneys avoids jail for having child abuse material
By Sonya McLean and Eimear Dodd A man who was caught with child abuse images as gardaí were investigating him for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in...
Murder accused said deceased man was 'acting like Gestapo'
Murder accused Matusz Batiuk told gardaí “I did what I did to defend myself” and said he never meant to kill Michael McDonagh when he stabbed him once in the...
John Tighe to remain in prison for murdering infant son after appeal is rejected
(Pictured: John Tighe. Photo: Collins) John Tighe will remain in prison serving a life sentence for the murder of his infant son Joshua, who fatally choked on...
'NI mercenaries' video circulated before attack at Roscommon eviction farm, trial hears
A video stating that Northern Irish “mercenaries” evicted the owners of a Roscommon house and showing security men still at the residence circulated on social...
Stab wound of 12cm severed artery and caused death, Mayo murder trial hears
A pathologist has told the jury in the trial of a Polish man charged with the murder of a 24-year-old Mayo man that there is no way to determine the force...
'No one to stop me': the Jasmine McMonagle murder trial
The trained crisis negotiator had been in tense talks with Richard Burke for hours when a tiny face appeared at a bedroom window. It was at that point that...
Teen jailed over savage attack that left Alanna Quinn Idris blind in one eye
(Pictured: Darragh Lyons (L) and vitim Alanna Quinn Idris (R). Photo: Collins) A teenager who took part in a “savage attack” by a gang of youths that left...
Teen raped by two boys says she developed eating disorder as 'way of killing herself slowly'
A teenager who was raped by two older boys in a dark country lane has told the Central Criminal Court that she developed an eating disorder after the attacks...
Convicted rapist argues that screen for victim at trial had prejudicial effect
A man who repeatedly raped his wife and attacked her with a baseball bat and scaffolding pole while she was pregnant has appealed his conviction, arguing that...
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