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Lack · March 15, 2023

Big Tobacco burnout: JTI manager says she had to quit over workplace stress

Ireland’s biggest tobacco distributor has been accused of driving a sales manager to quit by putting her on a performance improvement plan after she was...

Swinford · March 15, 2023

Couple secure injunction preventing receiver's proposed sale of house

A businessman and his wife have secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a mortgage company and a receiver from selling a property the couple want...

Cavan · March 15, 2023

Bus driver avoids jail for careless driving causing death of cyclist

(Pictured A former bus driver has been given a fully-suspended sentenced and escaped a driving ban after he admitted to careless driving causing the death of...

Lack · March 15, 2023

Parking row led man to throw industrial paint over home

(Pictured: Leroy Farrelly. Photo: Collins) A man who claims a row over parking was the reason he threw industrial paint over a house, which cost the...

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 guest who was renting an Airbnb room in the rural Co Mayo home of Valerie French Kilroy told gardai he was "shocked" to hear the mother of three was killed...

Castlerea · March 14, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

Jury to continue deliberating in Garda Colm Horkan murder trial

The jury in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is accused of murdering Garda Colm Horkan with his own gun, will continue their deliberations for a third day...

Lack · March 14, 2023

Community volunteer avoids jail for revenge attack

(Pictured: Lee Lismore. Photo: Collins) A community volunteer who took part in a revenge attack on a man alleged to have previously assaulted him, leaving the...

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

Security guard tells trial of being attacked at Strokestown repossession farm

(Pictured L-R: Accused Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) A security guard who was guarding a repossessed...

Castlebar · March 14, 2023

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

Solicitor Ammi Burke's High Court challenge against a rejection by the Workplace Relations Commission of her unfair dismissal claim against leading law firm...

Ballyshannon · March 14, 2023

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

A department store boss has been ordered to pay €5,500 for the discriminatory dismissal of a waitress who was recovering from post-natal depression – and told...

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 have begun their deliberations in the trial of Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan by...

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

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

(Pictured L-R: Accused Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) A defence barrister has characterised a group...

Monaghan · March 13, 2023

Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin admits to money laundering for crime gang

Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin, who was once the first person convicted of a Belfast murder by a Dublin court before his conviction was quashed and a...

Castlebar · March 10, 2023 Also covered in Westport

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

Valerie French Kilroy's husband described to gardai how he "waited in the long grass" at night for his wife to return home from a meeting with friends before...

Sligo · March 10, 2023

Man admits to directing criminal gang

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

Lack · March 10, 2023

RNLI UK headquarters regard Ireland with 'contempt', ex manager tells WRC

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's former top manager in Ireland says staff at its UK headquarters regard Ireland with “contempt” and treated it as a...

Castlerea · March 10, 2023

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

(File Picture: Defence Counsel Mr Dominic McGinn SC. Photo: Collins) The very act of shooting Garda Colm Horkan should “raise questions” about Stephen...

Westport · March 10, 2023

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

(Pictured: Chief State Pathologist Dr Linda Mulligan. Photo: Collins) Mother of three and occupational therapist Valerie French Kilroy died from ligature...

Westport · March 09, 2023

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

Gardai found the body of a mother-of-three lying in the foetal position on the floor of a campervan with her bloodied hand protruding outside the sliding door...

Castlerea · March 09, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

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

(Pictured: Mr Stephen Silver. Photo: Collins) Murder accused Stephen Silver had a "seething resentment" toward gardaí and the shooting of Garda Colm Horkan...

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 was found naked in a field after he killed his wife at their rural Co Mayo home nearly four years ago, a jury has heard. It was during the...

Westport · March 08, 2023 Also covered in Castlebar

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

James Kilroy, who admits killing his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, demonstrated to gardai how he had killed the mother of three and in one...

Mayo · March 08, 2023

Jail for man who abducted daughter, prompting nationwide alert

A man who abducted his young daughter, prompting a nationwide Child Safety Alert, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. The 33-year-old man...

Ballinode · March 08, 2023

Senior Custom House Capital execs get date for sentencing hearing

(File Picture: Harry Cassidy. Photo: Collins) Four senior executives of investment firm Custom House Capital are due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit...

Castlerea · March 08, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

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

Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan with his own gun, is “an unreliable historian” concerning his mental health difficulties, a...

Lack · March 07, 2023

Go-Car thief is jailed

A man who took part in the stealing of rental vehicles across a number of counties to help pay off a drug debt has been jailed for 18 months. Michael Deegan...

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

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

(Pictured: Accused Mr Stephen Silver. Photo: Collins) Stephen Silver, who is on trial accused of murdering a garda with his own gun, expressed “no regret or...

Mayo · March 07, 2023

Chaotic scenes as Burkes physically removed from failed appeal hearing

(Pictured: The Burke family outside the Bridewell Garda Station this afternoon. Photo: Collins) There were chaotic scenes at the Court of Appeal today during...

Knock · March 06, 2023 Also covered in Gurteen

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...

Castlerea · March 06, 2023 Also covered in Foxford

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

(Pictured: Witness Ms Marian Bruen. Photo: Collins) A sister of murder accused Stephen Silver has told a jury that she knew her brother was "very unwell" the...

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